Tango,
thanks for taking the time to copy out the Peter Green article -
but I have to say it's amazing to me what passes for professional journalism.
First, in a display of appalling insensitivity, he asks, "Don't you also regret the years you were unable to play?"
Green, being the gracious man that he is, actually answers. Politely.
Encouraged, the interviewer then, tries to get Green to see the bright side of his lost years: being pigmentation-ally-impaired, perhaps his personal trials will help him be a more "authentic" bluesman.
Blues music, as with any art, is about the truth. Feelings. Happy, sad, doesn't matter.
To believe, that the ability to convey emotion, to touch another person, through a particular means of expression, is held exclusively be a single race, is quite simply, just dumb.
