BLUES PEOPLE Penguin Group charismatic and all-too-ready for the

charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets

but he is saved by the healing Song of a mysterious young woman

walking or running

Black and brown folk are not going to take a back seat anymore

BLUES PEOPLE Penguin Group charismatic and all-too-ready for the"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues