It’s a matter of record that the British Blues Boom of the sixties - as discrete from British Rhythm‘n’Blues, a similar but different beast - was originally created not by former rock’n’roll or Beat musicians but principally by ex-jazz players searching for a new “authentic” sound. Its earliest practitioners came to the blues via skiffle, the ersatz rural American folk movement of the mid-fifties; subsequent ones via the brief vogue for revivalist traditional jazz at the turn of the sixties. Furthermore, the Blues Boom began not, as popularly thought, with erstwhile jazzman
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