Obviously, white people can sing and perform the blues; many do, with varying levels of competence.
"For me it's important to establish for my students that I can actually do this thing that they're sitting in my classroom about to learn," said Jesse Miller, 61, who teaches guitar at Brooklyn's James Madison High and will perform the blues classic "I'm Ready".
When I perform The Blue Notebooks now, it seems at once familiar and strange.
WEST ORANGE Luna Stage Blues in the Night: Bob DeVos, guitarist, and Eric Alexander, tenor saxophonist, with Dave Braham, pianist, perform the blues-tinged jazz of Hank Crawford and David Fathead Newmanan.
Partly because a couple of guitars had been brought along, the picnic I attended was a particularly jolly affair, although late in the day someone did perform "The Mississippi Flatland Blues"—"I got the Washington County / My factory done shut down blues / There ain't no good news".
In this video, Loudon Wainwright III performs "The Krugman Blues," a song he wrote about the Nobel Prize-winning economist.
In this video, Loudon Wainwright III performs "The Krugman Blues,"… This week's issue of The New Yorker features a special four-part cover titled "Evolution" and illustrated by Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, Dan Clowes, and Ivan… Cartoonists are a notoriously invisible lot.
"You know, it's absolutely amazing what the people here do for me," he said after the locals performed the Simi Blues -- one of two songs recently released in his honor -- and he received several gifts, including a live pig for luck, a golden cellphone with free minutes and a car.
Playing the tenor saxophone, Mr. Heath performed the Parker blues "Billie's Bounce," and he handled his solo choruses in a personal way, a cross between earthy and learned, with a lot of repetition but a lot of harmonic imagination, too.
In January 2010, Wainwright said the following of the album: On February 22, The New Yorker featured a video of Wainwright performing "The Krugman Blues" and complimenting the publication's March 2010 article which profiled economist Paul Krugman.
THIS summer Daniel Jubb will perform the equivalent of lighting the blue touch paper and standing clear.
