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Originally Posted by Glice
I don't know a single black person who gives a shit about Curtis. Because, y'know, he's not really 'black' black so much as he is a musician who happens to be black. Though he's by no means as white as, say, Hendrix, who no black people I've ever met have liked (because, essentially, Hendrix is music for white people).
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Hendrix is slowly becoming more popular with black audiences. "Nobody Cages Me" is a new bio on Jimi, written by a black guy (Corey Washington). But true, during his life he was shunned by many (not all...) other "black" blues musicians (esp. during the earlier portion of his musical journey...something that started changing toward the end). He'd jam with them, play gigs with some of them, but they never really dug 'em enough to give him proper credit for whatever reason. White British people made him popular...
I remember reading something about Son House bashing his style of playing a bit. Saying it wasn't blues or some shit (I love Son House, but disagree with his remarks as many earlier blues musicians, including but not limited to Johnny Jenkins + Buddy Guy...were pulling Hendrix-esque moves many a years earlier, before Jimi hit the scene, and were also getting shit for it as well)
And while I'm sure yr being sarcastic, I just wanna say that Hendrix wasn't creating music "for white people"...that's absurd. Band of Gypsies are loud testimony to what he was wanting to do.