Mudcats Blues Trio

" mighty fine original rockin' blues which has most certainly got me putting this band on a par with.... Bloodline" is the quote I read from an avid fan of Mudcats Blues Trio and I must accede with that assessment!

What I am coming to learn about Blues (seeing as how I had no idea that I even liked Blues until Dave Watkins Blues Train on Frome FM reawakened my passion)

is that Blues are not just a particular style or genre of music but a real, honest to God way of life. Music that takes me places I used to only dream about in a very vague and unreachable vein.

Blues are thoughts, feeling, attitude, emotion, and an intensely sensual experience for me. This music "gives me permission" to feel things that were previously "taboo" as in restricted, "verboten" for religious reasons! I now chuckle derisively at the uptightness of that mindset for a couple of reasons. 1. If indeed I was created, the good Lord most assuredly put those feelings inside of me. 2. If I suppress those feelings, they will indeed come out in other ways (ie overeating, drugs, obsessiveness, inappropriate behavior, disconnectedness, eventual overload leading to crash and burn!)

So guess what, I will feel those feelings, I will give myself permission to be who I was created to be and I will most assuredly listen to the Blues! It has also been brought to the fore in my mind recently that there is a common thread with more modern music. That being the underlying theme of revolution and what is now, several generations out, our "claim to fame"! It's as if we said "we want to do it our way"! I recall my older daughter being very independent, even at the age of 2 her most used phrase was, "do it myself mommy, do it myself!" I asked myself back then "what greater act can I as a parent do for my children?" The answer was and still is to this day to "let them do it themselves!"

In that vein, I feel that Blues does exactly that~!

Never is that idea portrayed more clearly than in the "musics" I am learning to love and this group 'Mudcats Blues Trio' along with their song "Flood Water Rising Blues" affirms that hunger in me for "doing it myself"~!

In closing, a dear friend of mine Young Jeni who is unequalled in her passion for Blues and a very gifted singer in her own right, laughed once with me when I made the assessment that "Old Hippes Never Die They Just Sing The Blues" Jeni and I always see eye to eye!

Thank you Mudcats for bringing me your "musics" in Blues~