The Blues Is The Mother Of All Knowledge: 20 Rules To Live By
1. Do not trust the levee to function as intended.
2. Always keep your phonograph needle in proper condition.
3. Trusting people that you meet at the Crossroads is unwise.
4. While sex with Stagger Lee's woman is great, the consequences are also dire.
5. Knocking on doors rarely works.
6. While you may share your troubles, no one will know them.
7. The preacherman is frequently of no comfort.
8. Moderate consumption of liquor is uncommon.
9. Lemon juice on your leg is a satisfying sensation.
10. Your baby will always break your heart.
11. The long-term success of a railroad line is not good.
12. Your happiness is directly linked to the day of the week.
13. Travel is only possible by Cadillac car, Greyhound bus, a train's boxcar, or foot.
14. Your only possible choice of pet is a dog, and the dog must be old.
15. Death rarely happens by accident. It always requires some fair amount of fixin'.
16. No one is happily married.
17. The policeman is not your friend.
18. Your mama is rarely cold, and your daddy is never hot.
19. A moderate case of the blues has never been recorded.
20. An infinite number of blues can be created by the application of random nouns ("Roadhouse," "Milk Cow," "Highway," "Backwater," "Summertime," "Bell Bottom", "Mexicali," "Folsom Prison", etc.) before the word "blues."

From HarmonyCentral.com's Music News Digest
June 21, 2000 / By Dave Mountain
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HOW TO SING THE BLUES (Guitar News Weekly #65, November 8, 1999)
1. Most blues begin "woke up this morning"
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line. I got a good woman-- with the meanest dog ...
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/991108/21.shtml

WHERE TO FIND THE BLUES

You can SEARCH for GuitarSite.com and GNW Blues articles, from the bottom of most pages at GuitarSite.com, just by typing "BLUES" into the search slot! You will find these articles and more:

THE BLUES OR NOT THE BLUES (Guitar News Weekly #77, February 14, 2000) So, just what is the blues? When I got the call to go out on an upcoming blues tour, I thought, Me, 'blues'? Then I looked at the other artists on the bill and wondered... by Kirk Lorange
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/000214/4.shtml

AWARD-WINNING BLUES (Guitar News Weekly #79, February 28, 2000)
This year's Grammy Awards for Blues went to two of the genre's best-loved and talented stars: B.B. King and Robert Cray.
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/000228/12.shtml

BLUES LINKS & SITE LISTING (at end of article)
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/000228/12.shtml

BLUES GUITAR LEGENDS
four great African American blues guitarists are featured: ROBERT JOHNSON, T. BONE WALKER, ALBERT KING, B.B. KING
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/000221/8.shtml

B.B. KING
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/000221/9.shtml
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/990517/9.shtml
http://www.guitarsite.com/bands2.htm#BBKing

MUDDY WATERS - THE BLUES
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/990719/3.shtml

MORE BLUES SITES
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/990719/4.shtml
http://www.GuitarSite.com/newsletters/990621/5.shtml

Barry Levenson Interview: SURE PROTECTION AGAINST THE "COPYMAT WHITE BLUES PLAGUE" - Guitar News Weekly #39, May 10, 1999
In today's modern blues music, it is virtually impossible to innoculate yourself against this... by Dean L. Farley
http://www.guitarsite.com/newsletters/990510/interview5.shtml

other sites:

You'll find blues music, articles, and interviews in Amazon.com's Blues Music section at:
http://www.amazon.com/blues-music

Also take a look at CDNOW Folk/Blues: http://www.cdnow.com/folk_blues/from=sr-767167

Electric Blues: RealAudio Blues, Blues CD ratings & reviews, CD Stores
http://www.guitarsite.com/database/Music/rec/646/
Every guitarist should spend some time with the blues. At Electric Blues you can learn about many blues artists, and find out which Blues CDs your fellow surfers think are hot on the WWW top 50 page. The Blues CD Ratings page currently lists over 300 blues CDs, and is growing all the time. All artists are linked to sound clips, discographies, biographies, and more reviews...

Harry's Blues Lyrics Online
http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/
Lyrics and soundclips of blues songs, blues terms and language defined and explained, blues history, blues books selection and more

BluesGuitarist.Org
http://www.bluesguitarist.org
"...amazingly innovative...you owe it to yourself to check out this site." --Mark Stefani, VisionMusic.com

Blues Internet Page
http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/ErikHo/