KIWR PSB - Delta Highway, The Devil Had a Woman

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Artist: Delta Highway
Title: The Devil Had a Woman
Writer: Rick Galusha

Musical genres are little more than marketing tools to help people piece together what a band or compact disc is probably going to sound like. An indicator if you like. As the Major Label systems continues to shrink more and more artists are looking for a musical home. Subsequently more and more acts are falling into the blues category, not because they are playing anything close to the call-call-response of a 12 bar rotation but because the blues audience is big, has money and is generally less and less discerning. I think its great because the tie that binds is blues but the definition is getting wider and wider. Unlike the rock genre, which has fractured into tens of thousands of micro-niches, the blues continues to be an embracing genre that clings to the forefathers but essentially accepts nearly anything that chooses to call itself blues. As a cocksure John Travolta said in the film

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This is only a partial of the article. Is there a way to get the entire review to move over for posting? Thanks-Rick