EVERY GENRE OF IS A PRODUCT OF ITS TIME AND PLACE, WHICH MAKES SPIRITUAL JOUTNEYS of the devout quite easy. Bluegrass of the Appalachians, jazz of the South, and the Motown of Detroit could all be enticing airplane journeys. But perhaps none is more suited to an aerial passage as the migration of the blues. What began in the Deep South in places such as Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and even Florida made a distinct move up the Mississippi River to cities such as St. Louis, Memphis, and eventually Chicago, home of the electric blues from the middle of the last century.
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