Why listen to the Blues ???  Isn't that going to make me sad or put me in a bad mood ???  The answer is a simple NO...  Listening to the Blues won't be a downer unless that is your intent to begin with...  Here's a challenge...  Try listening to Coco Montoya, Joe Bonamassa or Anthony Gomes play the blues guitar and keep and open mind and an open heart...  You will find your heartrate speed up and your energy level increasing...  Seems like a physiological impossibility to feel down or depressed under these circumstances.

Simply put, the blues are a mood enhancer that is designed to communicate with your soul...  Try some slow blues by Eric Clapton or B.B. King and see how relaxing the blues can be... Sure, blues music features lyrics, some of which deal with some of life's toughest challenges...  But, I find listening to great blues music to be cathartic, a type of cleansing...

Try it sometime and you just might find you like the blues...   

Bob "Tichiganblues" Striegel