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Just wondering if it's the same in other genres too - seems to be the less popular a genre is, the more exclusionary the zealots are - cause or effect?
I play a style that I kind of describe as 'one foot in the blues, one foot in everything else' and man, the difficulty in getting traction with the old guard blues DJs, festival bookers, and other assorted gate-keepers is crazy. There are guys saying things like "there were no stratocasters in the cotton fields!" (I assume then that electric players like Albert King and BB King aren't TRUE blues??!?!). Literally guys complaining that modern blues players don't sound like Charley Patton lmao - this is like an F1 fan complaining that the cars aren't horse-drawn. Of course they're not fans of amp modelers that goes without saying lol
It sucks because I generally go over well with blues audiences, but my access to them is hampered by all these old fogeys (99 percent of who can't play an instrument of course, yet somehow claim a deeper understanding of the music than anyone else). Meanwhile they're also complaining endlessly about how the genre is declining in popularity - hmm, why could that be?!
Anybody else trying to make a go of it in other genres having a similar experience?
/rant
I play a style that I kind of describe as 'one foot in the blues, one foot in everything else' and man, the difficulty in getting traction with the old guard blues DJs, festival bookers, and other assorted gate-keepers is crazy. There are guys saying things like "there were no stratocasters in the cotton fields!" (I assume then that electric players like Albert King and BB King aren't TRUE blues??!?!). Literally guys complaining that modern blues players don't sound like Charley Patton lmao - this is like an F1 fan complaining that the cars aren't horse-drawn. Of course they're not fans of amp modelers that goes without saying lol
It sucks because I generally go over well with blues audiences, but my access to them is hampered by all these old fogeys (99 percent of who can't play an instrument of course, yet somehow claim a deeper understanding of the music than anyone else). Meanwhile they're also complaining endlessly about how the genre is declining in popularity - hmm, why could that be?!
Anybody else trying to make a go of it in other genres having a similar experience?
/rant