Walter Trout: The Blues - Why it Still Hurts So Bad by Marie B. Trout

After conducting a Grounded Theory study, of over a thousand blues fans, industry professionals, and musicians, and analyzing the findings, Marie Trout, PhD, manager and wife of international blues rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Walter Trout, found that today’s blues fans (who are primarily white baby boomers) find musical enjoyment, respite, friendships, and generally feel encouraged, strengthened, and—yes find healing—through their love of blues music.  Providing context for these findings, Marie explores what historically readied this generation particularly for blues music and its subtle mood-enhancing, cathartic qualities. The book goes further by exploring these, almost mysterious, healing qualities of blues music. Current blues fans often express their frustration with the culture they live in. Showing how blues today still acts as a universal gift from the base of humanity providing antidote to fast-paced, fragmented, and often superficial popular culture is a story to