Juri wrote:
"You're right, but I'd classify only original black blues as
hardboiled, since it was born out of violence and attempts to
be a man. The white blues has just been a little too, well,
cozy for me. They play too well to be truly incorporated into
the bad hardboiled world."
Juri, are you actually saying that white blues players play
_better_ than their black forebears? Not just in a different,
more engaged style? For instance, that Eric Clapton or Duane
Allman or Stevie Ray Vaughan plays _better_ than B.B. King,
Blind Willie Johnson, Muddy Waters or Robert Johnson?
That strikes me the same as saying that, by definition,
cozies are written _better_ than hardboiled, that Ruth
Rendell, for instance, writes better than Raymond Chandler,
not just more academically or refined, less colloquial.
Mark
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