“According to Biblical history and all of the history of the world, the blues was built in man from the beginning. The first thing that came out of man is the blues because, according to the Scriptures, when God made man, man was lonesome and blue.”
I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 2.
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