Ignorant racist pukes, the blues was always about feeling, music in general is raw human emotion. You are back peddaling in the wrong direction. Also, I am willing to bet Gary Clark Jr as an artist and a person would be disgusted by such a stupid comment.

Here are some of the living African American Blues singers out here off the top of my head: : Marvin Sease, Sir Charles Jones, Shirley Brown, Bobby Rush, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Bobby Blue Bland, Kenne Wayne, Roy C., Latimore, Willie Clayton, Vick Allen, Omar Cunningham, Nathaniel Kimble, William Bell, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Zac Harmon, Chris Beard, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Maurice Davis, Jeff Floyd, Robert "Duke" Tillman, Cicero Blake, David Brinston, J. Blackfoot, Michael Burkes, Bobby Jones/Bobby Jonz, Mr. David, L.J. Echols, Joe Simon, Steve Perry(not the guy from Journey), Theodis Ealey, The Love Doctor, Sorrento Ussery, Denise LaSalle, Chris Thomas King, Lebrado, Clarence Carter, Reggie Sears, Barbara Carr, Homemade Jamz Blues Band, Lacee, Lee Morris, Mel Waiters, Ronnie Lovejoy, Billy Soul Bonds, Wilson Meadows, Luther Lackey, O.B. Buchana, Terry Wright, Reggie P., Walter Waiters, Roni, Bobby Womack, Will Easley, Bob Steele, Dorothy Moore, Pat Brown, Larome Powers, Stan Mosley, Dennis Fontain, King Edward, Ms. Jody, Betty Padgett, Chuck Strong, Segio Davis, Big Cynthia, Donnie Ray, T.J. Hooker Taylor, Carl Marshall, Frank Lucas, Bobby Stringer, Peggy Scott Adams, Floyd Taylor, Billy Ray Charles, Chick Willis, Otis Clay, Willis Pugh, Patrick Henry, Patrick Green, Lil' Fallay, Ghetto Cowboy, Carl Marshall, T.K. Soul, Carl Sims, Rick Lawson, Charles Wilson, Ronnie Barnes, Lonnie Brooks, Otis Rush, Eddie Holloway, Eddie Hinton, Moody Scott, David Hudson, Chuck Roberson, Betty Wright, Calvin Richardson, Lee "Shot" Williams, Robert Cray, Roach Thompson, and so many others

@ martin from straight street-
that might be the most ignorant comment i've every read! Obviously you are not a musician nor know much about the blues. The blues is a feeling! its something that flows out of you like a wrecking ball, it has no color no race or ethnicity! read your history bro. So Eric Clapton is not legit huh hahaha. Blues is the roots - Daniel from Mississippi

Whites have bastardized and watered down blues, other than Stevie I can't think of a white man that ever should have even picked up a guitar with blues on his mind. White blues is a joke.

white and black is not an issue of the blues. B.B. King himself has said this. The blues are about the facts of life. It doesnt matter whether you are black or white. if you have the interest and the desire to play the blues, you can. Gary Clark Jr is an amazing upcoming musician. everyone should look to him for inspiration, not just african american culture.

Love it.

As for 'what is' blues, that's a debate that will rage forever.

I do know & love Guy Davis, but he's always stuck me as someone who's preserving blues past. Which is incredibly valuable in and of itself.

Gary Clark brings something different to the party. He grew up on pop, soul, alt-rock & punk. There is a definite edge to his music, that's hard to find outside of maybe the Fat Possum artists...

"...for the last few decades, the people playing it and listening to it have been largely white..."

Lifted straight from the text-book of what Blues Musician Guy Davis (www.guydavis.com) has been saying in interviews for the past 15 years. And Guy actually plays Blues, both covers of the 'Masters' and his own compositions "…sounds so deeply drenched in lost Black traditions that you feel that they must predate him. But no, they don’t. He created them." as a USA Today writer put it.
While Gary's heart might be in the right place, this Ben Harperish inspired tune is not really Blues. But I guess anything that pushes young people to explore the roots and routes, is okay by me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled to see and hear artists like Gary Clark carry the torch. I'm not so thrilled to see write-ups about new artists champion them with mis-statements. Many fine young (and older) African-American artists are carrying on the traditions, whether in Blues or Old-Timey String Band groups like the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

we love this!

Great segment! It's a bit embarrassing, but as a white kid growing up in the 80s I first became aware of blues/soul because I was really into the music in the Blues Brothers movie (John Lee Hooker, "She Caught the Katy," etc.) I don't generally think of myself as being into the blues, since I mostly listen to rock, but I really liked the music in this segment. Hearing the clip at 1:41, it occurred to me too that the Black Keys are drawing heavily from the vocal and guitar styles of the blues.

Most of the blues singers here in the Mississippi delta where the "Blues was born" are black with a few sprinkling of white perfrormers. It is true that the young blacks do not care much for the blues...Rap is their music. They really can't relate to the words of the blues songs like B.B King, Eddie Cusic, and Pinetop Perkins can or could. Pinetop played his first solo engagement here in Leland many years ago.