The blues dont do sunshine.
This isnt your great-grandfathers finger picked, hellhound on your trail, Mississippi blues.
Its not the rollicking funk of the great Chicago masters like Muddy and Elmore James.
This is the blues as it jukes and moans in the modern era.
Watch Gary Clark Jr, a 28-year old, ax-wielding wunderkind from Austin.
Every generation has its chosen one and right now, this is Clarks time.
He has been co-signed by the proper guitar gods (B.B.
Coachella will never be a roots music mecca.
The Sahara tent swarms with MDMA-scrambled rave kids.
But the blues is having a strange renaissance.
The latter were here, but on Friday, they had to follow Gary Clark Jr. With gravity-spurning guitar agility and rough-hewn Texas blooz baritone, he mimicked the Coachella climate vicissitudes.
The Black Keys exist in a similar dimension.
Its not supposed to be fancy.Jeff Weiss
