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Originally Posted by Classof75
All music is "stolen".
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i don't buy that at all. it's a cheap cop out for people who lack creativity and those who want to defend a lack of taste. if someone wants to cover, or pay tribute, or follow in other people's footsteps then whatever, that's fine - so long as you have the guts to be upfront about it
before you get called out on it.
playing music, ESPECIALLY the blues, is about expressing the human condition through song. consider the social structure of the southern US almost 100 years ago, how were uneducated, segregated, oppressed people supposed to know about 'copyrights'? how were they supposed to have any idea of what contracts were about? the songs were written because it's what they did, they got 'stolen' because one guy heard it and decided to sing it to his friends, not to pad out a record made in a studio that cost more than the entire worth of their families.