by Janie Franz
originally published Saturday, 14 July 2007
... when Jon Cleary came to America in the 1970s, he made a beeline for New Orleans, the home of the musicians he was learning so much about. Cleary quickly found out, however, that America wasn't supportive of these roots musicians. Earlier, Mick Jagger had discovered that blues and R&B players were only being played on Black radio stations and weren't available to a wider audience, and certainly could not play with White musicians...
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