Tomorrow night and Sunday, he performs at Capone’s backed by electric blues outfit BoPoMoFo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ). On Sunday, Gilmore will offer a Master Class, which will be hosted by ICRT DJ Bill Thissen. All are welcome to attend and bring their instruments.
Gilmore hesitates to offer a definitive description of the blues. But he says “every style of contemporary music, including jazz, R ’n’ B, hip-hop, and rap — all of it is based in the blues. The root of all that music, the good popular music that you listen to, came from the blues.”
“Everybody tries to simplify the blues by saying ‘oh, it’s just a three chord change,’” he said. “It’s a lot more than what meets the eye — a lot more than what meets the ear.”
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