Last Friday was my first time to listening to the blues music played live. Steve Gardner was the singer who has powerful voice as well as soft and kind voice. I was really impressed by his talking. The first time he started talking, I thought he was singing without any musical instruments. However, he was not singing, he was talking! He talks as if he were singing. This made me feel very comfortable and I could concentrate on what he was talking about.
I learned in my friend's presentation in high school that Bruce music was first made by African people who were forced to work in the plantation in the United States. She presented that the Bruce music was the secret communication between African people that could not be understand by their owners at first and then, it became the Bruce music that is known today. When they played the music, their owners only thought they were just having fun; they had never expected that they were communicating. They sang their sadness in the music and tried to reduce the sorrow by putting it in words. However, the main object of playing music was to encourage each other and endure the difficulties. They listened to others sing and sometimes sang together to get over their sadness at the fields.
I always think about how meaningful the past or the history are to make the present or the future when I hear about these kinds of stories.
