Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:38:29 -0600 rock~ve.telalink.net wrote: > > An engineer who is going to record a 4-song demo for my band has major > connections at Appaloosa records which primarily markets American blues in > europe. He told me that if I was black I could get a record deal. White > guys playing "the blues" don't sell overseas. I won't even deal with a > record company that operates that way. I know some guys, who are black, > that have such deals and they're making a good living from it. But they're > hard-pressed to sell albums in this country. They're not any better than > anyone else, nor are these middle-class suburbanites any more genuine than > their white counterparts.
I do not know, how many blues records are sold over here, but I know, the mail order service and record label (CrossCut Records in Bremen, Germany) I get my blues records from has produced/sells (licenced from Patrick Fords "Blue Rock It Label" some blues/bluesy records. Most of the performers are white: John Campbell, Ford Blues Band, Ronnie Earl, Garth Webber... (maybe you can get a record deal there, they always try to "discover" new Bands for the European market, request for adress) They also work as a Consultant for the famous Breminale Blues Festival which presents always a mixture of white/black; Chicago, Westcoast...styles, hard rockin' & accoustic. So I can't figure out a special preference for black performers.
