Former Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner just released his new book, identifying the artists that he views as the greatest musicians of the modern era. “I grew up with blues music, country and western music. “I was given back my body in the 1950s by Black music. I appreciate it, and I’ll never stop acknowledging it — Black music is my life.”Pete Townshend of The Who acknowledged that the music he and many of the British “guitar gods” were playing was actually not their creation, but their version of Black blues music. With all that background information available, how could Wenner not include the Black musicians who influenced his narrow-minded list of the so-called greatest?

Source: Forbes September 20, 2023 21:31 UTC