Big Bill Broozy is a big name abroad. He represents the Blues, which is melancholic. It goes back to the hardships of black slaves on the plantations of the old South. The music evolved from the fields. It has work songs, string ballads and spirituals. It travelled from the Mississipi Delta to Louisiana and Texas, St. Louis and Memphis, right up to Chicago and Detroit. It absorbed the regional influences and blended with the local styles. It generated genres like jazz, soul, blue-grass and rock and roll. Blues are now the flavor of the season. The 18-35 age group likes it. There are Blues musicians outside America, say in Chile, Australia and Finland. India too has accepted the Blues. The Blues should not be restricted to the elite. It should show the hard knock life with the electric guitar. India was for the happy sounding music, but the Blues is taking root here.