re: #430 Barefoot Grin
Very important point. I was thinking Stevie Ray Vaughan, but that’s probably more profound influence.
House music in Chicago and techno in Detroit. People like DJ Pierre, Larry Heard, Kevin Saunderson, Adonis, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, and Derrick May: all black men from the inner-city who helped cultivate a genre that is mistakenly alluded to Europeans from Berlin. I facepalm every time someone thinks techno started in Berlin when it was conceived in Detroit. It’s a serious pet peeve of mine that I find it difficult to control my reaction with lol