BABY PLEASE DON'T GO, AGAIN

What's particularly interesting about these songs, inherent in the volume and time span of recordings, is how the many versions illustrate the shifting styles of prewar country blues, to Chicago blues, and ultimately R&B and rock. And that the British invasion was largely responsible for bringing blues back into the pop idiom or at least back to the white market. The rise of the Animals, Them, the Stones, meant producers and A&R men saw dollar signs beyond the black working class audience blues based music was understood to be limited to. As is the case today the teen market = the big bucks. As blues and R&B rose in stature deep soul (southern soul, soul with more explicit blues and r&b qualities) was no longer regarded as niche music. In my sort of naively post-racial understanding of musical history I had never realized just how segregated music remained, as with everything else, well into and beyond the mythic utopia of the sixties.