From H2Ogate Blues:
“This here, this is going to be a blues number, but first I want to do a little bit of background on the blues, say what it is. Like there are six kind of colors, and colors have always come to signify more than simply that particular shade, like redneck, or got the blues. That’s where you apply colors to something else, you know, to come up with what it is you’re trying to say.
So there are six kind of colors: yellow, red, orange, green, blue and purple. And there are 3,000 shades. And if you take these 3,000 shades and divide them by 6, you’ll come up with 500, meaning there are at least 500 shades of the blues.
For example, there is the “I ain’t got me no money” blues. There is the “I ain’t got me no woman” blues. There is the “I ain’t got me no money and I ain’t got me no woman,” which is the double blues.
And for years it was thought that black people was the only ones who could get the blues, so the blues hadn’t come into no international type of fame.”
Girl Scott Heron
