Blues music has long suffered through something resembling an identity crisis when it comes to its appreciation in the ears of the mainstream public. A vast portion of society has refused to acknowledge the blues’ immense impact on all other forms of music and they even go so far as to cite a general disinterest in it because – the way they hear it – the blues are, either: A. ‘Slow and sleepy’; B. ‘Just plain boring’. Blues music has even gone so far as to be tagged as ‘sad music’ by much of the masses. But the way that veteran Chicago bluesman John Primer sees it, that’s all a bad and unfounded rap. Especially the part about blues being ‘sad music’. “A lot of people don’t recognize the blues and what they’re all about. A lot of the younger generation calls it sad music, and some of the older generation call it that, too. But it’s not sad music. Blues music is joyful. You, the person listening to it, might be sad when you go hear it, but that’s the person – not the musi...