DanP
237 posts
Dec 11, 2011
12:14 PM
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You have all seen it. The cartoon blues harmonica player with the Fedora hat, the Ray-Ban sunglasses with black plastic frames and a cheap looking suit with a thin black tie. I see this figure on CD covers, posters for blues festivals, instruction books for blues harmonica, etc. This caricature was personified, of course, by the Blues Brothers. I think I read or heard an interview with Dan Aykroyd that the Blues Brothers' look was a parody of the 1960's white blues harmonica guys. Players like Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite, Rod Piazza and Paul Oscher. Guys who usally wore sunglasses when they performed. Anyway, did this silly stereotype start with the Blues Brothers or who? Anybody know?
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Arbite
142 posts
Dec 11, 2011
2:25 PM
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Don't know if this helps.
the hats came from John Lee Hooker. The suits came from the concept that when you were a jazz player in the 40's, 50's 60's, to look straight, you had to wear a suit."
Pasted from Wikipedia
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