The blues are the stories of life real everyday life and spiritual side is sunday music. My goal is to share the stories of present blues artists and bands, the story behind their songs, how they came to write and perform the blues, and will be called Storytellers Blues, a journey with the men and women Storytellers of the Blues on the Blue Note Express. From a child the sounds of life was my first language it was music, my dad was a blues piano and blues singer, his aunts used to sing the blues to me. Then in 1989 I attended the Mississippi Valley Blues Society Blues Festival and it was like going home, a religious experience "going down to the river" and from that time I studied every aspect of the blues, weaved it through every college course I could, philosophy and anthropology, then in my grad yrs I interviewed 14 women and men in the blues, I was not able to finish my thesis due to the fact that I wanted to include both men and women in the blues. Recently I have asked 14 men and women in the blues to share their stories with me and to do a podcast . As a newbie with no studio its been a real journey, the passion and a real connection with the "blue note" has moved me to try again. I hope to do several shows.. The first will be a tribute to the men in the blues and then tribute to the women in the blues, and my next project will be to share the stories of the women and men I was fortunately able to interview and their music. Music is not only my passion, its my world and it wraps me up and lifts me up to overcome disabilities in the same way that it helped release the souls of blues singers did, singing it out, is an emotional release to have renewed life and soul refilled with joy. 
May this journey and stories of these blues artists/bands bring you joy, release your pain, blues are both about the sorrow and the joyful aspects of life. Its real and honest. Hope that you will join me on this maiden voyage with the Storytellers Blues 

Young Jeni Storyteller