it's not sarcastic, seriously...maybe I'm missing something...
If the black people who formulated the blueprint for gospel and blues being that they were NOT from the hills, they were NOT from Appalachia....but were from the church.....
please briefly explain to me how one can put the same value on the influence of the music from the hills, as with the influence of the church...
again...considering that the framers...were NOT in the hills....but were, very much in the church....
or, is it that it's more of a comparison between folk and the blues....the musics are basiclly coming from the same artistic place more then the are coming from the same tangible place...