Thanks for that explanation.
The entire topic of white people playing the blues is an interesting one. Blindman Blues Forum members would probably have a different take on it than the members on this board.
I wonder if this is a universal development--here in Kansas City, we have an active local Blues Society and a nightclub devoted to blues. I have been a member of the Blues Society for about 25 years. I cannot help but notice that over the years, the number of black blues performers written about, booked at the local nightclub, and pictured in the monthly Blues Society magazine, has dramatically decreased. Now the photos of local blues shows look like a late 1960s/early 1970s rock fest to me--nearly all white musicians, many in their 50s, 60s and 70s, playing the blues. Very few black blues musicians are pictured. This was not the case twenty years ago.
Also, I read a monthly national blues magazine, and it is obvious that a good many of the new blues releases every month are by white artists. A striking number of the newer black artists are children of the black blues greats, and they are usually nowhere near as good as their parent had been.
So how is this debate pertinent with regard to the blues music of today? From what I can tell, by today's scene's standards, Johnny Winter is an authentic grizzled old blues master.