"Blues invites us to embrace the curse through its articulation of restlessness and despair, longing and disappoint, exile and estrangement--what theologians call alienation. But a theology in a minor key also sounds a note of hope, as it leads us to the man of sorrows and the cross. The blues artists sang out of frustration, even vengeance. The blues astists, however, sang, giving voice to their hope for deliverance, their hope that Sunday's coming. The blues invites us not only to embrace the curse but also simultaneously to embrace the cross." (Getting The Blues by Stephen J. Nichols, pg34)
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