the british blues boom and DIY

Woke up this morning
couldn't get out of my bed
there was a black snake crawling
all around my head
yeah yeah yeah
the thing is the british blues boom was not about the poor me's but about who was the best guitarist.
There weren't no cotton fileds in Ealing or Essex.
hehehe.
Elmore James', "The Sky Is Crying" was the perfect vehicle to get started.
A slow blues in D that any kid with a guitar that could be got in tune could be playing along to in no time flat.
Ditto "Five Long Years" by Eddie Boyd.
And if your ear was any could it would not be too long before you could copy the sax and hit the big time.
And "Reconsider Baby" by Lowell Fulson was another slow blues this time in G.
Thes songs were at a nice slow tempo so the novice could get on to it without getting completely flustered by the speed of the tune.
The king tune of course was "Hideaway" by Freddie King in the key of E and you had to really up the ante to get it down.
If you could master this then you were IT!
and for sugar there was always Cliff Gallup on Gene Vincents "sides".
Or the Buddy Holly when he was in gunsligner mode.
They still play his solos today.
the pros do.
Yes sir!
and the unending flow of nameless gutarists doing fills on the steady flows of American C&W.
It never stopped
Just imagine al those kids (well a few anyway) sawing away in their bedrooms trying to learn this!!!!!
and they did.
the awful paradox is that now when guitars have smooth necks, slinky strings and above all ELECTRONIC TUNERS none of the kids can play anymore????????????
What the fuck has happened.