The need to talk about this says, “Don’t go there”. I haven’t been since 1980. Listened to Hubie Blake (1887-1983) in a little bar off the main strip. Less than 10 people in the place, magical.
Wiki- “Blake’s musical training began when he was four or five. While out shopping with his mother, he wandered into a music store, climbed onto the bench of an organ, and started “foolin’ around”. When his mother found him, the store manager told her: “The child is a genius! It would be criminal to deprive him of the chance to make use of such a sublime, God-given talent.” The Blakes purchased a pump organ for US$75.00, making payments of 25 cents a week. When Blake was seven, he received music lessons from a neighbor, Margaret Marshall, an organist for the Methodist church.[8] At age 15, without his parents’ knowledge, he began playing piano at Aggie Shelton’s Baltimore bordello.”
One used to be able to occasionlly catch acts like that in Vegas. I saw the Goofers, a group active in the mid 1950s, perform in a bar on the Strip in 1980. Some years later, I saw Bobby Curtola, who had a hit with Fortune Teller in the early months of 1962 (not to be confused with Benny Spellman's Fortune Teller which was riding the charts at the same time). But it was no longer 1962, and he now had a small audiene in a small bar.