First stumbled across The Blasters in the movie, “Streets of Fire” when I was in the service in Germany. We wore that movie out, passing it around.
The Blasters are one of those bands who (I firmly believe) should be a lot more successful and famous than they are and because of that, I lack confidence in our society’s opinion of “good” music.
Another example of that is the Dixie Dregs band that came out of Georgia. Southern-fried jazz-fusion? It worked better than you might think.