I watched a documentary the other day about Howlin' Wolf aka Chester Burnett. They played Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning", and it was the best new tune I've heard in twenty years. That's right, that was the first time I ever heard that song.
.One of the big cultural tragedies of growing up in the midwest during the fifties and sixties was having to listen to polka music on weekends instead of blues masters like Howlin' Wolf and the rest of them.
Both polka and blues are fine with me.