BUFFALO NICHOLS BRINGS ANGER BACK TO THE BLUES

Andy Fyfe

“Race is the reason blues exists.”BUFFALO NICHOLS FOR THE place that packaged up rock’n’roll’s early years inside the eternal optimism of TV sitcom Happy Days and The Fonz, Milwaukee has punched well below its musical weight ever since. Arrested Development’s Speech, the Violent Femmes and Bob ‘The Chicken Dance’ Kames are about as notable as it gets for Wisconsin’s most populous city. Add to the list, however, Buffalo Nichols (Carl to his mum), a 30-year-old guitarist and singer fast rising as part of a new vanguard of black musicians reclaiming the blues from middle-aged white guys and injecting it with a modern political and social voice. “People look at the blues very academically, like it’s something that only lives in the past,” Nichols says from his current home in Austin, Texas. “But it’s…

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