@iwishiwastheredude: Blues is one of the only genres in the world that independently re-emerged in multiple countries before those cultures had much contact with American blues itself. When early blues recordings finally made their way overseas in the 1920s and ’30s, musicians in places like West Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean were stunned to hear something that felt familiar. Many cultures already had traditions built on: • call-and-response vocals • bent or “worried” notes • repetitive, cyclical chord patterns • music as a release valve for hardship So when blues arrived globally, artists in entirely different demographics—farm workers in Mali, miners in South Africa, fishermen in the Caribbean, rural singers in Japan—adopted it almost instantly because the emotional “language” was already there. A neat example: West African guitarists like Ali Farka Touré didn’t think of themselves as playing “American blues” at all—they heard Delta blues and said it sounded like their ancestral music. Touré famously joked that when he first heard John Lee Hooker, it was like “he had stolen my patterns, though he had never been to Mali.” That universality—blues as a human emotional dialect rather than an American export—is why it slips across countries, generations, and backgrounds so easily. The structure is simple, but the feeling translates anywhere… #blues #rock #guitar #music #fyp

Brandonh9495 :

which one is Kunimoto?

Ryan Dix :

Blues has no language

ez-2handz :

don't know what he said, but who hurt that boy with that righteous stank face 😭😭😭

javanschiferl :

Respect for Buddy Guy, he is a legend. Him trying not to laugh too hard, thinking, “damn right, he got the blues”

Paul Nabil :

Cedric :

Kunimoto knows he's killing it. Blues on a shamisen is on a different plane.

afoodiesstepstofitness :

“my baby done did me wrong”

tinoojeda :

No matter the language. I know what brother was singing about. 😔😅

Shadow banned :

Man, he was playing the sh*t out of that thing. Very impressive.

WNY10rSax :

Japanese blues be grooving! 🎶

TheR_247 :

I don’t understand him, but I understand him

Canadian Goose 🇨🇦 :

Buddy guy loves it

Jay :

Also can’t forget how ubiquitous the pentatonic scale is the world over.

Tanner Beach :

WEEDCLOUD420 :

I have that gutair that buddy guy is playing and he even signed it i literally can take a Pic and prove that I own it. its sitting in my closet in its case

liverpool :

Didn't expect him to sing....fantastic!

dennishill1556 D Hill :

Damn that was fucking great them boys was jamming that Asian guy singing the blues was killing me you can’t never hate the music. It’s universal.

Earth, cries, heaven smiles :

I’ve never heard this before, but this is really awesome

カリメロ(Calimero) :

👍✨👏👏👏✨🤗 国本武春✨さん、SRV ✨と同様に 若くして亡くなったのは とても残念です‼️😩😭😭😭😭😭

Yaboiijuicy :

Bro gettin DOWN on 2 strings!!🔥🔥

LoRenzo :

kunimoto the 3 string king , just nasty

山田太郎 :

国本武春さん、この方のドラマスティックに演じる浪曲が好きでした。今も生きていたらきっと世界に羽ばたいて、外国の方々の心もグッと掴んでいただろうな。この動画を見て思いました。あのバディ・ガイも満足そうに共演していますよね。浪曲もBluesだ！

山田太郎 :

この着物姿で三味線を弾きBluesを唄う彼(国本武春)は、残念な事に2015年12月24日に亡くなっています。

🚧🤡Krash The Klown🤡🚧 :

Samurai blues slaps so hard

MAVSOL7 :

Smiling so hard right now! And....... why is this video 5 hours long?🤔