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Origin of the Blues!

What is very little known about the region, is the unprecedented importance it has gained as home of the famous Blues music. The Blues, which eventually spread all over the world, and became one of the most popular music forms of all times, actually originated here, in the so called Schmuckwille district, in the northern part of the Norrtälje River delta. Now finally, historians have followed the tracks back to the originator, John "Flashfinger" Nelson, the original blues man, the astonishing performer who has aged with so much grace and such unbroken musical ability, and who has seen a renaissance due to the increased interest in original folk music and the constantly rising prices on beer. Rough and rugged were the folks and times in his young days, and his music clearly reflects the severe hardships he had to live through in his youth. Those were the days of picking the archipelago cotton, working in the stormy fields all day and the maidens´ dormitory all night. The steamwheelers passed on the dirty, slowly winding Norrtälje River, Massapissi as the locals called it, bringing news from other times and other states. The plantation owners showed no mercy, and the only comfort was the local milk of amnesia,The Forest Star. Feeling the southern breeze caressing his forehead, he could express his griefs and sorrows only in the blues...