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The slogan at drulz.com is “expose your music.” Artists performing in different genres have taken that slogan seriously. It’s a great site to go to find new music; it offers a selection from Christian rap to country music. Music artists can come to drulz.com and upload their music and biography to expose themselves to the world. Music fans have the fun of listening to new, interesting music, blogging, and making friends. Members can also create stations, channels, add photos, bookmark favorites, and invite friends. There’s an image gallery to click through and listen to your favorite artist.

Musicians, performers, and bands can read informative articles regarding the music industry that will enlighten them concerning how-to promote their music; they can get advice about how-to not be a starving artist and much more. The music charts allows a member to check out the rating of the groups and performers.

The artist have a home page where they can have a menu containing: songs, store, forum, guest book, comments, contact, press kit, and share this page. They can upload videos and gig schedules. It gives them a good jumping point to get their music heard and their name out on the Internet and to the world at large.

But hey, let’s get on to the artist and play some music. Right now, I’m listening to Mycheal from his album Collections. It is labeled as jazz, which is cool, but it has some definite funk going on. It’s a movin’ and groovin’ instrumental. This song screams get on the floor and bust a groove. All of that and a sweet piano melody too.

Yvonne Cobbs Bey has a great gospel voice. She sounds like gospel refried…that traditional element of gospel exudes from her voice. The backup band and singers are right on the money—their vocals and music bring the listener into the gospel zone. All of this comes out in her album Stand Still.

Kenny Chesney performs a moving country ballad in the song Don’t Blink from his album Just Who I am. The lyrics tell a story that most people can relate to and it is a reminiscence with an old man telling his story to the younger guy and giving sound advice. It’s a perfect song for a country soul.

The thing is a member can listen to everything from club to soul to contemporary Christian..now that is a stretch. Drulz has it and members can expand their listening pleasure and scope or stay with their tried and true genres. After listening, the member can write a review or rate the song. Drulz let’s you do it all.

Listen to a variety of music by clicking on the different stations or on the songs on the different artist pages. It is a true online community for artists and fans. Fans can also subscribe to RSS feeds and hear their favorite music. In case the pronunciation of the site’s name is bugging you—it is d rules.

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What is it about the blues that can make a person happy? That’s a contradiction, isn’t it? Actually, not to everyone, many people say the blues are a positive inspiration that lifts you up. They say sharing the feeling with others is the key. You know you’re not alone and you feel connected to other people that relate to your mood, which makes you feel better.

Another reason the blues can make you happy is because of the versatility of the blues. Say what? Well, blues are akin to jazz, gospel, and rock. You see, there’s a concrete link between jazz and blues in the 12 bar blues pattern in songs like “The Sidewinder,” by Lee Morgan, “Blackjack,” by Donald Byrd, or “Cantaloupe Island,” and “Watermelon Man,” by Herbie Hancock.

Many jazz songs have incorporate blues riffs and a blues overtone. Okay, what about the happy thing? Here goes, jazz sounds happy. The rhythms are snappy. There’s a joyful feeling to many jazz tunes, and it was birthed from the blues.

The whole 12 bar blues pattern is also inherent in rock. Rock had the same mother that jazz had. You think of Buddy Holly and bingo, a lot of happy songs in his discography. The bright, cheerful music and lyrics of The Beach Boys comes to mind. Weird Al Yancovich turned many songs inside out with his funny innovations of familiar rock tunes.

Okay. Okay. What next you ask? Gospel, that direct link thing is hot here because the blues came from gospel music. They go hand in hand. Gospel music is inspiring spiritually and that is a great way to feel happiness. It puts a smile on your face.

In defense of a direct attack of the idea that is posited in this article—a look at some blues songs that are comical or have a happy subject is required.

A case-in-point is “Oreo Cookie Blues” by Lonnie Mack and Stevie Ray Vaughn. This is a funny song about where the songs persona keeps Oreo cookies to have them on hand at all times and the glove compartment of his car holds his emergency stash of Oreos.

Another funny blues song is “There Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens.” This song is about how someone is making a lot of noise and the chickens are trying to sleep because they have a lot of work to do the next day. It also talks about the chicken farmers comical point of view—talking about which basket to put your eggs in.

We’ll look further into this subject another time. Until then, Happy Trails…

Listen to Oreo Cookie Blues at: http://www.mystrands.com/

Watch Patti LuPone performing There Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens

At YouTube