Episode 16: Blood Letting

Photo by Crystal Glaze

Bloodletting is a historical medical practice that involved deliberately removing blood from a person's body. However, with the advancement of scientific knowledge and modern medicine, bloodletting has been discredited and abandoned as an ineffective and potentially harmful treatment. However, this phenomenon is exactly what happens emotionally when one plays the blues. They let out all the pain and suffering in musical lament, and in so doing - join both themselves and the listener in a catharsis by which healing begins. 

Join us as we talk the blues with Sarah Barlow, Melissa Engleman, and the band Sidetracked.

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