Ernestine Anderson discusses her love of the blues

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Q: “You do get going on the blues, don’t you!”

A: “I love … I love the blues. I kind of grew up, you know, listening to the blues. My parents used to play all the old blues records and at the time, I used to think how can they listen to that stuff? You know, I thought, Jesus, really, you know, bad music and I was into Dizzy and Bird and Sarah and you know, so I thought they were pretty square.”