Kofi - Things May Come

If the west begins in Fort Worth, the South begins in East Texas, in the rich bottomlands along the Colorado, Brazos, Navasota, and Trinity rivers, where cotton has been king, it seems, forever. The blues came from cotton... and while Mississippi gets most of the credit for creating the blues, with native sons like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and B. B. King, Texas is where some of the earliest blues pioneers lived and played, including the man who would become Johnson’s teacher, though the two never met.

Musicians in rural East Texas had to be versatile. They had to play to the whims of black and white folks on the streets of towns like Navasota and Wortham, and they had to keep the dancers happy at Saturday night suppers that went on into Sunday morning. They called themselves songsters or musicianers, and they sang and played spirituals, vaudeville tunes, work songs, prison songs, English ballads, local sagas, children’s songs, and eventually, the blues. Most were born into unimaginable hardship and degradation... They are all linked, by style, blood, or friendship, but mostly by place. These were men of the land, farmers and sons of farmers, and the songs they sang were their versions of the songs they grew up hearing and playing. They changed the words to fit their lives, and they made something new.

Source: Birthplaces of the Blues by Michael Hall

Kofi - Things May Come

• Producer: Mad Professor
• Released in: 1994
• Released on: Friday's Child album

"Kofi is a British lovers rock singer. She had hits on the British reggae charts and topped the British reggae charts in 1990. The 1988 British Reggae Industry Awards ceremony saw Kofi winning the awards for Best Female Vocalist. Kofi went on to achieve further awards in 1989, establishing her status as one of the queens of Lovers rock."

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