Well, I'm a bit late to the party with this post, since by the time it hits the blog, the IBC will be done and dusted. So the fate of the first blues band from India to participate in the IBC will be sealed. But given my interest in Blues from around the world, I still feel the need to post a link to this story in the Hindustan Times of India. Soulmate, was formed in Shillong, India five years ago. Their trip to Memphis is being sponsored by the Blues Club of India, which was found in 2006 by Kiran Sant, who happens to own Haze Jazz and Blues Club, the first Blues club in Delhi.\r\n\r\nNow, I've had the good fortune of meeting a lot of folks from India in my previous job, where we had three offices in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. And to be honest, I've found the people from India to be the most optimistic, positive thinking people I've come across. But the blues are universal, as Kiran stated in the article entitled While My Guitar Gently Weeps, in The Hindu newspaper.
"Blues is when your woman leaves you. It's when you can't pay rent. It's when you do something stupid."
 
  nWell, some things are universal to everyone, everywhere. And that's what's so great about music, and the blues in particular.As for Soulmate, singer, songwriter and guitarist Rudy Wallang says:
Everybody has the blues, he tells you. And everybody has a different way of dealing with them. Some people go to the club and drown them in a drink, others go to the streets to fight them away. We just like to play them. The blues has always been simple music that wails of hardship and loss. It's the root of all popular music today.
  nDamn right. If you want to listen to some clips of their music, you can find them hope they had a great time on their trip to Memphis, and I hope to get myself down to Haze someday to see them for myself blues, live blues, india, delhi, soulmate