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I'm very much a dilettante but a piano teacher taught me a few boogie woogie songs when I was in middle school. That planted a seed that has turned into a lifelong love for the music of New Orleans, which is essentially the source and pulse of American music, full stop.

A benefit of exploring this music is that while the tradition is both deep and broad it's also very much alive, and there are tons of ways to get into it. A great start is to listen to WWOZ (wwozy.org) and to google all the artists that you like. I could do that all day if it paid.