Reading through the thread to this point I realized I should possibly embellish my comment that "It is all a conversation."
That is genuinely how I see it and therefore draw no distinction between Beethoven and Son House, Pat Metheny and Lefty Frizzell, Buddy Holly and Thelonious Monk, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Lawrence Welk, etc.. A Beethoven symphony is basically a large committee of people all talking to you, the listener, about the same subject, and Son House is one guy talking to you about a subject. It is exactly the same thing to me.
We create these distinctions of what we hear ourselves, for our convenience. But the act is the same, and has been since the first "note" was played.
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