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Blues Website of the Month is , which is truly unlike any blues site you (or I) have seen, unless you spend a lot of time looking at Israeli pages that promote the blues as a harbinger of world peace.

Blues For Peace is a self-contained blues band from the Holy Land, as well, but there's also a lot of non-band material here, including a list of peace-related blues lyrics, articles, humor, children's stories, profiles of blues artists that have visited Israel, and a study guide for people interested in the concept.

If you think it all sounds a little silly, consider these words of wisdom from Willie Dixon himself, quoted on the site: "You can make a transfusion that will save a life / You can change the darkness into broad daylight / You make the deaf man hear and the dumb man speak / But it don't make sense you can't make peace."

by Robert Fontenot, September 2001.