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A Touring-Dependent Genre Feels the Pain: ‘I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues’
Over the past 34 years of "blues, booze and Cajun food," Blind Willie's nightclub in Atlanta has weathered Black Friday, the Great Recession, the 1996 Olympics bombing, 9/11, an aging neighborhood and the deaths of headliners from Rufus Thomas to Beverly "Guitar" Watkins. But the coronavirus pandemic "might be enough to put us under," says co-owner Eric King. "It's like a science-fiction movie around here, looking out the door and not seeing people on the street."