Never realized that second one was a RJ song.
Chuck Klosterman has a chapter in But What if We're Wrong? about the forgetting of musicians, so that generations down the line, each genre is represented by a single archetypal individual. RJ might be a good bet for blues.
https://steemit.com/books/@plotbot2015/oc-book-review-of-chuck-klosterman-s-what-if-we-re-wrong