For me... "Expresses the human condition in the rawest way" doesn't really say much. I don't think its particularly clear, as such, it doesn't trigger any curiosity. You will likely do better to pull a line form the personal anecdote to make me wonder what you are talking about. For example "This is what going to church as a kid taught me about the blues"... or whatever.

But can you see the difference? You are often pulling nice sounding phrases and thinking they trigger curiosity. This is a common mistake. Would you ever call a friend and say "hey Joe, Expresses the human condition in the rawest way!". It's sort of hard to even follow. Know what I mean? Think back to the copy-writing course and some of my examples of calling out to strangers from the merch table. The more your copy translates to real world people and situations, the more of an impact it will likely have.

Hope that makes sense.

Yes, all of those are more in line with what I'm saying.

I tend to like using the "this" pronoun in teh beginning of these kinds of headlines. 

This is what...

This is how...

This is where...

I feel like it's dynamic and pulls people in. 

So, like... This is what going to church taught me about the blues...

But that's just me. Try a few and see what happens 🙂