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Re: [Blues styles]



}> GALVINR@ee-wp.bham.ac.uk
}
}>...
}>it from Bert Jansch's Black Mountain Slide (which has been my 
}>privilege to hear live recently) and who based it on an old 
}>traditional tune around the DADGAD guitar tuning pioneered by Davey
}>Graham.

Now we have an influence for Pete's guitar smashing:  "Take *that*, you
DADGAD guitar, dagnabbit!"


} ScottyTee@aol.com
}
}...  I
}know that many people believe that the blues is a form consisting of 12 bars
}and three chords, but that's only the surface.  In fact, only recently has
}the blues "adopted" this formula.   Muddy Waters had many songs with 14 or
}even 12 and a half bar form, and sometimes only two chords. Sometimes the
}older bluesmen would follow no set form; they simply changed chords when the
}lyrics called for it.

It's really nice to see Muddy Waters mentioned, a couple of times lately...
The influence he and other bluesmen had on the British pop/rock scene is far
greater than has tended to be acknowledged, [even] on this list.  (Q.v. the
several "The London <Blues Person> Sessions" albums.)

Regarding styles of blues, don't forget the "boogie blues", especially as
practised by John Lee Hooker; though this tends to have three chords (esp.
for JLH), it certainly isn't 12 bars--often just a rising four-bar riff
(1, 1, 2, 3; sorry, don't know the specific chords) repeated indefinitely,
with talkin' / "blues rap" lyrics over the top.

> Mike <