Re: All and all it's just another brick in the well

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>Yeah, and it was in the 50's too. But no matter the influence, you can 
>trace all American white music back to black music.

And all American black music back to white?  They were co-mingled from the 
beginning.  There was no blues, gospel or jazz in Africa in 1860.  They're 
all something that evolved here, and they're subject to influence by the 
different ethnic groups that emigrated.


>You mean the white folk? Just kidding. Folk came from minstrel, a British 
>form of music. However, what happened in the US is it became Country Blues.

There's still a folk tradition in the US, and it's not related to country 
that I can see.  I'm talking about Dylan/Baez/Peter, Paul and Mary type 
folk, and I still hear it around now and then, mostly in the storyteller 
tradition.  It's completely ignored by radio, VH1 and MTV, of course.


>We screw up everything, don't we? Anyway, early Blues (as in Ledbelly and 
>Robert Johnson) is a combination of Gospel and Country Blues.

Do you think black gospel sounds like Ledbelly/Johnson blues?  R&B, yes.  
That's definitely from black Gospel, but I don't much hear of that sound in 
straight blues.


> > Ever watch HAIL, HAIL, ROCK AND ROLL?  Chuck
> > Berry complains about his guitar work in rehearsal, shows him how to do 
>it, and Richards still misses it in the final show.
>
>Uh...Richards was right. I know what you mean, the part where Richards is 
>trying to explain to Berry about how to get the sound he wants. Berry 
>didn't understand the technology had changed.

Doesn't sound like the right spot.  It was a "wah-uh-wah" sound that Berry 
wanted Richards to play, and Richards would rush it, so he only got a 
"wah-uh" sound.  Never did get it right, technology or no.


> > Clapton is the real thing, though.
>
>Coke is the real thing, but Clapton did Heroin instead.

Do you think Clapton is an imitator?  Or has he materially added to the body 
and technique of blues music?


keets
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