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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Bailey:
Brudev
So I concede that Al is playing as relevent a form of blues as anybody, )
I must correct you. I don't play anything relevant or competent. Most will concede that I am a horrible musician. |
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Location: SoCal | This discussion ties in perfectily with another on the board about learning to play an instrument when you are older.
A disucssion like this one can only take place when you've got some age and perspective (well, with Al, age). You may be the hot player when you're 25, but you haven't grown up yet and can't have either attribute. Older musicians (with all due respect to the younger OFCer's) usually make the best musicians. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I'm a Short, Fat, Bald White guy.... doesn't that qualify me for some version of the Blues?...
Really though, It is life's experiences transcribed into music that make the best blues... cannot a man (or woman) feel the blues when they helplessly watch a loved one get ill, worsen, suffer and die?
I make good money, have never "wanted" for food nor clothing, but there are some experiences that stab the heart just as much as "shoveling cow shit" for hours...the Blues is the natural outpouring of a bruised/broken heart/spirit... let it flow!
The Blues is just as legitimate for me to play as it is for a "woe-is-me" cotton picker...
tim ... 'po 'po pitiful me! |
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Location: Scotland | It's a myth that all blues subject matter is about hardship. There's a whole sub-genre of blues known as "Hokum" which is very up-beat. Hardly surprising as the majority of Hokum Blues is about snorting coke or having sex (or both) A lot of Hokum was banned when it was released in the '30s because of the drug references & sexual innuendo. Classics include "What's that smells Like Fish" "Let Me Put My Banana In your Fruit Basket" & "Keep On Churning Till The Butter Comes"
Cole Porter eat your heart out. |
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Location: NJ | Paul;
I've got a CD compilation of that very stuff.
It's called "Hot Nuts and . . . " - I forget the rest of the title. Some pretty wild stuff.
Lotta "meat cuttin' " references. ;) |
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Location: Scotland | Cliff, I've seen that one, I think it's called "Hot Nuts & Lollipops" I have a similar compilation called "Please Warm My Weiner"
Intereseting to note that a lot of the real filthy stuff was by female acts like Memphis Minnie & Lucille Bogan. |
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Location: NJ | "Hot Nuts & Lollipops". That's it. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Tim
You are absolutely right, economics, possessions, nothing matters more than a loss of a loved one. I hope this board provides some help to those who have lost somebody. I am still blessed, my wife and children are here and regardless of our differences they are alive. Not muchelse matters. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Bailey,
That helpless feeling is one of the most difficult things to endure... but The Lord and friends AND MUSIC help us get through it all!
Seems like I heard a "Blues" song a long time a go that told about "My wife is faithful, My Boss gave me a raise, my dog came back home and everyone who owed me money paid me back with interest"! Perhaps a whole new form of music is in order: "Happy Blues"... seems rather an oxymoron doesn't it!
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