chashmal
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| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot Onhwy61, the blues stopped evolving as a form in itself because the needs it served became depleted. The rural black country culture that was a product of the Jim Crow south used blues almost like an emotional newscast. When those same people and ... | |
| Vinyl sounds a bit thin and slightly strident. I concur that you should adjust the loading first, then go on to the other ideas. I bet that's it. Or maybe you just like the digital sound more. Could be. Some folks go that way. | |
| CD's you bring for auditioning 1. Orlando Gibbons "fantasias for viols' (Jordi Savall)2. John Coltrane "Coltrane quartet plays"3. Cannon's Jug Stompers yazoo comp4. Morton Feldman "Coptic light" (Michael Tilson Thomas)5. Jimi Hendrix "Band of Gypsies" | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot I'm sorry, but your examples of Marcia Ball and Susan Tedeschi only prove my point. They are gifted craftspeople, they have mastered a form. They are not producing innovation on the level of those who forged the genre. Respectfully, I cannot liste... | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot For pre-war the best way is to do a run of the south by region, starting with the delta. The fine work of Samuel Charters can inform this process quite a bit. Here is a partial bibilography:1959 - The Country Blues. New York: Rinehart. Reprinted b... | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot I never said "no good blues have been played since 1965". I said artistic growth in the idiom had turned from radically creative and innovative to the perpetuation of a rather static form. Get your facts. | |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra fans...? When I was a teenager "Visions of the emerald beyond" was one of my favorite records for acid trips. Now when I hear it I get a metallic taste in my mouth. I am not a fusion fan, but I have a soft spot for McLaughlin's Shakti album "Handful of bea... | |
| Do I need a record cleaning machine I lived without one for about 20 years and my mint, new, or very clean vinyl sounded great. The reason I bought my VPI was because I buy so much used vinyl now (I find great deals in abundance).So, now that I have the machine, I use it on EVERYTHI... | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot Buddy Guy and Robert Cray, like some others you mentioned, are masters of the form. I would never dispute that. However there is a difference between mastering a form and creating and innovating new developments. Those guys are rehashing the glory... | |
| Willie Dixon - I Am the Blues. Yeah Grimace, I have an ornery-ness problem! Sorry. I do that...Jaybo I agree completely. Willie Dixon is a bona-fide blues genius. For the post-war period his lyrics, basslines, and melodies are the pinnacle of the idiom. If anyone deserves a pay... | |
| Coltrane love supreme sacd v. 180 gram I have compared the 180 gr. version with an original pressing. The old LP had much more air and better soundstage, although less high frequency detail (probably due to being played a LOT for 30 years on various questionable equipment). I suspect i... | |
| Willie Dixon - I Am the Blues. Well recorded yes. Sounds nice.However IMO it is a gross caricature of his greatest work from the Chess period. In the end, I think it is a redundant cash-in for ole' Mr. Dixon. He stopped growing as an artist with the rest of his generation in th... | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot That, Grimace, is something we CAN resist and reject! I am not saying that the corporate media is another plantation system (much), but I am saying that we can be vocal and annoying about what we will and will not support. Will it change the world... | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot It might even be valid to say that the synthesis of african rhythmic patterns (which became field hollers) with european melodies (evident in early negro spirituals) was in a sense 'anti corporate' . It certainly was a reaction against the status ... | |
| Why the Blues Really Hit The Spot Cwlondon: I could not agree more. The examples you gave really make the point hit home. Comparing Keb Mo to Robert Johnson is like comparing Shakespeare to the Smurfs. |