What gets me about the Charlie Poole set when there is a 'straight' version and a 'country' version, is how the straight version tries to sound sophisticated, but the country version actually *is *sophisticated: makes one think about the awful stereotypes about old time country musicians - same thing about the blues: you can see Lonnie Johnson, or any of the well-recorded guys and gals, in a fine suit with a fine guitar, but the tradition wants a blues guy to be a desperate train hopper with a talent that could only be explained by devilish intervention, rather than loads of practice and clever ideas....
on the rap thing, I'm starting to realise that between for example Rakim and Monroe there is not much distance in intention: both are going fast and making rythmic variations in every single thing they do. I understand that this may not be a majority opinion, but what can you do. Robin On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I manged to get Charlie Poole's boxed set and noticed on at least one > of the 4 CD's in the set that there would be a recording of a tune as > it would be played in the era by the city folks, then there would be > Poole's version. So this goes along with what the author of the > Linthead Stop was on about from what the reviewers, etc. say. I > surely love the old stuff, have to pay nearly twice the amount for > every CD I buy due to the current value of the Australian dollar so I > don't get to buy nearly as much of these old recordings as I want to. > The Charlie Poole set was both fun and instructive here. > I suppose in our times we look to the past and try to bring it back > but in those days, they were looking at the now to some degree and > changing it to their style. Something interesting to ponder. How to > use the style on current tunes. Hum I just wonder how someone would > or could do anything to country up or trick up with bluegrass > licks .... a rapper tune?? <G> > > On Mar 15, 1:24 am, Mike Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ohhh, the Dixon Brothers....The Intoxicated Rat. Those recordings would > be > > awesome to hear! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
