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Post by owwdatune on Jan 19, 2013 12:45:32 GMT -5
AMAZING GRACE a GORGEOUS, HEART RIPPING song, one would think coming from a person down on ther luck but filled with FAITH. IS this song a BLUES song or a GOSPEL SONG? ? I have heard many a version of the song but the best was at a Church is Possum HOLLER in South Carolina....a buddy n I were coming back from the Bike rally in Myrtle Beach. Not wanting to take main roads and get away from the traffic we toook a right since we knew right was north so how bad can it be and came across what we wanted There were houses with 6-8 people all on the porch singing HAPPY SONGS !!! They were so poor it was unbelievable and here I was on a 20 K MC....soon amy buddy had trouble with his bike. WE pullledonto this plantation and walked up to these people n insteadof being treated like the WHITE DEVIL we awere treated with compassion, sweat tea, and a smile. They pushed our bikesinto the shade and then helped us get em going again but not before having lunch. Luckily They were having pulled pork n opossum....... I got the last pork and my buddy had no ida the other pots was opossum. They all started clapping when he found out..... he first spit it out but soon was asking for seconds, greens, corn, sweat tea and good folks. Soon out came the mouth harp, geetars, wash boards, and anything that could nag a rhythm or play and yes there was a fiddle missing a string but still playing away.... these people were great..... and RICH, RICH in heart n soul n family but mostly they had NO IDEA they were poor !!!! I learned alot that day andheard AMAZING GRACE sound like a funeral song and like a part Gospel song......... SO what to do you say Blues or not> James
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Post by saguitar on Jan 19, 2013 14:53:20 GMT -5
Great story, brother, I loved it. And as far as I can tell, at their roots, Blues and Gospel are interchangeable.
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Post by slapjaw on Jan 20, 2013 8:31:14 GMT -5
I believe blues is the younger brother of gospel. Sounded like a great time. Have you been back yet?
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Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2013 14:05:19 GMT -5
World Cafe Looks Back: Blues And Gospelwww.npr.org/2012/02/20/141247280/world-cafe-looks-back-blues-and-gospelThroughout the month of October, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of World Cafe by revisiting some of the best and most memorable interviews of the past 20 years. On today's show, host David Dye celebrates blues and gospel visionaries by resurfacing past conversations with guitar masters Buddy Guy and R.L. Burnside, gospel storyteller Mavis Staples and blues royalty Koko Taylor. Widely known as "Queen of the Blues," Koko Taylor spoke with Michaela Majoun in 1994, after the release of Taylor's album Force of Nature. Discovered by producer Willie Dixon, Taylor landed a recording contract with Chess Records, rising to fame with her 1965 single "Wang Dang Doodle." Taylor died in 2009. Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy came of age in the 1950s Baton Rouge scene, though his Grammy-winning 1991 album Damn Right I've Got the Blues remains one of his best-loved works. Guy visited World Cafe in 2005, the same year he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. R.L. Burnside visited World Cafe in 2000. Although he played guitar and sang throughout his life, Burnside (who died in 2005) primarily made his living as a farmer and fisherman — that is, until Fat Possum Records gave his music career a boost in the 1990s. Hear a rollicking live performance from Burnside and his band, which includes his grandson Cedric Burnside. Mavis Staples is another performer with strong family ties, having led The Staple Singers with her father Pops Staples in their church starting in the 1940s. By the 1960s, the group was touring the South alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., energizing the Civil Rights movement with freedom songs. She visited World Cafe in 2004 for one of the show's best conversations. This story originally aired on October 12, 2011. Setlist - Buddy Guy, "Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes"
- Koko Taylor, "Don't Put Your Hand On Me"
- Koko Taylor, "Wang Dang Doodle"
- R.L. Burnside, "Going Down South"
- R.L. Burnside, "Let My Baby Ride"
- Mavis Staples, "I'll Take You There
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Post by dadfad on Jan 22, 2013 12:19:00 GMT -5
First a hymn, then a gospel and a spiritual. (Which are not necessarily the same thing, and the tune has evolved a lot since John Newton published it in 1779.)
Of course there are thousands of recorded version, some "straight," some "bluesed up" and some even "jazzed up."
One of the best I ever heard live was at Albert King's funeral in Memphis, done by Joe Walsh as a solo on electric slide guitar. Very tasteful, and very moving.
Being the irreverent ass I am, I have my own version (which is neither moving nor tasteful), most of which I shamelessly plagiarized as best I could lyrically from a guitarist I saw in Florida once.
It starts off very "straight" with a few introductory bars done fingerstyle very true to the original hymn, then the rhythm and meter slowly changes into say the rhythm and feel of a circus calliope. With the lyrics (more or less) starting out...
Amazing Grace was a carnival queen, though she never was rich nor famous. She travelled the land with Side-Show Dan and his True Live Freaks of Nature.
Now they say that Grace had a giant brain, her IQ 'bout a hundred and fifty, And she was tattooed over every inch of her skin. Man she sure was nifty.
She could lift a man with either hand, she could twirl one in her teeth. She could bend her back like an acrobat, she could juggle with her bare feet.
Amazing Grace...... (How sweet she was)...
And Flying Paul the Cannon Ball, an' the Snakeman Johnny Hiss, And Ugly Roy the Dog-faced Boy, an' Mysterio the Mentalist,
And Leo the Giant, an' Little Eddie Small said they all thought Grace coulda been The very first tattooed-lady professor or even U.S. president.
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(But when asked to do so, I can play the real version fingerstyle or with a slide!)
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Post by Admin on Jan 22, 2013 16:31:13 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D
I love parodies.
Just posted a tab for harmonica (easy)
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