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Post by jawbone on Apr 1, 2021 21:58:44 GMT -5
That is a great song! Wynonie has been somewhat overlooked I think by a lot of players. The Slim version of Rock Me Baby is great but what I like about BB' version is that hard hook on guitar, which I can emulate on harp. And both of these fresh ones along with a lot of other stuff we do will pop much better when I get the cajon/drum up and running.
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Post by whitefang on Apr 2, 2021 9:41:12 GMT -5
My stepsister and a buddy's older brother had a few Wynonie platters which is how we learned of him. The "race" stations quit playing his stuff by the time I "discovered" them on the radio. Not sure which part you consider that "hook", but if it's what I'm thinking, it's a much used and well established blues "hook". Which really doesn't make it a bad thing. Whitefang
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Post by jawbone on Apr 2, 2021 22:02:37 GMT -5
I think it's what you suspect, that hard hit on the third beat of the line. I let go of any aspirations a long time ago of inventing much new musically, and with the realization that my audience is the people and not my peers and betters, I found a certain freedom. I think anyone worth their salt does what they can to make a cover their pown to some extent and I respect those who do. Why do a carbon copy of so and so's version? He already did that!
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Post by whitefang on Apr 3, 2021 10:12:07 GMT -5
The best reason of a carbon copy is when the original can't be done any better than it already is, or too, presents a particular challenge.
Whitefang
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Post by jawbone on May 3, 2021 3:16:11 GMT -5
Here's Jolene singing one yesterday.
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Post by whitefang on May 3, 2021 10:14:47 GMT -5
Very good. Say, I mentioned I thought maybe the way Jo strums her guitar(never on the "upsweep") might have been because her "formative" years might have been on a 12-string. So. Ever consider her using a 12-string at times? Whitefang
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Post by whitefang on Jun 3, 2021 9:55:16 GMT -5
How about this triumphant trio? Whitefang
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Post by jawbone on Jun 14, 2021 1:09:46 GMT -5
Stupendous and inimitable. I mean who even comes close to that kind of grit? Those guys lived hard every day and put it out through guitar, lyrics, and voice. Next to nobody these days has lived that kind of blues.
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Post by whitefang on Jun 14, 2021 11:05:18 GMT -5
I won't go through the whole story again, but I remember an old man in a music store telling a young man there who was giving what he thought was a blues "clinic" by playing different "styles" for half minutes at a time, and announcing each "style" before he played a sample(you know, "Chicago style", "Delta style", etc.). And this old black man in the store(waiting for his grandson to finish a piano lesson he said) shuffled up and told the guy... "Boy, you has it all wrong. Blues ain't a style, it's a feelin'. And you just put that feelin' into the music no matter WHERE you be." Whitefang
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