"Can somebody tell me where/why blues broke from that structure, please?" I would dive to the bottom, I swear I'd never come up" Now if the river was a'whiskey, and I was a diving duck Blues are 12-bar phrases with 3-bar stanzas, second stanza repeats the first and the third offers some resolution to the first two as in: "Now if the river was a'whiskey, and I was a diving duck "I am under the impression that blues is a very specific format, just as a sonnet is a 14-lines, 5-foot iambic meter reggae has accent on the off-beat. Johnny Winter! His album 'Nothin' But The Blues' would/could/should put to rest any question of the legitimacy of race as a precondition of blues cred. What makes blues so great is that thematically and musically it covers many emotions."ĭredpiraterobts : "I just want to say that if we are going to name bluesmen that belong in the pantheon, then there's one white Texan bluesman that has to be recognized. "When I conjure up an image of the Delta jukejoints, I don't imagine folks sitting around in abject misery broken down in tears, but raising hell and having a great time doing it. It was a way of poking fun of and laughing at one's relative misfortune. I think what ultimately happened is that after expressing themselves the performers more often smiled and cried. After singing about it, the performers were better able to cope and handle whatever misfortune existed in their lives. (Sounds like Rummy.) I think that blues was a way not so much to wallow in misery as to come to terms with it and keep going.
Jacobsbb : "A white person is no less capable of capturing the spirit of the blues, than Kathleen Battle is incapable of performing Bach. Why is it so difficult for the musical innovations of black folks to be taken seriously, as something that possess a genuine authenticity? A cultural archive?" The same is also (or at least should be) true with jazz and blues. You have to deal with the rules that the masters of that tradition laid down if you want what you're singing to be recognized as classical music. I heard Stanley Crouch once make the very poignant observation that a black person can't go to Opera houses in Rome singing Puccini anyway he or she wants to. Germans such as Hans Theessink sing blues and pay homage to Bukka White and the Delta singers. White people sing blues black people sing opera. Koerner, Ray and Glover were superb blues musicians, and they were white. So I don't even know what the definition of 'blues' is.
Listen to his 'In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning.' While not the traditional black blues, it surely counts as 'singing the blues.' And he does that superbly. Listening to her sing, it didn't matter what her 'race' was, she could really rock (not in the 'rock 'n roll sense). Lulu18 : "Judy Roderick was one of the best 'blues' singers and she was white. The guitar riffs that are so loud and long that they hurt your ears and give you a headache are NOT blues." I know that music evolves, but blues should not 'evolve' so much that it gets lost. King and marketing the rock music as blues.
Lately the larger music labels have been promoting their white-rock 'blues' by having the rockers tour with folks such as B.B. And I also have a problem with blues festivals where no black blues musicians are booked. Fundamental to the discussion has been one question: What is the blues?ĭenisicle : "I have a problem with the music that is labeled 'blues' when in fact it is more rock, with a few bluesy riffs, than what is considered blues music. In conjunction with the PBS miniseries, "The Blues," has been hosting an open panel about the genre and its influence on music and culture. Forums highlights, including readers' search for a definition of the blues.
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