A heated discussion on 'Race, Gender & the Blues'

[Harri Haka]

Like I was saying, there was not a general interest for country music
among the wider black audience. It is of course natural for a talent
like B.B. King to have studied all genres including country and jazz.
But does any of this reflect on his actual playing or singing? He has
flirted with U2, Eric Clapton and others in the past years but I hardly
find a c&w influence on any of his recordings. Mississippi John Hurt is
greatly respected but he was a folk singer and story teller with a
natural connection to country music of his time.
Harri


29.5.2012 2:35, jinxblues@aol.com kirjoitti:
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>     Not wanting to take part in the c&w discussion more than to say that
>     there was never a general interest in country music within the black
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>     This is absolutely not true.
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>     Blues people growing up in the south in the 1930s and 1940s all listened to WLAC (Nashville) with its powerful signal.
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>     B.B.King told me in great detail how he had listen to Gene Autry and Red Foley and Jimmy Rogers.
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>     Mississippi John Hurt's "Let the Mermaids Flirt with me" is unmistakably Jimmy Rogers'"All Around the Water Tank" a/k/a "Waiting for a Train."
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> Dick Waterman
> 1601 Buchanan Avenue
> Oxford, MS 38655
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