http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/-t1.htm Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:34:03 GMT 10 http://illiweb.com/fa/logo_en.gif http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/-t1.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/norton-buffalo-t2328.htm John McLaughlin Partnered with Roy Rogers on harmonica, veteran of Bonnie Raitt and Steve Miller bands, died Oct 30 2009. He's missed by some. Blues Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:34:03 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/norton-buffalo-t2328.htm#35617 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/norton-buffalo-t2328.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/blind-lemon-jefferson-t2322.htm Leopardi Some Texas Blues. Blues Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:39:11 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/blind-lemon-jefferson-t2322.htm#35551 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/blind-lemon-jefferson-t2322.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/js-bach-vs-steve-vai-t2279.htm pinhedz
]]> Blues Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:02:25 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/js-bach-vs-steve-vai-t2279.htm#34997 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/js-bach-vs-steve-vai-t2279.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/the-blues-in-outer-space-t2111.htm pinhedz I read that the song "Amazing Grace" had been forgotten in the UK until the 1960s folk revival, at which time it made it's way back to the UK from the US. I also read that all those old hymns were in a hymn book assembled by Isaac Watts, that was taken to the American colonies and provided to the slaves. One of the Isaac Watts hymns was "Dark was the Night." The words were something like: "Dark was the night And cold the ground Where my Jesus lay As ... Blues Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:12:25 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/the-blues-in-outer-space-t2111.htm#32075 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/the-blues-in-outer-space-t2111.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/this-is-the-blues-are-you-listening-t1570.htm powerpete ]]> Blues Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:49:22 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/this-is-the-blues-are-you-listening-t1570.htm#23385 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/this-is-the-blues-are-you-listening-t1570.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-a-12-year-old-play-johnny-winter-t2264.htm pinhedz ]]> Blues Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:04:08 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-a-12-year-old-play-johnny-winter-t2264.htm#34810 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-a-12-year-old-play-johnny-winter-t2264.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-johnny-winter-play-acoustic-slide-guitar-t2263.htm pinhedz ]]> Blues Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:03:14 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-johnny-winter-play-acoustic-slide-guitar-t2263.htm#34809 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-johnny-winter-play-acoustic-slide-guitar-t2263.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/republicans-endorse-green-party-bluesman-for-mayor-t1803.htm pinhedz John Kolstad, legendary Minneapolis bluesman and founder of the Sorry Muthas jug band, is making Minneapolis history by becoming the only Republican-endorsed mayoral candidate ever to challenge the Democrats--from the left. Papa John thinks Minnesota Democrats are too conservative, so he tried running for attorney general as a Green Party candidate, but he only got 2% of the vote. That taught him a lesson--major party is the only way to go. That's why he's gone out for a more heavy-duty ... Blues Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:44:55 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/republicans-endorse-green-party-bluesman-for-mayor-t1803.htm#27491 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/republicans-endorse-green-party-bluesman-for-mayor-t1803.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/oldest-documented-blues-song-t1631.htm pinhedz If you got an older one, I'm all ears. A songwriter called Trevathan published this in 1895 and claimed authorship, but W.C. Handy claimed he heard stevedores singing it in St. Louis in 1892 (Handy's not very reliable, tho). Handy used this format--12-bar verse with 16-bar chorus--for his pwn biggest hit, "St. louis Blues." Here's the oldest recording, by the woman that sang the song on Broadway: Here's an off-Broadway rendition by Gid Tanner and the Skillet ... Blues Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:08:16 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/oldest-documented-blues-song-t1631.htm#24801 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/oldest-documented-blues-song-t1631.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-blue-men-play-the-latinos-t2207.htm pinhedz ]]> Blues Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:34:47 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-blue-men-play-the-latinos-t2207.htm#33651 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-blue-men-play-the-latinos-t2207.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-the-blue-men-sing-the-whites-t1579.htm Eddie ....or are they hypocrites if they do? The question (posed by Viv Stanshall of the Bonzos) receives at least a partial answer from Chris Stamp, co-Manager of The Who, in the excellent Who retrospective DVD "Amazing Journey". Stamp relates how their pregnant mother turned up at the office as usual with all the other wives to collect her Merchant Seaman husband's pay during WWII only to be informed: "Sorry, Mrs Stamp, your husband's ship has been torpedoed: no wages ... Blues Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:15:00 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-the-blue-men-sing-the-whites-t1579.htm#23491 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/can-the-blue-men-sing-the-whites-t1579.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/wc-handy-said-he-was-father-of-the-blues-t1886.htm pinhedz
He made great contributions to the blues, tho:

]]> Blues Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:36:26 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/wc-handy-said-he-was-father-of-the-blues-t1886.htm#28606 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/wc-handy-said-he-was-father-of-the-blues-t1886.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/bluesmen-that-do-bob-better-than-bob-t2015.htm pinhedz ]]> Blues Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:14:09 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/bluesmen-that-do-bob-better-than-bob-t2015.htm#30307 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/bluesmen-that-do-bob-better-than-bob-t2015.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/bluesmen-speak-out-against-injustice-t1774.htm pinhedz ]]> Blues Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:54:09 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/bluesmen-speak-out-against-injustice-t1774.htm#27086 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/bluesmen-speak-out-against-injustice-t1774.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/definition-of-the-blues-t1599.htm pinhedz ]]> Blues Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:18:07 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/definition-of-the-blues-t1599.htm#23798 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/definition-of-the-blues-t1599.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/robert-johnson-for-portuguese-speakers-t1794.htm pinhedz ]]> Blues Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:02:34 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/robert-johnson-for-portuguese-speakers-t1794.htm#27381 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/robert-johnson-for-portuguese-speakers-t1794.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/nothing-feels-better-than-feeling-bad-please-explain-t1736.htm pinhedz Reconcile this, if you can: #1. Everyone knows that having "the blues" means you're feeling bad. Maybe your good gal have done you wrong, maybe you're broke and hungry and ragged and dirty too, maybe you done your good gal wrong and she shot you right in the middle of your big affair. The point is, the blues ain't nothin' but a good man/gal feelin' bad. #2. There's two kinds of music--sanctified music (which you sing in church) and blues (which you listen to in barrel ... Blues Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:26:34 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/nothing-feels-better-than-feeling-bad-please-explain-t1736.htm#26548 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/nothing-feels-better-than-feeling-bad-please-explain-t1736.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/let-s-decide-abot-blues-t1572.htm President Eisenhower I tried to have more options, but only can hav ten. Blues Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:44:05 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/let-s-decide-abot-blues-t1572.htm#23396 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/let-s-decide-abot-blues-t1572.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/one-string-sam-t1641.htm felix Sam Wilson walked into a recording studio and recorded 2 tracks in 1956 (this is one of them, his version of Little Walter's 'My Babe'): [url=http://www.we7.com/#/track/My-Baby-Ooo!trackId=2278728]http://www.we7.com/#/track/My-Baby-Ooo!trackId=2278728[/url] , was 'rediscovered' (!?) and appeared at the 1973 Ann Arbor blues festival (2 tracks recorded and released) then disappeared. Well I like it. Blues Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:09:38 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/one-string-sam-t1641.htm#24936 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/one-string-sam-t1641.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/speckled-red-t1606.htm President Eisenhower In 1929, the boogie-woogie pianist Speckled Red recorded a song entitled "The Dirty Dozens" which includes lyrics such as "I like yo' momma—sister, too/I did like your poppa—but your poppa would not do./I met your poppa on the corner the other day/I soon found out he was funny that way." (Kokomo Arnold, one of the most popular American blues musicians of the 1930s, also recorded much the same song under the title "The Twelves" in 1935.) Blues Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:07:12 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/speckled-red-t1606.htm#23928 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/speckled-red-t1606.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/big-bill-broonzy-t1590.htm Bullfrog
]]> Blues Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:55:20 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/big-bill-broonzy-t1590.htm#23658 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/big-bill-broonzy-t1590.htm http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/the-blues-t1552.htm John McLaughlin I know they could be covered by the broader definition of "folk" (learnt without benefit of formal schooling or reading music), but then so could jazz and bluegrass, for the most part? Which makes that definition of "folk" bloody culturally imperialistic dunnit?And I've asked the mods for a separate forum dedicated to the blues already. Just to kick it off, anyway, I'm looking at a "BluesMusicRom" somebody sent me, a CD-Rom which contains not only a nice set ... Blues Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:56:02 GMT http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/the-blues-t1552.htm#23080 http://acrosstheuniverse.forumotion.com/blues-f19/the-blues-t1552.htm