[78-L] 78rpm Podcast.

[Cary Ginell]

Johnson and Broonzy were two of the few blues musicians who were conscious of trying to expand their base; Johnson with "Tomorrow Night" - a great crossover R&B hit, and Broonzy joining Josh White in the urban folk scene. But there were many more country and blues musicians who had the talent to appeal to other markets, but chose not to or didn't get the same breaks. I can name dozens of country guitarists who not only could equal their jazz counterparts in harmonic complexity, but who actually influenced them as well. When Earl speaks so disparagingly of country music, his point-of-view is probably limited to what little he heard from Nashville or what passes for country music today. It shows to me an obvious unwillingness to even listen to anything he is not familiar with. 
 
As for "limiting their talents for a market," B.B. King made the market come to him, without him changing his style at all. 
 
Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:44:08 +0100
> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78rpm Podcast.
> 
> Cary Ginell wrote:
> Sounds like snob appeal to me. Music has to be complex to be "good"? 
> Discarding country and blues because they don't have "interesting chord 
> sequences" shows a total disregard for context of what those two highly 
> rich genres are all about. I don't see how anyone with this kind of 
> narrow-minded view of music can actually call his taste "very wide."
> 
> Cary Ginell
> ======================
> As I said blues singers like Johnson and Broonzy were brilliant 
> guitarists. By singing blues they were limiting their talents for a 
> "market".
> 
> Julian Vein
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