[78-L] 78rpm Podcast.

[Taylor Bowie]

The more I hear of music,  the more wonderful stuff I discover.  Seems like 
an easy one to me!

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] 78rpm Podcast.


>
> 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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