[78-L] Is it really rarest blues record?, or, Troubled earth

Craig Ventresco craigventresco at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 14:58:05 PDT 2013


If that's pedestrian I'll eat my hat, you silly goose.


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Erwin Kluwer <ekluwer at gmail.com> wrote:

> It sounds pedestrian to you because this sound has been totally
> absorbed/assimilated  by music as it's know today...
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> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Mike B, you wrote:
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> > "... what I find interesting is the Willie Brown record that does exist
> > and is posted.
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WREOMLH2u
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WREOMLH2uI I
> > It seems very pedestrian and ordinary to me, not like what is said in the
> > article that nobody can play in his distinctive guitar style."
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> > Everybody who sounds the most like Charlie Patton is the most
> > "distinctive." Now do you understand? Alan Lomax wrote in 1947 that the
> > "Mississippi Delta" was the "great dark valley of the blues... where the
> > earth and the people are equally fertile and burdened with troubles," if
> > that helps.
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> > Joseph Scott
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