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

[Joe Scott]

Craig, what is praiseworthy about this performance that isn't also heard in lots of other blues by the likes of Tommy Johnson (usually better than this imo) and Son House (usually about as good as this imo) and their peers? In most respects it does sound like an average Delta blues, doesn't it?

Joseph Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Ventresco
Sent: 08/27/13 03:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Is it really rarest blues record?, or, Troubled earth

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... > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Mike B, you wrote: > > > > "... 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." > > > > 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. > > > > Joseph Scott > > _______________________________________________ > > 78-L mailing list > > 78-L at klickitat.78online.com > > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > > > _______________________________________________ > 78-L mailing list > 78-L at klickitat.78online.com > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l