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Post by ocarolan on Feb 25, 2020 6:57:47 GMT
Iya woke-a uppa thisa morninga ...
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Post by Onechordtrick on Feb 25, 2020 7:36:10 GMT
Iya woke-a uppa thisa morninga ... No here's the father of Piedmont Blues
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Post by Riverman on Feb 25, 2020 8:04:03 GMT
Peg Leg Howell is an unsung hero. Nepotism?
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 25, 2020 17:40:20 GMT
Riverman Peg Leg can stand on his own two feet ...
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Post by Riverman on Feb 25, 2020 18:55:39 GMT
Riverman Peg Leg can stand on his own two feet ...
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Post by PistolPete on Feb 26, 2020 14:30:41 GMT
Piedmont blues, I would never have thought that a region of Northwest Italy would be one of the homes of blues.... If I remember rightly 'piedmont' is latin for foothill, hence it's application to the topography of both the both the Alpine and Appalachian regions...
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Post by Onechordtrick on Feb 26, 2020 18:07:34 GMT
Piedmont blues, I would never have thought that a region of Northwest Italy would be one of the homes of blues.... If I remember rightly 'piedmont' is latin for foothill, hence it's application to the topography of both the both the Alpine and Appalachian regions... That would be pedem collis in Latin; piedmont is more French I think. But I agree with your premise.
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Post by 007 on Feb 27, 2020 18:04:37 GMT
A yes that’s all very well but what about White blues and can green men sing the blues, that’s a whole other ball game or as they say in New Orleans “that’s a whole other blues game”: And who plays Zimbabwe blues on here. Nobody I bet cause I just invented It. Which leads me to a whole new blues genre . Polesdown Lacy blues. Wimborne Delta blues which SD plays and Hippy happy blues I could go on.........
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 27, 2020 18:33:04 GMT
Zimbabwe blues? Have you not heard of the Bhundu Boys?
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Post by Onechordtrick on Feb 27, 2020 19:15:47 GMT
Zimbabwe blues? Have you not heard of the Bhundu Boys? And Michael Kiwanuke EDIT ignore that; he’s actually British of Ugandan heritage. I had misremembered. But he’s still very good!
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Post by scorpiodog on Feb 27, 2020 19:49:00 GMT
A yes that’s all very well but what about White blues and can green men sing the blues, that’s a whole other ball game or as they say in New Orleans “that’s a whole other blues game”: And who plays Zimbabwe blues on here. Nobody I bet cause I just invented It. Which leads me to a whole new blues genre . Polesdown Lacy blues. Wimborne Delta blues which SD plays and Hippy happy blues I could go on......... We're just worried that the levee may break. That'll make us sing the blues.
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Post by ocarolan on Feb 27, 2020 22:40:16 GMT
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Post by andyhowell on Feb 28, 2020 10:42:56 GMT
scorpiodog I was in Worcesterhisre yesterday. There the levee has broke!
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Post by slidingwolf on Feb 29, 2020 13:28:08 GMT
An act I saw recently talked a lot about how he played 'authentic' delta blues but performed almost exclusively what I'd consider piedmont material - steady alternating bass under a melody (Mississippi John Hurt and Rev Gary Davis type stuff). Whereas I tend to associate delta with repeated bass notes and sudden jump in rhythm (in the mould of Charlie Patton or Robert Johnson). I'm just curious what you see as the differences between the two styles? Well, certainly MJH came from the Delta, but like you, I would not describe his style as typical of the region. I had the good fortune to spend some time with John Cephas and Phil Wiggins. They described themselves as "playing in the Piedmont style," and proud to keep that tradition going. So there is/was something in the definitions as far as they were/are concerned. But it's only fairly broad categories as far as I can make out and no hard and fast rules. At the time, John Cephas was teaching and performing Skip James songs - not your classic Piedmont for sure. To me, the blues is like an enormouse gene pool of ideas which players dipped into and took what they wanted, from wherever they wanted. I don't think any of them were ever bothered to much by some definition. Part of the facination. Thanks for posting. Interesting subject.
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Post by andyhowell on Mar 1, 2020 10:35:07 GMT
Style is interesting but has to be flexible a little. In general I will always take Piedmont over the delta - but there are exceptions!
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