Can these two different guitar instrumentals become friends?
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Artist:
Ike Turner wasn't dressed this futuristically when he recorded this.
Ike Turner: "Bayou Rock"
Da Blahlas: "Punahele"
Sure, these two are different. "Bayou Rock" features Turner's tremolo-laden electric guitar with a cha-cha-type beat, unusual for a Clarksdale-St. Louis pianist/bandleader. It was on his (1950's? early 1960's?) Crown label LP Rocks the Blues amid his less interesting imitations of other blues guitarists. "Punahele" has an acoustic Hawaiian slack-key style and comes from a 1980 Pumehana label various-artists LP compilation Slack-Key Giants. BUT, both tunes go back and forth between their tonic and dominant chords, playing minor variations on their simple opening melodies. Both succeed at that, and they seem to be happy together here.
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Comments (19)
Very interesting read.
A better listen, lol
That is, until Ike starts thinking them Hawaiians might be a little bitch-like.:)
A very interesting comparison. Thank you for your ears! (and the history)
"Slack-key style" is a new phrase for me, but I like it. I was afraid "slack-key" meant out of tune.
And I have that Ike track - because some Mogger sent me a mix track with it present - Spike-one who shall remain nameless...
deadmandeadman, so the ears have it over the eyes. As they should.
wassonii, you're welcome. Yeah, those Hawaiians, if they're anything like their music, they're probably rabid wolverines.
dermahrk, wikepedia knows way more about it than I. The less said about that pesky Mogger, the better.
very enjoyable post
thanks spike
Da Blahlas! Yeah...you are hitting my neck of the woods. Those guys really did some fine slack key back in the day. There is actually a back yard slack key jam going on outside my house at my neighbor's while I'm typing this out. Time to head outside and enjoy the sunset with some of the best sounding tuning imaginable on a guitar and ukulele.
:=)
inrumford, glad you enjoyed it.
The Time Machine, sigh, where I live, once again the sun is going down on the other side of the hill where I can't see it, and once again there is no back yard slack key jam going on next door. Envy drips from every pore of my skin.
Now that you mention it, there is a decided brother-from-another-genre comparison to be made here. Which would still make these interesting even if they weren't both sublime. Again, you spoil us....
And yet you never rot.
Although I've felt lately as if my brain is atrophying....
Supposedly, listening to Mozart (not my favorite composer) helps toddlers' brains.
Maybe I need to listen to a composer who didn't start getting good until he was, um, mature.....
My 14-year-old dachshund doesn't complain when I play Michael Jackson in the car.
How does your dachshund feel about Berlioz?
He complains that Berlioz sounds too "rough."
You'd better not play him any Stockhausen, then....
Ah, now I know what to play next time I have to drive my easily annoyed teenage daughter somewhere.
At least you can get her to listen to your music for several seconds. All I have to do is reach for the car stereo and my daughter fumbles for her earbuds as if her life depends on it....
Does she let you listen to what she's listening to? If so, how is it?
Overall, it appears we've gotten them to reach the most crucial musical goal: loving some music we don't love. Chances are very good that their tastes will shift or expand, even in our direction.