An acquaintance once showed me something hanging on her wall. Glued to a board and arranged in a grid was an assortment of little objects that often accumulate in the bottoms of drawers, mostly parts belonging to larger unidentifiable household devices, items that usually become crucial only after being thrown away. Framed on the wall, it was quiete lovely to look at. The three pieces of mus...
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I reposted this article because it seems like a perfect discussion piece for you moggers out there. Click on the link so the author at least gets their props or whatever click throughs provide...This Article was originally published over at the New Statesman, which you can find hereKeeping it unrealWe consider the "primitive" music of blues singers such as Leadbelly to be more authent...
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Here is the Lead Belly version of of a Ma Rainey copywrited song that has been covered by a cast of thousands.Had some blues tunes flowing today and upon hearing this, I realized how many different versions of this I have heard through the years. Went poking around the net and here is what I found:"See See Rider", also known as "C.C. Rider" or "See See Rider Blues" or "Easy Rider" is a popular A
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An acquaintance once showed me something hanging on her wall. Glued to a board and arranged in a grid was an assortment of little objects that often accumulate in the bottoms of drawers, mostly parts belonging to larger unidentifiable household devices, items that usually become crucial only after being thrown away. Framed on the wall, it was quiete lovely to look at. The three pieces of mus...
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I have been loving all of the blues and OLD TIME jazz stuff that has been popping up on MOG for the last week or so. I have been checking out a lot of blues myself lately, and the more you listen to the greats...the more you realize that that stuff set the table for most of what we listen to today. No matter what genre of popular music you like, it has deep roots in stuff like this:
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liner notes This recording is a testament to two men, the Louisiana African-American musician and composer, Lead Belly, and a New York recording engineer and record company owner named Moses Asch. Their partnerrship created a lasting document of Lead Belly's wide repertoire. The songs Lead Belly recorded for Asch had a great influuence on the folk music revival to come in the 1950s and 1960s an...
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References to this song kept cropping up in the Lead Belly biography I'm reading, so I figured I should look it up. As indicated there, as with many songs in the South, this song figured prominently in the repertoire of both blacks and whites. The book also notes that cocaine wasn't illegal in those days (teens, twentys), but I don't think it told me when the drug became illicit and through wha...
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| 1 By and by When the Morning Comes |
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| 2 Alabama Bound |
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| 3 Four Day Worry Blues |
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| 4 Alberta |
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| 5 Rock Island Line |
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