Good Ol' Classic Blues Songs

[nofi]

was that chef dancing? excellent.

[the mojo hobo]

Same song, different form.

[the mojo hobo]

I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress

The more I look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.

[4stringer77]

It's too nice out this time of year to be posting blues tunes. Here's a song from a band I can't get enough of lately. It has the word blues in the title of the song. Close enough.

[gweimer]

[nofi]

grand funk, huh? you should be drawn and quartered! this is almost as lame as when uwe tried to pass of some deep purple nonsense as the blues.

[Dave W]

grand funk, huh? you should be drawn and quartered! this is almost as lame as when uwe tried to pass of some deep purple nonsense as the blues.

Does this qualify?

[nofi]

yes it does. imo lots of non traditional blues box stuff is the blues as long as i can get that bluses feel out of it. this tune has it plus a little bit of swing. not so much with DP. i'm far from being any kind of expert on this stuff. i just like it.

[Dave W]

Well, then, let's hear from Carl Perkins (and his toupee)



Which was based on this

[Highlander]

I like to remember that although Hank is long gone, his music still lives on, and that unlike some instruments that just get locked up in a glass case for people to gawk at and drool, one of Hank's acoustics still gets regular use on the boards...

[uwe]

grand funk, huh? you should be drawn and quartered! this is almost as lame as when uwe tried to pass of some deep purple nonsense as the blues.

Maybe I should let more competent men on the matter speak:

"I never heard any blues like I heard the guitarist from Deep Purple play. I had to stop blink my eyes, and go back and take a close look at this cat. He was playing some black blues that'd make some black guitarists stand up and take notice."

Robert Alexander "Bumps" Blackwell in a Melody Maker inteview, Sept. 1972



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgcnU74Ld8Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te8hW2mO6rQ









Dear Nofi, your observations can sometimes be of striking lucidity, but here they are - to quote a Deep Purple title for once -"clearly quite absurd"!  Your definition of blues is as convenience-driven as your good administration's definition of international law. "If two parties do the same thing, I get to define why it's different after all!"

[Basvarken]

Since when is Robert Alexander "Bumps" Blackwell an authority on what to call Blues? 

[nofi]

this.



i'm through talking about dp in this thread. friggin' hopeless.

[Dave W]

Bumps Blackwell? The man behind Little Richard and Larry Williams? LOL! He's no blues authority! You might as well ask Dr. Dre.

DP is not a blues band.

[uwe]

Since when is Robert Alexander "Bumps" Blackwell an authority on what to call Blues? 

You're right, he might have discovered Little Richard and co-written some of his hits, but then Little Richard is - like Keith Emerson really - already too far removed from the blues to count. And Sam Cooke, but that guy had nothing to do with blues either, because blues and soul are really like man and ape, not related at all.

The only authority in the blues apartheid state is of course Nofi, grand wizard of definition who is in and who is out.

"DP is not a blues band."

Thanksfully not, but I'm not aware that anybody made that claim. But they could play a blues tune unless your definition of blues is that it cannot be played by anyone who plays nothing else but blues. How elitist.