"Living Blues ...They still don't put famous white blues performers on their covers" I loves me some racial segregation in my mags, cool! ---------- Sun, sun, sun Burn, burn, burn Soon, soon, soon Moon, moon, moon
Last Edited by on Jan 17, 2013 9:42 AM
It is what it is. I'm a white guy( I think) but grew up in a black part of town, was married to a black woman and play music with folks of all colors.Most of my black family ,friends and fellow musicians have had little interest in " real blues" Maybe funk blues, jazz blues, or chitlin circuit blues( bobby rush, clarence carter , marvin sease etc). but certainly not the obsession with Muddy, Wolf, Charly Patton etc. that we often have. Bottom line is we ain't stealing anything anymore than an American martial arts student is stealing an ancient asian art. If you dig the blues just respect it, enjoy it and if you have enuff talent add to it. It is strange that most people only know Sugar Blue from some blokes called the Rolling Stones The race thing is pretty well played out-just play the music from the heart
Last Edited by on Jan 17, 2013 9:44 PM
Has Sugar Blue ever approached any of the big blues promoters with this problem? I find it hard to believe that at least some of them would be sympathetic to the problem if they were made aware of it.
I take issue with that, sonvolt13. I thought Popper's statements about music in general, including his statements about blues, were spot on. If you think he was wrong, say why he's wrong. Your ad hominem comparison to Vanilla Ice is not an argument at all.
I agree. I enjoyed the Popper clip. I'm not a huge Popper fan (I think I love his singing more than his harp playing after a few songs), but he is certainly a talented, articulate and intelligent dude and what he said in the video was about as far from anything that anyone could disagree with who takes the art of creating music seriously. Otherwise, you are the Vanilla Ice-like clown. Think for yourself is all he is saying. Wow, how conroversial! And so...so, anti-Little Walter, so anti-blues. Popper is good at what he does. Move on.
Popper is a trip! Last time he was on Howard Stern's show, he scared the daylight's out of Howard when he discovered John was carrying something like 15 knives .....of all sorts including a 10" bowie! ---------- Sun, sun, sun Burn, burn, burn Soon, soon, soon Moon, moon, moon
Last Edited by on Jan 19, 2013 10:54 AM
@ Kudz,. Thank You ,.Elvis never said, "The only thing negroes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes." I've been saying this for 45 yrs ! I think this Video says a lot about what black people thought of Elvis,.an instead of worrying about who's House it is we should be worrying about are we family !
