Boof
4 posts
Apr 14, 2014
4:15 PM
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Nice article about Mississippi Hilside Blues
http://www.travelnblues.com/beneath-the-kudzu-and-a-bit-off-the-beaten-path-the-burnside-blues-shack/
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DukeBerryman
336 posts
Apr 14, 2014
8:06 PM
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Great story - I tweeted it. When I was in high school in Chicago in the 80's I did a history report on the Great Migration, but I didn't give thought to those that returned or never left. Never realized that's where the Hill Country sound came from.
So many Chicago blues songs about getting out of the South and never going back. I've never even visited that part of the country, although I've always wanted to make the trip from Illinois down alongside the Mississippi River. Lots to see on the way - I've never been to Memphis.
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kudzurunner
4650 posts
Apr 15, 2014
4:22 AM
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Thanks, Boof. That's only 20 miles north of where I live in Oxford, and I didn't know about it. If the Blues Doctors get a gig there, I'll let you know!
The music is called Mississippi hill country blues, by the way. The differences between Delta blues and hill country blues aren't quite as big as people sometimes make them out to be. John Lee Hooker, for example, is from Clarksdale, in the heart of the Delta, but he's got a classic one-chord hill country sound. Most hill country artists do a fair number of Delta blues when they perform. There is, however, a TENDENCY to mute the V chord in hill country blues that is different from Delta blues.
The following video of a younger R. L. Burnside is about as perfect a lesson in hill country blues style as you can find. It's a straight two-beat; the AAB blues verse is there, but there are no harmonic changes to speak of; and the vocal melody is basically condensed do two notes--it's not the big swooping melismatic B. B. King style of singing, but something much more minimalist.
My point is simply that THIS sort of blues is only one kind of blues that hill country players play; they also do the other stuff--the Delta repertoire--although they almost never play slide.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Apr 15, 2014 4:34 AM
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jbone
1584 posts
Apr 15, 2014
6:47 AM
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True the emphasis is not on slide, but the progressions lend themselves to a very hypnotic groove not really found anyplace else just like that.
I worked with a guy for some months who had that down pretty well and I found a lot of 3rd position work was a very good fit with Hill Country. Almost a percussive thing. A real good feeling!
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Goldbrick
411 posts
Apr 15, 2014
8:28 AM
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Maybe not a lot of slide but there is some tasty slide work here
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kudzurunner
4658 posts
Apr 17, 2014
6:46 PM
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NiteCrawler .
286 posts
Apr 18, 2014
6:35 AM
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Richard Johnson is Bad Azz,I,ve had a cd of his called Foothill Stomp for years,its definitely A Jumper On The Line.BTW Lynwood Slim plays on a cut or two on RL,s Wish I Was In Heaven Sittin Down cd,it be badddd!
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DukeBerryman
347 posts
Apr 19, 2014
11:17 AM
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If I saw this guy and had a harp with me, I don't think I could resist playing along - very infectious sound. I would definitely be dancing.
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