gad wagon
33 posts
Nov 22, 2012
7:10 AM
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I was at our university's annual in-house Thanksgiving Day football game. One of the songs played at a timeout was "Sweet Home Chicago." I started grinning from the first note of the song and proceeded to sing it from my bluesefied soul. Everyone looked at me as if I'd lost it. "Don't you guys know this song?," I questioned. "No," they responded with a somewhate puzzled and confused face.
Oh, the kids these days! Happy Thanksgiving.
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bluemoose
823 posts
Nov 22, 2012
12:07 PM
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I had a dear friend excitedly tell me she had just watched the movie `Crossroads` and had heard a radio documentary about this guy Robert Johnson and they were both great and had I ever heard of them?
Yet another reminder of what a narrow slice of life we are rollin` and tumblin` in.
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didjcripey
422 posts
Nov 22, 2012
1:15 PM
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Good.
Can you imagine how cheapened it would be if blues was so popular that it was the main thing on Xfactor and American Idol?
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Joe_L
2163 posts
Nov 22, 2012
1:26 PM
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Yes. It would really suck if the artists who make that music could actually earn a living from it. It's far better to languish in obscurity and struggle to find low paying gigs.
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nacoran
6219 posts
Nov 22, 2012
4:03 PM
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I used to work with this lady at a volunteer group. She was elderly, and had majored in music in college many years before (she even wrote a protest song for the volunteer group.) What's more, her name was Lucile. She had never heard of BB King.
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Jehosaphat
350 posts
Nov 22, 2012
4:28 PM
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I'd guess that near anyone over 45ish would of heard of Sweet home Chicago and Mojo working and some other Classic blues.
The Rock bands of their bar going youth would've played probably them as covers(done badly mostly as well)
But they might not have heard of Muddy Waters or anyother Chicago player.
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didjcripey
423 posts
Nov 22, 2012
6:40 PM
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@Joe L: 'Can't play the blues in an air conditioned room!'
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gad wagon
34 posts
Nov 22, 2012
11:15 PM
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@ Jehosaphat - Who is Muddy Waters? I am sure I have heard of him. I guess my friend Caldonia put Iodine in my Coffe.
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captin beef harp
93 posts
Nov 23, 2012
8:12 AM
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If its not on the main radio or tv how could it be good
sadly at the longbeach battle their was maybe 5 young people but their are some killer young harp players like NIC CLARK from denver so maybe it won't go to just the blue hair folks like me
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