Re: What constitutes "blues"?

["Gary W." <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a music to overcome the blues
one feels, either through playing or hearing.
It came with an African scale and
was created to cope with and express post-slavery misery in the
south. It values feelings over technique and
is not particular about whether a European scale note
is hit. There are a lot of slides and glides
and "dirty sounds" (sound like buzzes, rattles, grit, distortions).
It is the fount of all Afro-American invented
popular music, except maybe rap.

Gary


"Jones, Dave" wrote:
> 
> Well said.
> 
> Lonesome Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hambone Hamilton [mailto:harpmanx@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:51 AM
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: What constitutes "blues"?
> 
> I've always liked what Charlie Musselwhite says when asked that
> question.
> He says, "It ain't about chords...it ain't about notes...if it feels
> like
> blues, it's blues. Period."
> 
> Who could put it better than that?
> 
> Hambone
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