Re: [Harp-L] Re: Taylor Hicks (response to Bobbie) -cont'd

["scooter" <10hole@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I personally hope that he successfully put's out a pop album with a couple 
nice
blues tracks on it. I just remember always buying records as a kid because 
of
a certain song and typically digging the b side stuff over the popular 
stuff. A
great example would be "The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe". Most Lenard Skynard
fans would have no clue what the hell you were talking about if you brought 
up
that song but as a kid I wore it out on my copy. Put the music in the hands 
of the
un suspecting and let it take a hold of them on it's own.

Scooter


> So, perhaps Taylor will put out an R&B album and probably not a strictly
> blues album (too bad in my opinion), but I would hope the winners have 
> some
> creative say in their recordings.
>
> The big question is, how many albums are they contracted to record?  I 
> doubt
> it's an indentured servitude in perpituity. This could be a step for 
> Taylor
> and maybe he'll take the fame and help to re-energize the blues market. 
> But
> then again he may not.  But as others have said in this forum, he's not 
> just
> a singer, he's a musician.  And he doesn't sing just to make a living, he
> sings because he absolutely has to.  That differentiates him from a lot of
> others on the show.
>
> Robert Gaustad
>
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> Wouldn't it be a pisser if his prior blues/soul/harp CD did better as a
> result of his success than some non-blues/soul/harp CD that his handlers
> decide is what the public "wants". That would be great.
>
> I'm still waiting to see just what they have him put out on his first cd 
> (he
> will get one whether he wins or loses tonight) and if it will have any 
> harp.
> I think he presents a new paradox to the AI folks and industry marketers -
> do they style his new offering to target the 20-somethings and below, or
> their parents? I think to the former he still represents an interesting
> curiousity, I'm not sure they'd buy CDs with the type of music he's done 
> on
> the show (certainly now Swanee River, haha).
>
> Hopefully the diversion will be over soon and we can get back to more
> interesting harp content, but this is an interesting diversion. It would 
> be
> good to learn more about the harp side of him.
>
> Bill
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