Re: [Harp-L] Lynwood Slim

hashbb@xxxxxxx · Fri, 25 May 2007 19:12:13 -0400

Lynwood isn't Walter Horton, neither is Kim Wilson,

Guyger, Portnoy,  many others, etc. They all play classic blues in that 
vein,

doesn't mean they sound like or play like them.

Your definition of creative is definately different than mine.

I do think you can be creative in a musical context that has already 
been trodden

without being a pure copycat or rehash of what has come before.

I would go as far to say that too many creative elements change the 
music so much

that it isn't even recognizable as that form at all.  In other words, 
it can be cutting edge

and creative as hell, but does that necessarily make it good music? In 
the same thought

if cutting edge creativity is not employed is it good music? It's all 
highly debatable.

This is, like music, totally subjective and my opinion only.

Interesting food for thought.

HB

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From: Eric Garcia <ericgar85@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hashbb@xxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, 25 May 2007 4:29 pm
Subject: RE: Fwd: [Harp-L] Lynwood Slim

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