Re: [Harp-L] re: my misty and Warren "whitebread" Bee

[billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Here we go again with the prejudice "white guys can't have the blues" bullsh*t.

All of this completely overlooks the fact that much of the "blues" is caused by heartbreak, which knows no income boundaries.  You get your heart broke you're just as blue as the next guy or girl - white black yellow green. How about when someone you love up and dies? Any "income bracketing" for that one folks?

And hey, I'm a white dude. I've spent significant time broke, homeless, jobless, in jail (military and civilian), you name it. No matter how much money I ever make, I'll never forget those feelings and the hopelessness of those times.

Let's not colorize any of this with this "whitebread" crap and all that. It's just wrong. I'm always in hopes that we're moving past all that as a society, no matter which way it goes.

Bill

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From: Richard Hammersley <rhhammersley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I enjoyed "Misty" too.
> Leadbelly defines the blues in his spoken introduction to "Good  
> Morning Blues" where he remarks that
> "A white man ain't never had the blues because he got nothing to worry  
> about."
> I wish. To me there are two meanings of "sounding white". One is  
> playing with insufficient syncopation and rhythmic looseness. The  
> other is ersatz feeling. Warren Bee's Misty doesn't suffer from  
> either. Another problem would be very wealthy performers bemoaning  
> their troubles/ teen torch songs sung by serial divorcees/ fat elderly  
> vain men etc etc but if we go there then we start thinking most  
> commercial popular music is nonsense and method acting isn't popular  
> with opera singers either.
> Off list Bradford Trainham and I have been reminiscing about the Bonzo  
> Dog Doo-Dah Band
> 
> CAN BLUE MEN SING THE WHITES
> Oh Lord wish my bed wasn't silken sheets so tight
> I got to keep my strength up got to do a show tonight
> I'll have a cup of coffee while I'm taking in the news
> No need to have a shave cause I'm gonna sing the blues
> 
> Well I think I'll get a massage maybe lose a little fat
> So I'll have to go downtown in my brand new Cadillac
> My valet comes and dresses me, I light a big cigar,
> Because I like to look like Nimrod when I'm riding in my car.
> 
> [ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/ztU3 ]
> Can blue men sing the whites
> Or are they hypocrites for singing woo woo wooh.
> 
> And now it's getting near the time I gotta make the scene
> I change out my dark grey mohair suit put on my dirty jeans
> The band comes round to pick me up I holler Hello Boys
> I gotta mess my hair up, I'm gonna make some noise brrrrrrr
> 
> Can blue men sing the whites
> Or are they hypocrites for singing woo woo wooh.
> 
> Oh Lordy
> Somebody help me