RE: [Harp-L] sweetness and the blues

["Bradford Trainham" <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good article!
I think the possibility of that "sweetness" in Blues music even exists
outside Piedmont style Blues.
I always saw Mississippi John Hurt as a purveyor of "sweetness".
As I attempt to study some of the harmonicists from the 20's and 30's, I
hear such tendencies in their choices to go for first position sometimes
with less emphasis on the seventh.
I even find "sweet" elements lurking in SonnyBoy (John Lee) Williamson as in
Polly Put the Kettle on and others. 
I'm glad to see this tendency acknowledged elsewhere because I've always
worried that my own interpretations of the Blues suggest one might laugh
rather than fight/swagger one's way through the Blues and I've wondered if I
could ever get to an authentic place with that kind of attitudinal
projection. 
 ("Attitudinal projection?")  
!!Sweet!!!
Brad Trainham


-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of garry
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:41 AM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] sweetness and the blues

there's a nice piece in today's new york times opinion section about john
cephas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/opinion/12thu4.html?ref=opinion

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