Re: [Harp-L] Little walter didn't write Juke!
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- From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:12:10 -0800 (PST)
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If you listen to the two studio recordings of Juke that little Walter made, it's evident that both were improvised, aside from the first verse head. And that head is such a cliche of swing - witness the citations of prior art coming in on this thread - that it's meaningless to use that one verse to indicate authorship of anything. The final released take of Juke is a masterpiece of pacing and contrast. Could you find a prior existence for all or any of the other verses (as with Freddy King's Hideaway, which took several then-popular dance riffs and strung them together in a dynamic fashion)? Maybe, maybe not. But if so, nobody ever strung them together in that way and to such great effect.
Maybe there's a college thesis for someone in rooting out the possible source material for Juke and then contrasting those antecedents with the final product.
Winslow
Winslow Yerxa
Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5
--- On Sat, 1/23/10, hazcon <hazcon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: hazcon <hazcon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Little walter didn't write Juke!
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 10:27 PM
http://www.blues.co.nz/features/article.php?id=4
Junior Wells interview in a NZ Blues Mag.Also comments on the Shure Bullet (6$!)
Rck
in Z
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