[Harp-L] Harps can't lie! (was "Authentic" pronunciation?)

[David Fertig <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken, I'm with you on this, I'm sick of players who use carefully considered costumes, snappy rap and faked accents to sound "authentic,"  it's a condescending and cynical minstrel show.   Reminds of the 60's term, "culture-f*cker."

Really, blues should be more about honest personal expression (and current affairs, ask Willie Dixon!) than copping others' cultural aesthetics - although as to accents I think non-english speakers are 
to be excused, listen to 'Etats Unisians" singing french lyrics, 
e.g.!  

Luckily, Harmonicas can't lie!

-Dave "I ain't never picked a bale o' cotton" Fertig

--- On Sun, 9/26/10, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx <harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RE: [Harp-L] "Authentic" pronunciation?  

        	Sunday, September 26, 2010 10:50 AM
        	
            
            
            From: "Ken Deifik" <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
            	
            	
            	
        	
        	To:  harp-l@xxxxxxxxxxx . .
What absolutely kills a record for me 
is to hear a white American band playing well in the first few bars, 
followed by a white singer who tries to use English like a Black 
Mississippi man from 1930.  I get the same feeling when I hear those 
horrible old Amos and Andy radio shows from the 1930's.

I run away screaming, often leaving a Deifik-shaped hole in the drywall.