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Probably from listening to all 78s by Big Mama Thorton, Ida Cox, Sippie Thomas, Bessie Smith, etc., 78s my folks had carefully stored on shelves where we kept the HiFi.
That song is just incredible. It could have been written and performed at any point in the last century, totally timeless sounding! The influence guys like him had on modern music is colossal!I'm rather partial to the Delta stuff from the early '20th century. Mississippi John Hurt is one of my favorites.
Thought you meant Everton when I saw the title, Drifts. But yeh - love me some blues.
What're people's opinions on 'updated' blues (Moby and the like)? Probably anathema to purists, but i kinda like it. Same with dancified soul, as long as it's funky.
Moby 'Honey' (samples Bessie Jones' 'Sometimes').
Marlena Shaw 'California Soul'.
Ah the Blues: yeah, I just loves me some dark music :redface:
Dinah Washington one did a Bessie Smith songbook for Verve, which I owned on both LP and CD. It stays today as music files on my EHD. The best song on the album, IMO, is this, but the most personally memorable song is After You've Gone. Here's Nina Simone hitting it out of the park.
Billie Holiday tragically lived the Blues and didn't just sing them:
Billie's Blues
Gloomy Sunday
...and everything else she ever did
I'm not sure if Tom Waits counts or not, but I think he's one of the greatest Blues songwriters/singers ever:
$29
Blue Valentines
Invitation to the Blues
I like them a lot. To play is human. I think that that is how we move forward. I'm on a bit of a David Gilmour retrospective at the moment ironically. But then, I am not precious about the "classic".
Just in case David Gilmour Marooned - YouTube
Good on ya, Drifter.I like them a lot. To play is human. I think that that is how we move forward. I'm on a bit of a David Gilmour retrospective at the moment ironically. But then, I am not precious about the "classic".
Nice!Just in case David Gilmour Marooned - YouTube