Re: North American VS Foreign Blues Music?
On 16-Dec-07 22:16:55, Don Evans said
>Angus Manwaring wrote:
>> On 08-Oct-07 12:02:59, Grinner said
>>> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:22:11 -0400, lab~rat >:-) wrote:
>>
>>>> On 5 Oct 2007 16:43:54 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"
>>>> puked:
>>>>
>>>>> On 02-Oct-07 18:29:37, lab~rat >:-) said
>>>>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:48:07 -0400, "Dan Solway"
>>>>>> puked:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you think North American blues is better because of the music
>>>>>>> or only because you understand the lyrics?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Eric Clapton was pretty good...
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the question is really whether non-black blues is as good.
>>>>> I think there's a strong case for saying that most of white
>>>>> America didn't get Blues until the British ( bowled over by black
>>>>> American musicians like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc) brought
>>>>> it back to America in white packaging. Of course that's not the
>>>>> whole story.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, I didn't see it as a black vs. white thing, I saw it as N.
>>>> America vs. other countries. That said, I'd put BB King above
>>>> Clapton.
>>> and i'd put freddie king above BB
>>
>> I'll see your Freddie and raise you an Albert. :)
>But you do mean Collins, right? ;-)
That could be a bitter phil to swallow.
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date: 21 Dec 2007 17:18:43 +0000
author: Angus Manwaring
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