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true, but he's often sarcastic...as in this case. ridiculous thread, imo...white men can't swing either...tell that to benny goodman, buddy rich, etc...Quote
The Greek
T&A, know's his music .
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stone-relics
Blues spirit transforms race, religion etc. Everybody gets them, just some more than others. Just listen to late 60's Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and tell me a white man cant play the blues.....
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stone-relics
Blues spirit transforms race, religion etc. Everybody gets them, just some more than others. Just listen to late 60's Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and tell me a white man cant play the blues.....
JR
Great guitar player, but no one will ever mistake him for Robert Johnson or Charley Patton.
And even if we give the likes of Peter Green the benefit of the doubt about ability to play the blues, there isn't a white man alive who can sing the blues. Once they open their mouths, it's over, they simply don't have the same pitch, timbre and other vocal qualities that black singers have.
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Amsterdamned
Can anyone give a definition of blues,otherwise this topic makes not much sense?
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T&A
...there is no one specific blues "sound."
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T&A
...there is no one specific blues "sound."
thats debatable...I guess it depends on which side of the Mississippi river you grew up and live on.
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T&Atrue, but he's often sarcastic...as in this case. ridiculous thread, imo...white men can't swing either...tell that to benny goodman, buddy rich, etc...Quote
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T&A, know's his music .
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stone-relics
Blues spirit transforms race, religion etc. Everybody gets them, just some more than others. Just listen to late 60's Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and tell me a white man cant play the blues.....
JR
Great guitar player, but no one will ever mistake him for Robert Johnson or Charley Patton.
And even if we give the likes of Peter Green the benefit of the doubt about ability to play the blues, there isn't a white man alive who can sing the blues. Once they open their mouths, it's over, they simply don't have the same pitch, timbre and other vocal qualities that black singers have.
this is bordering very dangerously on racist thinking. burdon, cocker, winwood for openers....oh...and john hammond? many listeners who never saw the man just assumed he wasn't white...
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stone-relics
Blues spirit transforms race, religion etc. Everybody gets them, just some more than others. Just listen to late 60's Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and tell me a white man cant play the blues.....
JR
Great guitar player, but no one will ever mistake him for Robert Johnson or Charley Patton.
And even if we give the likes of Peter Green the benefit of the doubt about ability to play the blues, there isn't a white man alive who can sing the blues. Once they open their mouths, it's over, they simply don't have the same pitch, timbre and other vocal qualities that black singers have.
this is bordering very dangerously on racist thinking. burdon, cocker, winwood for openers....oh...and john hammond? many listeners who never saw the man just assumed he wasn't white...
No, it's not racist. It's just reality. And the only people who thought Burdon, cocker, Winwood or Hammond were black were the people who weren't especially well-versed in authentic African-American blues singers, or who have wooden ears.
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T&A
...there is no one specific blues "sound."
thats debatable...I guess it depends on which side of the Mississippi river you grew up and live on.
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T&A
that's total b.s. you're telling me that you can tell the color of someone's skin by their voice, now? wow...
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T&A
that's total b.s. you're telling me that you can tell the color of someone's skin by their voice, now? wow...
If you can't, you're not paying attention.
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ablett
Thats a difficult one but on the whole I'd say no. White artist are good at interpreting the blues, playing the blues. But they haven't the history or chemistry thats makes a truly great blues artist. Who really had to live or know people who have lived the life to feel the blues