4 Feb
2010
4 Feb
'10
7:57 p.m.
Question: Can you name any American White person (male or female), who grew up within 100
miles of the Mississippi River, and put out a record in that region (doing the recording
in New York City for example, doesn't count), before the signing of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964?
Please name the artist, the record title, and the date of release.
Thank you,
Stephen.
4 Feb
4 Feb
8:24 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Stephen Stubbs
<theother1510(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Question: Can you name any American White person
(male or female), who grew
up within 100 miles of the Mississippi River, and put out a record in that
region (doing the recording in New York City for example, doesn't count),
before the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Please name the artist, the record title, and the date of release.
Elvis Presley. Pick any of the Sun Records titles.
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joq
8:53 p.m.
Thanks for the quick reply, Jack.
But was Elvis singing straight "Black" blues or "Rockabilly"? And
didn't they have to coin the phrase "Rockabilly" just to describe what Elvis
was doing?
Here's the link I was looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly#Elvis_Presley
It mentions the Sun Records and Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee, under the Elvis
section. It also refers to the "uptempo" beat of the music. Would you consider
such music as Blues? Or is it way too fast to be Blues?
Best,
Stephen.
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From: Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin(a)gmail.com>
To: Stephen Stubbs <theother1510(a)sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 6:24:35 PM
Subject: Re: [LAU] Blues music trivia question
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Stephen Stubbs
<theother1510(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Question: Can you name any American White person
(male or female), who grew
up within 100 miles of the Mississippi River, and put out a record in that
region (doing the recording in New York City for example, doesn't count),
before the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Please name the artist, the record title, and the date of release.
Elvis Presley. Pick any of the Sun Records titles.
--
joq
10:34 p.m.
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:53 -0800, Stephen Stubbs wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply, Jack.
But was Elvis singing straight "Black" blues or "Rockabilly"? And
didn't they have to coin the phrase "Rockabilly" just to describe what
Elvis was doing?
Here's the link I was looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly#Elvis_Presley
It mentions the Sun Records and Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee,
under the Elvis section. It also refers to the "uptempo" beat of the
music. Would you consider such music as Blues? Or is it way too fast
to be Blues?
You mean like Boogie With The Hook by John Lee Hooker (later stolen
by ZZ Top and called La Grange)? There's jump blues, shuffle blues...
Speed has nothing to do with whether a song is blues or not.
Best,
Stephen.
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From: Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin(a)gmail.com>
To: Stephen Stubbs <theother1510(a)sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Linux Audio Users List <linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org>
Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 6:24:35 PM
Subject: Re: [LAU] Blues music trivia question
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Stephen Stubbs
<theother1510(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Question: Can you name any American White person
(male or female),
who grew
up within 100 miles of the Mississippi River, and
put out a record
in that
region (doing the recording in New York City for
example, doesn't
count),
before the signing of the Civil Rights Act of
1964?
Please name the artist, the record title, and the date of release.
Elvis Presley. Pick any of the Sun Records titles.
--
joq
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5 Feb
12:53 a.m.
From: Jan Depner <eviltwin69(a)cableone.net>
It mentions the Sun Records and Sam Phillips in
Memphis, Tennessee,
under the Elvis section. It also refers to the "uptempo" beat of the
music. Would you consider such music as Blues? Or is it way too fast
to be Blues?
You mean like Boogie With The Hook by John Lee Hooker (later stolen
by ZZ Top and called La Grange)? There's jump blues, shuffle blues...
Speed has nothing to do with whether a song is blues or not.
Hello Jan,
So I got out my ZZ Top Greatest Hits and listened to La Grange again. Didn't strike
me as Blues. That got me wondering if my definition of Blues is correct or not.
To answer that question, I went to The New Harvard Dictionary of Music edited by Don
Michael Randel copyright 1986. Pages 98, 99, and 100 deal with Blues.
You are correct. Nothing in the Blues section mentioned anything about tempo. It
discussed structure such as AAB, and I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-IV-I-I; but not tempo. It does
end with a statement that the genre of blues proper stands in complex relationship to
jazz, boogie-woogie, jug band music, rhythym and blues, rock, soul, and white American
folk music.
But I don't know. For me, blues isn't blues unless its slow and sad with a lot of
pain underneath.
Best,
Stephen.
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