blues meets folk...help!

Subject: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From:
Date: 13 Oct 99 - 09:54 PM

need your help with songs/lyrics. have one blues slide guitarist trying to jam with his sister who plays acoustic guitar and does story telling and folk,celtic music. can anyone suggest a song that both can hav fun playing together? thanks

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From: ddw
Date: 13 Oct 99 - 10:38 PM

A folk song that a lot of bluesmen did — Cephus and Wiggins and Josh White spring to mind —is Careless Love. Others that seem to have been done by a lot of blues men include Frankie and Johnnie (or Frankie and Albert), Casey Jones, CC Rider, and Fishing Blues — which isn't really a blues at all. Taj Majal does a fine version of the latter. I haven't checked, but at least some of them should be in the Digitrad.

david

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From: ddw
Date: 13 Oct 99 - 10:53 PM

Just checked some of them in Digitrad. Careless Love is there, but it's not a version I know and certainly not the one done by C&W and JW. Frankie and Johnnie is there, as is Casey Jones. Couldn't find CC Rider (it's sometimes known as See See Rider or Easy Rider, but they didn't show up either in my cursory search), but lots of other songs did that have been recorded by the likes of Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscombe and lots of others. You might also check out a lot of gospel tunes, which lend themselves to bluesy arrangements. You might also consider a lot of train songs (Eliz. Cotton's Freight Train springs to mind) and any of the dozens of versions of Titanic — if that hasn't been done to death because of that god-awful movie.

good pickin',

david

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 12:42 AM

I just heard ,in my head , O'carolin's "Give me your hand" done very slowly on a National Steel guitar{slide} but then again it's getting on for 1:00am so it might be a strech..All the best Guy<<>><<<>>

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 02:42 AM

"Just a Closer Walk with Thee" lends itself very well to bluesy treatment, as do "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep." Songs like "Me and Bobby McGee" and "The Midnight Special" work well. I recently heard a bluesy version of "They Gotta Stop Kicking My Dog Around," an old-timey, bluegrass tune. For that matter, bounce the beat a bit and almost anything becomes a blues.

--seed

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From:
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 11:32 AM

I have been despertely searching for a list of popular songs, hymns, or music that would have been during the years of 1916 thru 1934. My focus is Midde America (Iowa) and these tunes would have been popular enough for townspeople to hum or sing while they worked. I would love to know which tunes African Americans would have sung while doing daily chores. What are the songs? What music was heard on the radio? What hymns were sung? Where can I find these recordings? PLEASE HELP.......AND THANX FOR ALL YOUR HELP. I await your response.

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 11:42 AM

FuzzyMo -- starting 1928 a lot of people would be listening to Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. Lots of vaudeville and novelty songs too. There are also any number of songhits of the 20's books on the market. There is a website which you can find (I don't have the reference, try a search under "Billboard" for a start) that has all the top sales for each year during the century.

Seed is right about "Just A Closer Walk With Thee", a current fave. Dave Van Ronk, who we have been talking about in a recent thread, did a lot of this stuff. His Smithsonian/Folkways Years album has some great blends, including a hot verson of JACLWWT.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From: Max
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 01:06 PM

Good crossover artists for me are Leadbelly, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Woody Guthrie has some potential for being bluesy, Big Bill Broonzy, and Josh White. Oh, and Rev. Gary Davis.

Subject: RE: blues meets folk.......help!!!!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 14 Oct 99 - 02:36 PM

Just about anything from Mississippi John Hurt.