Feelin The Blues

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST,PoppaGator
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:07 PM

For years, I had thought that "National steel" guitars were exclusively metal-bodied, and that the similar "Dobro" guitar often used in country music were always wood-bodied. I now know that it's not that simple; in fact, the whole mess is too complicated to go into here and now. There are several whole threads on the subject of resonator guitars you might find enlightening (even though you're not a player); one of the most recent was entitled something like "Oooh I want that stainless steel guitar."

"The Blues" can be defined in many different ways, as a very broad category of music or in a very narrow and restricted sense. The various responses appearing within this thread represent a number of different ideas about what music is "really" the blues. You'll have to decide for yourself what it means to you.

There is an old African-American tradition that draws a strict line between gospel ~ church music ~ and blues ~ the devil's music. I've never been able to hear that much difference between the blues and good soulful Black gospel music. (Of course, the lyrics differ.) There are a number of artists who divided their career into separate church-music and secular periods (Thomas Dorsey, Sam Cook[e], Al Green), but then there are others who always included blues and gospel in their repertoires at the same time (Fred McDowell, Gary Davis, Blind Willie Johnson).

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:57 PM

Two CDs ready for you, Azzizi:

PM your address again, please...

Jerry

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:07 PM

Wow! Jerry, you're the Man!!!

Asante sana {Thank you very much!!}


There's a PM comin your way.

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:21 PM

Azizi - You may well be interested in Blindmans Blues forum ! I cant do Blue Clickies but stick Blindmans Blues in Google and have a look

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 04:39 PM

Leadfingers,

I followed these directions that a Guest had posted for Brucie in another thread:

Subject: RE: BS: And It's 1,2,3 What Are They Votin' For?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 09:04 PM

1.Find a page you want to link to.

2.Right click on it and select properties.

3.That shows you the URL ( address)

4.Highlight the URL

5.Right click and select COPY

6.On the bit under the bit where you post your message to a thread, find the make clicky bit, press it.

7. In the space next to URL (top one) put your cursor and right click.

8. Select PASTE.

9. That puts the URL you chose in that gap.

10. Test that that does go to the page you want.

11. It then tells you on the page to copy and paste that into your thread.

12. Again just right click on it to copy it, and in the message part right click again to paste.
--

Hopefully, these directions worked for the forum you mentioned to me.

Click here for Blues' Forum

And, By the way..in yet another thread, someone had posted the
backdoor address for Mudcat if the front entrance wasn't working like this morning and some of this afternoon.

Here's that address, in case anyone doesn't have it.

http://207.103.108.99/threads.cfm

While that address will usually get you here, members are listed as guests and we can't Private Message..but we can still read the threads and posts..

And Gracias, Leadfingers!
Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:09 PM

Like I said in the PM, Azizi, no problem...

Had you been 'round this joint longer I reckon you woulda knowed that I ain't got no bad bones an', hey, this is the way I really talk...

Folks who have met me will tell ya, "Yup, that's the way the boy talks, all right."

And the offer is still open...

I am a purdy good blues guitar teacher and could get you ramped up in no time...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:25 PM

Bobert's.... the BEST.

~S~

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:27 PM

Thanks Bobert,

I appreciate your offer and your response to my PM.

While I'm here let me say I also appreciate
Drayman's response to my PM.

You guys are ACE! {as my mother would say..}
that means "You are ALL THAT, and a bag of chips!"


Ero Hamano {Thank You} *

* I just learned this from a friend from the Luo ethnic group in
Kenya, East Africa

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:28 PM

Hi Susan!

That's what I said.


Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:33 PM

Yeah, I know, but I BEEN to his house. :~) He's also married to the best. Since you're the best too-- well, if you were to hook up with them, at their place, I think it would be so powerful the roof would blow off. So come to my place instead! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 09:35 PM

Sniff....

Gettin' real mushy 'round here...

(But, Bobert, ain't that what the blues is about???)

Heck no, it ain't. It's about celebratin' survivin' another week of drivin' that ol' Ford tractor on Boss Hog's plantation...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Teresa
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:18 PM

Hi Azizi,

Just one comment about the local radio station. If it's public broadcasting, it may only play certain music at certain times. The website probably has a program guide or schedule you can look at for blues shows.

Oh, one more way to say thank you, as I do for starting this thread and helping me learn so much: merci in French (mehr-see) with the accent on the second syllable. :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: dwditty
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:25 PM

The blues is not just about the music....it is about the people who make the music. I just finished reading Honeyboy Edwards' autobiography, "The World Don't Owe Me Nothin'." Honeyboy is just about the last link to many of the country blues artists referred to in this thread. For example, he was there the night Robert Johnson was killed. I saw him perform about 10 days ago...at 89 he is still doing two shows and drinking shots of Jack Daniels in between. His book gives his personal accounts of those he ran with....Big Joe williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, Skip James, Son House, Charlie Patton, and of course, Robert Johnson....so many others. The book is a wonderful document...available at www.earwigmusic.com

This is not an advertisement!

dw

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:47 PM

Hey, dw, I got Honey Boy's book, too... Honey Boy be the da' man in that it seems that he's 'bout the last one standin'...

Wish ol' R.L. Burnside would get a book out but he's prolly a little too cranky... Too bad. I'm sure he's gotta a lot of good stories to tell...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 10:50 PM

Asante, Ero Hamano, Gracias, Merci, Thank you

for the information you all are sharing.

If anyone has any other ways of saying thank you I'll include them too.

Music makes the whole world kin.


Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:19 AM

IT sure does. I've been here about 7 months, and it feels like I have some family here.

Like a lot of people, I listened to the Blues backwards.
I started with the electric stuff : Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, 60's stuff like Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, Allman Brothers...
Then, I found the people that influenced them, the REAL DEAL, like Robert Johnson, Son House, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Blind Willie McTell, to name a few.

The 'real' stuff has kept me ever since. It's what says the most to me & for me.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Peace
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:57 AM

John Hammond, Jr.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:48 AM

Since Brucie wrote one name only in his post I'm thinking that this Blues artist must mean a great deal to him.

And also I'm thinking that maybe he {Brucie that is] wants to see if I [Azizi that is] will not just wait around for knowledge to be handed to me on a silver platter but will put some personal effort into getting what I've admitted I wanted-that is-a greater familiarity with the Blues.

So-though it really wasn't that hard-I google John Hammond Jr.

Here is an excerpt from one website:

   "So how does he continue to do it and do it with such
    passion? "Because I love it, that's how," he said. "It's my
    life." Blues doesn't get any better than this, in concept or
    execution. Stay on the road, John Hammond. We need your blues."
    -- BlueSpeak

"From coffeehouses to concert halls, festivals and beyond, John Hammond has spent forty years entertaining blues, folk and rock audiences around the world, performing intense solo-acoustic blues. A Grammy Award winner and four time nominee, Hammond is also a multiple W.C. Handy award winner who has shared the stage and/or recorded with many of the masters, including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf. John has recorded over twenty five albums and his passionate commitment to traditional blues made him the natural choice to host the BRAVO TV special and Sony Home Video, The Search for Robert Johnson...."

end of quote

More on John Hammond Jr,

---

BYW, the accompanying photos on that website show that John Hammonds Jr 'happens to be' White.

Which is cool with me. I'm not one of those people who believe that you have to be Black to really feel the blues.

I think that you have to have experienced SUFFERATION [to use a Jamaican Rastas term] to really play or sing the Blues. And sufferation happens to us all.

I believe that Blues is one way to express a persons experiences with sufferation. Playing, singing, and {yes} listening or dancing to the Blues helps both the artist & his or her audience to overcome, work through, and come out on the other side of sufferation-hopefully stronger because of that experience.

That being said, as even a beginning student of the Blues, I have already discounted the wide spread misconception that ALL Blues music is sad.

It just ain't so as the lyrics and tempos of many songs demonstrate...
--

And if I'm not mistaken John Hammonds Jr. is the first non-Black person listed in this thread of Bluesmen and Blueswomen.

So Brucie, asante sana {thank you very much in Swahili} for starting that ball rollin.

I'm certain that other 'Catters can recommend additional non-Black Blues musicians and artists.

I thank you in advance.

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:59 AM

Sister Az, I came to the blues via Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, so I'm interested in the women blues singers, particularly the early ones. If you can, get hold of a double CD set called the Great Women Blues Singers, the Gold collection (Retro R2CD 40-75 is the UK version)which is a cheap label and is a good introduction to a wide range from Bessie Smnith to Nina Simone.
Happy hunting!

RtS
(Can a blue man sing the whites?)

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:59 AM

Thread drift-sort of

Teresa was the only one so far that posted how to say "thank you"
in another language. So Merci Teresa.

And to demonstrate that googling is a wonderful, but addictive resource
[kinda like Mudcat there]

I decided to be pro-active and find a site that provided that information.

And they are legion...

Here is one:

Thank You Worldwide

And here are some examples from that site:

Ewe Togo (Africa) - Akpé (Appé)
Ewe Togo (Africa) - Apké na wo (Thanks to you)
Fijian - Vinaka
Finnish - kiitos (kee'-toas)
Fon Benin (Africa) - Kpè nu wé
French - merci (mehr-see')
French - Merci Madame - Thanks (to a woman)
French - Merci Mademoiselle - Thanks (to a young girl)
French - Merci Monsieur - Thanks (to a man)
F.Y.R.O.M. (Macedonia) - Hvala
Gambia (Mandinka) - Abarka
German - Danke (dahn'-kuh)
German - Danke schoen (literally: nicely thank you, outdated)
German - Danke sehr (Thank you very much)
German -Vielen Dank (Many Thanks)
Greek - Efharisto (ef-har-ris-tou')
Greek - Efkaristo poly
Guarani - Aguije (ah-we-JAY) native indian language of Paraguay and Western Brazil
Guinea (Mandinka) - Abarka
Gujarathi (India) - Aabar
Hawaiian - Mahalo
Hebrew - Toda (toh-dah')
Hebrew - Toda raba (thank you very much)
Hindi (India National Language) - Dhan-ya-vaad

So Akpe everybody!

PS. Since music makes the world world kin, we should learn more about our kinfolk, don't you think?


Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 04:09 AM

Roger the Skiffler,

Your question "Can a blue man sing the whites?" was funny.

You get some "Brownie points" for that one.
--

And in my post on John Hammond Jr. 'BYW' was a typo. I was supposed to have typed BTW {By the way}..

But I have been known to make up some acronyms-none of which are memorable by even me..but it is a lot of fun to do so..


Toda (Hebrew for thank you} to all Mudcatters and their Guests who could easily join this welcoming Folk & Blues community...

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:39 AM

Azizi:

Put the word "blues" into the filter box at the top of the forum page where it says "Filter:" and set the "Age" drop-down to "All" for a survey of some really far-ranging discussions about Da Blues.

A

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:07 AM

Hey Amos,

I got one word for ya for that suggestion:

Mahalo! {Hawaiian for Thank you}


And then two more words:
Will do...


Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Peace
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:11 AM

Blues, as it was explained to me by Lonnie Johnson, a mna for whom I had and have the highest regard, was never about feelin' bad. As Mr Johnson put it, blues was a way for people to 'woik thru' feeling bad. I had the honour of being the MC for him at Gerde's Folk City, and despite his admonition that I call him Lonnie, I just couldn't. I tried it twice I think and I do remember it feeling funny, so I reverted to Mr Johnson bot on and off the stage.

(In retrospect, I asked some pretty dumb questions in my youth. What may have seemed tactless--and probably was--received serious answers from people, likely due to my age and Canadian citizenship.)

Lines like, "The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad" didn't explain to me how singin' about that 'sadness' would help alleviate it. Time has shown me that it works, although in a different context. A line I heard years ago and have remembered goes like this: If you have someting you need to talk about and you don't know how to talk about it, start by saying, "I have something I'd like to talk about and I don't know how to start talking about it." The blues seems to start that process. I don't think blues is only about that, but maybe it is, partly.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:41 AM

You're welcome, Azizi.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 09:43 AM

Thanks for the Brownie points, I won't eat them all at once!
PS If you get the chance check out Susan Tedeschi, one of the younger US women blues singers (and guitarist)playing today.

RtS
(I'd be Ascot's answer to Washboard Sam but nobody will ask me the question!)

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 10:15 AM

Il n'y'a pas de quoi, Mademoiselle.


A

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 10:27 AM

Roger the Skiffler -

Sorry. Brownie points aren't edible..

I don't know where the phrase comes from, but at least how I've heard the phrase used and how use it, "Brownie points" refer to 'little acts of kindness' or some imaginary credit points that you get for doing something good. You can bank these points away for the time when you need some good luck and then you can 'cash them in..

Of course, As I am African American, I was also trying to make a play on words..You know..like I'm a "Brownie" and I gave you some brownie points...{I guess I blew that one, uhn??}

Oh well. There's always the next time...

But now that you mention it, baking some brownies sounds like a nice idea-especially since I just got a new stove delivered a couple of hours ago.!!!!...

What say that I make enough brownies for everybody here?! Anybody allergic to peanuts?

Vinaka {Fijian for Thank you- to you and all who have posted since my last international thank you!}

Azizi

BTW-that clicky in my post on thank you in different languages isn't the name of the website..but a description of that site...

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: PoppaGator
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:38 PM

Blues is about making yourself feel GOOD not matter how bad things get. The process is something that Aristotle called "catharsis." The great blues singers may not have had the book-learnin' to know that word, but they certainly knew all about the process.

I think the expression "brownie points" had its origin in the idiom "brown-nosing," i.e., kissing up to an authority figure in anticipation of favorable treatment. It has taken on a life of its own, however, and there is no longer a negative connotation to "earning brownie points" ~ now it just means that you've done good deeds that deserve to be rewarded.

I hadn't noticed that no white artists had been mentioned prior to John Hammond Jr. Let's fix that right now:

Paul Butterfield
Charley Musselwhite
Mike Bloomfield
John Mayall

If we open the door to electric rock/blues, of course, there are plenty more Caucasians we can add:

Stevie Ray Vaughn
Bonnie Raitt
Duane and Greg Allman
Eric "God" Clapton
Johnny Winter
the previously cited Susan Tedeschi is, I believe, white as well as female
..and of course too many more to mention

Then there are acoustic folk-blues players like Bobert and many others who are not as famous as they should be. I'll leave it to someone more knowledgeable than myself to contribute a few names from this group.

If you don't know anything about Jeep Hammond's father, John Hammond Senior, Google him NOW. One of the most important figures in 20th century American musical history.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST,AR282
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:23 PM

Hi Ms. Azizi,

I have started a forum at Delphi that deals with blues rather fundamentally. It's only getting started and there isn't much traffic but perhaps something is there you might find useful. You or anyone here please feel free to drop in whenever. Post whatever you like, I'm easy to please.

http://forums.delphiforums.com/roots1/start

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 08:34 PM

PoppaGator,
Thanks for your lists and the info re the origin of the phrase "brownie points".

This thread is proving that Mudcatters are good with multi-tasking..

---
GUEST,AR282 -

Maybe it's my lack of computer expertise, but when I went to that site you referenced, an advertising page came up and wouldn't go away.

So, what's up with that?

Are any 'Catters familiar with delphi forums?

Is this one of those visit at your own risk sites?


Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST,AR282
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 09:03 PM

>>Maybe it's my lack of computer expertise, but when I went to that site you referenced, an advertising page came up and wouldn't go away.

So, what's up with that?<<

Yes, that seems to have become a problem lately. It's a site you have to register for if you want to post anyway. If you register you can get in. But that same problem has happened to me when I enter as a guest. Never used to and it ticks me off but there's nothing I can do about it. But a coworker of mine gets in no problem and she wasn't registered so I don't get it. And I hate the idiotic ad page. Well, anyway, if you register, you can get in.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Amos
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 09:16 PM

Azizi:

Great fun rolling the Blues out at Tweed's Blues site if you haven't been there. Ole Tweed is a famous Mudcatter and a mean blues player.
http://tweedsblues.net/

Enjoy!


A

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 09:53 PM

GUEST,AR282

Thanks but no thanks. Why didn't you say it was a register first site in the first place?

Amos,

Thanks for reminding me. Tweed's it is.


Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST,AR282
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 10:23 PM

>>Thanks but no thanks. Why didn't you say it was a register first site in the first place?<<

Whoa. Never mind then,

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 10:48 PM

Well I'm back from visiting Tweeds. And I'm impressed.

Which doesn't mean the site isn't easy to figure out for newcomers.
I kept looking for the discussion forum like here and I finally figured out it was the Field Hollers section {witty name that}.

But before I even checked that out [actually I haven't done so yet cause I figured I might linger there and I wanted to let folks here know about my experience] I somehow landed in the Readers Write section. As I prefer the tried and true to the unknown, I was heartened when I saw some familiar Mudcat names {it kinda reminded me of home and gave me that I-got-your-back assurance that the non-adventurer in me needed.

For instance, I recognized the names of Jerry Rasmussen, Khandu, Bobert, and Sorcha. And there are probably other 'Catters listed in the section who I [being a relative newbie on Mudcat] don't recognize yet.

And I must give BIG PROPS to Bobert. What a storyteller he is!!
Check this out!
Bobert's Christmas Story

Tweeds has vintage photographs too. Love it!

And reviews of blues recordings & blues performances.

For example {and, Guest who mentioned Etta James in that vivid two brief description upthread, I think you'll especially appreciate this} see this excerpt of a Red Woody's review of an Etta James concert at the Chicago House of the Blues:

"Twenty minutes later, at 10 o'clock on the dot, the daughter of pool shark Minnesota Fats (true), the Matriarch of the Blues, and the only woman singing today who can be ranked with Billie or Etta or Sassy Vaughan, was revealed by the opening curtains to be onstage, large and in charge of her 8-piece Roots Band even while sitting down in a black swivel chair.

Ms. James' health is clearly not good these days. Her hands, feet and legs are swollen, and between songs she's breathing heavily. She performs the entire set sitting down, driving the band from that board-room chair, wearing a sequined red gown which reflects sparks from the spotlight which is trained on her all night. Within moments of sailing straight into At Last, the audience is hers. The tune, recorded with strings in its original version, is played tonight as if it was straight from Muscle Shoals. The horns power forward, the Hammond B3 quakes and shakes. Three of the members of this band are family, and they clearly know that this could be their leader's last tour. They are giving it everything they have in their very cool L.A. way. And as she calls the number two tune of the night, Come To Mama, the room seems to rise on the moment.

Now we pause to consider that Etta James' first hit record was The Wallflower (Work With Me Henry), recorded with Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and released in 1955. Nearly 50 years later, Etta James is clearly a senior citizen whose best days as a blues-belting temptress are behind her. But don't tell that to her, as she writhes in her leather chair, vigorously sucks her own thumb in demonstration of what she's gonna give you when you come to mama, and flirts salaciously with every man standing near the stage...this may be just performance, but it is damn convincing performance
the versimillitude of her Roots Band, allowing for generous solos and detailed introductions....

Finally, amid shouts of "We Love You, Etta!!!" she delivered the evening's capper, Sugar On The Floor, dedicated to the memory of her mother, whom, she told the crowd, had died recently. "Sugar" had been her mother's favorite song, and she sang it looking straight up to Heaven, clearly believing her mother were listening, tears pouring from her cheeks. She morphed the number, by the last verse, into a gospel pleader, repeatedly offerring up her "Thank You" with outstretchd arms and her formidable voice. As the number came to an end and the curtains closed, she turned the cries of "Thank You" to the audience and cleared her tears.

Ten minutes of calling, clapping, pounding and pleading ensued. But it was all over. She'd clearly given everything she had in a non-stop performance lasting over two hours and twenty minutes.
I'd advise anyone to see Ms. James if she's touring near your town this summer. She is one of the greats, a singer without limits in blues, RnB, jazz, funk and pop. Clearly at least the equal of Ray Charles or BB King, and on par with the best female singers of the century. Like B.B., also now on tour, she won't be performing long, due to her health. And when you've missed her, you really missed something, friend."

For the entire review Click here

Etta James In Chicago

All in all it was a great first trip. I've adding Tweeds to my Favorite list & I'm sure to go back!

In the tradition of this thread, I gotta end with some thanks to Brucie for first mentioning the Tweed site [but life stuff got in the way and I forgot about it] and thanks to Amos for reminding me about it tonight. I appreciate it, guys!!

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 08:28 AM

Thanks for the excerpts from the Etta James review, Azizi.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 09:17 AM

You're welcome Guest. And uhm Guest, have you considered being a member here?

Membership is free and does have some benefits like the ability to get private messages...

I've only been a member for 6 months and I've learned so much here and "met" such interesting folks-[and encountered a couple of real humdingers, but such is that life].

I just wanted you and other Guests to know this..

If you [all] prefer to continue posting as 'Guest' that's your choice but sometimes it gets kinda confusing..

And especially to the-Etta-James-vivid-word-images Guest, please check out the entire Etta James review at TweedsBlues..I think you'll like it.

Peace,

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Tweed
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 02:20 PM

EGAD!!!What's all this? Someone accusing me of running an interesting blues website? Unbelievable! It is a quagmire and the scourge of the internet! A ridiculous accumulation of terribly recorded songs and incredible lies. It is a miserable excuse for a blues site and assembled by a rabid, and drooling half-wit.

Amos, you should be ashamed for leading this poor woman astray and into that den of iniquity known as tweedsblues.net. For god's sakes, Mz Azizi don't go under the porch. There are things living under there that are better off left.....undisturbed.

Yours,
Tweed

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 04:39 PM

Do real people actually say "Egad!"?

Well, Tweed you are FOR REAL.

I appreciate you and your Blues website.

{And the church said "Amen!!}

Danke sehr (German for "Thank you very much" )


Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 10:33 AM

Azizi, I've been thinking about how I used to grab online music when I was on a REAL slow dialup. So here are a couple of experiments for you.

Please go HERE and let me know if you can download the video archive of Show #340 with the John Hammond Trio. What I mean is to right-click to actually save it onto the computer. It might tie up your modem overnight to get it, but then if it DOES download, you can open it to play for you.

If you can do that, there are lots of other online resources I can point you to, that might suit what you are looking for.

Also, please try saving the blues songs Max posted HERE. (Especially his and Dwditty's.) Does that work?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 11:07 AM

I just want to add another acoustic bluesman from the twenties:
Blind Blake
Don't miss out!

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 12:28 PM

WYSIWYG, thanks for your suggestions. I FINALLY got highspeed connection this past week. Love it!!

And while I'm here, I want to give a BIG public thank you to Jerry Rasmussen for two acoustic blues CDs with greats like Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Blind Boy Fuller, Charley Patton-All names that I had read but until I received the CD voices I had never heard. I am awed by the history represented in these CDs and treasure them for that reason, and the fact that a new cyberspace friend made the compilations for me.

That being said I now know that I usually prefer the later blues music.

Jerry's compilation CDs arrived around the same time as a package from Hollowfox of vintage African American books and a book on another passion of mind-name origns & meanings..
Efkaristo poly {Greek for thank you}, Hollowfox!
   
And this week I followed Brucie's suggestion and started borrowing CDs from my area library...DUH! why didn't I think of that??

Guest who first mentioned Etta James, although this particular library branch didn't have much of a collection of Blues or ['other'?] folk music, I did get Etta James 'Matriarh of The Blues', and Etta James 'Blues to The Bone', and Jimmy Smith dot com Blues.

Even better than that-I found out that I could reserve CDs from other branches of that library {and do it online even!!].. So again following Brucie's suggestion I reserved a bunch of Lonnie Johnson..
and because I was on a roll ,I also reserved a several other non-blues Cds such as a children's CD by Taj Mahal and, in honor of a high school teacher who first introduced me to this singer, I also reserved a 4 set folk music CD of Odetta.

I'm passing this info along in case anybody else hasn't thought of borrowing CDs from the library...

Asante sana, Brucie...

And thanks to all who have posted here. I went back & read a number of archived Mudcat threads on Blues..You all have been very kind to me. As questions about blues and blues artists have been asked again and again, I could have been brushed off, but I instead I received warm consideration, advice, and support.

I appreciate it.

Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 01:23 PM

I'm so glad you've 'discovered' this music Azizi! You won't be sorry. It's amazing! It happens to be my favorite too...

- Nightbird

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 06:09 PM

Ms. Azizi -

If you go here...it's the woodsongs site mentioned before you can also check out Duke Robillard (guitarist who's been around for a while....in this video he does swing/jump blues, but he's done lots of variations on the blues, including just plain old "blues" throughout his long career)...also check out Shemekia Copeland show #239. She's not "blues" in the strict definition of the word, but she has one helluva voice and she sort of reminds me of Etta James....

Lots of facets to the "blues," come to think of it.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 06:23 PM

Guest- WOW!

I have to confess high speed does open up a whole 'nother dimension.
And I saw other artists who I'm going to want to see and hear listed on that site besides those that you mentioned..

I'm supposed to be focused on this book on variations of children's rhymes that I'm editing [hopefully for publication]and now you just provided me with another point of distraction-besides checking out Mudcat threads that interest me..

Thanks alot.

I really mean that in its good sense ;o))
Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 07:21 PM

I'll take it in a good sense then...you're welcome. Hopefully the distractions won't sidetrack you too much from the editing job (good luck with that)...

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: honolulu baby
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 09:11 PM

hey, girlfriend,

first, let me say that i have learned a lot, living here in honolulu. and one of the things i learned is that 'mahalo' is the hawaiian word for hello, which you can add to your list.

and, living in such an ethnically diverse community, i learned that doomo arigato gozymus (pronounced: doemo adigato gozymuss) is japanese for 'thank you very much'.

so mahalo and doomo arigato gozymus to you.

second, being from pittsburgh like yourself, you know if you wanted to sit down and chat it up with someone about the blues, amir is the man. he is like a walking, breathing 'blues encyclopedia'.

hope all is well with you.

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: Azizi
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 11:23 PM

Hey Honolulu Baby!!

Welcome to Mudcat!!

Well, it goes to show you that you can't believe everything that you get from the Internet. I got that list of "thank you words" straight from the Internet page...I guess that's an example of a freebie being buyer beware..[or however that saying goes]..

So what is the Hawaiian word for "thank you"?

And you mentioned Amir..Well girlfriend "Lord love a duck!" . That was the saying that this New York City tour guide used on this bus trip from hell I was on this. I gathered that that saying meant something like "Goodness gracious!" but I thought Yep, I'm gonna borrow that saying-it was that funny to me...

My point in using it was...Why didn't I think of contacting Amir??

Brother Amir-now he's someone who would love Mudcat. Can't you see him holding forth??? We gotta get him to join...

I'm sure he will be as welcomed here as I was & am and as you will find you are-if you come out of lurking status more often ;o))

Please give me Amir's contact info as I haven't a clue where I put it..

And remember to Keep Hope Alive
by singing the blues and playin them too!

Doomo arigato gozymus,

your sista/friend Azizi

Subject: RE: Feelin The Blues
From: GUEST,Leadfingers (Backdoored)
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 07:41 AM

Dont be blue - Its the 100th post !!