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Thread #131335   Message #2965569
Posted By: GUEST,Hootenanny
15-Aug-10 - 07:18 AM
Thread Name: The Blues???
Subject: RE: The Blues???
Leeneia,

If you enjoyed that piece then you might like to read more about it in a recent book "Long Lost Blues" Popular Blues in America, 1850 - 1920. University of Illinois Press.

The tune itself is very well known and well used. The performance is pleasant enough but I find the execution a bit stilted and what I would expect from a pianist playing from written music. For me it is too damn polite, he should loosen up and put some drive and feeling into it.
An excellent performer and only one among many blues piano players was Little Brother Montgomery from Kentwood, Louisiana. Try and hear some of his recordings made for the Bluebird label just as I am doing at present. Then of course there is Big Maceo Merriwether, Otis Spann, Will Ezell and dozens more.

Enjoy

Hoot