The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #142512   Message #3289243
Posted By: Brian Peters
12-Jan-12 - 08:34 AM
Thread Name: 'Purist - a pejorative?
Subject: RE: 'Purist - a pejorative?
"Anyway, nothing to do with anything, or everything to do with everything, but I came across this clip on YouTube today via a Facebook friend, and I just know you'll all love it as much as I do:
http://youtu.be/8oihcjnw9VE",/i>

Everything to do with everything, I'd say. S.O'P.'s wonderful clip of Canray Fontenot (which I commend to all readers) is - on the one hand - a piece of pure-drop, back-porch, unrefined folk music (in contrast to the more modern trends in Creole music of funk, soul and rock influence). On the other hand, Canray's music was the result of the collision of two quite different musical species - French and African American - transplanted unwillingly to an alien environment in the swamps of the Southern USA. Oh, and quite a lot of individual genius of course! So where's your purity there?