The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143307 Message #3307376
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
13-Feb-12 - 08:46 AM
Thread Name: Is this murdering a folk song?
Subject: RE: Is this murdering a folk song?
Hmmmmmm!
I learned Matchbox Blues from Hamish Imlach. And now I've played it for forty odd years - I've got to the point where young kids (if you can find any in folk pubs)go - wow that sounds really cool! The trouble is, I think maybe Hamish learnd it from Rambling Jack Eliot and it sounds sod all like the recordings we have of Blind Lemon Jefferson.
In fact I have a nasty sneaking suspicion that my version of Matchbox Blues compared to Blind Lemon Jefferson bears something like the same relationship that Peter Pears does Sam Larner.
You can't undo forty years of practice though. Not sure I want you.