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Thread #160723   Message #3813458
Posted By: GUEST
08-Oct-16 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Talking blues and spoken country songs?
Subject: Talking blues and spoken country songs?
I listened to quite a lot of talking blues, like TALKING VIETNAM POTLUCK BLUES by Tom Paxton, TALKING WORLD WAR III BLUES by Bob Dylan. And there are also a lot of spoken country songs. Johnny Cash did a lot of them, A BOY NAMED SUE, THE LAST GUNFIGHTER BALLAD and so on. Both genres are rhyming words spoken to a simple chord progression. Now I wonder - are there any differences between talking blues and spoken country songs?