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05 Feb 04 - 09:34 AM (#1109924) Subject: Pop Staples' guitar style From: Roger the Skiffler I enjoyed the UK Channel 4 3-part series "The Voice" although the clips were too short compared with the "talking heads" but I gather there will be the inevitable CD tie-in issued. However, I was interested when Mavis (?) Staples said in the last programme that Pop Staples wouldn't allow them to listen to blues or rock music, because in the black and white clip of the Staples singers that they showed he was playing the guitar in a style very much in the tradition of Fred McDowell and R.L.Burnside. Perhaps it was only the lyrics that (potentially)corrupted not the music! RtS |
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05 Feb 04 - 09:37 AM (#1109928) Subject: RE: Pop Staples' guitar style From: Jerry Rasmussen Somewhere along the line, Pops listened to a lot of blues guitar. I learned finger-picked guitar from Dave Van Ronk, and the licks work fine for black gospel. We do several songs that we learned from the Staples Singers. Jerry |
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05 Feb 04 - 12:48 PM (#1110071) Subject: RE: Pop Staples' guitar style From: M.Ted His guitar work on "I'll Take You There" is textbook funk, which tells quite a bit about what funk really is-- |