Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to) - by Andarthiel
Tocky on 10/9/2021 at 14:18
The thing is, it's a good tune in spite of Cam's voice which is whiney nasal. It's like Dylan. The voice is terrible and grating even on it's own but put it in a song like that and it fits. Sort of like a lot of blues voices like Big Bills. And as for the girl, I feel guilty for even mentioning that, I'm just jumpy is all.
Here is one of my dads favorite sayings put to music.
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Aged Raver on 10/9/2021 at 19:50
Understood.
I don’t hear that phrase so much any more. A few days ago I recalled a film from the mid 60’s which ended with an Indian proverb: “
He who rides a tiger can never dismount”. I guess it applies to all of us but it seemed very apt for an old friend and his particular tiger.
I’m really captivated by Broonzy’s guitar style, and confess I wasn’t even listening to his voice on that track. (
On some records his voice is powerful. Sadly 6 years later in 1958 his voice box was removed to try to stop cancer.)
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yptMXQAa0eg) This is the one I should have posted. No singing. I’d love to play like that. He’s a one man band. I know those phrases from long ago. At times (to me) it’s like a horse race
Giddy-up Giddy-up with someone from the back coming up on the inside rail. I watched a couple of videos on how to play like Big Bill but who am I kidding? :tsktsk:
He’s credited with writing 100’s of songs and I don’t know about the rest of Europe but he was an acknowledged influence by loads of UK musicians in folk/rock/blues/jazz who went on to be world famous in the 60’s, although as I read in music papers at the time it’s impossible for a white person to sing the blues.
My ignorance is vast, and I’d never heard of this lady, but reading about so-many possible origins of the term “(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues)
the blues” I came across …
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The phrase "the blues" was written by Charlotte Forten, then aged 25, in her diary on December 14, 1862. She was a free-born black woman from Pennsylvania who was working as a schoolteacher in South Carolina, instructing both slaves and freedmen, and wrote that she "came home with the blues" because she felt lonesome and pitied herself. She overcame her depression and later noted a number of songs, such as Poor Rosy, that were popular among the slaves. Although she admitted being unable to describe the manner of singing she heard, Forten wrote that the songs "can't be sung without a full heart and a troubled spirit’. I venture that could be said of Big Bill.
Record companies publish anything once you’re dead. I remember a friend, more than half a century ago, playing an LP (I believe recorded in Paris) and a particular song on side 2, possibly about a lost-love, which suddenly stopped half-way and Bill broke down sobbing.
Tocky on 11/9/2021 at 01:03
This is the man I used to watch in person when I would go hang out at the Hoka theater back in the day. It doesn't fully showcase what he could really do on guitar. These are mostly simple tunes that concentrate on the singing but I recall my friends and I being amazed at some of the licks the man could hit. He just hung out and played all night in the lobby for tips. In his waning days he was more adventurous in his playing and went beyond rhythm into some sweet solos. I know all the places he sings about. I used to go through Leland and into Greenwood every weekend in my twenties. Matter of fact it was Greenwood where I bought my favorite car, a 72 GTO convertible. I was driving by and saw it in a lot. Had to turn that big load of stuff I was carrying back to Oxford around in a lot barely big enough and lay some money down right then. It's not the only car I regretted selling but it's the one I most want back.
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Aged Raver on 11/9/2021 at 07:42
:thumb: Wow. Good story. Along with that I found enough stuff to last me a week including Eddie Cusic (
Cusie/Quesie) and a track the two of them made "(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIQpUV0KtqU)
Once I Had a Car" which I thought you must have been channelling, except as far as I can tell “
the man take it back”. :(
Gray on 12/9/2021 at 01:42
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Gray on 12/9/2021 at 02:48
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Why? No reason.
Oh, look, a squirrel.
Tocky on 13/9/2021 at 15:07
More than a little.
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hard thief kyd on 16/9/2021 at 16:40
Lately I've been
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1 billion views, c'mon
Tocky on 18/9/2021 at 00:09
So I think I hooked up wicked girl with Joey. A few messages back and forth like I was in high school and I believe they are going to hook up. Joey has a six year old girl who is the most precious thing. She said her dad liked Scooby Do music and watched Dinosaurs on TV. A most excellent observation. If she had a mother that was witty and wise and perhaps wicked enough to keep dear old dad interested then that would be a good thing. I'm right proud of myself. For now. I hope I haven't done a bad thing. One can never tell with relationships. His little girl is so precious and has been without a mom for awhile now and wicked girl is very compassionate and decent. I really like her. She is lonely and only wicked in the good ways after all. Quite beautiful and amusing as well.
Anyhow I'm quite happy now. I hope they build a fire to burn a lifetime.
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Gray on 19/9/2021 at 02:57
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So far, only once in my life, I've had to shed everything that had gone before, and somehow create a new way of life. Perhaps this is the second time.