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  2. Spaceman's avatar Spaceman Says:

    May 15, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    Saw him live 30 or so years ago. Good stuff. When I was college student at Illinois, I became blues fan. Probably have 35 blues albums. Everyone feels low sometimes – needs some blues.

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      May 15, 2015 at 7:04 pm

      Spaceman,
      I would have loved to have seen him. I fell into the blues somehow and couldn’t be happier!

  3. Spaceman's avatar Spaceman Says:

    May 15, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    Oh wow, blues is music in its most elemental form.

    “I’ve got a tombstone hand in a graveyard mine Just twenty-two baby I don’t mind dying.”

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      May 16, 2015 at 9:31 am

      Spaceman,
      I have been a blues fan for so long I don’t even remember how it started. I know I found Bessie and Billie while in high school so maybe then. It doesn’t really matter. The blues is what it is!!

  4. Spaceman's avatar Spaceman Says:

    May 16, 2015 at 10:19 am

    Good for you. Not that many folks around that who are serious blues. My image is poorly lit run down club filled with smoke – patrons drinking whiskey. Though I can’t I have been to but a few places like that. Been to joints like that in Dallas and Baltimore

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      May 16, 2015 at 11:26 am

      Spaceman,
      I remember the clubs you described but mine were cellar clubs for folk music. I went to a few when I was in college.

      I don’t even know if any of my friends are blues fans. Two of my friends are fans of country, show music and even Neil Diamond and Barry Manilow. I like those friends so I excuse them for the last two.

      The blues stay the same.

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      May 16, 2015 at 4:41 pm

      Spaceman,
      I think folkies and blues fans share the same musical roots. The two types of music have a common foundation.

      I didn’t like Abba either.

      That is the only song of his I can abide simply because of the tradition at Fenway.

  6. Spaceman's avatar Spaceman Says:

    May 17, 2015 at 11:29 am

    Kat-

    Diamond I can tolerate. Manilow – well, not. Of that “type” of music, Johnny Rivers and B. J. Thomas were much more enjoyable.

    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=b+j+thomas+long+ago+tomorrow&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=814564CABE097D2C4C7F814564CABE097D2C4C7F

    Yes I agree that many of the roots are common though they bifurcated say 80 years ago. I’m thinking it’s a matter of exposure. Neither type has ever had enjoyed a broad popularity (i.e., people buy a lot of records) except that maybe in 70’s folk was pretty popular with college age + white youth. Blues audiences have always been primarily black and fairly small. B. B. King is the only big time blues guy I can think of who was able to consistently appeal to larger audiences. I’m not sure why that was.

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      May 17, 2015 at 3:46 pm

      Spaceman,
      I never thought to put Johnny Rivers and B.J. Thomas with the other two but I now having heard this Thomas song, I get the similarities.

      The folk resurgence in the 50’s and 60’s brought the music to a whole new audience, including me. Many of those singers and groups are still hanging in there.

      I also think the blues had a resurgence which has widened the audience and introduced the music to a whole new audience.


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