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what is that? a popularity contest. its a chummy suck off party. and you know what heres the thing. theres a hundred lists. you cherry pick the ones you want. the ones that express you. thats the problem in this post internet world you see. you get anything you want if you just look for it. you see the world how you want to selective exposure. you see its just a popularity contest by the old guard listing off their faves. nothing of subtsance here though in the new rolling stone one he aint as popular.
to saythat vliet is howling wolf is an insult. a marginalisation of true creative authenticity. pretty much all art is dogbollocks to most people. thats a fact.
to saythat vliet is howling wolf is an insult. a marginalisation of true creative authenticity. pretty much all art is dogbollocks to most people. thats a fact.
Dylan knows the music, he can talk all that old stuff a lot he has covered, really can't think of a rocker more aware of where it all came from than Bob Dylan.
I like his vocals, he is in there with Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Dr. John, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson, not to be confused with Elton John, Steve Perry, Neil Diamond, Harry Chapin. I prefer rusty nails and grim. Give me back allies and one pool table bar rooms.
One of those old timers that he has talked about and covered a few times is one of musicdom's true ....???.....he was know as The King of The Mississippi Delta Blues and he was his influense on what came late was immense. He frst started recording the records in 1929 and has enought material for a cool three CD set. Check out these vocals....(singing about that 1927 Mississippi flood)
Not quite sure the point of this thread, but with due respect to Charley Patton, the consensus is that Robert Johnson is the king of the delta blues. (Sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads, etc.) Dylan's guitar playing was greatly influenced by the great Scottish folk guitarist Bert Yansch, and his early vocal style was actually a deliberate imitation of Karen Dalton, a virtual unknown whose voice had more Oklahoma twang than Woody Guthrie, Leon Russel and J.J. Cale combined.
Country Singer Jill Byrem changed her stage name to Lacy J. Dalton in her honor.
Plenty of white British ladies can handle this kind of material: Dusty, Maggie Bell, Joss Stone, et al.
Rather doubt Adele would have any problems. She can sing pretty much whatever she wants.
Totally aware of the Jackie Shane story and no I can't see Adele being able to really sell that tune and a lot of other stuff.
What's to sell? The lyrics are meaningless.
Why would Adele (or any white female singer, for that matter) pretend to be Rufus Thomas or some Black tranny? It would mean nothing to her. But, if you don't think she could do a serious workout on half the Stax catalog, you are clueless. She can sing anything.
what is that? a popularity contest. its a chummy suck off party. and you know what heres the thing. theres a hundred lists. you cherry pick the ones you want. the ones that express you. thats the problem in this post internet world you see. you get anything you want if you just look for it. you see the world how you want to selective exposure. you see its just a popularity contest by the old guard listing off their faves. nothing of subtsance here though in the new rolling stone one he aint as popular.
That was dumb.
Dude, Bob Dylan is an American music icon, this is news to you? You can't talk American music and not talk Elvis, Sinatra, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash , Ray Charles. Bessie Smith etc.
Dylan knows the music, he can talk all that old stuff a lot he has covered, really can't think of a rocker more aware of where it all came from than Bob Dylan.
I like his vocals, he is in there with Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Dr. John, Bukka White, Blind Willie Johnson, not to be confused with Elton John, Steve Perry, Neil Diamond, Harry Chapin. I prefer rusty nails and grim. Give me back allies and one pool table bar rooms.
One of those old timers that he has talked about and covered a few times is one of musicdom's true ....???.....he was know as The King of The Mississippi Delta Blues and he was his influense on what came late was immense. He frst started recording the records in 1929 and has enought material for a cool three CD set. Check out these vocals....(singing about that 1927 Mississippi flood)
Not quite sure the point of this thread, but with due respect to Charley Patton, the consensus is that Robert Johnson is the king of the delta blues. (Sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads, etc.) Dylan's guitar playing was greatly influenced by the great Scottish folk guitarist Bert Yansch, and his early vocal style was actually a deliberate imitation of Karen Dalton, a virtual unknown whose voice had more Oklahoma twang than Woody Guthrie, Leon Russel and J.J. Cale combined.
Country Singer Jill Byrem changed her stage name to Lacy J. Dalton in her honor.
Where you getting Dylan tried to mimic Karen Dalton, I know the story and that ain't it, get it right.
Tommy Johnson told the original "sold my soul" story, Robert who record a decade later stold it from him. There were a dozen or so Delta players of note before Robert Johnson ever recorded in 1936, trust me it was Charley Patton who was the King of the Mississippi Delta Blues, he was there in the beginning, Robert came a little later.
dylan had the songwriting down. but you see.. thats literature. why he won the nobel prize. he wasnt a musician like vliet. he didnt craft music. he didnt innovate music. he didnt meld novelty and progress with the beating heart of the mississipee delta. he went past that skipped it. american music was a fling for him. just a vehicle for writing. vliet lived it and evolved it. dylan has music history on his side. but thats just another popularity contest. that is just another worldly vocation being a music critiquer being an institution. a bureacrat pen pushing. thats just a popularity contest and its got even worse over timr with metacritic and that. too self aware self reflective is a critical society. too wound up in the social mores. these days a star is a star because hes woke. look at harry styles. but thats another thing. entirely. off on a tangent but the original point? dylan won the popularity contest but vliet was a fringe artist. in the musical sense not as a literator like dylan using music as a vehicle. two different things you see. vliet was the true authenticity of ya know. the trajectory of american existence. at least. where it should be going. none of this right wing nonsense.
Total crap.
Bob Dylan thought of himself more as a song and dance man.
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Why would they bother trying to imitate a Negro bluesman?
Or JJ Cale for that matter?
Do you have any idea at all how many white artists have covered old black blues? So yes white artists do bother to imitate negro bluesmen.
Dude, that is news to you, really?
You are unable to distinguish between an influence and an imitation.
Not much anybody but you can do about that.
Why do you fancy yourself some sort of music savant when you make such weak arguments, only demonstrating again and again you don't know what you're talking about?
Give all your Calvin Russell records to Goodwill and get into this guy. You'll be glad you did.
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There are loads of Dylan bootlegs from his current tour floating around the usual tape trading sites. Maybe check out a few of them and then report back here. His guitar playing is its usual crap. He can no longer sing, as he hasn't been able to do since the 90s. And he now thinks his piano playing is entertaining.
A solid band backing him and that's about it.
And of course the fans go nuts. He has become the perfect metaphor/self-parody for how ridiculous America has become in 2022.
Be sure to go see him in Santa Cruz. It will be worth the $500.
Another grand and he'll probably let you blow him.