Folk Process my ****

[Rambler]

So I'm doing a little home study on Willie Brown's

, and am coming away impressed with the skill level involved in WB's arrangement, Namely, the syncopated bass runs ('and-one and two and one and two'), the carefully placed g7 at the end of the first phrase and so forth. To listen to it, it sounds like he's jsut slamming the guitar, but listen carefully and you have to conclude that he knew what he was going for to make it sound like that. It's offered as an antidote to the view of the blues as part of the blind folk process.

[BluesKing777]

I'm with you there, Rambler!

 

Did you see the film on the Mali blues forebears in West Africa? One guy had memorised his whole family tree and their stories - 72 generations of musicians with skills passed down son to son, and when the current guy bent that string on that strange gourd geetar to a minor-majorish third, well the sound of the blues of a billion years came out in that one note and it was Skip James and Lightning....

 

I love Rory, but here is the real Willie version:

 

 

 

BluesKing777.

[Rambler]

Did you see the film on the Mali blues forebears in West Africa?

Havent but I'll keep an eye out for it. And thanks for posting WBs original. Btw, I got the breakdown on that piece from Tom Flemdmann's Delta Blues from Dockery Plantation (Vestapol). Highly recommended anyone looking for some help getting into this style. Tom Feldmann is the real deal. Heres a sample:

[zombywoof]

No matter how many times I listen to the Grafton Paramount sessions, his playing still blows me away.