blindboygrunt Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Messin around with the blues this morning I'm too white https://soundcloud.com/islandmageestu/milk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Oh I doubt that you are too white, there are some great blues players who are white. SRV, Quinn Sullivan etc. You got the chops to do it with maybe just have not found the right song?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 9, 2016 Author Share Posted October 9, 2016 Oh I doubt that you are too white, there are some great blues players who are white. SRV, Quinn Sullivan etc. You got the chops to do it with maybe just have not found the right song?? Hahah Thanks , I think 😕😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 This comes from the person that his Mexican friends refer to as the whitest person they know (also from time to time as 'that old redneck', which does not relate to this post).😡 I do not believe that flesh tone has much bearing on the matter. It's more about how we white folks deal with our feelings. If you condider the blues to be a way of conveying introspection, and that's how many of us white types approach it, you'll eventually get a sense that something's amiss with the performance you generate. The licks and chops can be spot-on, but the genre isn't being properly represented. The more I listen to the 'old guys' who seemed to get it right most of the time - and I reference bluesmen who were rediscovered during the era of the great folk music scare of the 1960's - the more I come to realize that their music was meant to help them get past feeling low rather than to celebrate their plight. The white perspective and inclination will do just the reverse if we let it. 😢 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdd707 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 Nothing wrong with your version. It's a matter of making the song your own. I think you did that and I enjoyed it. Look at Jimmy Rogers' song Gambler Blues. It is the same as St. James Infirmary. It's just the way Jimmy does it and this is how you do Milk Cow Blues. Keep singing the blues and you will find your inner 85 year old black man who has drank a pint of whiskey and smoked two packs of Luck Strikes for 70 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 I'm just born under a bad sign on the way to the crossroads to get a mojo that works! BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Well, I had a quick listen with my iPad - working on a p.c that has no soundcard - thanks Boss.. I liked it though you could be pinching my act and you better not get too good or.... - though guitar wise, you know very well after reading all these forum threads that you just can't play blues on a dread - impossible we are told. So buy a vintage Gibson L-00. Don't have the blues enough? Keep drinking that malted milk - that'll do it for ya - errrrk, shivers! :mellow: BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Messin around with the blues this morning I'm too white https://soundcloud.com/islandmageestu/milk Bollocks. You sing 'em like Van Morrison. And John Lee Hooker loved Van Morrison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Don't worry about it. When I lived in Louisiana I realized I was never going to be a Zydeco Legend. I could never get that yodel "pop" when I yelled A-EEEEEEEEEEEE ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share Posted October 10, 2016 If soundcloud allowed you to delete from the phone app I'd delete it 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Sorry double post - computer crashed mid post because it liked Dopsie below so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 Don't worry about it. When I lived in Louisiana I realized I was never going to be a Zydeco Legend. I could never get that yodel "pop" when I yelled A-EEEEEEEEEEEE ! Is that you Dopsie? First up, please don't delete the track, BBG. and then.. Sorry to hijack your thread but Murph mentioned Zydeco legends and it reminded me of a musical experience..... About 10 years back, I went to the city by train for decent haircut, a peruse of the music shops and stuff, but was walking back to the train station and there was a free outdoor concert across from the station and I heard this first and headed over: And then Dopsie came out and floored everyone! Somebody Scream!!!!!! Not your normal fare in these parts, let me tell you. BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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