delta blues
The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on the west to the Yazoo River on the east. The Mississippi Delta area is famous both for its fertile soil and its extreme poverty. Guitar and harmonica are the dominant instruments used. The vocal styles range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery. Read Full BioThe Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, the Mississippi River on the west to the Yazoo River on the east. The Mississippi Delta area is famous both for its fertile soil and its extreme poverty. Guitar and harmonica are the dominant instruments used. The vocal styles range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery.
Origin
Delta blues music was first recorded in the late 1920s. The early recordings consist mostly of one person singing and playing an instrument, though the use of a band was more common during live performances. The recording of early Delta blues (as well as other genres) owes much to Alan Lomax, who criss-crossed the Southern US recording music played and sung by ordinary people. His recordings number in the thousands, and now reside in the Smithsonian Institution.
Style
Delta blues is a style as much as a geographical appellation: Skip James and Elmore James, who were not born in the Delta, were considered Delta blues musicians. Performers traveled throughout the Mississippi Delta, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee. Eventually, Delta blues spread out across the country, giving rise to a host of regional variations, including Chicago and Detroit blues.
Scholars disagree as to whether there is a substantial, musicological difference between blues that originated in this region and in other parts of the country. The defining characteristic of Delta blues is instrumentation and an emphasis on rhythm and "bottleneck" slide; the basic harmonic structure is not substantially different from that of blues performed elsewhere.
The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm was an important influence on several blues musicians who were imprisoned there, and was referenced in songs such as Bukka White's 'Parchman Farm Blues' and the folk song 'Midnight Special'. Thus Delta blues can refer to one of the first pop-music subcultures as well as to a performing style. This style of blues heavily influenced British Blues which led to the birth of early hard rock and heavy metal.
By some, the term "Delta Blues" itself is seen as an invented "authenticity" mainly constructed by white folk revivalists in post-war times. Their "perception of the music’s authentic contours is rural, male, non-commercial, and permeated by sorrow." By this, they erase a large part of a supposedly 'inauthentic' history of the blues, especially sexual song.
See also National Geographic article 'Traveling the Blues Highway' by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Origin
Delta blues music was first recorded in the late 1920s. The early recordings consist mostly of one person singing and playing an instrument, though the use of a band was more common during live performances. The recording of early Delta blues (as well as other genres) owes much to Alan Lomax, who criss-crossed the Southern US recording music played and sung by ordinary people. His recordings number in the thousands, and now reside in the Smithsonian Institution.
Style
Delta blues is a style as much as a geographical appellation: Skip James and Elmore James, who were not born in the Delta, were considered Delta blues musicians. Performers traveled throughout the Mississippi Delta, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee. Eventually, Delta blues spread out across the country, giving rise to a host of regional variations, including Chicago and Detroit blues.
Scholars disagree as to whether there is a substantial, musicological difference between blues that originated in this region and in other parts of the country. The defining characteristic of Delta blues is instrumentation and an emphasis on rhythm and "bottleneck" slide; the basic harmonic structure is not substantially different from that of blues performed elsewhere.
The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm was an important influence on several blues musicians who were imprisoned there, and was referenced in songs such as Bukka White's 'Parchman Farm Blues' and the folk song 'Midnight Special'. Thus Delta blues can refer to one of the first pop-music subcultures as well as to a performing style. This style of blues heavily influenced British Blues which led to the birth of early hard rock and heavy metal.
By some, the term "Delta Blues" itself is seen as an invented "authenticity" mainly constructed by white folk revivalists in post-war times. Their "perception of the music’s authentic contours is rural, male, non-commercial, and permeated by sorrow." By this, they erase a large part of a supposedly 'inauthentic' history of the blues, especially sexual song.
See also National Geographic article 'Traveling the Blues Highway' by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
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Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker Lyrics
Boom, boom, boom, boom
I'm gonna shoot you right down
Knock you off of your feet
And take you home with me
Put you in my house
Boom, boom, boom, boom
Ow ow ow ow ow
Hmm hmm hmm
Hmm hmm hmm hmm
I love to see you strut
Up and down the floor
When you're talking to me
That baby talk
I like it like that
Oh yeah
Talk that talk
Walk that walk
Won't you walk that walk?
And talk that talk
And whisper in my ear
Tell me that you love me
I love that talk
When you talk like that
You knock me out
Right off my feet
Ho ho ho ho
Well, talk that talk
And walk that walk
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Talk that talk, babe
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Written by: John Lee Hooker
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John Cena Playing Starcraft
@metallord69 popular music, that is.
There are countless great underground bands. Like Greta Van Fleet evolved their sound recently
And Hell, my chemical romance is one of the best bands from the 2000s, if you like alternative rock and concept albums. Each of their albums is distinct but unique, with dark, melancholic lyrics with a more aggressive sound and a religious undertone, with messages of death and that life is worth living, even when it's shit, just to see the future.
Hell, My Chemical Romance is a band that kept me alive through high school with my depression, anxiety, and PTSD (I was roofied by two male childhood friends; I don't want to elaborate further). And Hell, ever since a siezure last week, I've been strong enough to actually give a damn about myself, to appreciate what I have
I know, rambling, but there are plenty of great modern bands and artists, just don't look in the pop sphere, especially female rap, especially female club rap, especially female club rap by women who rape men.
Like, hell, I hate most modern rap, but Lil Altoid has a fucking classic sound, it mimics old school rap but incorporates modern flows
Believe me, rock will make a comeback. It will be psychedelic blues. Hell, bonus if it has a Halloween theme of spookiness and the beauty of death (like autumn trees or omen animals like ravens and Crows)
I mean, my destiny is rock music.
John Cena Playing Starcraft
@micky gotta agree. Blues originated from nowhere, blues has always been, but in different forms. Ain't no first bluesman
But African Coptic Churches are a good origin for a first formal "bluesy" style.
But blues truly came into its own in the 1800s and 1900s. The electric guitar and recording is what made blues break free from it's shackles of formality. No longer was blues stuck to live, small groups with guitars, banjos, and pianos, nor did it have to be formalized into a rare classical "sampling" (using blues motifs in marches and composed European music). To me, blues became unmistakable when it first got recorded, especially Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and the lore of Deals with the Devil; but that might be more rock canon to some.
That's the thing about blues, it's beautiful yet striking; unmistakable yet undefinable. Has influence worldwide and from religious song, But it is distinctly American and dark.
I mean, hell, rock canon stretches from people like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters to Chuck Berry to Hendrix to Nirvana to MCR; and those are just one of the famous ones from their day, there are countless other underground, indie, and lost records by other amazing artists
Atama頭
[Verse 1]
Boom, boom, boom, boom
I'm gonna shoot you right down
Right off your feet
Take you home with me
Put you in my house
Boom, boom, boom, boom
Mmmm hmmm
Mm hm hm hm
[Verse 2]
I love to see you walk
Up and down the floor
When you talking to me
That baby talk
I like it like that
You talk like that
You knock me dead
Right off my feet
A haw haw haw haw
Whoa!
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 3]
Once you walk that walk
And talk that talk
And whisper in my ear
Tell me that you love me
I love that talk
That baby talk
You knock me dead
Right off my feet
A haw haw haw haw
Yeah, yeah!
Andreas Bäumler
Rock and Metal would have never appeared without the blues, the blues gave birth to Rock. And it's people like John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Muddy Waters who made the electric guitar speak long before Rock'n'Roll became a mass phenomenon. And there's no better music than that real old blues to kick off the weekend. Honest music full of each kind of emotion. Who could ever be as cool as the great JLH and all the other blues heroes? Listening to this song I get lifted, and still I wonder what has become of music these days....?
John Cena Playing Starcraft
@metallord69 popular music, that is.
There are countless great underground bands. Like Greta Van Fleet evolved their sound recently
And Hell, my chemical romance is one of the best bands from the 2000s, if you like alternative rock and concept albums. Each of their albums is distinct but unique, with dark, melancholic lyrics with a more aggressive sound and a religious undertone, with messages of death and that life is worth living, even when it's shit, just to see the future.
Hell, My Chemical Romance is a band that kept me alive through high school with my depression, anxiety, and PTSD (I was roofied by two male childhood friends; I don't want to elaborate further). And Hell, ever since a siezure last week, I've been strong enough to actually give a damn about myself, to appreciate what I have
I know, rambling, but there are plenty of great modern bands and artists, just don't look in the pop sphere, especially female rap, especially female club rap, especially female club rap by women who rape men.
Like, hell, I hate most modern rap, but Lil Altoid has a fucking classic sound, it mimics old school rap but incorporates modern flows
Believe me, rock will make a comeback. It will be psychedelic blues. Hell, bonus if it has a Halloween theme of spookiness and the beauty of death (like autumn trees or omen animals like ravens and Crows)
I mean, my destiny is rock music.
John Cena Playing Starcraft
@micky gotta agree. Blues originated from nowhere, blues has always been, but in different forms. Ain't no first bluesman
But African Coptic Churches are a good origin for a first formal "bluesy" style.
But blues truly came into its own in the 1800s and 1900s. The electric guitar and recording is what made blues break free from it's shackles of formality. No longer was blues stuck to live, small groups with guitars, banjos, and pianos, nor did it have to be formalized into a rare classical "sampling" (using blues motifs in marches and composed European music). To me, blues became unmistakable when it first got recorded, especially Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and the lore of Deals with the Devil; but that might be more rock canon to some.
That's the thing about blues, it's beautiful yet striking; unmistakable yet undefinable. Has influence worldwide and from religious song, But it is distinctly American and dark.
I mean, hell, rock canon stretches from people like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters to Chuck Berry to Hendrix to Nirvana to MCR; and those are just one of the famous ones from their day, there are countless other underground, indie, and lost records by other amazing artists
1st Name Basis
Include Bo Didley my friend
Kevin68ification
@Frederik Spudnik reading comments while listening to this I was thinking 'kicked in the teeth' by ACDC
Ryan D
@EmE Me I love it when white people come out with sh..t like that, i.e. Christians made music today what it is (what a laugh. The first Instruments came from Africa, which is where the first humans evolved.
Linda Aune
In the early 80's my boyfriend and I went to many avenues where John was playing. We were always invited backstage to talk with him. Many hours of talking, laughing, cognac and cigars. Very good times. He was brilliant, fun and engaging. Miss those times.
rockartistet
Very lucky.
Hideaki Page
I'm green with envy
Bama Jesse
Cool