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Post by slide496 on Apr 21, 2015 12:38:17 GMT
+2 on its a great album. Bought it as well Lawd lawdy, Harriet
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 13:37:53 GMT
......perhaps I should have listened to my second mind and not commented on this thread Shine On Michael
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 13:44:20 GMT
If you all listened to your second mind, you would be in New Jersey (didn't Chester say that ?)...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 14:01:26 GMT
If you all listened to your second mind, you would be in New Jersey (didn't Chester say that ?)... I escaped from New Jersey when I was 18, thanks very much! Ain't no way they're draggin' me back.
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Apr 21, 2015 14:09:11 GMT
My Mum knitted me a new jersey once. She started it when I was a three year old and I finally got it when I was fourteen in 1965. Top half was burgundy red and the bottom half was sky blue. I'm a Liverpool FC follower , so I thank The Lord that it was at the start of hippiedom and I could get away with wearing it on stage .
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Post by lavinci on Apr 22, 2015 4:01:21 GMT
I saw Mr. Sipp in San Francisco this week, now here we go He is the real deal. And he can sing and play the guitar. Albeit I think he can sing better than he can play Oh BTW HE IS FROM Mississippi And started playing when he was 6 y/o and not 22 The Real Deal. His band is airtight Bass player and organ player are to die for. Drummer is even better than then two combined. Fish who?
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Post by Michael Messer on Apr 22, 2015 7:42:31 GMT
I don't know Samantha and I have no interest in her music, but I really don't like seeing her, or any other musicians, repeatedly crucified on my forum.
Musicians use the Internet just like everyone else and one day Samantha will read this thread.
All recording artists and touring musicians have to be able to accept criticism and negativity from the media, and we all develop a protective layer to cope with that. But please, when writing about a living artist just consider for a moment that they might well read what you have written.
Thanks,
Shine On Michael
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Post by izzydunne on Apr 22, 2015 17:16:48 GMT
Thank you.
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Post by Matt on Apr 22, 2015 18:50:43 GMT
I love how people seem to think it appropriate to compare contemporary entertainers of today to the minute fraction of the people who were contemporary in the 20s-60s who we actually remember. It's not like everyone into the blues back then was off seeing Son House or Fred McDowell whenever they wanted to see some music, they were off seeing one of the countless performers who nobody remembers who were working the music circuit making a living. And I bet most of them were just as well entertained as they would have been if they saw one of the greats.
People love to obsess over a handful of recordings like they're the be all and end all of a certain genre of music. The recordings and performances that get remembered are the best moments of the years or decades long careers of the few performers who happened to be at their best when someone had a mic on them or they were in a studio. Son House loved a drink and I bet he was a crap performer sometimes. If you watch much live music you should know that even the best can be really sloppy, soulless and boring on a bad day, or even a bad tour (or for many artists, a bad decade, I'm looking at you 1980s). Comparing YouTube footage of someone performing live and comparing it to recordings or rose-tinted distant memories of the 'greats' isn't really a particularly valid comparison. To go back to Son House, if you watched or listened to some of his recordings without the context of having heard the full range, or at least some of the best, and had never heard of him, I bet most of the people commenting here would write him off as some old drunk making a racket. Hell anyone who knows the stories knows that Robert Johnson had a reputation as a bit of a try-hard wannabe while he followed Son House around, before his disappearing act and the famous recordings.
I haven't even had the chance to sit down and listen to any of these Samantha Fish clips yet, but I can tell you all without listening that there isn't enough material there by a long shot to have any insight into whether she 'has it' or not. Even if you've been at a gig and watched a whole set. And as for ripping on cigar box guitars etc like they're a gimick, are they really any more so than a vintage national? Yeah some nationals are the best sounding things ever in the right hands, but there are plenty of all original examples out there that are piles of crap that just haven't survived well, but I bet no one here would call out anyone for performing a vintage national regardless of the sound it made.
izzydunne is right, it's not that you can't have an opinion if you aren't a star performer, just that it's a huge stretch to claim some insight into someone's ability from a few snapshots of their existence as a musician.
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Post by mrpwrslide on Apr 22, 2015 19:51:24 GMT
I totally agree with michael, dead on. Gentlemen, please don´t start creating a new religion. Nobody that is enjoying and loving blues music has to be straight from mississippi or being any colored or something else ( remember Muddy Waters opinion on this subject ) . Even sexism is no cure to keep up the old and dusty blues-museum. If you´re young and good-looking it´s not a crime to wear short skirts. I have been watching her on youtube several times and yes, she was sometimes a little out of tune. Many of you has been on stage and you know when monitoring is not good, especially in small venues, it is hard to get proper intonation when sliding. Samantha Fish is not tinkering on technique, she`s playing a rough style, and that´s what i do like in a barrelhouse venue, even in big halls. I have been watching the north mississippi hill debate quite for a long while on this forum and felt somewhat ashamed about some of the statements people made.
Good on ya
Gerry
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Post by lavinci on Apr 25, 2015 18:28:35 GMT
Why would anyone want to muzzle their critics. By seeing ourselves differently we can grow. I would hope that Ms Fish does read this and not shy away her critic but instead embrace them for their POV. THIS WILL HELP HER. No one here is trying to crucify a musician.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 19:29:48 GMT
and yes, she was sometimes a little out of tune. I have ...felt somewhat ashamed about some of the statements people made. It's difficult not to do it, eh TT
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Post by Quarterquay on Apr 29, 2015 16:56:25 GMT
Shock horror, young woman wears short skirt on stage whilst singing and playing guitar.... not like thousands of other women in their early twenties not on stage, not playing and singing, in any local high street anywhere in the western world then eh? What should she be wearing,a shapeless boiler suit? Bet she fought her PR people tooth and nail for that look but it looks like they won out over her personal wardrobe choices. She's out there, she's gigging,not my cup of tea musically, but good luck to her.
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