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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 9:38:11 GMT
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Post by creolian on Mar 25, 2017 11:40:17 GMT
I remember traveling through the delta as a child and seeing country roads and cotton fields lined with sharecropper shacks, many with no doors or glass in the windows, barnyard animals on the porch and an overwhelming sense of poverty that would give anyone he blues. Now the shacks are all gone and many cotton fields have been converted to catfish ponds. Probably the thing most changed is that you rarely see people in the delta countryside that aren't either driving a tractor or are blues tourists... One thing the article mentions is the fife and drum. As a stage manager at the jazz fest in new orleans, I worked with the Como fife and drum corps in the 70s and that was another eye opener to the cultural collision that fostered the blues. Imagine Yankee Doodle doing the Watusi... edit added link : www.msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/otha-turner |
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Post by ken1953clark on Mar 25, 2017 12:33:30 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on Mar 25, 2017 13:15:12 GMT
I travelled through some of the South in the 70s and there was nothing romantic about it all. I visited Memphis on that trip and went to Beale Street. It was run-down, derelict, mostly boarded up and fenced off. At the time they were preparing to demolish it, but luckily that never happened. There were certainly no tourists there, just a few people sleeping in doorways.
Shine On
Michael
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Post by Pickers Ditch on Mar 25, 2017 15:20:36 GMT
Still not a lot romantic about the place when you get fat tourist bass guys dragged up to play in 2007.   |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 15:26:26 GMT
...it seems to me that pretty much every cultural or societal era has been colored in some way, either villified or romanticized either intentionally or not, for profit or posterity...or political gain...so the blues is just one such example. Despite that, the beautiful thing about the blues, unlike many other cultural watersheds is the net effect of the blues has been 99% positive in almost everyway...
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Post by pete1951 on Mar 26, 2017 10:42:04 GMT
Still not a lot romantic about the place when you get fat tourist bass guys dragged up to play in 2007. That's not my idea of someone 'dragged up', can't see any lipstick! PT |
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