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Post by wolvoboy on Mar 28, 2013 21:16:43 GMT
Blues Maker, Mississippi Fred McDowell 1969 Documentary
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Post by wolvoboy on Mar 28, 2013 21:21:42 GMT
i n this film Fred explains what the blues is,its difficult to understand his accent,if anyone can translate it would be good
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Post by bod on Mar 29, 2013 10:20:04 GMT
This transcript of McDowell might be of interest - it's not from Blues Maker, but it does have McDowell talking about blues and I think it's from the same period: privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/aavesem/texts/FredMcDowellTscr.html It also makes me wonder if one of the hard to fathom words in the film might be 'confidence'? (If it is, that is some accent - and that transcript is online as an example of an "accessible example" of old Southern speech!) On a different page on the same site there is a quote from McDowell on (his) song-writing: I made up a lot of the songs I sing. It's like you hear a record or something or other. Well, you pick out some words out of that record that you like. You sing that and add something else onto it. It's just like if you're going to pray, and mean it, things will be in your mind. As fast as you get one word out, something else will come in there. Songs should tell the truth... When I play-- if you pay attention, what I sing the guitar sings, too. And what the guitar say, I say. I'd only come across the last sentence before and found the rest of it very interesting...
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Post by wolvoboy on Mar 29, 2013 10:35:41 GMT
this is getting like that other thread on( what is the Blues,) wolvoboy
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Post by slide496 on Mar 29, 2013 11:56:59 GMT
When I ordered the Fred McDowell I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll with him sitting on the steps the liner notes were transcriptions of what he spoke on the recording during performance, close to what Bod posted in this, might be the same - seems like it from cursory glance.
The dialect is difficult to understand so I was glad for it. - doggoned if I can understand him talking..
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Post by bod on Mar 29, 2013 17:33:44 GMT
this is getting like that other thread on( what is the Blues,) wolvoboy Yeah. I guess it is - i didn't mean to hijack the thread, I was just really interested in what Fred McDowell had to say about that topic (what is the Blues). Seems to me that different of the various greats give voice to different understandings (from each other, I mean) of 'what the Blues is'. I think that is at least relevant to - and perhaps important for - the rich, fascinating and wonderfully open discussions of such topics that have been breaking out here lately. On a different tack: is anyone able to tell me whether the version of 'I'm in jail again' that is on Blues Maker (about 8 3/4 minutes in) is available on cd or mp3 or somesuch?
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Post by slide496 on Mar 29, 2013 19:18:17 GMT
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Post by izzydunne on Mar 29, 2013 23:06:47 GMT
Some folks on this thread are having some trouble understanding Mr. McDowell. It is kind of funny, but I understand every word he is saying, but I was raised up in the South, and this is music to my ears. In the South, the words are slowed down, drawn out, and sometimes the endings just drop off.
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Post by bod on Mar 30, 2013 18:53:40 GMT
Thanks, have it downloaded now
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Post by AlanB on Apr 4, 2013 10:49:46 GMT
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