Re: Blacks in country music

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:26:31 -0500
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errrr... Every blues guy from Mississippi of a certain age (eg) who was
around for the late fifties/early sixties... heard and usually liked country
music cause that`s what they heard on the radio. Earl Hooker, one of the
greatest slide guitarists in blues history had a completely separate career
playing country music. Read how BB King incorporated country singing styles
into his learning process.
I`ve had conversations with bluesmen like Junior Wells, Big Jack Johnson,
Phillip Walker and Lonnie Brooks. They all had country songs in their
repertoire because the chitlin circuit crowds demanded it. And they often
saw that a slow soul ballad and country ballad often had very little
difference in its relative qualties.
I met a pile of black people in Mississippi who appreciate older style
country. And funk. And Lou Rawls style crooning. And blues with a soul
perspective. And raw Mississippi hill country blues. And yes.. rap... in its
many incarnations.
Do you want to talk about Louisiana? Even better examples there.
Robert J Dewar
"J" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> I don't know of any black people that I have ever met, (non Famous) even
> remotely know what country music is about"
> Charlie Pride will go down in history as the best and only country singer,
> for a long time!
> Rap music or motwonish soul is all the black people know or seem to
> like......(with a few exceptions)very few!
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> Sorry.
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