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Originally Posted by George Lander
AAAAAAAAMEN, AAAAAAAAMEN, AMEN, AMEN.............George  |
- to borrow from the late, great Phil Harris--As an avid Blues and Bluegrass guitar player- so many great Blues songs and musicians come from the Delta region- and many are indeed based on the old Negro spirituals- the repeat of the first line as the second (called a tag) and a first to third to first chord phrase repeat (called a turnaround) all are based on that great tradition of hymn singing- recalls to my mind the great stories the late Robert C. Ruark wrote about his "raisin' up" with the Negroes in the 1920's- near Wilmington NC--and the fabled "Willing But Slow" railroad--then Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and others learned from such Negro Bluesmen as Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters- Bob Dylan, who will turn 70 on May 24th this year described Blues music the best-IMO anyway- he said that playin' and singin' Blues is like wearin' an old worn out pair of pants with no pockets-
