Why is Country Music so Dispised In Ontario?
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Ya! But traditional blues is not played so loud that you need to wear earplugs to listen to it......:smile:
There's nothing wrong with real country, Johnny Cash, George Jones and the like.
It's this "New Country" (or as it is known in most of Canada "Old Rock") that makes everyone vomit.
Country music is supposed to be about lamenting the man, not kissing his arse.
It's this "New Country" (or as it is known in most of Canada "Old Rock") that makes everyone vomit.
Country music is supposed to be about lamenting the man, not kissing his arse.
Im sorry for my choice of words, and will not be using them again. Everything else i aint sorry about 
:lol: The only instrument that is allowed plugged in in Bluegrass is the bass because not every band has room for an old doghouse.....every other instrument is miked.........
were you expecting a war over music???;-)
And some of the best blues was played on acoustic instruments like this
YouTube - Mississippi John Hurt - You got to walk that lonesome valley
then degraded to this.........simply my personal taste in music
YouTube - Mississippi John Hurt - You got to walk that lonesome valley
then degraded to this.........simply my personal taste in music
The second one may be a more gifted instrumentalist...but doesn't have what the first one has.....soul
Country and western is the white version of soul music where most of the songs deal with oppression and depression.
Cowboys and farmers, dealing with financials pressures from the eastern banks because the weather is not good for crops and livestock.
If you were to ad the twang sound to soul you would have country and western and the stories are the same all about failed love and failed life of the down and outs of society trying to make it work.
In country and western and also in soul there are happy and good songs but most songs are tearjerkers.
Rock and Roll is more of a fighting back and making things work type of music.
This is why the general population were against Rock and Roll in the fifties because they viewed it more of a revolutionary sound with country and western and soul music they could control the people; with Rock and Roll the people basically said we chart our own destiny.
This is why society started to change in the sixties in America especially during the Vietnam War years where peace and love started to take over the world against the will of the establishment.
Peace and love explored new ways like equality for all and was a major motivator for the birth of the Black Power movement, which ironically used a mini war or revolution to gain them their equal rights
This is why country and western music will never make to the mainstream of society but as one gets older this type of music become tolerable. I sometimes listen to a country and western radio station just to listen to the twang.
Cowboys and farmers, dealing with financials pressures from the eastern banks because the weather is not good for crops and livestock.
If you were to ad the twang sound to soul you would have country and western and the stories are the same all about failed love and failed life of the down and outs of society trying to make it work.
In country and western and also in soul there are happy and good songs but most songs are tearjerkers.
Rock and Roll is more of a fighting back and making things work type of music.
This is why the general population were against Rock and Roll in the fifties because they viewed it more of a revolutionary sound with country and western and soul music they could control the people; with Rock and Roll the people basically said we chart our own destiny.
This is why society started to change in the sixties in America especially during the Vietnam War years where peace and love started to take over the world against the will of the establishment.
Peace and love explored new ways like equality for all and was a major motivator for the birth of the Black Power movement, which ironically used a mini war or revolution to gain them their equal rights
This is why country and western music will never make to the mainstream of society but as one gets older this type of music become tolerable. I sometimes listen to a country and western radio station just to listen to the twang.
Aw, nope. Trad. blues is mostly acoustic. Or it ain't trad. blues.
Black street musicians and delta pickers didn't have no amps.
Check out any of the oldtime blues guys and you'll see them playing into mics but with acoustic guitars.
BB King was amped, but he was mostly crossover, rockabilly, black rock, with some blues stuff going on. Not trad. blues.
Just sayin. Believe whatcha want, eh;-)
Hey DA SLEEPER !!
Check out Etta Baker on (google "CD Baby"), for some real nice Peidmont blues picking.
You can play snippets of
Carolina Breakdown
Railroad Bill
and etc.
I think Mississippi John Hurt is on there also.
8O
Check out Etta Baker on (google "CD Baby"), for some real nice Peidmont blues picking.
You can play snippets of
Carolina Breakdown
Railroad Bill
and etc.
I think Mississippi John Hurt is on there also.
8O
Thanks.......what a great music teacher
That's one musician I could sit,watch and listen to all day....
YouTube - Etta Baker
That's one musician I could sit,watch and listen to all day....
YouTube - Etta Baker
Here are two videos I took myself of two gentlemen I watched play over the years....
You will notice the one on the right is what I call a "method picker"....his fingers barely move when he plays and he is a better instrumentalist but I like the one on the left better..............It's all a matter of personal preference...
YouTube - Renfrew Open Mike 6
YouTube - Renfrew Open Mike 5
You will notice the one on the right is what I call a "method picker"....his fingers barely move when he plays and he is a better instrumentalist but I like the one on the left better..............It's all a matter of personal preference...
YouTube - Renfrew Open Mike 6
YouTube - Renfrew Open Mike 5
8OYIKES!!
So, after all that, Etta let me down and played through an amp!!!! (Watch Karrie beat on me now!) Maybe Etta needed the help as she was about late 80's when that was taped. Just died a couple years ago, in her 90's. Helluva picker.
I sometimes feel I missed out by not being born in North Carolina or somewhere down south.
That is the Renfrew open mike as in Renfrew, Ontario???? Gotta get up there.
Ian and Sylvia did a great job of "Darcy Farrow" many years ago. Ian Tyson's a not too shabby country picker too. IMO, only.
Thanks for that, Das.
So, after all that, Etta let me down and played through an amp!!!! (Watch Karrie beat on me now!) Maybe Etta needed the help as she was about late 80's when that was taped. Just died a couple years ago, in her 90's. Helluva picker.
I sometimes feel I missed out by not being born in North Carolina or somewhere down south.
That is the Renfrew open mike as in Renfrew, Ontario???? Gotta get up there.
Ian and Sylvia did a great job of "Darcy Farrow" many years ago. Ian Tyson's a not too shabby country picker too. IMO, only.
Thanks for that, Das.
It is in Renfrew Ontario....just North of Ottawa....I enjoy going to that one every year...also in Tottenham On. and River Valley On.
the only big argument in Bluegrass Forums is allowing an electric Bass to play....
The Purists actually think the bands should play "Single Mike":lol:
It sure makes filming easier...
You have to amplify in some way for a large audience ....
the only big argument in Bluegrass Forums is allowing an electric Bass to play....
The Purists actually think the bands should play "Single Mike":lol:
It sure makes filming easier...
You have to amplify in some way for a large audience ....
If you liked those videos there are more at YouTube - lv2jm07's Channel
Shameless plug for my chanel:lol::lol:
I will put more in the future...I have hundreds of hour of videos I've recorded over the years of going to festivals....it's a slow process to cut a clip off a Dvd file transcode it to an avi file for editing in windows movie maker then upload it to you tube.....and that....only when I can get on my wife's computer....because it has a better faster processor:-(
Shameless plug for my chanel:lol::lol:
I will put more in the future...I have hundreds of hour of videos I've recorded over the years of going to festivals....it's a slow process to cut a clip off a Dvd file transcode it to an avi file for editing in windows movie maker then upload it to you tube.....and that....only when I can get on my wife's computer....because it has a better faster processor:-(
He DaSleeper- any idea of alternate names of Misissippi John Hurts "My loving spoonful"?? I recall it being called a few different things and I can't find any of them anywheres (and I lost the only John Hurt CD I had dammit)
That guy was an awesome anti-bluesman almost- lived a fairly plain life, wrote tunes about being happy and stuff, and was a killer player to boot
That guy was an awesome anti-bluesman almost- lived a fairly plain life, wrote tunes about being happy and stuff, and was a killer player to boot