"MUSICS"
What's kind of music do u like the most??
Personally, I like so many kind of musics, like jazz, rock,classic or even blue.
I recognized the first song that i oftened listening when i was ages around 7-8, that's "No Women No Cry"by Bob Murley.
The sound and the rhythm of this song is always stuck in my mind. I must accept that my brother has influence me to love to listening the music.
After i've listened all musics that you gave me, I feel really impressed because normally I love to listen to classic and jazz music. I found that some of the music is jazz. Thus, it's quite familiar for me and easy to listenning. Some of student in the class may not familiar with it because they get used to listening pop and rap music. Honestly, I do like many tracks from civil war songs, for example Blueglass Confideracy and Wearing of the Grey, But for the track like "Civil War Bobby Horton", i don't like it much. However, all the tracks of Civil war music have expressed meaning in the same way. I don't know exactly what're the meaning ofmusic involved to but I only knew that it's all about the life of American people in the early years. Can I call Civil War music as a country music?? Please clarify my answer..
For blue music, it's not quite difficult to listening because I did understand the definition of blue music. Most of blue musics are sang by Black American people. Blue music shows the hardship of life of people in the old day.
To be continued.......
posted by sherbet @ 12:43 AM
3 Comments:
Sherbet,
The Blues is universal. We all have times that we all feel Sad or Depressed. I've always called it, "Semi-State of Depression," and I think that should get a laugh.
Eric Clapton is not Black and he plays the Blues. As you study about the music between 1776 and forward, it really helps to understand the music. Eric Clapton wrote a song about his little boy that accidentally fell to his death in an apartment. Been there, done that.
The Blues does just the opposite of what it is about. When a person feels down and out, he/she can listen to some Blues, and they will find out that they are not alone. Someone who is really depressed, needs to see a psychiatrist and get on some anti-depressant meds.
I am watching a show called "Earl," and it has a lot of Blues played by a harmonica in the back ground. The show is kind of like, "Dukes of Hazzard," because it has a narrator, or a person, Earl in this case, tells the audience what he is thinking.
I like Jazz, too. Jazz is sort of kin to The Blues. A great show to watch is "The Crossroads," and it is about a kid from Julliard, that goes back to THE SOUTH, in Mississippi where he can really learn to play The Blues.
Jazz is essentially a melody, that is improvised, giving everyone in the band a chance to take the theme and change it, into how they hear it, but always coming back to that first "Essential Melody."
The greatest harmonica person in the world, is Howard Levy. There is a movie out, starring Robert Duvall, who discovers he has a brother who is black. I think it is called, "A Kin Thing." Rent it and listen to the blow-you-away jazz this man can play on a diatonic, 10 hole harmonica. It is wild. It is these kind of "cats" that you have to deal with, if you want to make it in the music business.
The music business can really be depressing. I had a friend who could play the guitar better than just about anyone in the world, but his advice was for young people NOT to get into the music business, because it is such a rat race all about the money. After the first 3 years of The Dixie Chicks, they went on a program called, 60 MInutes. The reporter showed them how much money Sony had made off of them, and then showed them, how much money they had recevied. They were being ripped off by their music company. That moved them to go Sony and renegotiated their contract.
Toby Keith did the same thing. He and Barry Switzer are wanting to open a bank in Oklahoma City. After Toby's first contract was up, he RENEGOTIATED, got his own label and is able to sign people on to his own record company.
I love almost all kinds of music except, maybe Rap Music. My daughter can play classical music and does it all the time, but she graduated from college with a degree in Piano Performance. She reads music like you read writing. Most of us, though, will use music as a hobby. It is fun to just sit around and "jam" with other musicians.
I watched Ringo Starr last night on the Jay Leno Show. I came away with the realization that I am a better singer than Ringo. He doesn't sing worth a piddle, but he is famous for being with The Beatles, and he helped write a lot of songs.
I am going to research, "My Name IS Earl" and see who it is playing the harp. I listen to Mickey Raphael, who plays with Willie Nelson, and Charley McCoy. If I hear someone do some Blues licks I like, I will try to copy after them. That's what Charley said.
"If I hear someone who plays a harp and does something I don't do, I will steal his idea and duplicate it on my harps."
Music is something almost sacred. It certainly sets humans apart from other creatures on the earth. I've been playing music since I was 16 and was singing as early as 5 years old. My mother recognized that I had musical talent. I took two years of piano and regret that I didn't learn to play the piano better. I wanted my kids to have the opportunity to take music in school, and only my oldest son, Darrin, didn't take music except to be in the high school band and he played the Bells at church.
I'm rambling too much, and I've been sitting here too long. Back in the old days before TV and DVD and Computers, everyone would sit on the porch and listen to music and playing music. We are losing that spontaneity in our culture.
I found the harp player on "My Name is Earl." I emailed him. On his website, he says that he enjoys being able to do his avocation, which started out as a hobby. I think it would be cool to get paid playing a harp. In his situation, he doesn't even have a band. All you can hear is the "Blues Harp" in the background.
I could do that job.
Pappa Dale
Ms. May,
Your Blues artist is Bessie Smith.
Do not cut and paste her as she is very old and in fact one of the oldest. Treat her gently! :-)
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