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HIP HOP AND BLUES
The new recordings that get filed as “blues” are mostly nostalgic recreations of past sounds, some fine, some lousy, but almost none reflecting either the musical or societal changes of the last few decades. There are exceptions, of course. Both Corey Harris and Chris Thomas King have experimented with blues-hip-hop fusions -- not to THE GUITAR STYLINGS OF JOSEPH SPENCE, TAUGHT BY ELIJAH WALD Along with his rhythmic innovations, Spence worked out a contrapuntal style in which his thumb, rather than keeping a steady rhythm, accented the melody with carefully placed notes and bass runs. He also played almost all his melodic lines in harmony, parallel sixths drawn from church singing. The result is that there are typically threelines
DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties, by Elijah Wald. The story of Bob Dylan's iconic electric apostasy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, set in the context of its turbulent times, Dylan's musical evolution, and the oft-misunderstood folk revival, personified by the oft-misunderstood Pete Seeger. JOSH WHITE AND THE PROTEST BLUES, BY ELIJAH WALD Josh White and the Protest Blues. by Elijah Wald (published in Living Blues magazine) "The blues, contrary to popular conception, are not always concerned with love, razors, dice, and death," Richard Wright wrote in 1941, in the liner notes to a new album of 78 rpm records. " Southern Exposure contains the blues, the wailing blues, the moaning YOU'VE BEEN A GOOD OLD WAGON (BESSIE SMITH/VAN RONK) Another of my favorite Dave Van Ronk guitar arrangements, and a perfect example of how he would edit an accompaniment down to its absolute essentials. His model was one of Bessie Smith’s greatest records, featuring Louis Armstrong on cornet and Fred Longshaw playing unobtrusive piano. Other guitarists faced with Smith’s more ragtime-influenced blues records tend Continue reading THE ROBERT JOHNSON SPEED CONTROVERSY The claim was first made back in 2004 that all of Robert Johnson’s recordings were issued at a speed that was about 20% faster than he actually played. This claim reappeared in 2010 i n an article published by the UK Guardian newspaper, which added the completely spurious claim that this is a “consensus” among musicologists. FRAMED (ROBINS/LEIBER & STOLLER/RACISM) Thanks to cell phone videos and Black Lives Matter, it has become a lot harder for white Americans to ignore how badly black Americans are routinely treated by the US legal system though that doesn’t mean everybody now gets it, or wants to get it. One way people don’t get it is to treat the Continue reading Framed (Robins/Leiber &Stoller/racism) →
MY CREOLE BELLE (JOHN HURT/MEANINGS OF CREOLE) My Creole belle, I love her well, Around my heart she has cast a spell. When stars do shine I call her mine, My dusky baby, My Creole belle. I always assumed the Creole belle of the title was African American, given Hurt, and ragtime, and this lyric confirms that assumption. But judging by the damsels adorning the cover of the sheetmusic for
ELIJAH WALD'S HOMEPAGENARCOCORRIDOGLOBAL MINSTRELSDAVE VAN RONKTHE BLUESOTHER BOOKS AND AND WRITING Elijah Wald –. Writer, Musician. Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. And a performance blog exploring my ELIJAH WALD • BIOGRAPHY Elijah Wald has been a musician since age seven and a writer since the early 1980s. He has published more than a thousand articles, mostly about folk, roots and international music for various magazines and newspapers, including over ten years as "world music" writer for the Boston Globe.In the current millenium, he has been devoting most of his time to book projects, including volumes on suchHIP HOP AND BLUES
The new recordings that get filed as “blues” are mostly nostalgic recreations of past sounds, some fine, some lousy, but almost none reflecting either the musical or societal changes of the last few decades. There are exceptions, of course. Both Corey Harris and Chris Thomas King have experimented with blues-hip-hop fusions -- not to THE GUITAR STYLINGS OF JOSEPH SPENCE, TAUGHT BY ELIJAH WALD Along with his rhythmic innovations, Spence worked out a contrapuntal style in which his thumb, rather than keeping a steady rhythm, accented the melody with carefully placed notes and bass runs. He also played almost all his melodic lines in harmony, parallel sixths drawn from church singing. The result is that there are typically threelines
DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties, by Elijah Wald. The story of Bob Dylan's iconic electric apostasy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, set in the context of its turbulent times, Dylan's musical evolution, and the oft-misunderstood folk revival, personified by the oft-misunderstood Pete Seeger. JOSH WHITE AND THE PROTEST BLUES, BY ELIJAH WALD Josh White and the Protest Blues. by Elijah Wald (published in Living Blues magazine) "The blues, contrary to popular conception, are not always concerned with love, razors, dice, and death," Richard Wright wrote in 1941, in the liner notes to a new album of 78 rpm records. " Southern Exposure contains the blues, the wailing blues, the moaning YOU'VE BEEN A GOOD OLD WAGON (BESSIE SMITH/VAN RONK) Another of my favorite Dave Van Ronk guitar arrangements, and a perfect example of how he would edit an accompaniment down to its absolute essentials. His model was one of Bessie Smith’s greatest records, featuring Louis Armstrong on cornet and Fred Longshaw playing unobtrusive piano. Other guitarists faced with Smith’s more ragtime-influenced blues records tend Continue reading THE ROBERT JOHNSON SPEED CONTROVERSY The claim was first made back in 2004 that all of Robert Johnson’s recordings were issued at a speed that was about 20% faster than he actually played. This claim reappeared in 2010 i n an article published by the UK Guardian newspaper, which added the completely spurious claim that this is a “consensus” among musicologists. FRAMED (ROBINS/LEIBER & STOLLER/RACISM) Thanks to cell phone videos and Black Lives Matter, it has become a lot harder for white Americans to ignore how badly black Americans are routinely treated by the US legal system though that doesn’t mean everybody now gets it, or wants to get it. One way people don’t get it is to treat the Continue reading Framed (Robins/Leiber &Stoller/racism) →
MY CREOLE BELLE (JOHN HURT/MEANINGS OF CREOLE) My Creole belle, I love her well, Around my heart she has cast a spell. When stars do shine I call her mine, My dusky baby, My Creole belle. I always assumed the Creole belle of the title was African American, given Hurt, and ragtime, and this lyric confirms that assumption. But judging by the damsels adorning the cover of the sheetmusic for
GEORGE WALD: THE ORIGIN OF DEATH Death is the casting aside of the body, of the soma, after it has done its work. That work is to carry the germ plasm, to feed it, to protect it, to warm it in a warmblooded organism, and finally to mingle it with the germ plasm of the opposite sex. With that, it has completed its function and can be discarded.HIP HOP AND BLUES
The new recordings that get filed as “blues” are mostly nostalgic recreations of past sounds, some fine, some lousy, but almost none reflecting either the musical or societal changes of the last few decades. There are exceptions, of course. Both Corey Harris and Chris Thomas King have experimented with blues-hip-hop fusions -- not toCHARLIE PATTON
Robert Johnson is the most famous name in this pantheon, but among aficionados Charley Patton is almost universally hailed as the founding, defining genius, the source of a musical lineage that runs through Johnson to the Chicago masters and on to encompass virtually everything now called blues. QUOTES ABOUT NARCOCORRIDO Quotes about Narcocorrido. "Elijah Wald’s Narcocorrido is more than an exposé of a musical genre and a contemporary problem, it is a journey into the complex nuances of Mexican social and cultural history. His book is a most significant contribution to the bibliography on travel literature by foreign observers to Mexico sincecolonial times.
THE ROBERT JOHNSON SPEED CONTROVERSY The claim was first made back in 2004 that all of Robert Johnson’s recordings were issued at a speed that was about 20% faster than he actually played. This claim reappeared in 2010 i n an article published by the UK Guardian newspaper, which added the completely spurious claim that this is a “consensus” among musicologists. WININ' BOY / WINDING BALL (JELLY ROLL MORTON) I learned this from Dave Van Ronk, who got it from Jelly Roll Morton, and it’s at this point in the Songobiography because my trip south in 1985 included a brief stint with a trad jazz band in Charleston, SC. I hitched down from Southport via Myrtle Beach and don’t remember where or who I Continue reading Winin’ Boy / Winding Ball (Jelly Roll Morton) → MAMIE'S BLUES (219 BLUES) In his notes to this song, Dave Van Ronk wrote, “Jelly Roll Morton, certainly the greatest jazz composer before Ellington and a singer of incredible subtlety claimed to have invented jazz in 1906. There is little point in argument.” This was one of Morton’s most subtle efforts, and one of Dave’s. Dave stripped the spare Continue reading Mamie’s Blues (219 Blues) → COMIN' IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER (JOSEPH SPENCE) Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer (Joseph Spence) November 3, 2018 Elijah Wald. This is my favorite Joseph Spence piece to play — which is not the same as my favorite to hear. I love Spence’s singing, whether on his own or with his in-laws, the Pinder family, and if I had to take one Spence recording to the proverbial desert island it URGE FOR GOING (JONI MITCHELL/DAVE VAN RONK) The ultimate fall-into-winter song, by Joni Mitchell, arranged by Dave Van Ronk. I tend to be more optimistic about this season, so my standard autumn song is Bill Morrissey’s “My Baby and Me,” but I always loved the way Dave did this — plus, my Vancouver buddy Monte Jones had a gorgeous harmonica part for Continue reading Urge for Going (Joni Mitchell/Dave Van Ronk) → HE'S IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW (PINK ANDERSON) The Anderson tracks had been recorded in 1950 by Paul Clayton, which caught my eye because Clayton’s own LP of whaling and sailing songs had been one of the first albums I loved as a kid. Clayton was a folklorist and singer with very broad tastes, which made him the perfect p erson to supervise a Pink Anderson session, sinceAnderson’s
ELIJAH WALD'S HOMEPAGENARCOCORRIDOGLOBAL MINSTRELSDAVE VAN RONKTHE BLUESOTHER BOOKS AND AND WRITING Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. ELIJAH WALD • BIOGRAPHY Elijah Wald has been a musician since age seven and a writer since the early 1980s. He has published more than a thousand articles, mostly about folk, roots and international music for various magazines and newspapers, including over ten years as "world music" writer for the Boston Globe.In the current millenium, he has been devoting most of his time to book projects, including volumes on suchHIP HOP AND BLUES
by Elijah Wald
(originally published in Living Blues magazine, 2004). Blues fans would seem to have a natural affinity with rap. After all, while fans of the Beatles or Beethoven can complain that it’s just some guy talking over a repetitive, monotonous rhythm, we THE GUITAR STYLINGS OF JOSEPH SPENCE, TAUGHT BY ELIJAH WALDJoseph Spence DVD
The Guitar Stylings of Joseph Spence (To order online, go to the Guitar Workshop DVD site.) THE ROBERT JOHNSON SPEED CONTROVERSY . I have no idea why this story seems to surface every few years as if it were news, but we are clearly on another round. The claim was first made back in 2004 that all of Robert Johnson’s recordings were issued at a speed that DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Splitthe Sixties
The story of Bob Dylan's iconic electric apostasy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ROLL ON, JOHN (GREENBRIAR BOYS/PALMER CRISP) I always enjoyed bluegrass, but rarely loved it — the precise and phenomenally fast banjo solos and impeccably close harmonies tend to sound too clean and mechanical for my taste, and it made perfect sense that so many of the bluegrass musicians I met seemed to be expert mechanics or technological wizards of non-musical kinds But I loved the Greenbriar Boys’ Ragged But Right album. FRAMED (ROBINS/LEIBER & STOLLER/RACISM) Thanks to cell phone videos and Black Lives Matter, it has become a lot harder for white Americans to ignore how badly black Americans are routinely treated by the US legal system though that doesn’t mean everybody now gets it, or wants to get it. One way people don’t get it is to treat the Continue reading Framed (Robins/Leiber &Stoller/racism) →
MAMIE'S BLUES (219 BLUES) In his notes to this song, Dave Van Ronk wrote, “Jelly Roll Morton, certainly the greatest jazz composer before Ellington and a singer of incredible subtlety claimed to have invented jazz in 1906. There is little point in argument.” This was one of Morton’s most subtle efforts, and one of Dave’s. Dave stripped the spare Continue reading Mamie’s Blues (219 Blues) → MY CREOLE BELLE (JOHN HURT/MEANINGS OF CREOLE) Like everyone else, I got this from Mississippi John Hurt, and for all any of us knew it was his composition. He sang it in that lovely, gentle voice, evoking a sort of charming “old South” nostalgia, and I thought of it as kind of a companion piece to “Goodnight, Irene.”It was also one of his most basic guitar arrangements, in the key of C, and particularly easy for those of us who ELIJAH WALD'S HOMEPAGENARCOCORRIDOGLOBAL MINSTRELSDAVE VAN RONKTHE BLUESOTHER BOOKS AND AND WRITING Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. ELIJAH WALD • BIOGRAPHY Elijah Wald has been a musician since age seven and a writer since the early 1980s. He has published more than a thousand articles, mostly about folk, roots and international music for various magazines and newspapers, including over ten years as "world music" writer for the Boston Globe.In the current millenium, he has been devoting most of his time to book projects, including volumes on suchHIP HOP AND BLUES
by Elijah Wald
(originally published in Living Blues magazine, 2004). Blues fans would seem to have a natural affinity with rap. After all, while fans of the Beatles or Beethoven can complain that it’s just some guy talking over a repetitive, monotonous rhythm, we THE GUITAR STYLINGS OF JOSEPH SPENCE, TAUGHT BY ELIJAH WALDJoseph Spence DVD
The Guitar Stylings of Joseph Spence (To order online, go to the Guitar Workshop DVD site.) THE ROBERT JOHNSON SPEED CONTROVERSY . I have no idea why this story seems to surface every few years as if it were news, but we are clearly on another round. The claim was first made back in 2004 that all of Robert Johnson’s recordings were issued at a speed that DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Splitthe Sixties
The story of Bob Dylan's iconic electric apostasy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ROLL ON, JOHN (GREENBRIAR BOYS/PALMER CRISP) I always enjoyed bluegrass, but rarely loved it — the precise and phenomenally fast banjo solos and impeccably close harmonies tend to sound too clean and mechanical for my taste, and it made perfect sense that so many of the bluegrass musicians I met seemed to be expert mechanics or technological wizards of non-musical kinds But I loved the Greenbriar Boys’ Ragged But Right album. FRAMED (ROBINS/LEIBER & STOLLER/RACISM) Thanks to cell phone videos and Black Lives Matter, it has become a lot harder for white Americans to ignore how badly black Americans are routinely treated by the US legal system though that doesn’t mean everybody now gets it, or wants to get it. One way people don’t get it is to treat the Continue reading Framed (Robins/Leiber &Stoller/racism) →
MAMIE'S BLUES (219 BLUES) In his notes to this song, Dave Van Ronk wrote, “Jelly Roll Morton, certainly the greatest jazz composer before Ellington and a singer of incredible subtlety claimed to have invented jazz in 1906. There is little point in argument.” This was one of Morton’s most subtle efforts, and one of Dave’s. Dave stripped the spare Continue reading Mamie’s Blues (219 Blues) → MY CREOLE BELLE (JOHN HURT/MEANINGS OF CREOLE) Like everyone else, I got this from Mississippi John Hurt, and for all any of us knew it was his composition. He sang it in that lovely, gentle voice, evoking a sort of charming “old South” nostalgia, and I thought of it as kind of a companion piece to “Goodnight, Irene.”It was also one of his most basic guitar arrangements, in the key of C, and particularly easy for those of us who GEORGE WALD: THE ORIGIN OF DEATH George Wald scientific talk: The Origin of Death. Return to George Wald Page: This was perhaps my father's greatest scientific talk, a perfect balance of genuinely exploratory scientific thought and a popular lecturing style that had earned him a place in Time magazine's cover story on the DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Splitthe Sixties
The story of Bob Dylan's iconic electric apostasy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival GEORGE WALD: A GENERATION IN SEARCH OF A FUTURE George Wald, political activist. Return to George Wald Page: This is a somewhat edited version of a speech given by my father, George Wald, on March 4, 1969, at an antiwar teach-in at MIT. QUOTES ABOUT NARCOCORRIDO Quotations about Narcocorrido book. "Elijah Wald’s Narcocorrido is more than an exposé of a musical genre and a contemporary problem, it is a journey into the complex nuances of JOSH WHITE BIOGRAPHY, "SOCIETY BLUES," BY ELIJAH WALD Josh White: Society Blues Josh White photo archive Josh White album Society Blues reviews and interviews Josh White and the Protest Blues article. Josh White: Society Blues ESCAPING THE DELTA: ROBERT JOHNSON AND THE INVENTION OF Escaping the Delta/Robert Johnson Along with information about my new book on Robert Johnson and the blues, and the companion CD of songs and artists that Johnson used as his models, this page also has WININ' BOY / WINDING BALL (JELLY ROLL MORTON) I learned this from Dave Van Ronk, who got it from Jelly Roll Morton, and it’s at this point in the Songobiography because my trip south in 1985 included a brief stint with a trad jazz band in Charleston, SC. I hitched down from Southport via Myrtle Beach and don’t remember where or who I Continue reading Winin’ Boy / Winding Ball (Jelly Roll Morton) → IF YOU LEAVE ME PRETTY MAMA (GERMANY/AUSTRIA) This was the one Van Ronk original on Dave’s first album, and another song I’d brought to Europe on cassette. I don’t remember where I took the time to figure out the guitar part, but in my memory it is forever linked to my first performance at a rock festival. (Which was also my last, Continue reading If You Leave Me Pretty Mama (Germany/Austria) → JOSHUA GONE BARBADOS (ERIC VON SCHMIDT) This is Eric Von Schmidt’s best-known composition, thanks in a large part to Tom Rush, whose version I heard first and still echo in my guitar arrangement.Eric was a marvelous singer, a distinctive guitarist, a varied and brilliant songwriter, and one of my favoritepeople.
URGE FOR GOING (JONI MITCHELL/DAVE VAN RONK) The ultimate fall-into-winter song, by Joni Mitchell, arranged by Dave Van Ronk. I tend to be more optimistic about this season, so my standard autumn song is Bill Morrissey’s “My Baby and Me,” but I always loved the way Dave did this — plus, my Vancouver buddy Monte Jones had a gorgeous harmonica part for Continue reading Urge for Going (Joni Mitchell/Dave Van Ronk) → ELIJAH WALD'S HOMEPAGENARCOCORRIDOGLOBAL MINSTRELSDAVE VAN RONKTHE BLUESOTHER BOOKS AND AND WRITING Elijah Wald –. Writer, Musician. Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. And a performance blog exploring my ELIJAH WALD • BIOGRAPHY Elijah Wald has been a musician since age seven and a writer since the early 1980s. He has published more than a thousand articles, mostly about folk, roots and international music for various magazines and newspapers, including over ten years as "world music" writer for the Boston Globe.In the current millenium, he has been devoting most of his time to book projects, including volumes on suchHIP HOP AND BLUES
The new recordings that get filed as “blues” are mostly nostalgic recreations of past sounds, some fine, some lousy, but almost none reflecting either the musical or societal changes of the last few decades. There are exceptions, of course. Both Corey Harris and Chris Thomas King have experimented with blues-hip-hop fusions -- not to THE GUITAR STYLINGS OF JOSEPH SPENCE, TAUGHT BY ELIJAH WALD Along with his rhythmic innovations, Spence worked out a contrapuntal style in which his thumb, rather than keeping a steady rhythm, accented the melody with carefully placed notes and bass runs. He also played almost all his melodic lines in harmony, parallel sixths drawn from church singing. The result is that there are typically threelines
THE ROBERT JOHNSON SPEED CONTROVERSY The claim was first made back in 2004 that all of Robert Johnson’s recordings were issued at a speed that was about 20% faster than he actually played. This claim reappeared in 2010 i n an article published by the UK Guardian newspaper, which added the completely spurious claim that this is a “consensus” among musicologists. DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties, by Elijah Wald. The story of Bob Dylan's iconic electric apostasy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, set in the context of its turbulent times, Dylan's musical evolution, and the oft-misunderstood folk revival, personified by the oft-misunderstood Pete Seeger. QUOTES ABOUT NARCOCORRIDO Quotes about Narcocorrido. "Elijah Wald’s Narcocorrido is more than an exposé of a musical genre and a contemporary problem, it is a journey into the complex nuances of Mexican social and cultural history. His book is a most significant contribution to the bibliography on travel literature by foreign observers to Mexico sincecolonial times.
ROLL ON, JOHN (GREENBRIAR BOYS/PALMER CRISP) It was partly John Herald’s voice, and the way Ralph Rinzler and Bob Yellin played mandolin and banjo, and partly the exceptionally varied repertoire — bluegrass, and old-time country, but also ragtime and old-time pop tunes — but mostly it was the energy and humor. MAMIE'S BLUES (219 BLUES) In his notes to this song, Dave Van Ronk wrote, “Jelly Roll Morton, certainly the greatest jazz composer before Ellington and a singer of incredible subtlety claimed to have invented jazz in 1906. There is little point in argument.” This was one of Morton’s most subtle efforts, and one of Dave’s. Dave stripped the spare Continue reading Mamie’s Blues (219 Blues) → MY CREOLE BELLE (JOHN HURT/MEANINGS OF CREOLE) My Creole belle, I love her well, Around my heart she has cast a spell. When stars do shine I call her mine, My dusky baby, My Creole belle. I always assumed the Creole belle of the title was African American, given Hurt, and ragtime, and this lyric confirms that assumption. But judging by the damsels adorning the cover of the sheetmusic for
ELIJAH WALD'S HOMEPAGENARCOCORRIDOGLOBAL MINSTRELSDAVE VAN RONKTHE BLUESOTHER BOOKS AND AND WRITING Elijah Wald –. Writer, Musician. Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though Riding with Strangers is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. And a performance blog exploring my ELIJAH WALD • BIOGRAPHY Elijah Wald has been a musician since age seven and a writer since the early 1980s. He has published more than a thousand articles, mostly about folk, roots and international music for various magazines and newspapers, including over ten years as "world music" writer for the Boston Globe.In the current millenium, he has been devoting most of his time to book projects, including volumes on suchHIP HOP AND BLUES
The new recordings that get filed as “blues” are mostly nostalgic recreations of past sounds, some fine, some lousy, but almost none reflecting either the musical or societal changes of the last few decades. There are exceptions, of course. Both Corey Harris and Chris Thomas King have experimented with blues-hip-hop fusions -- not to THE GUITAR STYLINGS OF JOSEPH SPENCE, TAUGHT BY ELIJAH WALD Along with his rhythmic innovations, Spence worked out a contrapuntal style in which his thumb, rather than keeping a steady rhythm, accented the melody with carefully placed notes and bass runs. He also played almost all his melodic lines in harmony, parallel sixths drawn from church singing. The result is that there are typically threelines
THE ROBERT JOHNSON SPEED CONTROVERSY The claim was first made back in 2004 that all of Robert Johnson’s recordings were issued at a speed that was about 20% faster than he actually played. This claim reappeared in 2010 i n an article published by the UK Guardian newspaper, which added the completely spurious claim that this is a “consensus” among musicologists. DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! NEWPORT, SEEGER, DYLAN, AND THE NIGHT Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties, by Elijah Wald. The story of Bob Dylan's iconic electric apostasy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, set in the context of its turbulent times, Dylan's musical evolution, and the oft-misunderstood folk revival, personified by the oft-misunderstood Pete Seeger. QUOTES ABOUT NARCOCORRIDO Quotes about Narcocorrido. "Elijah Wald’s Narcocorrido is more than an exposé of a musical genre and a contemporary problem, it is a journey into the complex nuances of Mexican social and cultural history. His book is a most significant contribution to the bibliography on travel literature by foreign observers to Mexico sincecolonial times.
ROLL ON, JOHN (GREENBRIAR BOYS/PALMER CRISP) It was partly John Herald’s voice, and the way Ralph Rinzler and Bob Yellin played mandolin and banjo, and partly the exceptionally varied repertoire — bluegrass, and old-time country, but also ragtime and old-time pop tunes — but mostly it was the energy and humor. MAMIE'S BLUES (219 BLUES) In his notes to this song, Dave Van Ronk wrote, “Jelly Roll Morton, certainly the greatest jazz composer before Ellington and a singer of incredible subtlety claimed to have invented jazz in 1906. There is little point in argument.” This was one of Morton’s most subtle efforts, and one of Dave’s. Dave stripped the spare Continue reading Mamie’s Blues (219 Blues) → MY CREOLE BELLE (JOHN HURT/MEANINGS OF CREOLE) My Creole belle, I love her well, Around my heart she has cast a spell. When stars do shine I call her mine, My dusky baby, My Creole belle. I always assumed the Creole belle of the title was African American, given Hurt, and ragtime, and this lyric confirms that assumption. But judging by the damsels adorning the cover of the sheetmusic for
GEORGE WALD: THE ORIGIN OF DEATH Death is the casting aside of the body, of the soma, after it has done its work. That work is to carry the germ plasm, to feed it, to protect it, to warm it in a warmblooded organism, and finally to mingle it with the germ plasm of the opposite sex. With that, it has completed its function and can be discarded. ESCAPING THE DELTA: ROBERT JOHNSON AND THE INVENTION OF Escaping the Delta/Robert Johnson Along with information about my new book on Robert Johnson and the blues, and the companion CD of songs and artists that Johnson used as his models, this page also has HOW THE BEATLES DESTROYED ROCK 'N' ROLL: AN ALTERNATIVE How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll is a history of American popular music stripped of the familiar clichés of jazz and rock history. Tracing the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies, rather than applying modern standards and genre categories, it gives a fuller, more balanced look at thebroad
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Robert Johnson is the most famous name in this pantheon, but among aficionados Charley Patton is almost universally hailed as the founding, defining genius, the source of a musical lineage that runs through Johnson to the Chicago masters and on to encompass virtually everything now called blues. CINCINNATI FLOW RAG (REV. GARY DAVIS) I always loved Gary Davis’s guitar playing, but was into blues and ragtime a long time before I got into gospel music — so for many years my favorite of his albums was The Guitar & Banjo of Reverend Gary Davis. As far as I know, this is the only instrumental album by any of Continue reading Cincinnati Flow Rag (Rev. Gary Davis) →EDDYSTONE LIGHT
One of the pleasures of this project is learning the background of songs I’ve known all my life. For example, I’ve known “The Eddystone Light” since I was a kid, but knew nothing about the Eddystone Lighthouse, though it turns out to be the most famous lighthouse in the British Isles. Inaugurated in 1698, it was the first offshore lighthouse ever constructed, though the original IF YOU LEAVE ME PRETTY MAMA (GERMANY/AUSTRIA) This was the one Van Ronk original on Dave’s first album, and another song I’d brought to Europe on cassette. I don’t remember where I took the time to figure out the guitar part, but in my memory it is forever linked to my first performance at a rock festival. (Which was also my last, Continue reading If You Leave Me Pretty Mama (Germany/Austria) → JOSHUA GONE BARBADOS (ERIC VON SCHMIDT) Joshua Gone Barbados (Eric Von Schmidt) March 25, 2017 Elijah Wald. This is Eric Von Schmidt’s best-known composition, thanks in a large part to Tom Rush, whose version I heard first and still echo in my guitar arrangement. Eric was a marvelous singer, a distinctive guitarist, a varied and brilliant songwriter, and one of my favoritepeople.
MY CREOLE BELLE (JOHN HURT/MEANINGS OF CREOLE) My Creole belle, I love her well, Around my heart she has cast a spell. When stars do shine I call her mine, My dusky baby, My Creole belle. I always assumed the Creole belle of the title was African American, given Hurt, and ragtime, and this lyric confirms that assumption. But judging by the damsels adorning the cover of the sheetmusic for
NO MONEY DOWN (CHUCK BERRY/JOHN HAMMOND) Musically, this was one of the many offshoots of Muddy Waters’s “Hoochie Coochie Man.” Written by Willie Dixon, that song started a wave of comically exaggerated blues songs using versions of Muddy’s trademark riff. Ray Charles had “It Should’ve Been Me,” the Robins/Coasters had “ Riot In Cell Block Number 9 ” and“ Framed
ELIJAH WALD – WRITER, MUSICIAN Welcome to my site. It includes a brief bio and pages about my various books (mostly music-related, though_ RIDING WITH STRANGERS_ is about a cross-country hitchhiking trip). Also my new blog exploring immigration, borders, and history in preparation for a book project. And a performance blog exploring my musical repertoire with background and commentary on hundreds of songs. Plus information about my CD, _STREET CORNER COWBOYS_, and other writing and album projects, including an instructional DVD on the Bahamian guitar style of JOSEPH SPENCE. There are pages about various aspects of blues, corridos, and popular music, appreciations of my father and the Japanese singer Mikami Kan, an archive with several dozen newspaper and magazine pieces on world and roots music among other topics, and whatever else seemed worth putting up here... Including a page on _THE MAYOR OF MACDOUGAL STREET_, the source of the Coen Brothers' _INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS_, one on my pop music history, _HOW THE BEATLES DESTROYED ROCK 'N' ROLL_, and one on _THE DOZENS_, the African American tradition of mother-insult-dueling, and its offshoots in American culture. The Pursuit of Happiness: Immigration, Borders, and History blogSongobiography:
an ongoing memoir and performance blog, with hundreds of songsJosh White:
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Narcocorrido:
A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas (página en español) Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular MusicDave Van Ronk:
The Mayor of MacDougal Street Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night that Split the Sixties Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap (reprint of The Dozens: A History of Rap's MamaThe Blues:
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