BruceH Posted March 13, 2009 Report Posted March 13, 2009 There is always time for Lowell Fulson! This man's got Oh, yeah! not talking about Black Snake Moan - I just feel that there is more tiredness and formula in the jump blues of the early 1950s, maybe late 1940s, than in most of the Delta, or the Piedmont, and than Chicago/Detroit/Cincinatti, the juke blues, or whatever you wanna call it - the hard four beat of the delta and the post-delta electric is, to me, much deeper in feeling. It is a more complex rhythm; the swing-era rhythm of the jump blues becomes too much of a closed-rhythmic box, no flexibility. Ironically the 'thump thump thump' of the Delta-derived blues is much freer than the swing/jump and, I think, more conducive to certain old-time retensions. The juke-styled things are just the wildest and freest things I've ever heard - the jump stuff, after awhile, is claustrophobic. I think I can see where you're coming from. "Jump blues" long ago struck me as very similar to early rock'n'roll in some ways---wonderful in small doses, but in large doses, kind of numbing. Quote
BruceH Posted March 13, 2009 Report Posted March 13, 2009 By the way, Mike, you DO have some Treniers material, right? Quote
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