“Best piece of documentation on my band done by an author or journalist. Thank you Paul Merry.” Nick J Townsend, WEAK13. BLUESMUSE33 First there was blues, but only after: · Ethiopian delineating in the 1820s and 30s · Minstrelsy from the 1840s to 1900s · The abominably-named coon songs of the 1880s and 1890s ·…
Dirty blues lyrics and filthy rugby songs: the similarities. Like blues, rugby can be pretty dirty CONTAINS PROFANITIES. PLEASE DON’T READ IF EASILY OFFENDED. At first glance, blues music and rugby union seem the most unusual bedfellows. Scratch the surface, though, and you’ll see the connections. The most obvious is how early blues work songs and after-match rugby songs…
“Since reading the blog, I have been amazed at the amount of plagiarism that went on from old black blues music.” PrivatePerson3, UK “Love your blog on RnR Trail Blazers.” Noah Seidenberg @noahzark58, 20 August 2013, Chicago, USA. Expand Treat yourself to these ten pre-rock & roll songs linked below. Rock & Roll, as a…
BLUESMUSE31 UPDATED MARCH 4, 2023. While many blues historians write of the 1890s as the decade blues began, in my book ‘America’s Gift’ and e-Book ‘How Blues Evolved’ (Vol 1), I put a case for the 1890s being simply the second blues watershed before the birth of modern blues. The first blues watershed, I concluded, was in America in the…
Violent Femme, Brian Ritchie, curates MONA FOMA We were recently in Tasmania, that one-time convict isle at the end of the earth that changed its name from Van Diemen’s Land in 1852 in an attempt to whitewash away the stain of its dark history. Today, Tasmania is home to probably the hippest museum in the…
