better than dissing Puffy
― Police Cool. (crüt), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not very good at music theory, so can you explain me what makes "U Got the Look" blues? It doesn't sound like blues to me.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 13:08 (fourteen years ago) link
clearly confusing it with the deftly executed turnaround in Roxette's "The Look"
― Police Cool. (crüt), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"Have a Talk With God" from Stevie Wonder's "Songs In The Key Of Life" album sounds quite good, largely because of the arrangement.
So good that Beck ripped it off verbatim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQVeCxtuP14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su5sTlQLAzc
― Veðrafjǫrðr heimamaður (ecuador_with_a_c), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
'm not very good at music theory, so can you explain me what makes "U Got the Look" blues? It doesn't sound like blues to me.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 14:08 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
ha, yes it is a stretch, really, to call it blues, but it does follow the "classic" 12 bar blues chord structure
― coalition in the music and we're never going to lose it (tomofthenest), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
12 bars? Yeah, that's about how many I've played blues in. ;-)
― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Bob Dylan, "Highlands."
― mandatory seersucker (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Prince's "Bob George" is definitely 12-bar blues.
i mean, it's a little dumb to say "X was the last great 12 bar blues". i mean, i'm sure somewhere last night on Earth some band somewhere was on a hot streak and it took flight....
― you better check that sausage before you put it in the rofl (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/music/joe-louis-walker-has-never-stopped-playing-the-blues/2016/01/07/3968301e-afdd-11e5-9ab0-884d1cc4b33e_story.html
Joe Louis Walker belongs to a lost generation of blues performers. He was too young for Muddy Waters’s and Buddy Guy’s era of classic electric blues; now 66, he’s too old for the revival being led by Gary Clark Jr. and Derek Trucks. Walker made his best music in the ’90s and ’00s, when few folks aside from hard-core fans were paying attention to the blues, but those recordings are still waiting to be discovered, and he’s still on the road playing those tunes.
I think I have heard him, but I don't remember for sure
― curmudgeon, Friday, 8 January 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb05wrBVFUU
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 January 2016 21:40 (eight years ago) link
https://communityrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ovlov-the-great-ohmu
― billstevejim, Friday, 8 January 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/12_bar_blues_weiland.jpg/220px-12_bar_blues_weiland.jpg
― jamchiraquai (how's life), Friday, 8 January 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link