Comments on: Mojo’s Cold Shot: Do We Call What White Rockers Play “Blues?”

By: jefito

jefito — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:56:31 +0000

Amen. Here's to Gatemouth!

By: mojo

mojo — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:39:32 +0000

clarence gatemouth was a genius. NEver saw another blues guy pluck a solo out of a fiddle holding it like a ukelele…

By: edmur

edmur — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:07:02 +0000

You can have the same discussion around today's “blues”-rock technicians – including Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang – as you did about Clapton, Beck, Page, Green, etc. 20 years ago, right?

Clapton was not as pure a blues cat as Muddy Waters or BB King. But Bonamassa's no Clapton, either.

And the Deep Blues stuff is so compelling because it takes the “virtuoso” out of the equation, and harkens back to the rough and raw sounds of the earliers blues players…

It's not JUST a black vs white thing, right? Or, original vs. whatever came after?

By: jefito

jefito — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:56:31 +0000

Amen. Here's to Gatemouth!

By: mojo

mojo — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:39:32 +0000

clarence gatemouth was a genius. NEver saw another blues guy pluck a solo out of a fiddle holding it like a ukelele…

By: edmur

edmur — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:07:02 +0000

Clapton was not as pure a blues cat as Muddy Waters or BB King. But Bonamassa's no Clapton, either.

And the Deep Blues stuff is so compelling because it takes the “virtuoso” out of the equation, and harkens back to the rough and raw sounds of the earliers blues players…

It's not JUST a black vs white thing, right? Or, original vs. whatever came after?

By: outsidecounsel

outsidecounsel — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:10:48 +0000

It's a pretty fine line that separates all three of the Trinity– lots of jazz is blues, and a guy like Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown is blues that is jazz quite a bit of the time. Rock'n'roll is certainly more than just blues played by white guys. You'd have to say that one of the things rock blends in is a little bit of Country, for one thing.