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      <![CDATA[I am a really big r&b fan, Pete, and I like that era too.
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't think Murray and I would agree on a whole lot. But I appreciate his negative view of "folk" music as a counterbalance to the kind of folk purism that sees one old guy with a guitar as inherently more "authentic" and laudable than, say, a six-piece jump band.
        
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      <![CDATA["hey i just met you......"
        
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      <![CDATA[The thing that Murray and Crouch, and many other moldy fig critics, seem to miss is the way a seemingly unsophisticated form, like blues or country, can do things that more sophisticated kinds of music simply cannot and will not do, owing to their sophistication. Simple forms that often explore subject matter that people beholden to "roots" and "the right way to do things" dismiss.
        
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      <![CDATA[If I remember correctly, Murray was not especially fond of "roots music" either, at least not as an ideal. He made light of primitive blues musicians and compared them unfavorably to Basie, Ellington and Armstrong, whom he saw as sophisticated modernist artists, though they worked with many raw materials ranging from those primitive blues to the Western classical tradition.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well, Pete, I do adhere to something the rock writer Frank Kogan once said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Rock 'n' roll was never any kind of roots music." And you can bet the great-but-conservative Albert Murray, and the odious Stanley Crouch, never liked any rock 'n' roll.
        
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      <![CDATA[Edd, I agree with you, and your comment makes me feel a little bad about chewing you out on your Perry Baggs piece, as I did just now. (But it doesn't change my mind, I'm afraid.)
        
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      <![CDATA[but "Rock with You" beats Scritti and even the Ambitious Lovers...speaking of which, have you seen the "Black Dynamite" episode featuring Michael Jackson? Pete Wilson, yes, I have read Albert Murray's "Stompin' the Blues."
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh Edd. You have given me a gift.
        
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      <![CDATA["Wanna Be Startin'" is almost as good as Scritti Politti...
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Ashley Spurgeon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Typically, I will like anything that can be described as "up." In pretty much any genre.
        
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      <![CDATA[An afterthought:  One thing about "blues" is that it can just mean a song structure, generally 12 bars and 3 vocal lines. "Sent for You Yesterday" is definitely a blues in structure, but I think it is in connotation and spirit as well.
        
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      <![CDATA[The terms shift. The first commercially viable "blues" was big, tough ladies like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith singing in front of bands that tended to include horns.
        
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      <![CDATA[I can understand the interest in pop, but not the laser-like dedication to top-40 radio pop. I find radio pop almost entirely lacking when compared to pop produced by less commercially successful artists.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Ashley Spurgeon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I think of Count Basie as swingin' and jazzy and whatnot. Never been able to listen to Robert Johnson-style blues for very long.
        
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      <![CDATA["I explicitly search it out when I’m in a bad mood, because I am guaranteed to be in a better mood by the time it’s over. Can you say that about the blues?
        
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