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| MidnightRambler |
A little discussion between me and a co-worker:
He says Texas as the official "home."
I say Chicago...but very much believe it's personally in this this order:
Memphis
Chicago
Mississippi
Texas
Which is it really? There's many ways to look at this:
Which city was blues born in?
Which city is commercially and publically known as the "Home of blues"?
Which city currently has an active live blues music community?
I'm gonna guess some people might say Mississippi as the home...but in my mind..although it might have originated there... today in 2007, if I wanted to go listen to great live blues...Mississippi would not jump to my mind. Chicago and Memphis would.
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| gimmekeef |
Unfortunately its likely linked to where the first slaves were brought in....East coast like Virginia/Carolinas?....But as far as teh more modern era all those cities could lay claim I bet including New Orleans...... |
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| Honky Tonk Man |
As far as I'm aware, modern, electric blues started in Chicago, but in terms of the States as a whole, I think you'd have to look at the South. That is where the black slave trade thrived the most. Then again, if you see it that way, you may as well go all the way back to Africa.
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| Martha |
I thought my house was the home of the blues! |
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| parmeda |
MR...I posted this link in a different thread, but tell your co-worker to take a look at this: www.downloadchicagotours.com/bluesmedia (and, you as well!)
Compare notes with him tomorrow 
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| mrhipfl |
I'd say the Mississippi Delta fo sho. But what do I know, I'm just a middle class white boy who lives in the suburbs.
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| stonedinaustralia |
without trying to be cute i have heard it said the blues was born on the ship from which the sight of the west coast of africa was first seen diappearing in the eatsern horizon
from the its scottsdale mississippi (sp?).no?
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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| MrPleasant |
Where is the original International House of Pancakes? |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
MrPleasant wrote:
Where is the original International House of Pancakes?
I don't give a fuck. The mice shit in my pancake mix. And I'm pissed. |
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| Riffhard |
The true home of the blues is in the cotton fields of the Deep South. Most notably Georgia,Alabama,North and South Carolina,Virginia,Louisiana,and,certainly from the Mississippi Delta.
Any of this bullshit about Chicago being the home of the blues is pure unadulterated crap! While Chicago may arguably lay claim to the home the "electric blues" it certainly was not in Chi Town where the blues came into being. Chicago had one thing that the South could not offer to early blues artists. Namely money. Muddy moved to Chicago for the cash. Likewise so did Howlin' Wolf,and many others. They were all from the Deep South though.
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| guitarman53 |
As Janis Joplin used to say, completely drunk as a skunk " the first time I heard the blues was the day I was Born" |
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| Steel Wheels |
Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Home of the blues. |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
Louisiana |
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| Zack |
Riffy's right:
The blues started in the fields when one guy chanted:
"Cotton's so heavy, I think I'm gonna die! Cotton's so heavy, I think I'm gonna die!"
And the guy next to him added "Show me that river, I'll drink it dry!"
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| Altamont |
Juno, Alaska. |
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| EELPIE |
that shithole bar of Joeys in Omaha- the brazenhead |
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| voodoopug |
quote:
EELPIE wrote:
that shithole bar of Joeys in Omaha- the brazenhead
I visited Mr Toad:
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| polytoxic |
From Lee Dorsey's "Ride Your Pony":
We're gonna ride) way west where the grass is green
(Ride) California, you know what I mean
(Ride) New York City & Detroit too
(Ride) on to New Orleans, the home of the blues
From James Brown's NIght Train:
Baltimore, Maryland
Philadelphia
New York City
Take it home
And don't forget New Orleans
The home of the blues
I also believe New Orleans lays claim as the birthplace of jazz and as the murder capital of the U.S.A.
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| MidnightRambler |
See, but this is what I'm talking about. I feel there's a bit of a discrepency here, personally. Yes, I have no problem realizing that the blues came from the South. No doubt about it. But I feel I'd give the south the "origin" of the blues title.
Think of it this way...if a blues fan who absolutely loved blues came to you and said...take me to the home of the blues where i can enjoy some great live blues for 7 straight nights. You'd take them to Alabama? Mississippi? These cities still have an ACTIVE live blues community?? I haven't been there...but my gut tells me that it doesn't anymore. Blues may have been born there but it doesn't reside there--it moved away. It moved to so many other cities and flourished in there respected areas: Memphis, Chicago etc... Those places STILL have a buffet of blues clubs for you to attend to. Memphis still has Beale Street and Chicago still has gaggles of blues clubs that offer blues for any night of the week.
My personal view is that the Blues was born in the South/Delta and then moved away to other cities and then made a home for itself in Memphis where it currently still resides to this day. Chicago is like its second home.
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| Sir Stonesalot |
The home of the Blues...today?
Wherever The Rotten Belly Blues Band is playin'. Duh.
>Memphis still has Beale Street <
Yeah, and are you under the impression that there are still Blues clubs there? Well, if you count BB King's(and I don't) as a Blues club. Beale St. is a huge tourist trap. The BBQ is overpriced and average. The Blues are sanitized for your protection.
But honestly...it's the same in Chicago. I hit a few clubs while at a basketball game a few years back. I was not impressed. It was all slick and sanitized. Made for mass consumption. Buncha white guys showing off how many different notes that they could bend and sustain. It was bullshit.
I honestly don't know where you can hear real By-God Blues anymore. Even us Rotten Bellies do a white approximation of real Blues. I mean, we do a kickin' St. James Infirmary Blues...and sometimes our Death Letter is pretty good...but try as we might...it still sounds white.
Let's face facts here. Hip Hop killed real Blues. You see any black kids under the age of 25 out there playin' the Blues?
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| GhostofBrianJones |
The home of the "Blues" is St Louis Missouri. |
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| cabledogg2 |
Ask Bill Wyman..........after all he wrote a book on it |
