| August 25th, 2005 11:06 PM |
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| Barney Fife |
Discuss.
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| August 25th, 2005 11:24 PM |
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| Zack |
I always said he was a one trick pony - but what a trick. |
| August 25th, 2005 11:25 PM |
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| Scottfree |
Hell no, the dude was vesatile...with a capital versatile.... |
| August 26th, 2005 02:16 AM |
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| Starbuck |
funny you should bring this up. i was just listening to "the best of the fire sessions" this same evening.
i can see where you are coming from, but i don't think he was. he ups tempo a lot and adds horns in here and there and spices things up too much to be one dimensional. it would be nice if he would venture outside the key of D once or twice (though he does use E on occassion). perhaps he is not one dimensional because everytime i hear one of his songs, i hear something different. tonight i was concentrating on the horns instead of the slide or his most haunting of all voices.
so much there in such a small package.
by far my favorite bluesman. muddy is close, but elmore takes the cake! |
| August 26th, 2005 02:49 AM |
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| Poplar |
I had "sky is crying" before i got ripped off a few years back.
while it WAS great, yes it was also a little repetative.
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| August 26th, 2005 11:22 AM |
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| jpenn11 |
Don't know what one dimensional means.
For some, playing many different instruments or many different styles makes a musician multi-dimensional.
For me, being able to communicate soulfully is what makes a musician, whether it is in one dimension or several.
If you've seen any of the few pictures of Elmore, you'll notice he plays an acoustic. That ballsy slide sound on those Fire sessions comes from a miked acoustic guitar.
Now for an interesting question regarding Elmore James: who really wrote Dust My Broom, Elmore or Robert Johnson? Some claim Elmore was singing this back in 1927 and all around Mississippi in the early 30s with the signature slide triplets and that Robert Johnson got it from him. I've also read that "dust my broom" was a code dating back to slavery days, notifying others that the singer was going to escape the plantation that night. |
