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| From | GaryPig@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Johnny Burnette Trio |
| Date | Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:19:58 EST |
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<< I think that the whole "radicals during the conservative '50s" thing gets
overblown sometimes. The truth is, from everything I've read and from every
interview I've ever come across of older Southern musicians, I've come to
the conclusion that the lines between R&B and country weren't drawn nearly
as sharply as people believe. >>
Absolutely, Greg!
Even more interestingly (that IS a real word, isn't it?),
Chuck Berry has always talked about listening to the Grand Ole Opry and
Louisiana Hayride on the radio in the early Fifties, and the influence those sounds
had on his early songwriting. (and his guitar playing was inspired by the
horns on Louis Jordan's earliest sides, no??)
meanwhile, on the opposite side of the equation,
Has anyone out there heard (of) Sid King and the Five Strings?!!
AMAZING material, again from the early/mid Fifties,
which mixes everything from r&b to Western swing
with even a bit of Spike Jones thrown into the (mono) mix.
Sid and Co. were from Texas; Roy Orbison was a big fan of Sid's.
Just goes to show yez, once again,
that when it comes to music,
"it's all one big ball of wax" (as Charlie Rich would say),
Gary "or, even more poetically, 'if it wasn't for the pebbles on its bottom,
the stream would have no song' in the brilliant words of Carl Perkins" Pig
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