Re: country music//African Origins// Doe See Doe Swing your Partner!!!!

From: Wm. ERROL PACE (wm_errol_pace@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 03:15:40 MET

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    "Wm. ERROL PACE" wrote:

    > Okay I took a course in Applachian History and Culture at the University
    of
    > South Carolina and this was discussed. A prevalent source of Country
    music
    > came from the Scot-Irish who settled here in the US during the colonial
    > times. The French Canadians injected their vibe too. Country is a
    fusion
    > of several cultures, Africans brought it from their homeland, the Euro's
    > from Europe etc...

    True dat. I wonder how many country fans are aware that the banjo is an
    African instrument?

    Elson, I forgot to mention that fact was brought up in the class.

    As I mentioned before in another thread, Country music isn't bad music,

    Didn't you mentioned you were Jones'n for some Twang travelin' across
    country at one time?

    nor is
    it always about tears, beer and steers. But it doesn't fit in an urban
    environment,

    I'll agree with it not fittin' in with the urban environment but I can see
    someone whistlin' "Crazy", written by Willie Nelson sung by Patsy Cline
    while waitin' for a train in NYC.

    which explains why 'city folks' (like me) don't really listen to
    it.

    Damn I am envious. I was born in the country but I do dig the city.
    "Bright Lights Big City"

    But take a drive to the countryside and...yeeeehaw...

    Better yet saddle yourself up a Moto(BMW, Ducati, Guzzi, Triumph, Honda,
    Kaw, Seabass etc... and listen to some reggae as you are carvin' the curves
    in the Blue Ridge Parkway. Now that's livin'!

    Actually in the late 70s-early 80s, when pop radio was more diverse

    Rememeber when Video stations were diverse?

    and radio
    DJs

    There not carbon based anymore.

    actually mentioned the titles of the songs on the air, country music wasn't
    as square. I mean, who in their mid-20s and up don't remember Eddie Rabbit
    or
    the Oak Ridge Boys' "Elvira"? After all, Pras and Mya referenced Kenny
    Rogers
    and Dolly Parton's "Islands In The Stream" for "Ghetto Superstar."

    Elson

    --
    Guitars, Cadillacs and Rasta Acid Jazz Music,
    

    Pace'

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