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Post by Doug on Feb 11, 2017 10:35:33 GMT -5
Listening too American Roots radio show this morning and caught up in thinking about songs that have skipped genre.
Sitting On Top of the World - blues to folk to bluegrass
Keep on Truckin' - Blues to folk to rock
Fox on the Run - rock to folk and bluegrass
Lots of others.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 12:06:23 GMT -5
House of the Rising Sun.
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Post by coachdoc on Feb 11, 2017 12:38:35 GMT -5
Aaahhhhrrrgg....!!! If I never hear that song again it will be to soon. i doubt you can even hide from it on the Lawrence Welk Show. |
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Post by drlj on Feb 11, 2017 13:05:46 GMT -5
I subscribe to the Louis Armstrong view that there are two types of music--good and bad. Like Louis, I like the good. I don't worry about the genre it has been hammered into.
Coachdoc, the song House of the Rising Sun has always fascinated me. I read a book about its history and the many versions of it that have been done including the very first known recording, Tony Rice's jazzy recording, and the major chord versions that I like the best.
You need to spend 12 or so hours listening to various recordings nonstop to cure yourself.
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Post by coachdoc on Feb 11, 2017 14:48:44 GMT -5
No. Just that minor key slowly rising intro. I shudder just to think of it.
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Post by Dub on Feb 11, 2017 14:57:36 GMT -5
Milk Cow Blues is one. Started as a blues double entendre and wound up as a Western Swing tune.
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Post by Russell Letson on Feb 11, 2017 15:16:22 GMT -5
I came across "House" long before the Animals rockified it--I think I heard the Joan Baez and then the Dave Van Ronk renditions.
In the course of refreshing my memory via Google, found a bunch of recordings going back to 1925, including the 1946 Josh White version, which is the one I suspect Baez based hers on--though the Weavers had an art-songish arrangement as well.
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Post by jdd2 on Feb 11, 2017 15:20:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 16:05:37 GMT -5
Aaahhhhrrrgg....!!! If I never hear that song again it will be to soon. i doubt you can even hide from it on the Lawrence Welk Show. Well, we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. One of my favorite songs in all its reiterations. |
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Post by xyrn on Feb 11, 2017 17:05:25 GMT -5
This morning Facebook suggested I watch this bluegrass cover of "Rocket Man" (Elton John)
And, an old favorite, Crimson & Clover, originally done by Tommy James & the Shondells has been 'updated' to a harder rock sound by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and much more recently (2009, the Ellen Show) by Prince, who put his own spin on it.
And, as I was YouTubing just now I see Dolly Parton has a pop/country mashup of sorts of C&C.
That one is a bit odd, although there is something strangely enticing with her voice.
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Post by brucemacneill on Feb 11, 2017 17:06:18 GMT -5
Aaahhhhrrrgg....!!! If I never hear that song again it will be to soon. i doubt you can even hide from it on the Lawrence Welk Show. Well, we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. One of my favorite songs in all its reiterations. IMHO, and I do like the song, it works better as a song about a girl than the Animals/Stones version. It just makes more sense that it's about a girl. If I ever do it again, I plan to make it about a girl. |
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Post by Doug on Feb 11, 2017 18:03:50 GMT -5
I may have to listen more to other versions of Crimson & Clover, to me it always brings up Titty bar music of the late '60s.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 18:20:53 GMT -5
One example of many that jumped from blues to rock in the hands of white kids.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 18:37:10 GMT -5
Well, we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. One of my favorite songs in all its reiterations. IMHO, and I do like the song, it works better as a song about a girl than the Animals/Stones version. It just makes more sense that it's about a girl. If I ever do it again, I plan to make it about a girl. Oh like men can't get into trouble in a house of ill repute? It's one of those songs that works very well both ways. Sin and misery indeed! |
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Post by Doug on Feb 11, 2017 18:59:15 GMT -5
IMHO, and I do like the song, it works better as a song about a girl than the Animals/Stones version. It just makes more sense that it's about a girl. If I ever do it again, I plan to make it about a girl. Oh like men can't get into trouble in a house of ill repute? It's one of those songs that works very well both ways. Sin and misery indeed! And you would know because  |
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Post by Village Idiot on Feb 11, 2017 19:00:32 GMT -5
Aaahhhhrrrgg....!!! If I never hear that song again it will be to soon. i doubt you can even hide from it on the Lawrence Welk Show. You can't hide from it at Idiotjam either. Love the harmonica in this version: On the other hand, Sweet Home Alabama. Aaahhhhrrrgg....!!! If I never hear that song again it will be to soon. |
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Post by drlj on Feb 11, 2017 19:04:36 GMT -5
One fav of mine is Happy Hoosier Homeland done by The Polonia Polka Band. Nothing like a polka band at a pierogi and squirrel dinner to get Hoosier feet a'tappin', don't ya know.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 19:06:01 GMT -5
This one hasn't crossed over yet. Too bad. I feel it.
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Post by coachdoc on Feb 11, 2017 19:47:31 GMT -5
I almost listened all the way through to Paul's version. The mouth harp helped. Near the end I thought 'Wait! That's rising sun!' And clicked out.
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Post by Dub on Feb 11, 2017 21:13:40 GMT -5
I see this has devolved into the HOTRS thread.
The first time I heard the song it was sung by a friend, now passed, with a wonderfully soft "whisky" voice ca. 1959 or '60. She could make blues sound like she meant it. The next version I heard was Lead Belly with his wife, Martha, on the Folkways "Last Sessions" set. As I recall Bob Dylan had it on hist first or second album. I think he was the first one I heard use the changes The Animals used later on. Those changes seem to have come to define the tune for most people now.
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