Do you remember the Blues?
December 27th, 2008 | 
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i’m talking about the music …it’s the best of all time to me …. it’s real and not fake like some of this so-called R&B that steals lines from the great blues singers who paved the way. What do you think of today’s R&B or Blues music?
i’m talking about the music …it’s the best of all time to me …. it’s real and not fake like some of this so-called R&B that steals lines from the great blues singers who paved the way. What do you think of today’s R&B or Blues music?
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yes i do .
It is good, but lacks the earthy feel of those Delta Blues from the 30s
I LIKE THE OLD TIME BLUES.
Of course, but what do you mean by “remember”? Blues aren’t a thing of the past!
Blues is awesome. R&B sucks
I love the blues. Course, I love most music that’s “older”. I don’t care for a lot of the new stuff. I’m a classic rock, classic blues, classic jazz, classic pop (?), classic classical kinda gal.
Good question!
Today’s R&B is too simplistic. Though, in comparison to 40s-50s big label blues albums, it’s probably not all that much more commerical, though it sounds worse in terms of musical quality. Otis Rush and Nina Simone could dice up the R. Kellys of today.
A lot of it I think is in instrumentation. Today we have producers. They used to have bands, arrangers and engineers. Songwriters. But we have these dudes who sit at computers and make the music that the artists rap/sing to. The studios they work for tell them what they want to hear, the producer makes it and the R&B talent rap/sing/dance to it.
Then they pay Clear Channel to play it. The audience isn’t demanding and doesn’t care. They get away with playing absoltue shite.
Old school R&B was an original sound of sorts, like jazz. Rap had its moment, but it’s been taken. These are considered to be the American hallmarks of music. Our contribution to the world of music. Rock came out of blues and so on. But now it seems on the wane.
There’s hope for the future, I think, for so many people are now using the new tools–mixing and such; self-promoting on their own websites. But I think the R&B on the radio today is the death knell for what we knew. There’s something else afoot….