[lbo-talk] Black music makes history

[Shane Taylor]

jks wrote:
> I know that I sound like my parents did about my
> music, but nonetheless, I confess, I mainly listen to
> what they listened to growing up, with a healthy
> leaven of Dylan, the Blues, and the like.
>
> Yours in primitive reaction,
>
> Ellington and Sinatra forever

Dennis Perrin wrote:
> And why would Sir Duke & The Chairman be
> antithetical to, say, Kurt Cobain & Biggie?

I don't know.  The White Stripes did a superb cover of Son House's Death
Letter.  But it seems like you have to wade through the muck for
musicians like them.  Maybe it's always been this way and the passage of
time acts as a sieve.  But sometimes I feel the tug of the same
"primitive reaction" Justin notes above, despite the fact that there are
volumes of fresh new greats of which I'm oblivious.  I guess we recall
mainly the best from the past and can't help but see the majority of crap
in the present.

-- Shane

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