thread: 2006-10-16 : Music blogging: Dog songs 4
On 2006-10-19, Justice wrote:
(My for real, actual first name)
I thought I'd de-lurk for a minute to thank Vincent for his blog and work, which I've found enlightening in any number of ways, and to also offer some stuff that I've not seen mentioned in either these Dog song threads or in the threads on the Forge.
I've managed to find one rule that works for me in getting Dogs songs-any prewar artist named "Blind" anything almost certainly has a passel of songs full of blood, fire, death, sin, trouble, knives, prison & magic. Short list (and the merest scratch of the surface): Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Alfred Reed, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Roosevelt Graves, the early Blind Boys of Alabama/Mississippi (although this stretches "prewar" a bit).
Also, the Anthology of American Folk Music & the American Primitive series seem to me like they could be promotional mixtapes for the game.
This all seems so natural & right to me that I gotta ask-is all this stuff just way too old hat? Is it just that country blues, country gospel, and old-time topical country doesn't hit the creative switches most people are using when thinking Dogs? Does it all seem too specific and localized (i.e. Southern USA, 1920's-30's?) to really resonate?
No judgment intended there, by the way-I've certainly found some fine music out these threads and the Forge threads-really just a curiousity on my part.
