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Popel Vooje
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Re: Your least favourite acts, ever
Jul 30, 2005, 02:08
<why should you or anyone else for that matter give a flying fuck who's singing the blues as long as the music's good?>

Yeah, but that's exactly my point. To my ears, it's not! I honestly think the blues works more effectively with one guy / gal singing and playing with an acoustic guitar, being a very personal, autobiographical form of music that doesn't easily lend itself to the rock band format. Spookily, at the very moment I'm posting this message, Mississippi John Hurt has just come up on random play on my MP3 player singin "Stack O'Lee Blues", and it moves me more than all of the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac records I've ever heard put together. Personally I find early Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall, Ten Years After and even most of Cream's stuff pretty unexciting compared to the musicians they were inspired by.
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