re: I Woke Up This Morning: The Blues Thread

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Let The Good Times Roll: The LA Music Thread

A thread for:
Dixieland
Cajun
Zydeco
Swamp Pop
New Orleans R&B

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60 minutes report yesterday:

Cajun and Zydeco music, the sounds of southwest Louisiana, are experiencing a remarkable revival

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The idea that this country has become one big, bland, conformist culture, the United States of generica? Well, if you're in search of a counterpoint, hang out, as we did, in the marshy interior of southern Louisiana. You need no passport to enter Cajun country, but it's an exotic land like nowhere else, home to a cuisine, a language, a landscape, even a pacing all its own. And then, there's the singular sound. Cajun music — and its cousin from across the way, Zydeco, resists easy description. But it is intoxicatingly catchy, often sung in French, and enjoying a most unlikely renaissance.

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Beverly "Guitar" Watkins

Beverly Watkins was a blues guitarist from Atlanta who would have been as well known as BB King or Bo Diddley had she been a man....granny can flat fricking pick a guitar. She was a staple musician in and around Atlanta and North Georgia when I was a kid and a teenager....it wasn't unusual to find her busking in and around events at Piedmont Park and other areas of Atlanta back in the day. Almost no busking in Atlanta these days unfortunately. The last time I saw her was just a few months before her death in the fall of 2019 at a tiny blues bar in Hartwell, Georgia....she was as awesome then as she ever was.....

Blues: of Mississippi, of the poor black man.
Bluegrass: of Tennessee/Kentucky, of the poor white man.

The soul of a person is boundless and crosses all times and colors.