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Sorry, it was a trick question.
Posted on 04/23/2010 6:54:55 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
OK, I heard this on the late rebroadcast of Laura Ingraham here in Dallas on WBAP. Details I commented on were not in the article I found linked from her site. FLOTUS is doing some "bring your kids to work day" photo op. Lots of questions about the White House, and the dog, and other drivel.
One caught my ear, some kid asked what kind of music she listens to. She said "all kinds" and then listed Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, EW&F, Rhianna, Usher, Beyonce, heavy into the Beyonce apparently. Does anyone else see a pattern here?
What a load. "All kinds of music" is not on her iPod. What a fraud.
Run, run, run, run run....run, run awaaaaaay....
That whole album is great. The best one they did, IMO.
There’s also “We’re on the road to nowhere.” One of my favorites.
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LOL. Last night, I was perusing the music posted on youtube (as usual). My youngest child asked me to look up music he heard on his videogame; he hummed it; I recognized it and pulled up ZZ Top's La Grange for him. He hummed another one; I recognized it, but it took me awhile to figure out it was the Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein". At first, I though it was Low Rider, and the cowbells led me to look up Mountain and then Deep Purple, and soon I was looking up Lynyrd Skynyrd, and, well, you get the drift... Not much diversity there (with the exception of War).
But, that was just last night. I'm a music lover who loves all different types of music, and I happen to be a woman around Michelle's age. I'll bet I could put together a good list to diversify Michelle's iPod selection. ;-)
Guilty as charged. I do apologize. All of the people you mentioned are wonderful. Ray Charles is still my all time favorite singer.
I guess what launched me onto my high horse was MO's claim that she likes "all kinds of music" and then goes on to list nothing but pop artists. No jazz, no classical, no Chicago or Mississippi Delta blues, no ethnic music. She has a right to her own musical tastes, but she ought to at least have the humility to admit that she doesn't know much about music.
We sure miss the “existential combined with a piercing reality” and good sounds music today.
I really haven’t listened to “new “ music now for at least 10 years...course, that could just me being “stuck”, ha.
I’m wit U. Ray Charles, man, that guy had such a sense of timing. If all you ever heard was “America” on Levin’s show I think it still comes through.
Yah, FLOTUS saying she likes “all kinds” of music is ludicrous. And not the Luda Chris, or whatever his stage name is.
There is so much out there, I guess music has always been a huge influence on my life and a personal sanctuary for me. I can’t say I like “all kinds” but I’m better educated than Barry’s wife. Her tastes, if what she said is reliable, seem to be very narrow to me.
I’m a huge bluegrass guy. Buddy of mine turned me on to the soundtrack to “Oh, Brother” several years ago and then I saw the movie. I am not ashamed to say I listen to stuff my old daddy would laugh at if he was still here, and he was a country fan. There is a lifetime of 50 year old music out there for me to explore. Blue Sky Boys, Louvin Brothers, Clinch Mountain Boys, the list is practically endless. I love the harmonies and the banjo/mandolin/guitar sounds. On a racist note, bluegrass people wouldn’t have drums in their bands because they thought drums were too African. Bob Wills was the first guy on the Grand Ole Opry to finagle his way into the show with a drummer.
Take care bro, I was just yanking your chain.
Heck, I just put Bob Wills on.
It is good to respect the elders ;)
Here ya go doll, I got two words for ya:
Roy Orbison. What a voice, what a repertoire.
Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass, was heavily influenced by “black” blues players in his earlier years....and developed his unigue style playing a duet with his brother Charlie Monroe using blues notes in the melodies..... many modern groups copied Bill’s harmonised vocal style including the Everly Brothers and to some extent the Beach Boys..... Bills also had what is refered to as a High Lonesome Sound.....
Bill’s Band... “Bill Monroe and the Bluegrss Boys” was a country/ old time band with some pretty exciting renditions of old standards, and, of course, newer songs from Bill’s talented song writting hand....
Bill’s tune “Blue Moon of Kentucky” was recorded by everyone from Elvis to the Beatles.....You could say almost anyone who was anybody in Bluegrass was in Bill’s band at one time or another, and learned the genre from the hand of the Master...... like Bill I play Mandolin......but not anything near as Masterful as he! But then again who is?
People in the Forties, upon hearing Bills band would ask “What kind of music is that?” Answer “Why that’s Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass sound... thats Bluegrass Music!”
If you get a chance see the Smithsonian Institutes Video on Bill Monroe, and learn some of the history from people who knew him and played in his bands, you’ll see and how un-racist he was......He wrote a song whose lyrics are “Poor White folks ain’t treating me right, ain’t gonna get no supper tonight, I’m getting mad, getting ready to Fight, poor white folks ain’t treating me right......”
Over the years Bill used all kinds of different Instruments in his band , but settled upon Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, and upright Bass as the best configuration for his sound....actually the way Bill played his mandolin backups using a chop cord is percusive in nature, and takes the place of a drum in the band.....racism related to drums had nothing to do with it....
Most excellent post. OK, I was out on a limb accusing bluegrass musicians of being racists, you point is well made. I didn’t mean anything hateful by it, those coal miners and their kind were hard working people who likely saw more in a man’s sand than they did in the color of their skin.
Look at Bob Wills. He told his biographer he didn’t play with any white kids besides his siblings until he was 7 or 8 years old. He grew up picking cotton in the fields with “negroes” and learned much of his music and dancing talents from his mates in the fields. I grew up in a part of Texas near where his home was, but it was mostly brown people by then, I knew maybe 5 black kids when I was in school.
Music is colorless. Music is the one thing that unites people, I’d even say I think it goes further to that goal than religion in some instances.
Take me back to Tulsa, I’m too young to marry :)
Yeah man!
Thing is most Americans equate racism with the Southern States, and while true in various eras and places, the Northern states were as racist, or even more racist, yet often get a pass.....most of the race riots of the 60’s were in northern cites.....
Music, as you say, tends to be the more color blind than a lot of other industries including other entertainment fields until recently..... not perfect mind you, but more open....You may be right about music v religion....
By the way Bob Will’s mandolinist, Tiny Moore’s electric mandolin is owned by Skip’s Music in Sacramento.....just down the highway a few miles from me...Tiny taught music in Sacramento till he passed on.....
Bill Monroe’s full name is William Smith Monroe....WSM
Those letters just happen to be the call letters for the Grand Old Opry Radio Station.....Station WSM........LOLOLOL
When Bill Monroe auditioned for a spot on the GOO, he was told after his performance that he had the job, and if he ever wanted to leave, he’d have to fire his self ‘cause they weren’t ever gonna do it.....LOLOLOLOLOL
People now don’t appreciate that music. I’m telling you, my old daddy would laugh his butt off if he could see me now. Most of what I listen to he would call “hillbilly music.” He was a Johnny Cash, George Jones, Charlie Pride and Elvis Presley guy. And Roy Buchanan, and Jimmy Dean, Hank Sr., Buck Owens, Porter Wagoner, Conway Twitty. I can still hear it now. Thanx daddy, I love them boys too, but I have a thing for mountain music now.
Ralph and Carter are in the CD player right now, but you have inspired me. “Muleskinner Blues” is going in next.
Good on ya bro.
LOLOLOOL...Poor Dad! Little did he know in relatively flat west Texas he was raising a hill billy!
Actually a lot of the guys you mentioned were influenced by ole Bill.....You can see the cajun music (a similiar genre to bluegrass only diff instruments, and in French...LOLOLOLOL) influence in Hank Sr’s music....
Have fun with your CDs now......I’m gonna put on mine now too!
Sorry, it was a trick question.
Beethoven is tedious? Does any music have more of a sense of drama?
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