Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar, Grady) Explains the Origin of the Blues

[pedrogoldfinger]

hmm, don't know about this one, it's like he's calling everyone wrong. i can believe the 12 bar song structure may have influences from Scotland, but "The Blues" is born in the usa for sure.

[DAVET0NE]

theres a good story

[dicktwang]

Gordie knows his shit



[NobbyOlder]

He should teach a class

[okswagg60]

so wrong so so wrong. wow

[SCROGY]

@okswagg60 By all means then dude......educate us.

[SCROGY]

@okswagg60 So where is your explanation? You stll haven't told us how he is wrong.

[SCROGY]

@okswagg60 Ah I get it now, you're black and Geordie just commited blasphemy by saying that the blues didn't come from black people.

[okswagg60]

@SCROGY the Rhythm of the blues has a lot of Syncopation not found in music from the British Islands. The blues form is a cyclic musical form which repeating progression of chords mirrors the call and response scheme ubiquitous in African and African-American music. and yes I am BLACK but I also have a degree in music and all of my Music Theory teachers were WHITE AND THEY DISAGREE WITH THIS GUY TOO.,, SO DICK, BEING BLACK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT THIS DOUCHE BAG IS JUST WRONG,

[SCROGY]

@okswagg60 Where did you attend university? And who were your teachers? Also Geordie is not saying the Scottish invented the blues. He is saying the 12 bar structure came from Scotland. The black slaves took those songs and changed them and added their own, yes, African influence, but the blues were not invented anyway. They evolved with influence from more than one culture. That's what he is saying.

[okswagg60]

@SCROGY I went to Elizabeth City State University in NC and my Theory teacher is Dr, Chris Palasturant who attended the Peabody Conservitory at Johns Hopkins uni. one resaon he is wrong most slaves in the delta south were not able to play music, there was no slave talent show as Gordi suggest. slaves could sometimes sing field songs and on sundays could sing church song/spirtuals and this is what morphed in to the blues. and, that structure is found in music from africa, italy and germany

[okswagg60]

@SCROGY all im saying is if you put this guy in front of a group of music professors, musicologist, ethnomusicologist and music historians his theory of the blues would be quickly dismissed. i do agree with u on one thing BJJ, JUDO, AND  SAMBO ARE AWESOME

[deanorocks1111]

Who was the Idiot doing the Interview???????