Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!packard!edsel!bentley!ihnp1!ihnp4!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,net.music Subject: Re: SF in music--SUMMARY (note on Jimi Hendrix) Message-ID: <386@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 18:54:12 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.386 Posted: Thu Aug 8 18:54:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 00:47:22 EDT References: <1214@pucc-k> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 Xref: linus net.sf-lovers:8232 net.music:7541 > Hendrix, Jimi: Delta blues, except that the delta is on Mars. > See "1983...A Merman I Should Turn to Be", > "Hey Baby", and "Third Stone from the Sun", > and lots of other stuff. Jimi's blues are not from the Delta. Delta blues refers to acoustic stuff, typically sung by one, usually male, person who also plays guitar or sometimes piano and/or harmonica. Practitioners include Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Lightnin Hopkins, *very* early Muddy Waters, Bo Carter, Robert Pete Williams, Son House, etc. The faster, louder, more electric blues that Jimi's descend from come from Kansas City and especially Chicago, where so many Southern blacks emigrated during and after World War II. Chicago blues have come to dominate the blues scene. Practitioners include Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Slim Harpo, Guitar Slim, T Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, B.B. King, Son Seals, etc. Just setting the record straight Marcel Simon