Corny jigs

I used to play a pretty groovy, technical version of this song..

The hony-tonk crowd loves this one due to it's origins..

But like any good folk-storyteller.. I would take creative liberties in the music as well as portions of lyrics.

 
I discovered Chuck Berry long after he made a name in the US. And Bruce Sprinsteen long after the end of the war in vietnam. But to me they're both milestones in the history of rock music.


PS : decades ago, when I taught English in a "very working class" city, I played them "Johnny B. Goode" at the end of the lesson. A student, a Vietnamese refugee (we had 100,000 in the late seventies) asked me for the lyrics. He was playing the bass in a friends' band but they couldn't catch all the words.

It reminded me of "Apoplexie", a short-lived band, at that time I was 15, my best contribution was probably the name of the band 😜

A pity I never had the opportunity to hear them playing, I lived 80 km, 50 miles, from the school. It must have been as cool as "N'Guyen's garage" :)

 
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You should look into WHY Chuck Berry's fame plummeted..

Maybeline by Chuck is my favorite!
 
"Cornier" than that, you die... 👹

But I love this song, the hurdy-gurdy feel of the mlody, and on the video, the shots of some of the streets inParis that I love.

Down the stiars, there's (there swas) an Indian restaurant called "Namaste" where my uninists fellows and I finished bottles remaking the world, and on the opposite side of the street, a "Réunion" restaurant ( an island not far from Madagascar) where in the first time of my life I had shark. And it was, hmmm..., so good.

A few steps away, another day, we had dinner in the restaurant where "Casque d'Or" was shot.

Paris, like perhaps other major cities in the world, is a mosaic of cultures. (1)


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(1) That's why on Sunday, I will cast my vote so the far-right doesn't come first. I'm not like those who supported the most racist, fascist candidate to the presidential elections.
 
AlainK said:
"Cornier" than that, you die... 👹

But I love this song, the hurdy-gurdy feel of the mlody, and on the video, the shots of some of the streets inParis that I love.

Down the stiars, there's (there swas) an Indian restaurant called "Namaste" where my uninists fellows and I finished bottles remaking the world, and on the opposite side of the street, a "Réunion" restaurant ( an island not far from Madagascar) where in the first time of my life I had shark. And it was, hmmm..., so good.

A few steps away, another day, we had dinner in the restaurant where "Casque d'Or" was shot.

Paris, like perhaps other major cities in the world, is a mosaic of cultures. (1)


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(1) That's why on Sunday, I will cast my vote so the far-right doesn't come first. I'm not like those who supported the most racist, fascist candidate to the presidential elections.
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When I first listened to that Candidate speak.. you know the
lady.. don't need to say names...
..but my FIRST thought was..

"Dear God!... Alain!!!! You have one TOOOO!"

😂😂😂😂



SHARK..... is DELICOUS... Somewhere between beef and horse.

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Really cheesy, but just for the fun :


The Celtic culture is still alive here, not only in Brittany.

The small sort of flute is called a "bombarde", which is another name for a mediaval cannon. You wouldn't believe how loud it is, unless you were waken up in a folk festival with a hangover, they send notes like missiles ! Huh huh...

The bagpipes are called "binious" here (I admit I much prefer uilleann pipes). There's a "Festival interceltique" in Lorient, It draws a huge lot of people each year.

 
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Even cornier, "les soeurs Goadec", three sisters who sang in Breton( late 60s, early 70s)

They had the rhythm, they didn't need the drum !


A small number of people still speak Breton at home, but more and more young people chose it as a second language at school.

Even "local pop stars" that are from Brittany take up trads like "Tri Martolod" :

 
A sort of cliché of what the life of artists was in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. The song was a hit in the late sixties, at the time when "rock'n roll" was making its way, but it has stayed as a milestone in the history of French songs.

The melody reminds us of the eastern roots of our French culture, Charles Aznavour had Armenian parents who fled Turkey at the time of the genocide (he was welcome in Erevan as a hero a couple of years before he died).

The lyrics are so emblematic of a period where in France artists like Pissaro, Monet, Man Ray, Chagal, "ate the enraged cow" as we say (were in dire straits). The melody has an echo of klezmer music, but to us, across generations, it sounds so French...

 
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I had never ever heard of this artist before, but I like it a lot too.

Made me think (the beat) of Tony Allen, who played with Fela Anikulapo Kuti :

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That's some good stuff!

Admittedly, I did not listen to the whole file. 😂😂
 
This song was written in 1914. Excerpt :

Marching forward, our fellow volunteers, into a bloody fray,
For to free our brother Ukrainians from the shackles of Moscow.

Who is happy to kill ? To loot ? To rape ? To destroy ?...


One thing that the little Czar has done is to make us closer allies against the red fascism.

But it's a pity 90% of the russians are so intoxicated by the propaganda that a new revolution is just a fantasy


It's a long time that anarchists, idealists, have been replaced by consumers... 😞
 
There was a time (?) when borders, people, cultures, were not that important (?), at least not that important to totally destroy all the people of a different culture, or color, or political views, etc. in a place everyone can call his own. Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Dudeist, etc., who really cares ? Even in Buffalo NY, 100% of the people there just want to live in harmony.

Don't believe the fascists, let's believe in "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" 👍

 
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