Thank you very much...

The day after Christmas I somehow land up playing this every year, Crystal finds it amusing as I prefer dark metal -


Grimmy
 
Can't believe this thread was started in 2015.



Sorce
 
Watched a very interesting documentary: "American Epic - back to the roots of popular music".

It's about how the new record industry in the 20s made it possible for largely ignored cultures by the urban Americans to gain a deserved place in the national story.

I recommended to my sons, the video can be viewed for free for a week. They're not really into folk music, but I think they can enjoy what is after the first 25 minutes - though I still hope they can find what is interesting in the Carters family tunes :cool:

Anyway, there's a comment in French over most of the interviews but maybe a few people like starfox can understand.

And a few nuggets of real cool music too.

Brought me back to the time when I learned my first tunes on the guitar, Banks of the Ohio, Louis collins,, ...

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/073857-000-A/american-epic/
 
PS:

They mention Charlie Patton, but not Tampa Red.

It's a pity because the BOM-bom-bom-bom BOM-bom-bom-bom BOM-bom-bom-bom blues rhythm actually also comes from the native Americans.

 
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Thanks, Alexandra ;)

Actually, Corsica has a very particular, insular culture that explains why a majority of people there are for a kind of "devolution," bill, and an important minority are even for independance.

The typical songs you posted are more related to the other side of the Mediterranean actually. They have this kind of Moorish influence that you can find in southern Spain or in north Africa. No wonder that, in spite of the local langage being a form of Genovese dialect, the corsican flag displays a "Moor's head":

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Some of my grand-nephews' family name is now "Pantalacci".

They're cool people when you know them. Embracing and kissing each other on the cheeks with family and friends, like in Sicily. And they're all not from the "French connection" ! (Although my friend Pascal S.'s father spent more time in jail than with his family... :oops:)
 
Hi again Alexandra,

Among the best French artists, Claude Nougaro. Born in Toulouse, a typical south-west Catalan accent. One of his first songs, "Cécile":

She wanted a child
I didn't
But it was however easy for her
With her arguments
To make you a daddy
Cécile, my daughter
...


May sound corny in another language, but that's real poetry in the local lingo.

His first "hit" : the story of a drunk Romeo who tries to win back "Marie-christine": very funny and pitiful at the same time. Lots of puns and "double-entendre":

"Je suis sous-sous-sous sous ton balcon..." : I'm under your balcony
"Je suis saoul, saoul, saoul,." : I'm drunk, drunk, drunk,... (same pronunciation)


In the mid-1960s, when "rap" hadn't been invented, he would adapt and mix Dave Brubeck's "Blue Rondo à la Turk" and Godard's " "Pierrot le fou" :


1987, "Nougayork":


But one of my favourite songs of his is probably "Toulouse":

 
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