On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:22:11 -0400, lab~rat >:-) wrote:
> On 5 Oct 2007 16:43:54 +0000, "Angus Manwaring"
> <angus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> puked:
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>>On 02-Oct-07 18:29:37, lab~rat >:-) said
>>>On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:48:07 -0400, "Dan Solway" <dsolway@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>puked:
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>>>>Do you think North American blues is better because of the music or
only
>>>>because you understand the lyrics?
>>>>
>>
>>>Eric Clapton was pretty good...
>>
>>Yes. :)
>>
>>I think the question is really whether non-black blues is as good. I
think
>>there's a strong case for saying that most of white America didn't get
>>Blues until the British ( bowled over by black American musicians like
>>Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson etc) brought it back to America in white
>>packaging. Of course that's not the whole story.
>
>
> Well, I didn't see it as a black vs. white thing, I saw it as N.
> America vs. other countries. That said, I'd put BB King above
> Clapton.
and i'd put freddie king above BB
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