So…those who truly believe black artists have no place in country music…

@dubkebab I only saw Mingus live in concert once - in about 1971, at Liverpool University - but he was brilliant

@ArtieKat If only you had sent 3 year old me a ticket .
Bet you weren't thinking of that,and how you could have altered my destiny,huh?
And I guess my Mom a ticket,so she could have,y'know,mothered me.
But she was never very into jazz,really.So it took me until college to start getting it.
Hey,I didn't take any three year olds to shows either come to think of it.
So we're cool. Glad you witnessed the legend.

@BlueGreenGrey (auf deutch-naturlich)

@whowasthatmaskedman That’s sad but unfortunately true,
I hear people say that immigrants are successful while blacks are not because (they say) black people are "undriven" (read "lazy"). They don’t realize that some immigrants do have family money, and when they don’t they often are able to receive grants and loans where blacks are denied.

Burnings of established black neighborhoods or properties because whites wanted the land, were numerous. My grandfather was a shoemaker, his shoe shop and repair business (which he shared with a sister who made hats) was burned down by the Klan because people of all races worked there together—a no-no back then.

@bijouxbroussard That's a great picture. Reminds me of Lawman: Bass Reeves I watched on Paramount +.

@OverTheHill Yes ! About someone who actually lived.

@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON Love Darius.

@GlitterEater I used to snicker at WP Skinhead bands ripping off Chuck Berry riffs. derp.

@TheOthetAcc Plus, she’s mistaken. Slaves planted cotton (along with other crops) [b]and[/b] picked it. Sounds like someone else who would’ve benefited from learning more about our history. 🙄

@bijouxbroussard Who needs facts when you can get by just fine on ignorance 😁

@robertsnj I love his song:

[media=https://youtu.be/7LBCFyUw8gM]

@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON wow that is a beautiful song. He is so talented.

@robertsnj I KNOW. OMGOD. I had no idea he was the lead for Hootie and the Blow Fish (not that I was into the band, I was very busy being a mom to a baby, ETC), he IS exceptional. And kinda gorgeous too. What a lovely person. I looked him up on the Wiki.

I need to post a very cool duet he sings with someone.

@ninalanyon Or if those are too long ago how about this one from Hackney Diamonds written by Jagger during the pandemic
[media=https://youtu.be/B5qYl5LtucQ]

Sounds like country to me. But of course I'm no more American than Jagger, though we are equally southern :-)

@jackson55 I posted one of his songs. He was the first to be commercially successful in country music. Pride was also a baseball player for the Negro Leagues.

@ChipmunkErnie Seriously, how do [b]you[/b] know whether or not she "believes in the music" (and what does that even mean) ? She’s from Houston, Texas and is participating in the kind of music she says she’s grown up with. [b]You[/b] may not like it, possibly because she’s the artist. But apparently other people do. Her album is #1 on the charts.

@bijouxbroussard #1 on the charts? To quote someone whose name I can't remember at the moment, "Well whoopdie-damed-do." That means nothing so far as the quality of the music. And yes, it's my opinion from listening to some rather boring music. Same as you have your opinion.

@ChipmunkErnie I guess I’m puzzled by the level of animosity. She couldn’t be the only person whose music you don’t care for. I still don’t understand how you think you can tell what she "believes" in, like she doesn’t have the [b]right[/b] to be part of that genre. That I don’t get, and it seems atypically unfair of you—imo. 🙁

@bijouxbroussard yeah. There is always gravity. Eminem will tell you the same thing.

@DownTheStreet Indeed. But nobody says he’s not a rapper because he’s white. In fact, much of the mainstream culture only find hip-hop palatable because of artists like Eminem.
Same way they accepted jazz and R&B when white artists adopted those genres.

@BlueGreenGrey This is very moving, their duet.
What kind of a drum does he play?

@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON I'm pretty sure that's a Persian daf he is playing (I believe he and she are a romantic couple as well)

[u]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daf[/u]



And I agree, she is pretty in addition to being talented


This is an interesting collaboration by the Carolina Chocolate Drops with the gypsy punk band Luminescent Orchestrii (they made a full EP together):

[media=https://youtu.be/DnixzPalEZs]

@BlueGreenGrey Thank you. I will read about this later, I have to run to take my pain meds and get food ready for the family and myself.

Awesome. I reserved a ton of stuff by her and some are just for streaming. I am looking forward to blasting it :D

@MethDozer wow,epic. thanks for posting.
I thought I had a good handle on the Sun catalog,but there are always more dusty little gems.

@MethDozer My mother really liked Linda Martell, said her music should’ve gotten more attention.

@MethDozer She’s amazing.

@ChipmunkErnie When it comes to music, there’s a long, long history of whites making a lot of money from genres that originated in non-white communities: Swing, jazz, blues, RnB, soul (which they had to segregate with the title "blue-eyed soul"), Doo-Wop, Hip hop. Even Rock & Roll would be different, without black roots.

There has been exploitation where a [b]majority[/b] culture has been able to enrich itself without giving any credit to where the music originated. So much, that people today believe many of those genres began with the majority and seek to exclude others from participating

And I’m pretty sure you’re aware that professional sports were originally segregated in this country—by the white people who were in charge. If you think blacks have a problem with whites who can play, you should talk to some very old black players who had objects thrown at them, death threats made and were spit on when they were first [b]allowed[/b] to join established white teams.

Some things are only going [b]one[/b] way, because the [b]power[/b] isn’t equal. 😞

@bijouxbroussard Got NOTHING at all to do with the fact I found her voice bland, the instrumentation boring, and the music uninspired as far as my reaction went.

And yes, I'm fully aware of prejudice in sports. My Dad, a high school football, basketball, baseball star in High School had to sit out a year before going to Rutgers because back in the 1930s Rutgers had a quota on the numbers of Jews they'd accept. And Hank Greenberg was routinely cursed at with terms like "kike", etc., from the stands in MLB -- even had porch chops thrown at him because the fans didn't want a Jew being a star.

Personally speaking, in the late 1960s I was harassed by police for having a mustache, and almost attacked by a drunken major at the Fort Momouth Officers Club because my hair reached my shirt collar -- luckily my football coach was the bartender and he stepped in. He had invited me to stop by.

@ChipmunkErnie You brought the analogies and so I addressed them. I agree that they [b]don’t[/b] apply to this post. But you’re the one who brought them. The fact is, there [b]are[/b] still some people who don’t think black artists belong in country music. Beyoncé’s album was the impetus for quite a few of them to come forward. This post was not addressed to any one person. I’m not saying anyone has to like Beyoncé.
But [b]anytime[/b] someone talks about folks needing to "go back" to pop music—or to wherever—I don’t like that.