#musicbrainz

necht: old (really old) country is very much related to gospel/folk/blues

you should look up some of the really early stuff, like the carter family

or bill monroe for even more gospelly stuff

wb shep

nechto13: check this

y?

heh, why? that's a classic

because its the only song i ever contribute to these sorts of discussions

:p

LOL

wait

sen very much so, from:

I find it practically impossible to assign genre to most music anyway

lauri: i can.. sorry :)

im not much for genre either

take the carters: they took appalachian folk tunes, set either traditional or gospel lyrics to them, ma carter invented a (at the time brand new) way of plucking the banjo strings instead of strumming, thereby inadvertantly inventing bluegrass

so what genre is that?

lauri, maybe not one. then you could assign many to them

indeed

lauri: blugraas would work best for the cater family

(and the traditional lyrics, very often if you set them to a 12 bar blues guitar, would sound like they came out of the delta

*carter

my dog done up and left me cos I'm so sad, kinda stuff

lauri: err, not quite :)

well, other than they're talking about coal mining instead of cotton, yes

no, theres the issue of race

try the lyrics to 'mother's not sleeping' heh, there's a tale of tragedy if there ever was one

mining is fun, weee... kidding

you can't hear race in the music

lauri: yes you can

hi mustaqil

Hey wolfsong

heh, not if you don't know what colour someone is

yes you can

Hmm, is it just me, or is the Audioscrobbler IRC unbelivably slow tonight?

:o! :D

what about it? you know Billie is black, and you know what the lyrics are about

but if you think about it in the way of what's less boring to do day in and day out mining beats cotton picking, even if it's more dangerious

*dangerous

and I much prefer nina simone singing that song anyway

yes, and the son was especially written for her, about lynchings in the south

you miss my point though

oh, no. the song was written for bille by lewis allen, who wrote "the good soldier schwiek" under his "jewi name"

no, i think you're on over your head on this one :)

i think i'm missing it too, lauri. i agree with yllona there

*thought

unless the lyrics are pointing it out (and that example is), you can't tell what colour or race someone is, if you can't see them

any more than you can have the faintest idea what colour, race or religion I am, unless I tell you

sorry Lewis allen " == "jewish name"

laurie: i do music research for a living, and i'm a very proud black girl :)

lauri: while there are exceptions, you can generally tell what ethnicity (hates using race as it's inaccurate) by how someone sounds

oooo

that's a stunning album no matter how ya slice it

yep

yllona: congratulations, I should send you an mp3 of me singing, so you can assume wrongly what race I am :)

she just gets better and better with time

pls send, but i'll nail, no matter waht

i think wolfsong and yllona are right there, it's more of an exception when it's hard to tell, then a rule

yllona: I would if I had one

what was your point then?

my point was, you wouldn't nail it

yllona: i think there are some cases when it's difficult to tell, but most of them would be recent. not old stuff

you are a martian born in timbucktoo, NT, USA who was raised by wolves in south korustralia.

close

I'm half maori, half portuguese, raised partly in the US, and I've lived in Europe for the past 10 years

you'd have to be very good to get that mix :)

that might make it harder to tell...

Shepard` is now known as Shepard

ohh, like every other colored person, just ablend

niether do i

im just a white american guy

ask yllona, she knows everything

but musical inflection is still easy to spot, even if it just comes doen to a regional accent

i agree

maori are indiginous people of New Zeland

maori are from new zealand

ahhh thanks nechto13

* indigenous

ah fuck guys. its time for me to go

and zealand :P

nomoforme

have fun Sen

im scared

why?

I never get pissy :)

did you get your hair and clothes right?

i donno i didnt have anyone to give advice

that was the tahitians dear

or hawaiians, I forget

any way back, to our original discussion before lauri showed he ass: here's another example of c & W in old skool R & B

im a xenophobe, wolfsong

actually it's titled something else, but that's what the song's about

but not phobic

either way, it wasn't us :)

thats agorophobia

oh

oops

and im not that, but sorta am

they are related

agroxenophobia...fear of open foreign places.

xenophobia is scared of new people

ahhh

or foreigners as PRAEst76 has used

or strangers... depends on how people use it.

new peope = strangers

or babies

lol

babies are scary lil critters

they carry germs

"You're friend has just been sick!" "Oh don't worry about him, he's new..."

babies were the first to implement biological warfare against their parents, that's why spartans left them outside or bathed them in wine, they were scared of babies

vermin i tell ya

nechto13: so true, i just recovered from my first cold in 5+ years... toddlers

...should be banned...

all good babies are dead!

yeah, and me!