The music scene nowadays...

[SouthernSounds]

Hello LTG!

Yesterday, looking for some pics of mr. Buddy Guy, one of my favourites musicians, I found a not recent interview (it was made during 2009), where this gentleman talked about the Blues scene, his cicles, the crest of the wave or... you know, and other things. Here is the link:

Buddy Interview - Premier Guitar, 2009

What caught my attention and have me here writting these brief lines is related with the actual state of the music scene.

I have certain knowledge about the Blues's cicles, so what Buddy said didn't surprised me a lot. But I didn't imagine that the impulse that SRV and many others gave to the Blues revival is ending, for say something. That is something unexpected for me. I mean, I see a lot of interest in music, in Blues, so It's not easy to believe, but I guess inside the music's world things must look diferent...

In a live recording of mr. Ronnie Baker Brooks (Lonnie's son), he says, not exactly this, but it's the idea: "The people in the north want to record me, and my people won't supported me"

What I'm trying to ask?

I know that many of you, my dear folks, are musicians. If we add your experience and your knowledge to that, I would like to receive some impressions and opinions about the music condition nowadays.

How do you see the business today? What do you think about music today? What do you think about live shows? Is there a relation (not the obvious ones), between the economy situation with the music situation?

I use the Blues condition, because with it I'm a little bit more related, but this is not exclusively related with him. In a recent post I remember to have read something about country music...

Thanks for passing by!

All the best,

B.

 

[6L6]

Well, friends who teach guitar tell me they still have plenty of students (San Francisco Bay Area). But most are not pursuing the route of The Blues...

It's like everything else in life in that you can define it by a sine wave. Blues was pretty much in the basement until the Brits came along in the early 60's and revived it. If it goes away, it WILL come back again IMHO.

Bill

 

[Ross]

The Maple Blues Awards (Canadian) were held last week. A few days later, CBC radio played the award-winning songs and also aired an interview by one of the winners. He said something interesting - that today the blues has become a kind of party music - uptempo songs that get people moving, sort of like the "jump blues" of the mid 20th century.

 

[Geo]

Blues Power! 8)

George

 

[SouthernSounds]

Well, friends who teach guitar tell me they still have plenty of students (San Francisco Bay Area). But most are not pursuing the route of The Blues...

It's like everything else in life in that you can define it by a sine wave. Blues was pretty much in the basement until the Brits came along in the early 60's and revived it. If it goes away, it WILL come back again IMHO.

Bill

Glad to hear about the interest in music still lives, but what kind of music? That's another story... I agree with the sine wave, great way to describe it! I firmly believe in your last sentence, Bill!

The Maple Blues Awards (Canadian) were held last week. A few days later, CBC radio played the award-winning songs and also aired an interview by one of the winners. He said something interesting - that today the blues has become a kind of party music - uptempo songs that get people moving, sort of like the "jump blues" of the mid 20th century.

If that makes Blues survive and someone gets hooked by him, and then begin to investigate in order to get his roots and then try to keep him alive: Ok, that's a good thing... But, as I said, this is not exclusively related to Blues. What happen in other genres? For example, in Chile, we are constantly receiving stuff like Justin Bieber, that kind of things, you know. I guess, with this sentence you can realize about which is my concern ... Things are different in the US, in Europe? Or these are times that we're living, so just learn to live with that! :?

Blues Power! 8)

George

Thank you for your long response, man! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Blues Power! 8)

Thanks you guys. All the best,

B.