R Gough wrote:
> I've been reading the suggestions for a
"hardboiled"
> music type with interst. I've come to associate
Blues
> music as at least capturing something of the ethos
of
> what "hardboiled" means. Not any specific genre
of
> blues music but blues music in general. Whether
it's
> an acoustic slide guitar delta blues number or
an
> amplified Chicago blues creation. I can often hear
a
> little Stevie Ray Vaughn as I read a hardboiled
novel.
You're right, but I'd classify only original black blues as
hardboiled, since it was born out of violence and attempts to
be a man. The white blues has just been a little too, well,
cozy for me. They play too well to be truly incorporated into
the bad hardboiled world.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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