Mark Sullivan wrote:
> Juri, are you actually saying that white blues
players play _better_
> than their black forebears? Not just in a different,
more engaged
> style? For instance, that Eric Clapton or Duane
Allman or Stevie Ray
> Vaughan plays _better_ than B.B. King, Blind Willie
Johnson, Muddy
> Waters or Robert Johnson?
This stretches the original discussion a bit too far, but let
me answer: No, I didn't mean that the white musicians play
any better than the black ones, I meant that they play in too
sophisticated manner. They are not raw enough. Well, I know
that Albert King or someone like him isn't very raw. I meant
that the white blues doesn't have the same feeling that the
original black blues has. This is a discriminating thing to
say, but after listening to both the black and the white
blues for many many years, I can say that the black stuff is
way better in both the feeling and the attitude.
> That strikes me the same as saying that, by
definition, cozies are
> written _better_ than hardboiled, that Ruth Rendell,
for instance,
> writes better than Raymond Chandler, not just more
academically or
> refined, less colloquial.
So, doesn't she? I think the cozy writers can write as well
as the hardboiled ones and the hardboiled ones can write
sloppily, boringly, in a dead cliched manner (and very often
they do). The same categorization I had above on blues music
goes very well here: the hardboiled writers seem to have more
feeling in their writing than the cozy ones. That doesn't
mean that they write better
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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