I don’t quite know how to explain it, but what these guys are doing on their guitars? It’s not like they’re playing, it’s like they’re talking.
I don’t quite know how to understand it, let alone explain it.
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Actually, Dean, that’s an easy one.
It’s Dueling Banjos minus the sodomy rape scene plus a lot more mojo.
We simply don’t have words to deliver the feelings that songs like this communicate. Â
That’s why we invented music. When we combine the two, music and lyrics, effectively, it becomes so much more than the sum of the parts.   It’s like going to 3, 4 or 5 dimensions, instead of 2.  A force multiplier, if you will.Â
It’s hard enough to communicate with spoken words. And many more people can be spoken to than can speak.  And when it comes to writing and reading, the ratio is even higher.
The proportion is even higher when it comes to music. Many more can appreciate good music than can generate it.Â
And the blues is a tiny, tiny subset of music, and communication.  A very small percentage of people react to it, and “get itâ€.  And it’s an exceedingly small set of folks who can effectively communicate with it.Â
Thank God for them, though….
Dude, its not ‘like they are talking’.
No, indeed, they ARE talking. You know the blues. You’ve been there.Â
They are speaking about it through that guitar and that coricidin bottle instead of their vocal chords. Those notes speak more to me than any words can say.
The original is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjSHqy-mPxQ
I’d say they equaled or maybe surpassed it with this go.
Ps Ry Cooder
Yeah. It’s almost like being in church for me. It was like that the moment I heard my first blues song. My soul just thrummed. Still does, 30 years later.
Buddyellis, thank you for the "Ry Cooder" reference. While listening to the video, I was thinking that sounds like…like…oh….what’s his name? I just might have to watch "Crossroads" again.
Jaymaster: "That’s why we invented music."
"Bach gave us God’s Word.
Mozart gave us God’s laughter.
Beethoven gave us God’s fire.
God gave us music so that we might pray without words."
Agreed, music does help us express what words can fail at. However, Blues music has a certain, for lack of a better word, "mysticism" to it that seems to transcend a lot of other music as far as communicating these types of feelings. I once heard B.B. King refer to Blues as "the music of emotions," both good and bad, and I have to agree with that. Blues music hits me in a way that no other music, with the occasional exception of Bluegrass and some Baroque classical music, ever does.
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