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| calypsus_1 | Posted: Aug 14, 2010 - 21:10 Ali Farka Touré - 'Amandrai' Live (2005) |
| DigitalJer (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:54 RadioDoc wrote: So sorry. I'm sure the banal, self-indulged assembly-line nonsense will come to your rescue soon enough in some other venue. The rest of us will enjoy what is left of great music here. Well articulated, tyvm!! |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:36 Kokoloco53 wrote: sucky music today, what's the deal, did somebody die and go to heaven. Really sorry if that's the truth. So sorry. I'm sure the banal, self-indulged assembly-line nonsense will come to your rescue soon enough in some other venue. The rest of us will enjoy what is left of great music here. |
| slickdh (Lost in the world) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:33 ekeyte wrote: Ry Cooder. Hahahahahahahahaha.
Your thinking about "Raw Cooter"... which is something entirely different. 
...oops I said it. |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:28 wish i knew what he was singing. |
| V12Silly (...And it's half past four and I'm shifting gear) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:27 What a cool song, i want to hang out with these guys! |
| ThePoose | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:27 Timbukblues |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:25 I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood, |
| redtex (The Third Coast) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:25 Kokoloco53 wrote: sucky music today....
Patience is a virtue. So is tolerance. |
| Kokoloco53 (Safford, AZ) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:22 sucky music today, what's the deal, did somebody die and go to heaven. Really sorry if that's the truth. |
| Tree_Hugger (Seattle) | Posted: Nov 28, 2007 - 13:18 A favorite disc. Thanks for playing!! |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: Oct 28, 2007 - 03:14 8 up to 9 :-))) (too cool for school) |
| macolyte (Seattle) | Posted: Aug 26, 2007 - 08:18 smdeeg wrote: Hate the blues if you like, but more chords, shifting progressions, and complicated scales doesn't equal good music. They are simply other avenues in which people can express themselves musically. Good musicians make good music ... complex or simple. Well and truly said. |
| bfandreas (Euphoria, Germany) | Posted: Aug 10, 2007 - 18:23 I found an interview with Ali Farka Touré on YouTube. No that was a guy. When he speaks you simply sit and listen. One in a million, that's what he was. |
| smdeeg (SillyCone Valley) | Posted: Jun 24, 2007 - 10:54 It's cool. Just gotta take it for what it is ... a couple of guys doing a slow blues jam. Doesn't rise above a 6 though. (For the blues haters) While many blues songs use a 8 or 12 bar progression with three chords, this one doesn't use any progression. It's pretty much a strait "train vamp" yet it's obviously The Blues. The point being that playing the blues is not about the progression. Hate the blues if you like, but more chords, shifting progressions, and complicated scales doesn't equal good music. They are simply other avenues in which people can express themselves musically. Good musicians make good music ... complex or simple. |
| Zigi (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) | Posted: Jun 24, 2007 - 10:38 Reminds me a bit of early Sabbath 
Almost like Ozzy is speaking in tongues, kinda creepy when you listen to it like that on a good buzz I can tell ya...  "> |
| lawman (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) | Posted: May 24, 2007 - 01:23 About 10 minutes ago (or was it 55) he said "One more" .... (but I've given it 7 anyway 'cos it's cool). |
| Johnny_Wave (California, baby) | Posted: Apr 06, 2007 - 18:51 stevo_b wrote: This is annoying.
Agreed |
| Wizzuvvoz (Innerspace) | Posted: Apr 06, 2007 - 18:49 I'm not so big on blues (sorry y'all) but this is plain badass to the bone. |
| Wizzuvvoz (Innerspace) | Posted: Apr 06, 2007 - 18:46 :-) :-)) gatemouth too? |
| walkerpub (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 12:38 This is an awesome album from a major- and under appreciated- American talent- - featuring Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown. Blues Timbuktu stylin... |
| Slacks (Bolton, ON) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 12:36 This is the song that never ends. It just goes on and on and then. Some people started singing it, Not knowing what it was. And they'll continue singing it forever just because It is the song that never ends. It just goes on.... |
| stevo_b (Rock Ridge!) | Posted: Mar 06, 2007 - 12:34 This is annoying. |
| fretman | Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 21:19 ScottN wrote: Nothing wrong with understated musical ideas, but this song seems to go nowhere special and then settles into tedium...imo.
5 ... I wonder where this is supposed to go? I mean, what's wrong with staying right there, wherever "there" is, even if (to paraphrase Neil Young) everyone knows its nowhere? Blues is often denigrated for being just three chords, and tedious, but its not about the chords, but what you do within them, just like a painter who may purposely limit his palette of colors to see what he can do within that set of confines. There is also a meditative facet to this, if you allow yourself to get into it- it will move you, even if it goes nowhere. And taking the blues from a west-coast African musician- I mean, what a concept. Look up "From Mali to Memphis" to see exactly how the music came from West Africa to be claimed as "American" music. Ry Cooder doesn't take too much back to wherever he goes, but he brings a lot from everywhere he's gone, West Africa or Cuba. He doesn't seem to go abroad to make American music, but to bring back elements of his musical destination and make something embued with Ry, but characteristic of its source. Thus, I would argue he didn't suggest a 3-chord blues, but it was brought to him by Ali Farka Toure. Enjoy, its good stuff. |
| sparkyc | Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 21:12 great rhythm, unusual sound. love it. |
| ekeyte (Bangor, ME) | Posted: Feb 18, 2007 - 21:09 Ry Cooder. Hahahahahahahahaha. |
| algrif (Slightly west of Zero) | Posted: Mar 08, 2006 - 03:37 Obit http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1725805,00.html |
| ScottN (An inch above the K/T boundary layer) | Posted: Nov 23, 2005 - 19:23 Nothing wrong with understated musical ideas, but this song seems to go nowhere special and then settles into tedium...imo. 5 |
| deanofox (Yorkshire, England) | Posted: Nov 09, 2005 - 03:55 Please make it stop. |
| Faithful_Fool (Streets of San Francisco) | Posted: Oct 25, 2005 - 13:43 Dayum, if this tune was ice cream it'd be neopaliten (sp?) Multiple Layers and Flavors in every bite. YUM!  |
| Caribbeing (Ann Arbor, MI) | Posted: Oct 25, 2005 - 13:43 I dunno. I like Ali Farka, but this just sounds like a standard blues tune with African words in it. |
| NoEnzLefttoSplit | Posted: Oct 25, 2005 - 13:38 Jacksonstat wrote: Awesome song... awesome album. Very sexy. Highly recommended.
That'll do me.. off to the store. |
| NoEnzLefttoSplit | Posted: Oct 25, 2005 - 13:38 Jeez, when did this come out? Must buy immediately. Is the rest as good as this? |
| Jacksonstat (Columbus OH) | Posted: Oct 25, 2005 - 13:36 Awesome song... awesome album. Very sexy. Highly recommended. |
| beatlechick (somewhere within the sound of your voice.....) | Posted: Aug 27, 2005 - 13:04 Way cool on a very hot day.    |
| Coppertop (San Diego, CA) | Posted: Aug 12, 2005 - 16:39 Ya just can't beat Ry Cooder. Interesting mix of sounds |