I don't know if any of you will find this topic interesting but I do.
There are some references in some modern pop music where producers use excerpts from blues numbers, e.g. pre-WWII blues songs.
These attempts put the blues genre and certain blues songs into a different context and I don't think we should be scared off from such tendencies.
One of the most common examples of such is Moby's 1999 "Play" album with references to Alan Lomax's "Sounds Of The South" collection box set. You can hear Vera Hall Ward's (from Livingston, Alabama) solo vocal performance titled "Trouble So Hard" as "Natural Blues" reworked by Moby. "Find My Baby" contains a sample from Boy Blue's "Joe Lee's Rock" as if it was some field holler.
Vera Hall: Trouble So Hard
Boy Blue: Joe Lee's Rock
There is a triphop/headz album from the Austrian producer duo Rupert Huber & Richard Dorfmeister under the name Tosca. The opening number of their first album ("Opera") is called "F**k Dub Part 1+2" has a vocal part at its middle section. It's the voice of Ruby Glaze who teamed up with Blind Willie McTell for his 1933 "Lonesome Day Blues". The excerpt contains the beginning of the first line: "You can go..." and simply "...go...".
The full verse goes like this.
Blind Willie McTell with Ruby Glaze: Lonesome Day Blues
Please try to find the song. Tosca: "F**k Dub"
There are some references in some modern pop music where producers use excerpts from blues numbers, e.g. pre-WWII blues songs.
These attempts put the blues genre and certain blues songs into a different context and I don't think we should be scared off from such tendencies.
One of the most common examples of such is Moby's 1999 "Play" album with references to Alan Lomax's "Sounds Of The South" collection box set. You can hear Vera Hall Ward's (from Livingston, Alabama) solo vocal performance titled "Trouble So Hard" as "Natural Blues" reworked by Moby. "Find My Baby" contains a sample from Boy Blue's "Joe Lee's Rock" as if it was some field holler.
Vera Hall: Trouble So Hard
Boy Blue: Joe Lee's Rock
There is a triphop/headz album from the Austrian producer duo Rupert Huber & Richard Dorfmeister under the name Tosca. The opening number of their first album ("Opera") is called "F**k Dub Part 1+2" has a vocal part at its middle section. It's the voice of Ruby Glaze who teamed up with Blind Willie McTell for his 1933 "Lonesome Day Blues". The excerpt contains the beginning of the first line: "You can go..." and simply "...go...".
The full verse goes like this.
Blind Willie McTell with Ruby Glaze: Lonesome Day Blues
Please try to find the song. Tosca: "F**k Dub"
