I remember having some conversation where a dude was like, "Fat Possum is some intentionally gritty, tryin to force-fit the rawness of whatever those white dudes runnin shit think the blues is/should be" (or something) and I'm all "no way, most of those guys are just some old poor folks w/ cheap guitars and amps cuz that's what they can afford, and for a long time Fat Possum barely had enough money to record that shit and usually had to wait to put it out cuz they couldn't actually finance it--of course it sounds raw and gritty", and he was all "my bad". I forget where, on the internet someplace most likely...
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think we got into the RL Burnside albums with house beats and whatever.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/documenting-the-blues-in-the-mississippi-delta/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Saw a FP t-shirt in the wild today“Born to Party /Forced to Work”I like to switch the nouns around
― calstars, Sunday, 10 September 2023 19:11 (seven months ago) link