Co-owns, Tim.  Taj Mahal's version on the Folkways:  A Vision Shared
compilation is a winner, too.  Mahal and Cooder are both musicologist par
excellence, and yet their "colloquial" elements come across as authentic,
since they know were to apply them.  In other words, they accept on soime
level the notion that style involves sound echoing sense.  Thank you A.
Pope.
 
Michael Alleman
 
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From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: discussions...
 
 
> At 10:27 PM 3/28/00 -0500, bob scheetz wrote:
> >...the derivation (of boojwa) i had in mind
> >was leadbelly's "boojwa town"
> >...vastly more expressive,
> >precisely for being so indecorus a locution,
> >than the frenchie original, no?
>
> Except for, Mr. Ledbetter did not feel it cramped his style to use
> language straightforwardly, and entitled that song "Bourgeois Blues."
> For my money, Ry Cooder owns that tune now. -T.
>