soulpope "Ever Since The World Ended, I Don`t Get Out As Much"
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vorgartenshepp im interview mit seinem sohn accra:
In the late 1970s, I recorded an album of spirituals with Horace Parlan that got the DownBeat critics’ award. When we played the first song, I choked up. I immediately reflected on my grandmother, Mama Rose, taking me to church when I was a little boy—and the “battles of song.” Battles of song were musical competitions waged between gospel groups during church revivals. Those were the conventions for the gospel singers like the Swan Silvertones, the Five Blind Boys, and the Clara Ward Singers. They would all get together and it was quite impressive because their music was provocative—provocative in the sense that it recalled the suffering and the enslavement of Black people: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “My Lord, What a Morning.” So, when we started the recording date, tears ran down my face, and I thought for a moment I couldn’t do the recording. I was too full of memories and emotion. But then I decided, if I don’t tell the story, who will? If I’m too full of tears, no one will ever know the truth. And I held back those feelings so that I could be the messenger of a story that needed to be told. There could have been no music without that experience. There could’ve been no blues if I hadn’t heard my father sing the blues, if I hadn’t seen my father suffer the blues and seen my mother suffer the blues. So the story I’m telling is really the story of my life.
das führt zum thema zurück, weil es natürlich auf eine andere – durchaus weiblich geprägte – tradition von standards aufmerksam macht. shepps „mama rose“ wird genau in der zeit zu seinem signature-song, als er sich mit der blues&gospel-tradition auseinanderzusetzen beginnt, kommt aber musikalisch aus dem männlichen/kämpferischen cal-massey-material seiner attica-blues-phase, insofern eine interessante synthese.
Danke, damit geklärt …. und interessante Herleitung zu „Mama Rose“ …
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"Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit" (K. Valentin)