MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roy Acuff, Cross Road Blues, Delta Blues
24 Jan 2018
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Alot less homogenous than tin pan alley ; has a lot of sub types. Rural ; setting in the video is plain, set in a shack the singer is clearly a working man ; Jimmy rogers is pretending to be a character the traveling break man". Rural ; dialect incomplete words and twang to the voice. This is a strongly blues in ected country western song sung to a 12 bar blues pattern. Song is about a break up song = a hurtin song he"s not too upset about it though because he can get as many women as a passenger train can haul lol ; Wanted to create this persona that would resinate with his audience family friendly meant to be a bit funny ; the image says working class. He"s not dirty or poorly groomed he"s a respectable working class man, the women on stage make him come off as approachable and safe.
