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The Fall Up - Need to move

Blues scholar David Evans breaks down early blues performance styles into three regionally differentiated approaches, one that includes East Texas and adjacent portions of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, a second stylistic region in the Deep South extending from the Mississippi Valley eastward to Central Georgia, and a third style, often referred to as Piedmont blues, that encompasses the East Coast from Florida to Maryland, stretching westward through the Piedmont, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Ohio River Valley to central Kentucky and Tennessee. Geographically, the Lower Chattahoochee Valley fits within the Deep South, but musically its blues is much closer to the fingerpicking Piedmont style, which often features alternating bass notes or an alternating bass note and chord, in the manner of ragtime, with spectacular virtuoso playing in the treble range. Mitchell recorded several Lower Chattahoochee blues artists covering songs by Blind Boy Fuller, one of the most popular of the early Piedmont blues musicians. 

It would be a mistake to think of Lower Chattahoochee blues just as an extension of the Piedmont style because many other elements have coexisted in its musical tradition. For example, Mitchell recorded instrumental dance songs like Pole Plattin and 16-20 that were vestiges of the African American string band tradition... Lower Chattahoochee blues should not be considered a unique regional sound, but what makes it distinctive is the way in which musicians blended vernacular and popular musical elements... Every small town had at least one blues singer, Mitchell recalls in an interview. It was astounding, to go down the counties on either side of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama and Georgia and find this rich of a musical tradition.


The Fall Up - Need to move

  • Duration: 5:23
  • Release date: December 23, 2020
  • Genres: Post punk, pop


"The Fall up is a trip hop duo formed by the encounter of a musician/composer teeming with ideas and a singer/songwriter with a unique voice. The Fall Up members include Phil Lhommede, composer, multi instrumentalist and Juliette Chalard-Deschamps, author, singer, and performer."

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