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Frazey Ford - Saul

The blues is a blending of African and European traditional music characterized by its melancholy, or blue, notes expressing suffering and deprivation... many of the country blues musicians had ceased playing music or lived in obscurity until blues revivalists searched them out. Jesse Fuller from Jonesboro, a one man band, and harmonica player Buster Brown from Cordele benefited from the renewed interest in their music.

From the mid 1920s into the early 1930s, artist and repertoire, known as A&R, staff scoured the South and northern cities in search of talent for the race record subsidiaries of major record companies, and in Atlanta they recorded a distinct style of country blues performers. The use of twelve string guitars, more strumming than picking, irregular rhythms, and a nasal vocal technique typified the Atlanta sound... By the time the blues began to have an overt influence on white musicians,... in the late 1960s and early 1970s, white performers had overtaken their Black peers in popularity, and increasing numbers of white musicians... blues tourism and the record industry continues to homogenize the genre, and the distinctive traditions of the early blues records and the Atlanta style no longer remain.


Frazey Ford - Saul
  • Released on: November 16, 2021
  • Genre: Folk, Country
  • Duration: 3:50

"The Be Good Tanyas gained more widespread recognition, especially in the U.S., when one of Ford's songs, In Spite of All the Damage, was included on the soundtrack to the Showtime series, The L Word. Additional placements in television and films followed, as did another album."

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