Black Country Music

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 10 Apr 2010 4:13 pm

Pete:

Yeah, I take your point. They probably figured they had to fill 3 CDs to properly market the thing and so had to make the definitions as broad as possible.

I have no problem with that, but I'd like to understand why anyone would regard this as country music if they had no idea about the song's pedigree:

http://picosong.com/nM6

But then, the package is called "The Black Experience in Country Music" and doesn't overtly say the selections are "country music", which is fine.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 10 Apr 2010 5:12 pm

...don't forget Ray Charles.

Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 13 Apr 2010 6:54 pm

Did I miss it or was there a criminal neglect of mention of Charley Pride?

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 13 Apr 2010 8:19 pm

Nah, Keith. It's just that he's the obvious answer. IMO, the interesting conversation is about who else there is besides him.

Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 13 Apr 2010 8:24 pm

My grandfather, a wonderful man who was as much a racist as anyone I ever met, LOVED Charley. It was amazing to watch him sit in the living room of their home in his recliner, tapping his toes together quietly when Charley was on television or the console stereo. It was one of the formative moments in my youth when I realized that there was a disconnect there, and that the attitudes my forebears showed towards people of color didn't make sense. It made an enormous impression on me; he also had a deep love for Ray Charles' songs, both the country and the R&B stuff and I doubt he EVER listened to another R&B singer.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 16 Apr 2010 12:24 am

Barry Blackwood wrote:Lest we forget Stoney Edwards...

I had not heard of him before. Great singer! Thanks.

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 17 Apr 2010 9:35 am

Linda Martell's country recordings for Plantation do it for me, great stuff.

Linda Martell - Color Me Country - Plantation PLP-9 -1970 LP details
http://www.discogs.com/Linda-Martell-Co ... ase/573079

The single: Color Him Father
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsNaHdYMTmk

She also appeared on the Opry, and on Hee Haw with the Buckaroos.

J.

Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 17 Apr 2010 10:13 am

Linda Martell recently showed up in an issue of Oxford American along with a tune by her in their sampler. Great stuff.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 17 Apr 2010 12:10 pm

I was once in a large night club where I watched Ray Charles be racially heckled by a loud drunk. It was during a ballad. It lasted through one whole song. I was boiling mad. I was going to go over and get physical with the guy, but at the end of the song the guy was picked up and bounced out the rest of his table. Ray Charles played and sang like the guy wasn't even there. Apparently other people complained. I use to go see Ray Charles every chance I could get when he came around. He could sing anything and make it sound good. He really understood and appreciated white country music. Its universal. Good music is good music. I think that the master musicians/performers are capable of playing any type of music no matter what genre and reach an audience emotionally. I love the Sacred Steelers.

Russ Wever · Post by **Russ Wever** » 17 Apr 2010 9:31 pm

Quite a contrast

between ->Linda

and ->Lynda . . .

~Russ

Kerry Johnson · Post by **Kerry Johnson** » 22 Apr 2010 8:54 pm

and in Oakland, CA the fabulous Miko Marks

www.mikomarks.com

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 25 Apr 2010 3:48 am

Candi Staton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FEvPjPr ... re=related

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 1 Jun 2010 5:17 am

This is Aaron Neville with a George Jones song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8NfVzhzqNM

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 1 Jun 2010 7:09 am

Darius Rucker

Stan Knowles NC · Post by **Stan Knowles NC** » 2 Jun 2010 8:01 pm

SOME YEARS AGO....MY FRIEND O.B. McCLINTON AND I
CO-WROTE A SONG TITLED...."AMERICAN SOUL" WHICH
WAS RELEASED ON AN "EPIC" ALBUM BY O.B.!

IT WAS A SONG THAT ASKED AND ANSWERED THE QUESTION,
"WHAT IS COUNTRY MUSIC?" IT WAS REALLY VERY
"COUNTRY" WHICH IS WHAT O.B. WAS!

HE WAS A GREAT COUNTRY WRITER (EVEN WROTE SOME OF
GEORGE JONES' SONGS) AND WAS HIMSELF A GREAT SINGER!

HE WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD IN THE EARLY 80'S!

I DO AND WILL FOREVER MISS HIM!

Stan Knowles NC · Post by **Stan Knowles NC** » 2 Jun 2010 8:01 pm

SOME YEARS AGO....MY FRIEND O.B. McCLINTON AND I
CO-WROTE A SONG TITLED...."AMERICAN SOUL" WHICH
WAS RELEASED ON AN "EPIC" ALBUM BY O.B.!

IT WAS A SONG THAT ASKED AND ANSWERED THE QUESTION,
"WHAT IS COUNTRY MUSIC?" IT WAS REALLY VERY
"COUNTRY" WHICH IS WHAT O.B. WAS!

HE WAS A GREAT COUNTRY WRITER (EVEN WROTE SOME OF
GEORGE JONES' SONGS) AND WAS HIMSELF A GREAT SINGER!

HE WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD IN THE EARLY 80'S!

I DO AND WILL FOREVER MISS HIM!

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 3 Jun 2010 9:56 am

Archie Nicol wrote:I can't believe no one has mentioned `Slade`. A genuine Black Country band.

Arch.

Here's David Bowie with a song called "Black Country Rock"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2hObZArBAg

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Black Country Music

Linda Martell - Color Me Country - Plantation PLP-9 - 1970