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Apr. 7th, 2006 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguySometimes I'm just too smart for my own good.
This lunchtime I was in the used CD store looking for more tunes to feed BriPod, and I found an album in the techno section that billed itself as remixes of old blues songs from the Alan Lomax "Southern Journeys" collection. 'Old blues songs' doesn't really describe it--Lomax travelled through the rural South, recording chain gangs, jukejoint performers, tiny little gospel choirs, whatever he could find. So techno remixes of them? I couldn't resist.
Except....it turns out the remixes are lousy. It's not techno, nowhere close--it's like someone's added light jazz around the original song. Each tune's an unholy mesh of Delta Blues and Spyro Gyra. And the blues bits--the original songs--are so good that the new versions are twice as painful.
So as I type this, I'm downloading "The Alan Lomax Collection: Southern Journey, Volume 5 - Bad Man Ballads" off of iTunes. I'll try to stop there and not get "Prison Songs, Volume 1" as well....but I'm not guaranteeing anything. Down with bad jazz!
This lunchtime I was in the used CD store looking for more tunes to feed BriPod, and I found an album in the techno section that billed itself as remixes of old blues songs from the Alan Lomax "Southern Journeys" collection. 'Old blues songs' doesn't really describe it--Lomax travelled through the rural South, recording chain gangs, jukejoint performers, tiny little gospel choirs, whatever he could find. So techno remixes of them? I couldn't resist.
Except....it turns out the remixes are lousy. It's not techno, nowhere close--it's like someone's added light jazz around the original song. Each tune's an unholy mesh of Delta Blues and Spyro Gyra. And the blues bits--the original songs--are so good that the new versions are twice as painful.
So as I type this, I'm downloading "The Alan Lomax Collection: Southern Journey, Volume 5 - Bad Man Ballads" off of iTunes. I'll try to stop there and not get "Prison Songs, Volume 1" as well....but I'm not guaranteeing anything. Down with bad jazz!
