Dec 302009
I ask this because I saw a list of the 100 greatest blues songs and not one of his was on there.
I ask this because I saw a list of the 100 greatest blues songs and not one of his was on there.
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I agree with most of the posters.
Yes he was blues. But that certainyl doesn’t relegate all of his music to blues, or him to simply one genre. He was a cross genre musician like Ray Charles, Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, or Jimmy Rogers. Heck, even Robert Johnson recorded some other stuff like the rag-timey “They’re Red Hot”
I do, however disagree with the poster that thinks blues is relgated to a 12-bar format. Could point out TONS of blues tunes that do not fit that format in the least – espcially from the 20′s when the blues was at its height.
I don’t really consider Diddley a blues artist…most of his stuff doesn’t really fit the 12 bar pattern for true blues music.
I’m not denigrating Diddley…I think he was a fantastic R&B singer and an obviously formative influence on rock and roll. (Ask the Rolling Stones, for one). But I don’t consider him blues, no…
Yes, he did play the blues, but I believe he was considered more of a R&B artist in the early years, then a rock n roll artist/pioneer.
only if the pope is considered a catholic
He did blues, R&B and rock. The people that do the lists put him in rock as he was a rock pioneer.
Yeh what Gregory said.