Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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to play on metal or a box with this kind of shuffle rhythm. It was done so manually back
it real hard, you can hear shuffles- single shuffles, double shuffles- you can hear swing.
considered a New Orleans groove.
ection with New Orleans because
many New Orleans drummers were on the early sessions. The groove on [the Supremes
e raised with a second line kind of beat. At funerals and social occasions, we
would dance to this music. What happened was that we always heard that beat in the back
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the spiritual [gris-gris] church and see the Mardi Gra
sequins and finery. You see, the music played in the spiritual church is different than the
music played in the sanctified church and Pentecostal church. In the spiritual church
some of the same tunes as gospel, but with a
John played a 4/4 shuffle over a 6/8 vamp on his knees]. Now, when you hear a whole
church playing- Taka taka taka taka ta
go to Nigeria today, and you ever meet the Istekiri tribe people they look just like people
from the lower ninth [ward]. Certain features like, their fingernails are shaped different.
l see in the Lastie family, in Professor Longhair. Lots of people in that
kept some of the music somehow over hundreds of years. It still got the original African
thing. E
you hear that
big four and you run out the door. You leave the pots and pans and everything, the
second line was running down the street. Everybody just having fun. If you lived in the
neighborhood with all that going, you would catch onto it with ease. Th
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