Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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Kaaba is the most holy site in Islam. When Muslims kneel and face East to pray, they are
turning toward the Kaaba.
In The Land Where the Blues Began, Alan Lomax pointed out that for many years church
was the only place in the Delta where African Americans were allowed to congregate.
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Blues singers in Kansas City used their shout muscles to belt over their bands, bearing
down into their diaphragms the way gospel soloists do to be heard over the choir. Blues
ver the
crashing rhythm sections and blaring brass sections that were characteristic of the
Blues People. 342
The radio beamed the new shouting blues all over black America. The style was taken up
by country blues singers like Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker, who had moved to
Chicago and were leading electrified bands. Meanwhile, sophisticated shouters like B.B.
Songs:
- Willie Dixon
- Blind Boy Fuller (Fulton Allen)
SH U C K
To shuck means to exaggerate, lie, or clown around. It may be derived from the Bantu
word shikuka, which means to lie, bluff, or fake, 343 although in From Juba to Jive, author
and professor of African -
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The gifted young Chicago blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield like to tell a story about the
time he was hanging out in a bar on Chi
-off man came in
toting a paper bag. The man slammed the bag down on the bar, whereupon the patrons
shuck
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