Robben Ford Discussion

Thanks for the details!

Max

I love Robben's playing and will continue to seek out his recordings (instrumental).

Hammer
Thanks for the very enjoyable thread! There aren't too many purely instrumental Robben albums to my kno ...

What the hell is a "cultural necessity"?

I mean it in the sense that given the culture of that time, the originators of blues and R&B music were not going be accepted and embraced by the white majo ...

I've really enjoyed all the discussion through this thread - both the well-made points and the humor.

However, I have changed my mind about something I said - that Robben shouldn't sing - he's a gr ...

Elvis, Bill Haley, Carl Perkins, The Beatles, The Stones and countless others (even Pat Boone!) were a cultural necessity in the fifties and early sixties, for the simple reason that the United States ...

Doyle - he can definitely sing, but isn't a guitarist
Max

yeah, that's real sarcasm Max Laughing

No - I mean Doyle, Sr. - he's a drummer. His son plays guitar, I know, but I'm not really fa ...

Now, as for this soulful white boy thing, did Max ever hear of a guy called Elvis Presley? Rated by none other than Howlin' Wolf as a pretty fine singer.

Howlin' Wolf was a very generous and cha ...

Again I think it's totally subjective. One person's bad singing is another person's holly grail singing. And we're talking about the blues here too....lot's of room for interpretation!

Hey, t ...

Two words: Lowell George.

"White boy's got the woo woo's"

Nuff said.

Yep - Lowell George could definitely sing - and play guitar beautifully.

max said:

And who's gonna tell me that McCartney can't cover Little Richard ??? !!!

Andy

McCartney was OK for white kids who had never heard Little Richard's originals, and the Be ...

I think Max's point was that very very few (of any color) folks can be a hero on both guitar and vocals... The most balanced folks I can think of would be Joe Louis Walker and Coco Montoya.

I ...

Back to my original point... It's subjective!

Let's step back a minute....

Black guitarists are the only ones who can sing the blues.

White guitarists can't sing the blues.

So that's what ...

EDITED 'COZ OF MAX HAMMERSMITH , hello you can tell everything 'bout your personnal tastes but HOW DARE YOU quote Buchanan as you did , i am sorry dude but if you own a Telecaster now you must pas ...

Michael McDonald?
Greg Allman?
Doyle Bramhall II?
SRV?
EC?
Johnny Lang?
Donald Fagen?
David Clayton-Thomas?
......................................and on and on

and of course the greatest of ...

There's the current Jing Chi stuff, 3 albums worth although there are some vocal tracks involved. The older Yellowjackets. Tom Scott's Tomcat. The Inside Story has a couple of vocal tracks but is m ...