[Dixielandjazz] Re: Oh Yes, Washboards!

[david richoux]

For all of us - Please Remember:

This list is mostly about a form of music that was mostly created by 
some young men and women (mostly black ) who played their music in 
whorehouses, bars and street corners of New Orleans and then other 
cities and towns of the USA - the outstanding chance that this very 
particular kind of music was suddenly picked up and generally accepted 
by the mass population of North America and Europe (and later much of 
the rest of the world) and became the major form of popular music for 
most of the 20th Century (if you follow the blues/jazz/Big 
Band/country/R&B/Rock'n'Roll development path) is most incredible!

To quibble about minor variations in the instrumentation (i.e. 
washboards, jugs, kazoos, etc.) that actually were very much a part of 
the basis of the original jazz and blues recordings would be most 
unlike us - this list has ALWAYS been about the Roots and the Branches 
of what we call OKOM.

If Brian chooses to unsubscribe (for whatever reason) the list will 
survive. He may just be going on vacation for a while.

  OKOM  will continue even in the 21st Century - just take a look at the 
number of web sites and new musical groups that are dedicated to such 
supposed obscurities as the Wash-tub Bass, Harmonica, Scat Vocals, Rub 
Board, Old-Time Fiddle, Shape Note Singing, Western Swing, Brass Band, 
Ragtime Piano, Jug Bands, Barbershop Quartets and many more!  The music 
is not going away, no matter how hard the big corporations try to make 
us a "Unified Pop World."

Keep on with the struggle! and Enjoy The Music!

Dave Richoux


On Jan 11, 2004, at 5:51 PM, Bill Haesler wrote:

> on 9/1/04 4:09 PM, Kaye Wade at kayewade at earthlink.net wrote  (to 
> listmate,
> Brian Wood):
>
> As they seem to get bigger Pr and bigger at the festivals and they are
> doing more Washboard Concerts than ever - YES WE DO TALK ABOUT THEM!
>
> And evidently you need to learn a lot more about the rest of the world
> and the music every where - I'm sure there are many on this list that
> can teach you more than you can handle. Just ask.
>
> K
> --
> Kaye Wade
> Stuntwoman-Actress, Reflexologist
> Vocalist & Bandleader -Kaye Wade's Riverboat Ramblers
> & The Tinsel Town Ten Minus 3
> PO Box 1068 Studio City  CA. 91614-1068
> http://www.KayeWade.com
>
> Well Kaye,
> I hope you are very pleased with yourself!
> Brian Wood has just unsubscribed from the DJML.
> He did not say why, but I can quess.
> We have just lost one of our most knowledeglable mates.
> A jazz string bass and tuba player, researcher, writer and author 
> ('The Song
> For Me').
> An expert on New Orleans jazz, and frequent visitor to that great 
> city, who
> knows more about so-called OKOM than most of our list combined.
> A man who DOES know "a lot more about the rest of the world and the 
> music
> everywhere". Particularly jazz music.
> There are not too many on this list who could teach him anything.
> We should be asking him more!!!!
>
> B
>
>
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