[Dixielandjazz] COUNTRY JAZZ

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Guys:

The kinship between Country music and Dixieland is a pretty natural 
born evolution of music genres, which as I understand it came about by 
artists like Hank Williams Sr. (* Country & Western for those who may 
not know) and others who travelled down to New Orleans and further into 
Cajun country and listened to the Acadians and creoles music and then 
took it back to Nashville and Memphis and merged it with the Blues and 
Country and traditional Irish.   The classic song and example of this 
was Hank's own classic Hit "Jambalaya"

Elvis went down there as well and immersed himself into the black Blues 
and R&B Doo Wop culture and went back up to Memphis and made  more 
acceptable white versions of the music to get it played on mainstream 
radio.   Just like the folks up North did with the original  Dixieland 
music of Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll, Louis Armstrong and the earliest 
pioneers of Dixieland several years before the Italians Invented it in 
New Orleans and actually recorded it.  :))

Small Small World, but we just keep recycling it, so why not the Dixie 
Chicks,  does that make them smarter than some of us TRADITIONAL 
PRESERVATIONist.  Heck Yes.  They are doing with it what Most on this 
list sit around and dream about doing but don't have the guts to go out 
and actually attempt.  But we sure can Trash anybody who does do it, 
and especially anybody who is successful at it.

The old he sold out to commercialism crap all over again.   Does that 
make them smarter?   Pretty good chance of it, even if all they are 
doping is following the smart direction and advise of smart promoters 
and marketers managers etc.

Think about it.   Unless of course "Thinking has been outlawed"

So you don't like them or their music, no problem turn it off and don't 
listen to it, we are only discussing a success story here folks not 
appointing ourselves to be expert critics of Country Music or it's 
return to it's Roots.

CHEERS,

TOM WIGGINS



-----Original Message-----
From: Phil O'Rourke <philor at webone.com.au>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:22:00 +1000
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] COUNTRY JAZZ

   Sam, I agrre. The Phil Mason CD is good. Many other bands have done
"country" numbers though, "San Antonio Rose" is now almost a jazz 
standard;
how many bands play "Jambalaya". Ernie Carson and Marilyn Stafford did 
an LP
of country.  I could go on.

Phil O'Rourke
Australia

>
> To hear what Tom suggested, Phil Mason [Phil Mason New Orleans All 
Stars]
cut a CD a year ago comprised entirely of Merle Haggard and Willie 
Nelson
hits entitled ON THE ROAD AGAIN selling well in UK-EC.  Not all worked 
well
but a some tracks are outstanding.  For years, the Grand Ol' Opry 
warmed up
the audience with a Dixie Band and was always well received.  My 
experience
with taking OKOM into other music style venue is that it works well in
Country and Modern-Mainstream Jazz, gets by in the Big Band outlets and 
gets
run out of town in the Hard Rock-Rap clubs.  I think it is a matter of
volume.... even miked dixie can't compete with amplified instruments 
and 2
story speakers.

>   Sam

> Samuel Johnson

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