<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/22/2003 8:20:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Country &Western to Dixieland?<BR>
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Dan Spink Attempts To Clarify The Original Thought:<BR>
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Jim (and listmates):<BR>
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I have no doubt that you can take any C&W song and make it sound Dixie and good. I'm sure you do the same with any kind of music, actually, including rock and classical. But that wasn't my original point so maybe I didn't quite get my own idea across. I was talking from the chords and melody thread. And I think it was Steve, agreed with me that the typical "structure" of C&W was different from trad jazz--the chords and songs etc. The word I used was "context." The Hank Williams song, Cheatin Heart, is almost a template for early C&W songs. When you talk C&W the people who listen to it EXPECT that template to be played out. Truth be known, I would prefer to hear Jim's Dixie version of it any time.<BR>
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Dan (piano fingers) Spink </FONT></HTML>