Musical tastes change over the years. As far as popular music goes, you can count on what was favored 10 years ago, not being popular today. That's just the way it is.
And the fact that music has become so chipped into different categories makes things even that much more overwhelming. An artist must stay inside their "category" or their label and maybe even their audience will become agitated.
Yes, we've become the "give me everything" culture. Take Television. With cable television, there are at present so many choices that making a decision on what to watch frequently takes so long as the average show lasts. And who doesn't frequently watch more than one show at a time to help in avoiding those annoying commercials.
We frequently feel exactly the same way about our music. We want what we want... And we want it now. Thus we each have our own music on our iPod players and seldom leap into new music. Long gone are the days of 60's radio when you never knew what was going to be played next and frequently heard new music and new styles all of the time. You seldom became stuck in one genre or one genre.
Even the bands themselves back then, regularly played many styles of music. One minute they played a blues song, next a country song, and next a folk song. You might not specify them into one type of music like today.
But Some Things
It's strange how some styles of music are always there. Even though they may go out of popular style, they mostly appear to have an audience of some degree. The Blues is one of those styles. Even though it was created over 100 years back, there is still a large enough following for the style to have many mags and online radio stations devoted to the music.
How come?
I believe there are 2 reasons.
First, many other styles are based totally on The Blues. Actually jazz, and country rock, and all forms of rock and roll came straight from the blues. After all , it was Muddy Waters who said... "The blues had a baby, and they called it Rock and Roll."
Secondly, as people find out more about the music they adore, whether rock 'n roll or country or jazz, they need to learn lots more about where the music came from. And these sorts of music came directly from the blues. The chord structure and harmonic tendencies are direct descendants of blues musician's from over 50 years ago.
Yes music fans want to know the history of the blues music they like. So that the music of blues guitarists like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, and tons of other creators of this music will invariably be popular. Sooner or later, they will be "discovered" by the next generation who wants to know the history. But in fact they are being "re-discovered" as they've been by each generation for over 100 years.
So that the lineage continues. Fans of The Black Keys, are led on to Howlin ' Wolf. And that leads them to Robert Johnson and Skip James and a bunch of blues originators who taught him. Eventually they're going to get back to the beginning and W.C. Handy.
This search is unavoidable. Just like it's inescapable that preferred music tastes will continue to change.
And the fact that music has become so chipped into different categories makes things even that much more overwhelming. An artist must stay inside their "category" or their label and maybe even their audience will become agitated.
Yes, we've become the "give me everything" culture. Take Television. With cable television, there are at present so many choices that making a decision on what to watch frequently takes so long as the average show lasts. And who doesn't frequently watch more than one show at a time to help in avoiding those annoying commercials.
We frequently feel exactly the same way about our music. We want what we want... And we want it now. Thus we each have our own music on our iPod players and seldom leap into new music. Long gone are the days of 60's radio when you never knew what was going to be played next and frequently heard new music and new styles all of the time. You seldom became stuck in one genre or one genre.
Even the bands themselves back then, regularly played many styles of music. One minute they played a blues song, next a country song, and next a folk song. You might not specify them into one type of music like today.
But Some Things
It's strange how some styles of music are always there. Even though they may go out of popular style, they mostly appear to have an audience of some degree. The Blues is one of those styles. Even though it was created over 100 years back, there is still a large enough following for the style to have many mags and online radio stations devoted to the music.
How come?
I believe there are 2 reasons.
First, many other styles are based totally on The Blues. Actually jazz, and country rock, and all forms of rock and roll came straight from the blues. After all , it was Muddy Waters who said... "The blues had a baby, and they called it Rock and Roll."
Secondly, as people find out more about the music they adore, whether rock 'n roll or country or jazz, they need to learn lots more about where the music came from. And these sorts of music came directly from the blues. The chord structure and harmonic tendencies are direct descendants of blues musician's from over 50 years ago.
Yes music fans want to know the history of the blues music they like. So that the music of blues guitarists like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, and tons of other creators of this music will invariably be popular. Sooner or later, they will be "discovered" by the next generation who wants to know the history. But in fact they are being "re-discovered" as they've been by each generation for over 100 years.
So that the lineage continues. Fans of The Black Keys, are led on to Howlin ' Wolf. And that leads them to Robert Johnson and Skip James and a bunch of blues originators who taught him. Eventually they're going to get back to the beginning and W.C. Handy.
This search is unavoidable. Just like it's inescapable that preferred music tastes will continue to change.
About the Author:
Rick Honeyboy Hart is a professional blues guitar strummer. He's played in numerous bands over the years and now helps others guitar players learn blues guitar on his internet site www.BluesGuitarInsider.com
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