...artist that I chose to critique was Joe Bonamassa (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar), and the album I chose to work with was his album “Had to cry today”. The genre of the album is Rock/Blues with a release date of August 24th, 2004. In this album were a few other artists that joined him such as Jon Paris (harmonica), Benny Harrison (hammond b-3 organ), Eric Czar (Bass guitar), and Kenny Kramme (drums, percussions). Joe was raised in New York where his parents owned a guitar shop. He comes from a family of music. Both his father and grandfather played the trumpet. He learned how to play the guitar at the very young age of 4. Some of the artists who inspired him were Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray. I am drawn to this artist for his style of blues and rock. His music makes me feel mellow and calm. Makes me want to be at a bar drinking a beer, smoking a cigarette and listen to him play live. The culture/environmental music that I can identify in this music are the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Joe’s music is mostly guitar and drums. My Overall impression of the album is excellent. I only disliked 2 songs from the entire album. My favorite song from the album was song title “Reconsider baby” and my second was “When she dances”. Both are slower and mellow. The songs are very calming and easy to listen too. My least favorite song was “Faux Martini”. This song was my least favorite because it sounds too much like country and I’m not a country fan. Sounds very honky...
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...Draft) The genre of country music has brought about many controversial issues, like in the example of Carrie Underwood’s catchy tune, cheating and retribution. The bluntness of this enriched genre of music, based on our patriotic roots as Americans, gives off a distasteful and bitter taste to those who don’t see themselves above country- loving or uneducated ‘hicks.’ Critics of country music in the article ‘Acting Naturally: Cultural Distinction and Critiques of Pure Country’ cannot comprehend what is portrayed in this type of music, something of which us ‘hicks’ like to refer to as the ‘simple life’. Country music may be controversial, but it has been able to overcome the stereotypes so that now even those who aren’t living the ‘country life’ can enjoy its passion- filled quality. Country music has always been a very popular form of expression that has been loved by people since its’ beginning in the stereotyped, southern sound form. Also considered to own the fastest growing audience in America, country music has certainly earned its place being the favorite form of music in many people’s hearts. However, just because we as we choose to listen to this music, does not mean “we're all store-bought cowboys and armchair hillbillies.” In fact, classifying a person according to the music they decide to listen to does little to describe the actual person. These people are found in all different types of music; limiting these trend lovers to just country music is certainly a sign...
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...even fewer are referred to on a first name basis that is recognized cross genre, and one of those musicians is George. George Strait has been a part of the country music scene since he released his first single in 1981, and his first debut at the rodeo occurred in 1983 when he filled in last minute for Eddie Rabbit; since that date, he has performed at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ever since. On March 3, 2002 George “closed the Show with the last Rodeo concert in Reliant Astrodome, with a record attendance of 68,266 in the Astrodome, a record that will never be broken” (Georgestrait.com, 2013). It was just George, the Ace in the Hole Band, the instruments, cowboy boots, cowboy hats, wrangler jeans, and smiles. Midway through the performance, former President George Bush interrupted the performance to provide George with an award from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and the concert paused briefly as he reminisced about the first time that he set foot on Houston’s rodeo stage. The concert started with an instrumental version of “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Including the instrumental, sixteen songs were played. They were, in order: “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” “Write This Down,” “I Can Still Make Cheyenne,” “Heartland,” “Love Without End, Amen,” “Check Yes or No,” The Fireman,” “Run,” “Murder on Music Row,” “The Chair,” “She’ll Leave You With a Smile,” “Amarillo by Morning,” “Living and Living Well,” “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” “Blue Clear Sky,” and “The...
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... people should have an essential ingredient in organizing a diverse force and actualizing the democracy. Since my really caring, hilarious, and friendly counselor always trigger his students’ ability to earn As and Bs, join clubs, play sports, and volunteer. I came to a conclusion to follow all this norms and it’s worth the time. I have been an active member of variety of clubs at school and big organizations in my community. Volunteering 3 days a week, trying to help my peers with their concerns is a good feeling. Crawford High School is so diverse that it has over 40 languages spoken and most students that immigrated are from Somalia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and countries around the world. They were refugees who had no choice but to leave the country they loved and begin a new life in a strange new country. In addition, students need to feel welcomed and loved. I help my peers through asking them to go to this one organization I volunteer at, San Diego Asian Youth Organization. We provide forums with translators for their parents to understand more about California, education, jobs, and health. Many people barely realize the circumstances the immigrants had to face to get here in America. They treat them less worthy regarding to where they came from. They think they are low in education and don’t know anything. To cure all this concerns,...
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...It’s a known fact by now.–I am not a country music fan. I may like a few country acts here and there, but that by no means, qualifies me as a country music fan.–However, despite this, I found myself at Keith Urban and Sugarland’s “Escape Together” tour last Friday night at HSBC Arena. Sugarland began precisely at 7:30pm. With the dimming of the lights, the band walked out on-stage and removed umbrellas from a trunk and opened them as they lit up as Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush took the stage singing, “It’s Love”. Together the duo delivered a passionate one-hour performance. Nettles’ southern blues vocals were soaring on the powerful ballads “Stay”, “Almost Gone” and the ever-so-moving and traditional “Genevieve”. Sugarland was especially entertaining during the sassy “It Happens” and the carefree, fun-driven “All I Want To Do”, that kept everybody dancing and singing along to the “ooo ooo ooo ooo ooos.” Though there was never a dull moment, the crowd seemed to liven up the most during the hit “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”. Accompanied by a video on the back-drop, the song closed out with images from popular Buffalo hot-spots such as downtown Delaware and Elmwood Ave., the Anchor Bar, Chippewa Street, Shea’s, Jim’s Steakout, General Mills and of course, The Buffalo Bills. As the audience cheered, I was disappointed they included the New York Knicks and New York Yankees... and not the Buffalo Bisons or especially, the Buffalo Sabres! How could they possibly forget...
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...Thesis Statement: Music is more than just entertainment, music lets people express themselves in ways that cannot be express with just talking. With the words, and the beat is gives those people a sense of connecting with the world, not only connecting with the world but also expressing how they feel. Music is a legitimate form of popular culture because so many people listen to it every day it helps ease the mind and relax the body. Music has been around for many years and there are many types and forms. You have country music, rap music, r and b music, gospel music, hip hop music and many more. Many of these music types are very popular in their own way, and many people have their favorite music type that they like to hear. As I listen to the singers and rappers sing these songs, I take notice that they are only expressing how they feel and how they deal with certain situations in their life. When you listen to the words you will understand what that person is going through, and you can probably relate too he or she. If I had to write a paper on music the points to support my thesis statement at the top would be that music is a expression it is merely an act of believing in what you feel that would be my first point. My second point would be that people who express themselves with music are only expressing their sadness or happiness that they are feeling and that some people cannot just talk they feel more comfortable expressing themselves through song, and my last point...
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...Taylor Swift In the history of the music industry, there have been very few artists like Taylor Swift. It is extremely rare to find someone with several musical talents as well as an exceptional songwriting gift. From growing up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania to becoming one of the world’s most famous country singers, Taylor Swift has impacted the lives of many different types of people around the globe. With her parents Scott and Andrea, as well as her younger brother Austin, Swift grew up in the small Pennsylvanian town of Wyomissing. Before her interest in country music, Swift participated in a few children’s musical theater productions (Danielsen 1). One of her mentors noticed her special talent and suggested that Swift should consider pursuing a music career. Swift took up the suggestion and started getting involved with local competitions and open-mike gigs. By the age of 12, Swift began to learn the guitar on her own as well as beginning to write some of her own songs. Swift’s parents recognized Taylor’s passion for country music and decided to bring their daughter to Nashville to perform at small gigs, hoping to attract someone’s attention. Fortunately record label holder Scott Borchetta was hooked when he saw Swift perform one night at the Bluebird Cafe. At the age of 15, Taylor Swift was signed to Borchetta’s Big Machine Records . This was just the beginning of her successful music career (“Taylor Swift” 1). In August 2006, Swift released her first official...
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...BOOKER ANDERSON HUMA205 12/06/2013 One of the Artist I’m choosing is Taylor Swift, she is a young country pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress. Swift was born December 13, 1989 in Reading Pennsylvania, U.S. and her Birth name is Taylor Alison Swift. Swift is a multi- Grammy award – winning American singer/songwriter. And some interesting facts about Swift, she grew up on a Christmas-tree farm in Pennsylvania, and her Grandmother was a professional opera singer, Swift also began performing at the age of 10, and at 14 was the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by Sony Tree publishing house in Nashville, and she also wrote or co-wrote all of her songs on her self- titled debut album, and in 2009 made her acting debut,and in 2010 became the youngest artist in history to win the Grammy award for Album of the Year, and Swift was only 20 years old at the time. Also Swift was named Billboard’s Women of the Year in 2011. She was also named the American Music Awards Artist of the Year, as well as the Entertainer of the Year for both Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music. Swift is also the top-selling digital artist in music history. My next artist I am going to discuss is Leonardo de Vinci, perhaps most noted for an artist da Vinci was also an inventor an architect and chronicler of science, he was born April 15, 1542 in Vinci, Italy, and was born...
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...FINAL DRAFT Chris Young deserves to have an essay written about him because he has accomplished many things already in the music industry and he has only been in the industry for nine years. Who earns a GRAMMY NOMINATION within the first five years of being an artist? At the age of 30, Chris Young, “one of country music’s most reliable hit makers” has accomplished more than some artists do in a LIFETIME. Young is already a Grammy-nominated recording artist being nominated for his first time in 2011; he’s also a dynamic live performer, being declared “commanding and confident” and “a headliner in his own right”. Keep in mind he is only 30 years old and most people don’t get nominated for a Grammy in the first ten years of their music careers. Chris Young has six number one singles! That is pretty darn amazing to me. Chris Young shows much love for his career and I truly do not think he will ever give up doing what he loves for any other job. Chris Young started out just doing 150 gigs a year, now he is performing on stage almost every single night of the year whether it be a concert of his own or being an opening act for another country artist. Chris Young had signed a contract from RCA Records. Young's debut single, "Drinkin' Me Lonely," a song he wrote with Larry Wayne Clark, was released in 2006, the same year that he had even signed the record. A second album, The Man I Want to Be, produced by James Stroud, appeared in 2009. Young's third album, 2011 Neon, may not have...
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...academics and ethnomusicologists. DOCUMENT’S 8000 series is sourcing , digitising and re-issue much of the "old timey" pre-war country catalogue to make it permanently accessible for all. In addition DOCUMENT has acquired the exclusive rights to over 360 hours of previously unreleased material produced by the Edison Company (1914-1929). The vast repertoires includes Jazz, Blues, Country, Dance Bands, Vaudeville, Opera, Classical and speeches by popular orators and politicians of the time. Document 5000 Series Document 5000 SeriesThe BIG one. At 679 CDs and growing this is one of the biggest slices of Afro-American music history that you will find anywhere. The complete recorded works of hundreds of blues, gospel, spiritual, boogie-woogie, songster artist; from the late 1800s onwards. Many, many recordings not available elsewhere these are the roots of soul, modern gospel, R&B, rap, black urban vocal music and rock. MISSISSIPPI FIDDLE TUNES and Songs from the 1930s Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s147 Recordings (3 CDs) collected by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress in 1939. Primarily conceived as a way to get people and the economy back to work, Roosevelt's WPA arts projects published state tour guides, collected ex-slave narratives, and collected folklore of all sorts, but especially folk music. This set contains the complete fiddle and banjo field recordings collected by Herbert Halpert for his 1939 field trip in Mississippi...
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...African-Americans who go hungry on a daily basis. According to Eric Mitchell, director of government relations at Bread for the World, African Americans suffer from some of the highest rates of hunger and poverty in the country as the lack of jobs that pay fair wages, prevents people of color from moving out of poverty and the recession. (“African-Americans Disproportionately,” 2015). There has been a sudden increase in unemployment and a shocking loss of income since the recession. A wide range of economic data taken before the recession shows that the result of the labor market for blacks was far worse than for whites. (“The State of Working Americans,” 2015). More specifically, research states that of the 104 U.S. counties with a majority black population, 92 percent of these counties also record high food insecurity rates. (Workneh, 2013) In 2013, the median income for African-Americans was $24,864, lower than for all Americans and poverty is the contributing factor that affects nearly three out of ten African-Americans or nearly twice the average rate for the general population. (“African-Americans Disproportionately,” 2015). The crisis is increased by the effects of mass incarceration as African-Americans form nearly half of the total prison population in the country. This makes it extremely difficult for one to provide for their families and many are denied access to programs such as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) even while seeking employment. Those who are...
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...Intro With Country Music’s rise in popularity, it is important to note some of the most relevant changes in the music being produced in the genre. This industry is relatively new to the music scene and only began in the 1920s. Since its debut in the music world, Country Music has changed throughout the decades and evolved into what is now known as, “Sixth Generation” Country Music. The most noted difference, becoming more apparent as the genre has progressed, is the themes in the music. Country Music is most famous for telling stories of faith, patriotism, love, sorrow, and of the common workingman. However, the genre is seeing a change in the recent music being produced. It is becoming apparent that lyricists are moving away from the traditional themes of Country Music and introducing its new style, called, “Bro-Country.” This style is defined as contatining lyrics about pretty girls, trucks, beer, alcohol that leads to sex, and scantly dressed women. According to Neff, “…objectification, was the main form of sexism in country music.” According to Rogers, “Most people would assume that country is less sexist or has the least detrimental type of sexism within its lyrical content. However, one might also argue that it is more dangerous when sexism is buried within the lyrics. People might think this is “quality” music on the surface and really take the lyrics seriously. The idea that this is wholesome music is really what makes it necessary to study the...
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...Blues vs Country music According to Etta James in an interview with American Chronicle: "The Blues and country are first cousins ... What I look for in a song is for the story to be for real. I like a blood and guts kind of thing. That's what you find in the lyrics of country music." Blues and country music both developed in the 19th century in the Southern United States. They share a similar history. For this reason, they share many of the same musical and lyrical characteristics. Read more: How to Compare Blues & Country Music | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5888119_compare-blues-country-music.htInstructions 1. * 1 Learn the history behind blues and country music. They are both forms of American folk music influenced by earlier styles brought overseas. Blues music grew out of field hollers and chants sung by African slaves. Irish and Scottish balladeers borrowed the guitar and banjo of blues and thus created "country". According to Reebee Garofalo in "Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA", "Terms like country and blues are only used to separate the same kind of music made by blacks and whites ... designations like race and hillbilly intentionally separated artists along racial lines and conveyed the impression that their music came from mutually exclusive sources." Country is an offshoot of blues. They are essentially the same thing. In the PBS special, "Rhythm, Country and Blues," country is referred to as "white man's blues." * 2 Listen to...
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...Shakespeare once wrote, “if music be the food of love, play on”. Hundreds of years later, music continues to be a influential part of society. Although music affects the lives of many, culture is the largest influencer of music itself. As wars are fought and history is made, music continues to allow the majority and minority voice to be heard. The progression of cultural viewpoints in America created many musical compositions expressing varying opinions of their respective era. During a time of impending war, patriotism was at an all time high, but an underlying tone of unrest among civilians became prominent as well. Much of the early 20th century was structured around the first World War. While they attempted to boost morale both on the frontlines and at home, songs like “You’re a Grand Old Flag” began to spread across the country (Cohan, “You’re a Grand Old Flag” 1906 http://www.loc.gov/teachers/lyrical/songs/old_flag.html ). With catchy lyrics claiming “every heart beats true for the red, white, and blue,” people began to feel pride and supported any endeavors to protect their flag’s reputation. And while many people fell into this norm of patriotism and hoo-rah mentality, many began to fear the havoc the war could bring. This was evident in songs like “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier,” a ballad where a mother expresses her concern and uneasiness at the thought of her son at war (Bryan, Piantadosi, “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier” 1915 https://www.archeophone...
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...“It was like he came along and whispered a dream in everybody’s ear and then we all dreamed it.” Through his music, Elvis Presley made it easy for Americans to live the American Dream. He made it easy for people, especially teenagers, to take a break from the real world, and command center stage of their dream world in the confines of their own home. The American Dream is a vision with diverse sense and meaning from previous generations up to the generations of today. Many believe the American Dream is finding success and showing it off through “booby prizes”, when in actuality all of those little things are just part of the dream and not the final success. To achieve happiness within oneself is the true success, and if within this success a person is also able to gain “booby prizes”, these are just extras and not what compose the true American Dream. It is no argument that Elvis had a way with music as his lyrics touched a variety of people. He grabbed the attention of teenage girls (and their angry parents) with his charm, curled lip, good looks and gyrating hips. Whether people saw him as a positive or negative influence, the question remains as to whether or not they really were listening to what he had to say. Elvis sang many different songs but it was his emotion and personal influence that made the songs as powerful as they were. Elvis showed America that a small town boy from working-class beginnings could rise to rock and roll legend in both life and culture...
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