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A sada nešto bluesa
Vjerujem da ste do sada svi već uslušali one-čije-se-ime-ne-izgovara-olako i da ste oduševljeni albumom. Međutim, kako ste iz naslova vjerojatno i zaključili, ovaj post je posvećen jednoj drugoj temi. Temi koje ću se za sad samo dotaknuti, a sigurno ću joj se još vraćati...
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Blues
Blues je vokalno-instrumentalni glazbeni oblik, koji se u sadašnjem obliku javio početkom 20. stoljeća, zasnovan na upotrebi "blue nota" (note pjevane niže od uobičajenih tonova dur ljestvice, koriste se radi izražajnosti i posebnog ugođaja - takozvana blues ljestvica) i ponavljajućeg uzorka - najčešće 12-taktne strukture. Razvio se u SAD-u, u zajednicama bivših afričkih robova iz duhovnih pjesama, radnih pjesama i napjeva. Uporaba blue nota, zaziv-i-odgovor stil u glazbi i riječima te nazalna intonacija pjevača ukazuju na afričke korijene (etnomuzikolog Gerhard Kubik je možda prvi uočio da neki elementi bluesa imaju korijene u muslimanskoj glazbi zapadne i središnje Afrike). Blues je utjecao na kasniju američku i zapadnu popularnu glazbu postavši dio žanrova: ragtime, jazz, bluegrass, rhytam and blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, country i pop.
Najčešći instrumenti koji se koriste u bluesu su: gitara, klavir, usna harmonika, bas, bubnjevi, saksofon i vokal.
Naziv blues potječe od fraze "having a fit of the blue devils", a u biti se odnosi na osjećaj tuge, sjete i(ili) depresije, što je temelj svakog dobrog bluesa.
Tekstovi u bluesu
Tekstovi u bluesu su uglavnom narativnog karaktera, a tema je najčešće neki oblik proživljavanja grube realnosti svijeta: izgubljena ljubav, okrutnost policije, rasizam, teška vremena itd. To su bili vrlo oštri, realistični prikazi u kontrastu s većinom popularne glazbe tog vremena. Kao primjer ču izdvojiti pjesmu "Down in the Alley", skladbu Memphis Minnie:
Down in the Alley
I met a man, asked me did I want to pally
Yes, baby, let's go down in the alley
Take me down in the alley
Take me down in the alley
Take me down in the alley
I can get any business fixed all right
I met another man, asked me for a dollar
Might have heard that mother fuyer holler
Let's go down in the alley
Let's go down in the alley
Let's go down in the alley
You can get your business fixed all right
(spoken: Let's go)
When he got me in the alley, he called me a name
What I put on him was a crying shame
Down in this alley
Down in this alley
Down in this alley
Where I got my business fixed all right
You got me in the alley, but don't get rough
I ain't gonna put up with that doggone stuff
Way down in the alley
Way down in the alley
Way down in the alley
Lord, my business fixed all right
(spoken:
Woo, it's dark
Can't see no light
Got to feel my way out this alley
I'm gonna stop, boys, walking late at night)
You took me in the alley, you knocked me down
Now I'm gonna call every copper in this town
You got me down in the alley
You got me down in the alley
You got me down in the alley
Now you got your business fixed all right
(spoken: Boys, I'm sure gonna stop walkin
A sada jedna od najpoznatijih blues pjesama koja će poslužiti kao primjer forme; pjesmu je u originalu napisao Robert Johnson:
Cross Road Blues
I went to the crossroad
fell down on my knees
I went to the crossroad
fell down on my knees
Asked the Lord above "Have mercy, now
save poor Bob, if you please
Mmmmm, standin' at the crossroad
I tried to flag a ride
Standin' at the crossroad
I tried to flag a ride
Didn't nobody seem to know me
everybody pass me by
Mmm, the sun goin' down, boy
dark gon' catch me here
oooo ooee eeee
boy, dark gon' catch me here
I haven't got no lovin' sweet woman that
love and feel my care
You can run, you can run
tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
You can run, you can run
tell my friend-boy Willie Brown
Lord, that I'm standin' at the crossroad, babe
I believe I'm sinkin' down
U ovoj je pjesmi očito vidljiva najuobičajenija struktura blues pjesama - stih, ponovljeni stih te stih poante. Pjesma se sastoji od četiri ovakve cjeline (uvjetno rečeno jer je treća cjelina malo slobodnija). Cross Road Blues je plodna građa i za proučavanje simbola - popularna interpretacija stihova jest da je u stvari riječ o blueseru, možda Johnsonu osobno, koji na križanju susreće vraga. Johnson na kraju podliježe kušnji te, kako bi postao slavni blues glazbenik, prodaje svoju dušu. Na tu temu je snimljen i film - "Crossroads". Sama pjesma je mnogo puta prepjevana, a najpoznatija je obrada sastava The Cream.
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Eto toliko za sada. Da malo skrenem na neke manje ozbiljne sadržaje, dajem vam mogućnost da poslušate neke novije blues stvari (ne drže se u potpunosti svih karakteristika, ali ono najbitnije je tu - feeling) anonimnih autora...
Neki noviji primjeri bluesa:
- Back to L.A. - jedan tipičan pravi blues (malo slobodnija verzija 12-taktnog bluesa, ali tu je negdje...)
- Waillin' Jimmey Joe - priča o psu i po Jimmyju u kombinaciji sa Manishboyskim riffom
- Neki tam blues sa modulacijom majstorskom - tu već vidimo neke složenije progresije na pragu jazza, ali ugođaj je još uvijek ostao vjeran folk-bluesu
- Black Jack Joe - jedna Dylanovska folk pjesma; možemo vidjeti sklad članova sastava po kojem smo mi blueseri toliko poznati - a osjeti se i u instrumentalnoj izvedbi (uoči one "Sada C" upadice...)
Napisat ću vam riječi dvije od ove četiri pjesme pa ćete mi vi, da provjerim koliko ste pažljivo čitali do sada, u komentarima napisati koji elementi se poklapaju, a koji ne poklapaju sa standardnim blues tekstovima.
Back to L.A.
I came to Texas from L.A. when one day I saw
The most beautiful girl I ever seen
Her name was Annabel and she was sweet
And she was all right - very good
And I said, "Oh, I gotta have that girl!"
I said squeeze my lemon
Squeeze my lemon until the juice flows down my leg!
I said squeeze my lemon
Until the juice flows down
Down my leg!"
Ohhhhhh!
Waillin' Jimmey Joe
Roll it!
This is a story about a dog
His name was Waillin' Jimmey Joe
And he was the best dog I ever had
I had a dog once
His name was Waillin' Jimmey Joe
And I had a dog once
His name was Waillin' Jimmey Joe
And he was the finest dog I ever ever saw
And he was the finest dog I ever saw
And he had the blues
Ohhhh! He had the blues
All night long! All nigt long...
I had a dog once
And he lived out on the front porch
And I got out one morning
On the porch an played my guitar
And what I see is a dog shit
And I say, "Hey Jimmey
Don't you ever do this again,
Or I'm gonna shoot you right on the ground!
I'm gonna shoot you on the ground."
And Jimmey had the blues
He had the blues all night long
And he used to cry alone
and sing songs alone in the dark
So one morning I'm sitting on the front porch
And what I see? I see a dog shit laying around
And what I did? I said,
"Jimmey I'm gonna shoot you right down on the ground!"
So I take my gun
And I load my gun
And after that, I shoot him! Ohhh!
And I shot him!
And I shot him!
Ohhhhhhh!
And he was laying
So I live my life without Jimmey
I got sad and moaned
Moaned all night long
So one day I take my gun
And I load my gun
And I said I'm gonna shoot myself
for killing ol' Waillin' Jimmey
And I killed myself right on the home ground
Oh jeah!
Blues on!
Post je objavljen 29.10.2006. u 17:13 sati.