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Kickin' up the Devil on a Holiday

A tune I've been working on for a few months.

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Comment by Nicholas A Bechtel on February 22, 2013 at 11:43am: I agree..that's why I love getting turned onto these other music books and books on the music history here in America. As unfortunate as the whole slave period was, I don't think our musical heritage would have been what it is today without that event happening in our history. When discovering these old songs and then learning them You bring that period of time back to life. A wonderful place for discussion and exploration.

Comment by Tim Twiss on February 22, 2013 at 12:26pm: Yes, and it is so valuable to look at it...especially to compare it to cycles of popular music today, studying what the masses like, and how the industry responds. Always a question...does much of this reflect...or create attitudes. Look at pop music today.....icons are created, like an item to go to market. There is always a prime mover to set this culture in motion, but where it goes after that...jeez.

Comment by Tim Twiss on February 22, 2013 at 12:32pm: Something strikes a chord....and it is exploited. I feel so much is the same...between the growth of rock bands in the 20th Century to the development of Minstrelsy.

Comment by Tim Twiss on February 22, 2013 at 12:33pm: Not everybody has an agenda.....revolution, rebellion, drugs.......racism. Most people just like to play...they like the music. The wrapping is just what is common of the day.

Comment by Nicholas A Bechtel on February 22, 2013 at 2:14pm: Well said Tim. So true. I think I have heard more offensive lyrics in today's music using some of the same distasteful language that we see here in this very music. At times it seems as a culture we have not changed that much. What I do find interesting is how entertainment among people has always existed, meaning dance and music. In the book I'm reading now..it's amazing how important these dances and the means to learn these dances was a very popluar movement. And thus bringing on the need for Sheet music manufacturing and the need for instructors. Dance and music was THE arena for social gathering.

Comment by Tim Twiss on February 22, 2013 at 3:02pm: Yes. This is a live and interactive music. It may almost be a disservice to isolate it and listen closely the way we do...without moving. Sousa had great reservations about music become such ( with recorded music. ) But..it is the best we can do, unless we create our own revival.

Comment by Nicholas A Bechtel on February 22, 2013 at 3:22pm: The Early American Banjo Revival...has a ring to it.

more times than not, I'm glad this music is in isolated areas. I like being part of something that is not the next big thing and not something that every kook has has their finger on. I like that you really have to seek this stuff out and dive into it. Then there is something to be said about meeting like minded people who are also caught up in the history of all this.

Comment by Tim Twiss on February 22, 2013 at 4:09pm: I partly like it because it is...weird, quirky, obscure. .....yet somehow so essential.

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