Is the Blues gonna come back into vogue since we are entering a Depression?

[Ichingcarpenter]

Maybe not in the form it was when it originated and evolved through the sixtes and seventies?

I can see some remix and originality of the American classic, that has been missing
on the music scene for a while.


"Working from 7 to 11 every night"

[Radical Activist]

1. Maybe big band too.

Blues never really went away.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Us and them

Us, and them
And after all were only ordinary men.
Me, and you.


God only knows its noz what we would choose to do.
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died.

And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
Black and blue


And who knows which is which and who is who.
Up and down.



But in the end its only round and round.

Havent you heard its a battle of words
The poster bearer cried.

Listen son, said the man with the gun
Theres room for you inside.

I mean, theyre not gunna kill ya, so if you give em a quick short,
Sharp, shock, they wont do it again. dig it? I mean he get off
Lightly, cos I wouldve given him a thrashing - I only hit him once!
It was only a difference of opinion, but really...i mean good manners
Dont cost nothing do they, eh?

Down and out
It cant be helped but theres a lot of it about.
With, without.

And wholl deny its what the fightings all about?

Out of the way, its a busy day
Ive got things on my mind.
For the want of the price of tea and a slice
The old man died.

[grasswire]

2. do you mean "are the blues..."

You can't have a singular blue, I don't think. The blues are plural. Right?

[kirby]

3. Is the Blues sounds more bluesy...

However with my luck the musicality of choice will be rap.

[Systematic Chaos]

10. Then by the same reasoning, we would say:

Are jazz making a comeback?

It might be "the blues", but it nonetheless is a reference to a single genre of music therefore it is singular.

[phaseolus]

16. Correct, because we can't have one 'blue'.

n/t

[backscatter712]

4. We'll see more escapist entertainment.

Maybe more science-fiction. Specifically, the genre may evolve to add more space-fantasy elements - who wants to deal with shitty economically depressed planet Earth when you could be hyperjumping from world to world in a galaxy far-far away?

Throw in some swords-and-sorcery fantasy.

While the rest of us are struggling, Hollywood may be seeing some good years. So may publishers of anything fictional, especially sci-fi, fantasy, romances, etc. etc. - books are cheap and a good escape.

[charlie]

7. I was reading recently

that while overall book sales were down, romance novels are killing in the market right now. They're dominating to a jaw-dropping degree, something like a quarter or a third of all sales are from the romance genre, with the ones targetted toward middle-aged women especially popular.

Women always catch it worst and first during downturns, so maybe this is a result of hard times?

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. I see hallucinogens coming back into vogue

I don't think we will see the reemergence of speed type drugs.
I see a those drugs only for work and not for play.

I think with the coming down turn..... booze and hallucinogens will be in vogue
Each times necessitates its own medication

[tekisui]

18. I didn't know they went out of vogue : )

We gonna get the new generation of Beat art, IMO.

[RFKJrNews]

6. God, I hope so.

Not only because what passes for music these days on the radio is simply crap, for the most part, but mainly because there are some great old blues cats out there -- living legends -- who have yet to receive their just due from the music industry. Younger audiences need to be exposed to this wonderful music before B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, and others too numerous to mention leave this world. A blues revival? Yeah buddy...bring it on!

[murielm99]

9. The blues have always been in vogue at my house. n/t

[Medusa]

14. Mine too. n/t

[Fumesucker]

11. The Blues went out of vogue?

"Really makes life a drag".

[HereSince1628]

15. That was my reaction, too.

In this day and age, I suppose that what you hear depends what you've down-loaded.

[judasdisney]

12. In Thatcher's England, it was Punk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock

[stlsaxman]

13. back into "vogue"? the blues is too roots to be stylish or commercially viable.

the blues has never gone away. unless you're asking if now that a lot more people are suffering will some corporate entity come along and exploit it for commercial gain? prolly so.

i've played in blues bands all my life. of course- living in my town there have always been clubs to play blues music in.

[madokie]

17. I've been a blues man all my life

some of the earliest recording of blues artist that most of us never have heard of is some kind of good to say the least.

[baldguy]

19. My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted

Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county's gonna haul my belongings away cause I'm busted.

I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I'm busted
My brother said there ain't a thing I can do,
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu,
And I was just thinking about calling on you 'cause I'm busted.

Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he's busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow,
Me and my family got to pack up and go,
But I'll make a living, just where I don't know cause I'm busted.
I'm broke, no bread, I mean like nothing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ZjYbP6X8Y

[lonestarnot]

20. Vogue... what's vogue Lucille? Snort

:rofl: ROFLMAO