Re: more to slide than blues?

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

To be even more precise (thank you Bill), "more to slide than blues" was a response to our friend who bonked his finger.  He had said something in reference to blues and slide.  I said, "There's more to slide than blues."  So, Hawaiian (and all the other music) is a part of that 'more to'.   I didn't mean to dis Hawaiian music.  

Just wanted to clarify.  

So, in the spirit of curiosity & scholarship, I thought I'd check www.wikipedia.org to see what they had to say about slide guitar:

The technique of using a slide on a string has been traced by noted blues scholar and musician Dr. David Evans to a one-string toy-instrument: the "

diddley bow

," which resembles one-stringed African instruments. The tuning and

bend

filled playing style resembles the

blues-harp

. (

van der Merwe 1989

, pp. 66-67)
The technique was made popular by African American

blues

artists. Some of the blues artists who most prominently used the slide include gospel singer

Blind Willie Johnson

,

Son House

, and

Robert Johnson

. The sound has since become commonplace in

country

and

Hawaiian

music. It is also used occasionally in

classic rock

, mainly by bands such as

Lynyrd Skynyrd

and

Led Zeppelin

that have been heavily influenced by the blues.

I'll be dog gone!

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On 14-Jun-06, at 12:43 PM, samba - wrote:

> An curios statement considering that slide was invented by Hawaiians.There was a huge hawaiin music fad in the 20s(.Ever seen the pictures of the college guy w/ a racoon skin coat ,a strw hat and a ukulele? that was as hip as a white guy could get ,for thatgeneration) Anyway Hawaiian music had a huge influence. and not just on Country  ,B.B.King has said part of his vocal lead style was influenced by Hawaiian steel guitar.