Saturday, July 31, 2010

doogey9 || Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord (Skiffle)

Todd whether as Doogey9 or Brother Sonny has been one of my favorites for a long time. He's an advocate of Simple and Soulful music. His music looks simple but it always has some flair and he's got a great country soulful voice.

Skiffle. What is skiffle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiffle

The origins of skiffle are obscure, but are generally thought to lie in African-American musical culture in the early twentieth century. Skiffle is often said to have developed from New Orleans jazz, but this has been disputed. Improvised jug bands playing blues and jazz were common across the American South in the early decades of the twentieth century, even if the term skiffle was not used to describe them.

They used instruments such as the washboard, jugs, tea chest bass, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw, and comb-and-paper kazoos, as well as more conventional instruments such as acoustic guitar and banjo. The term skiffle was one of many slang phrases for a rent party, a social event with a small charge designed to pay rent on a house. It was first recorded in Chicago in the 1920s, and may have been brought there as part of the African American migration to northern industrial cities.

The first use of the term on record was in 1925 in the name of Jimmy O'Bryant and his Chicago Skifflers. Most often it was used to describe country blues music records, which included the compilation "Hometown Skiffle" (1929), and "Skiffle Blues" (1946) by Dan Burley & His Skiffle Boys.[5] It was used by Ma Rainey (1886–1939) to describe her repertoire to rural audiences.[1] The term skiffle disappeared from American music in the 1940s.

Johnny Cash Strum? Okay I need to do some more research.

3 comments:

  1. Jeff,

    as always i want to say thank you for sharing!!!
    and i want to testify that my love for the baritone uke is only growing ha ha ha... :)

    cheers,
    todd

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  2. I saw Brittni Paiva when she rolled through my town a year or so ago. She plays a good jazzy bari...

    check her out:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/UkuleleBrit#p/u/20/JArvrYw50X4

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  3. @ Todd - You're videos are always inspiring.

    @ Dan - I think she's playing a tenor. I tried several of Brittni Paiva's videos and there was never a Baritone notation in the comments. If you know of one please let me know too.

    HU/HB/Jeff

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