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Talking blues is a form of folk music and country music.It is characterized by rhythmic speech or near-speech where the melody is free, but the rhythm is strict.. Christopher Allen Bouchillon, billed as "The Talking Comedian of the South", is credited with creating the "talking blues" form with the song "Talking Blues", recorded for Columbia Records in Atlanta in 1926, from which the style ...
"Alice's Restaurant Massacree", commonly known as "Alice's Restaurant", is a satirical talking blues song by singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie, released as the title track to his 1967 debut album Alice's Restaurant.
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Mar 23, 2001 · March 23, 200112:00 AM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. 10-Minute Listen. Playlist. Talking Blues is a song form that can trace its surface roots to a recording by the Greenville Trio in...
Catalog. Talking Blues. Singer and folklorist John Greenway focuses on his specialty, labor and protest songs, in this 1958 album. In addition to the "original" talking blues tune by Chris Bouchillon, which appeared on a 1926 recording, Greenway performs a number of Woody Guthrie's talking blues tunes ("Talking Dust Bowl," "Talking Subway") and ...
Mar 7, 1991 · Talkin’ Blues. By David Fricke. March 7, 1991. Bob Marley remains the indisputable king of reggae. In the ten years since Jamaica’s favorite musical son succumbed to the ravages of cancer, the ...