Before Biggie Predating Tupac Lemon Henry Jefferson lie frozen dead in streets of Chicago Heart attack? Poison? Robbed of royalties? Blind Lemmon Jefferson father of American music, forgotten buried in unmarked grave #smallpoems (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1x45U)
Before Biggie
Predating Tupac
Lemon Henry Jefferson
lie frozen
dead in streets
of Chicago
Heart attack?
Poison?
Robbed of royalties?
Blind Lemmon Jefferson
father of American
music, forgotten
buried in an unmarked grave
#smallpoems

While Carl Hogan provided the guitar licks  and Louis Jordan the vibe of rock and roll the boogey woogie piano players laid the foundation of the 2/4 beat.

Meade Lux Lewis was one of the greatest boogey-woogie bashers of ivory.

Boogey Woogey followed the same time scales of Blues but provided the upbeat rock and roll would need. Music meant for dancing and drinking. Not just drinking.

Boogey Woogey does usually follow a 12 bar meter. Rock n roll settled on an 8 bar as boogey woogey went from piano, dualing piano, and then lead guitar....thanks to Mr. Chuck Berry....

Boogey Woogey was so connected to the other elements like Western Swing, Texas/Chicago Blues,  and Jump Jazz.

Blind Lemon Jefferson called the bass lines supplied by guitar "Booga Rooga" (the word derves from some West African language brought with slaves).

Boogey Woogey, like much of the Blues, got created in Texas where people noted a "Fast Western" style among Black ragtime players.

Fun fact...the "Western" in Country and Western..isn't a direction. "Freed" Slaves who built the railroads for Texas Western Railroad Company called that unique Texas ragtime "Fast Western" in reference to the railroad company.

This became the "Western" half of Country Western.

 

A moment of sadness as I place the last of my, faded, Elgg t-shirts into the recycling...
More evidence why #oer should work toward an HTML first approach: https://gomakethings.com/always-bet-on-html/ #digped #IndieWeb #edtechchat #femedtech
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I just learned something new today. The word "boogey" as in "boogey woogie" has a west African etymology. Just like the banjo and everything else American music.....#literacies (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1Omxr7)
I just learned something new today. The word "boogey" as in "boogey woogie" has a west African etymology. Just like the banjo and everything else American music.....#literacies

Jordan, known as the "King of the JukeBox" helped to invent jump jazz and bring Black music traditions of the South and make them front in center in Hollywood and out west.

Jump Jive kept the 2/4 beat with the piano as the lead. Carl Hogan, the tympany guitar player though laid down riffs that would lead to the guitar replacing the piano as lead in R&B and Rock and Roll.

Bob Willis took the influence of Bessie Smith and Emmit Tiller and gave rise to the Country Swing that would mix with Texas/Chcago Blues and jump blues to become rock and roll.

We can hear this evolution in his rendition of Ida Red.

Ida Red was an American folk song with no known origin. Willis recorded it in 1938 using the 2/4 Dance beat common in jazz and blues.

The same beat that traces its roots in slave fields and back to West Africa.

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Florida does breed a special kind of stupid: https://twitter.com/votejessi2020/status/1274151805820317696
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I wish more of the free software community gave a level of the same shits that Apple did about their environments. I think the only one that seems to is ElementaryOS. I’ve been trying it out and I think that I might end up moving away from KDE/Plasma towards it.

Not the graph you want to see: Cases in Santa Clara county. Stay home, people! reb00ted.org/quick-notes/20…
One of those songs you want to live in. mimsuleiman.bandcamp.com/track/patosha
Baggy grey polyester pants, a long sleeve black shirt with the doll from the cover of Korn's Issues screened onto it, various spiky leather bracelets, and my hair slathered in Dax wax. With the fringe spiked into points. 🤘
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Great lineup for #CampCloudNative tomorrow! I'll be speaking on OAuth in Plain English at 11:30am eastern and @briandemers will be speaking on Testing is Confidence at 5pm eastern. campcloudnative.com/full-schedule/
Ruby geek talk: I'm increasingly plumbing the depths of ActiveSupport looking for things that will give @bridgetownrb a leg up, and I'm realizing that so much of what I love about Rails (and even Ruby) I owe to ActiveSupport in particular. What a stunningly gorgeous library.
Who at @HBO approved the  TV seach interface? No ability to use your iOS remote app for text entry? No voice entry? 2008 called, it wants your app back.