Re: The Boogie

["david j. brown" <nonidesign@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe I'm off on this but there were a lot of pounding left hands rolling on
the keys to "boogie", by anyone's definition, before Hook. In my neck of the
woods Albert Ammons, Big Maceo, Tampa Red, Jimmy Yancy, etc. come to mind
And I'm sure Cripple Clarence Lofton and Cow Cow Davenport might have have
had an opinion on it too.

.......and then there's New Orleans.......


> From: "Scorcher" <scorcher@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "Scorcher" <scorcher@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:08:44 -0700
> To: "! [harp-l]" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: The Boogie
> 
> 
> Some friends have been discussing that singular Blues rhythm form known as a
> Boogie.
> 
> One of my friends maintains that a Boogie-Woogie & a Boogie are practically
> the same.
> 
> Another tells me there are several distinct bass/rhythm patterns definable
> as a boogie & showed me examples.
> 
> Still others have other opinions....
> 
> My contention is that The Boogie was refined, if not invented, by John Lee
> Hooker, and although several other blues forms have boogie components, or
> "sound LIKE" a boogie, there's just one "THE Boogie"...that rolling,
> snapping, shuffle-like rhythm that drives the one-(or two) chord songs of
> John Lee Hooker (like Boogie Chillun).
> 
> So, does anyone have a definitive answer on this? I googled Boogie, but I
> still don't believe most of the opinions I've seen are right. Is there an
> historical authority on this? Barbeque Bob, you're well-informed on this
> kind of thing. Winslow? Smokey?
> -Scorcher
> 
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