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Topic: After 50 years, shuffles still rule? |
Mark Hepler
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Virginia, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2017 8:45 am |
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Despite stunning milestones in other genres, and our ubiquity on old country ballads, you can’t deny that steel fits up-tempo country shuffles like a flute fits cool jazz, mandolin fits bluegrass, sax fits bebop, or gravy fits biscuits.
Maybe it’s a shuffle’s relaxed, rolling tempo or breathy phrasing . . . ? I don’t know.
It’s not that I’m close-minded—I’m the oldest member of a loud modern bro country band—but I think each instrument’s oeuvre gets determined for it by what it excels at. The public decides that to a large degree! |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 8 Dec 2017 9:16 am
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| Despite stunning milestones in other genres, and our ubiquity on old country ballads, you can’t deny that steel fits up-tempo country shuffles like a flute fits cool jazz, mandolin fits bluegrass, sax fits bebop, or gravy fits biscuits. |
...or eggs fit poultry.  |
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Mark Hepler
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 8 Dec 2017 11:18 am
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| Barry Blackwood wrote: |
...or eggs fit poultry. |
Darn, wish I'd thought of poultry. You nailed it  |
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Christopher Woitach
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 10 Dec 2017 12:19 am Re: After 50 years, shuffles still rule?
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| Mark Hepler wrote: |
| . . each instrument’s oeuvre gets determined . . |
With my limited vocabulary I'd never encountered
the word oevre before. It'll come in handy on the
Scrabble board as well as in other situations.
Interesting word, thanks,
~Rw
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 10 Dec 2017 1:26 am English spelling
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| Mark Hepler wrote: |
| oeuvre |
It's real French so it gets a "u". The American spelling of color, favor etc. is correct. Not sure when or why we started sticking "u"s into those.
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Charlie Hansen
From:
Halifax, NS Canada and Various Southern Towns.
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Posted 10 Dec 2017 6:12 am
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The"u"contained in such words as colour, flavour, etc. is from the British spelling. It's still widely used in Canada. Depending on what country I happen to be in at the time I use or not use the "u".
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Carter S-10 3X5, Peavey Nashville 112, plus Regal dobro and too many other instruments to mention.
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Mark Hepler
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2017 6:16 pm
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| Eggs, chicken pickin' and--oops--did I say "oeuvre"? I meant "Omelette". Sorry for the typo |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 11 Dec 2017 12:12 am
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| Charlie Hansen wrote: |
| The"u"contained in such words as colour, flavour, etc. is from the British spelling. It's still widely used in Canada. Depending on what country I happen to be in at the time I use or not use the "u". |
Although Ian is right (and, Charlie, Ian is Youkayvian), the parent latinate words lacked the "u".
The British ADDED the 'u' around the time of George III. Mad inbred goofball.
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 11 Dec 2017 7:14 am
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| So would it be shouffles? |
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Storm Rosson
From:
Silver City, NM. USA
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Posted 11 Dec 2017 11:11 am
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LOL..good one Charlie..  |
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