Comments on: Talking Blues

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:11:01 +0000

Check out the “Talking NPR blues”- Utah Phillips.
It’s great… BTW thank you to everyone here; this place helped me find so many great TB songs!

By: Dudeman

Dudeman — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:15 +0000

Try these
Jaime Brockett – Talkin Green Beret New Super Yellow Hydraulic Banana Teenie Bopper Blues

Also

Jaime Brockett – Legend of the USS Titanic

By: Daniel Lower

Daniel Lower — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:38:38 +0000

I have been hired by the Santa Barbara Blues society to teach a remedial English class at the middle school level. It is a novel concept, to try and improve English skill through lyric reading and writing. I thought about the talking blues and checked out your site. I cannot thank you enough. Teaching basic AAB blues form is cool, but the talking blues is wonderful. Your blog says it is a free melody with a strict rhythm, which is true. However, Woody and Dylan and others held either the first two chords or the last chord ad lib, so the rhythm is the same, but the form is elastic.

Thank you especially for the list of tracks, greatly helpful to this musician who is creating a new class. Thanks.

By: Dr. Trevorkian

Dr. Trevorkian — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:10:30 +0000

Hi, Tom.

Thanks for reading!

Unfortunately, we’re forced to remove the music files after a shortish amount of time has passed, so that no one mistakes this blog as a vehicle for music piracy.

The NPR show linked above looks like it’s still available though, if you want to check some out!

Cheers,
Trevor

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:54:36 +0000

Sorry.. garbled my last comment. meant to say that the mp3 links are broken. Hopefully you can put them back online. Thank you. – Tom

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:51:29 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for the Talkin\’ Blues post. Unfortunately, the links to the mp3\’s show up as a \

By: BoneMachine

BoneMachine — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:17:06 +0000

That Todd Snider song mentioned up there is actually called Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues. It’s the hidden track on Songs From The Daily Planet.

By: wrybread

wrybread — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:36:31 +0000

Agreed about Loudon Wainwright and the talkin blues. One of his I remember is Talking Bob Dylan.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:35:24 +0000

Great post! I find you kind of hit and miss thru checking the Hype Machine, but I’m going to have to start coming here regularly.

Other suggestions for great talkin’ blues: Loudon Wainwright is one of the all-time best–he has lots of ‘em. There was a song off an album I had in the 70s called Talkin New York something something…can’t remember now. Do remember this verse: “Well the mayor was a mayor called the mayor Abe Beame and he dreamed up this here Big Mac scheme, and that ol’ scheme kinda petered out and President Ford had to bail him out.” wow.

Also Phil Ochs.

Did you ever DO the Todd Snider post? If not, please do so! Soon…I know it’ll be great.

Thanks!

I do have to say, typing those letters in the box below is HARD! This is the hardest one I’ve ever seen. I lost a whole response to you–now I know to save it first.

Brad

By: wrybread

wrybread — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:53:18 +0000

Thanks, this page is great. Another talking blues you might like, also by Todd Snider, not sure the title but possibly “Hey Hey My My Rock and Roll Will Never Die”.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9319xcmG9J4

God I wish I could find more live Todd Snider stuff. If anyone has any to share, feel free to email me, wrybread at gmail dot you know what.