User talk:Bigcol

I have recently joined a blues band, I'm a vocalist and have been for nearly 25 years. I began in the punk scene in the early 1980's progresively flirting with rock genres until I joined a gospel choir. The transition to blues has been accidental and inevitable. I struggle in terms of intepretation as I do not wish to parodise or pastishe, easily achieved with mock African-American accenting and a bag of cliched lyrics recounting experiences never realised. Blues appears (in my short lived experience borne from my initial impression) to have its voice in a permanently affective state allowing freedom of expression alligned in tandem with mood and aesthetic to create a reaction in both performers and audiences. I find this immensely appealing. To diagress, in my experience singing fast noisy 3 minute ditties (punk)the aim is the same. Convey a clear message, make it succint and repeat frequently! My father used to sing Louis Armstrong's version of 'St James Infirmary' in an attempt to make us sleep. My preconception altered when reading the original lyrics by Joe Primrose (1928?). Where Armstrong's version almost reads as a tale of sorrow, love, grief and loss with a helping of ego, Primroses's original points to narcissism, hedonistic behavior which is delivered with a challenging defiant arrogance, remorseless and rebellious. I am beginning a brand new