One bar in Misty

[pamosmusic]

It's not a bluesy tune.

Someone didn’t get the memo

[ragman1]

What a racket. Sorry, Etta. Also, that's not really a blues treatment, it's something else. R&B? Motown? Soul? Something.

I think she's trying to be Janis Joplin. Except Janis chose her songs better.

[ragman1]

Anyway, the question is... has Joe got Misty sorted out now? Would be good to know.

[pamosmusic]

What a racket. Sorry, Etta. Also, that's not really a blues treatment, it's something else. R&B? Motown? Soul? Something.

I think she's trying to be Janis Joplin. Except Janis chose her songs better.

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[djg]

here's food for thought

[ragman1]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I know, I'm just a big party pooper.

[pamosmusic]

I know, I'm just a big party pooper.

Probably worth mentioning that Janis was fifteen years younger than Etta James and started her career in earnest about fifteen years after Etta James … so I would say the likelihood of Etta “trying to be Janis Joplin” is pretty much nil.

The odds of Janis trying to emulate Etta James actually … probably rather high?

Also fun fact … the “B” in “R&B” stands for “blues.”

the more ya know

[ragman1]

the more ya know

Too true :-)

[Mick-7]

Probably worth mentioning that Janis was fifteen years younger than Etta James and started her career in earnest about fifteen years after Etta James … so I would say the likelihood of Etta “trying to be Janis Joplin” is pretty much nil.

The odds of Janis trying to emulate Etta James actually … probably rather high?

Perhaps, but more so Big Mama Thornton (the Bessie Smith lineage), whose song Ball and Chain she covered. When I was a kid, I attended a concert of Big Mama with Janis at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. Janis sets paled in comparison to Big Mamas.

[Al Haig]

Using 1 note doesn't make a song bluesy or not. 7#9s are used everywhere in jazz. Musicians like Bill Evans used that sound a lot and he isn't bluey at all. That's pretty clueless to say it's necessarily a bum note.