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Re: [WORSHIP] Re: Country style praise
On 24 Jul 97, James T. Roberts - MD6 ~ wrote about [WORSHIP] Re:
Country style praise:
> Well you have to understand what the devil and C&W music have in common--
> they're both incomplete (hence the devil's symbol: 666). You see, what the
> devil did is he took Blues music (which, as we all know comes directly from
> Heaven) and he threw out the minor 3rd. The nerve of him....
>
> Very typical of the devil to do....take something so consecrated, so holy, as
> the minor 3rd, throw it out, and try to pose the result as "music". Geez....
All joking aside for a moment, not everyone knows that *real* country
music (i.e. what used to be called "mountain" music before the
marketing type people decided to throw country music and western
music into the same category to help record sales) is more closely
related to Irish and Scottish music than the blues, right? (Don't
believe me? Get a recording of any good Irish folk music group
--such as the Chieftons -- and listen closely to the chord structures
and melodies.) To be sure, blues has affected almost all styles of
western music, but I think country music is more closely related to
Ireland than the Mississippi delta.
One of the cool things (to me anyway) is how blurred the lines are
becoming between popular music styles in the US and Canada today.
Many "country" songs are outright pop/rock songs. And some "rock"
songs are more closely related to country than blues. I think
sometimes the only thing that identifies some songs as country is
the "twang" of the singer (no offense intended, I like "twang"). I
suppose this blurring is happening in the UK, Australia, and other
places too, but I don't know anything about that.
I think that it is good if songs that are used to help us worship are
also songs that reflect musical styles that modern people enjoy. I
also think that is good to expose "modern" people to musical styles
they are not familiar with, for example traditional hymns, southern
gospel, reggae, latin, and classical music. You don't read just one
book of the Bible all the time do you? Neither should you limit your
music or worship "style" tastes to a single type.
I apologize if I'm being too preachy. =)
-- Tony
Tony Wade, St. Louis, MO -------------------------- twade@stlnet.com
My PC was just "converted" to Windows 95 and I can't do a thing with it!!
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