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What do you think of this Female blues Artist?
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09-03-2015 9:54pm#1
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Nice to see a woman playing and singing the blues for a change.
She has a good voice and can play, but what struck me most was the lack of feeling when she sang. She seemed to be going through the motions. With the blues, it is all about "feeling" and putting a song across in this way is not easy.
I much prefer Christine Perfect/McVie. She can also sing and play...but this time...with feeling.
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Nice to see a woman playing and singing the blues for a change. She has a good voice and can play, but what struck me most was the lack of feeling when she sang. She seemed to be going through the motions. With the blues, it is all about "feeling" and putting a song across in this way is not easy.
I much prefer Christine Perfect/McVie. She can also sing and play...but this time...with feeling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmG24mOWZoo
Samantha Fish is a very young performer just turned 25, with a lot to learn musically. and has 50yrs of catching up on the likes of Christine Perfect/McVie if you compare Samantha Fish's early performances with the most recent performances you will notice there is more of that feeling in her songs coming through. I feel that Blues is also about life and the way life is experienced and conveying life experiences through blues music I have found the the best masters of Blues were the artist that were more mature in their years and therefore really conveyed that true grit feeling in their songs0 -
Samantha Fish is a very young performer just turned 25, with a lot to learn musically. and has 50yrs of catching up on the likes of Christine Perfect/McVie if you compare Samantha Fish's early performances with the most recent performances you will notice there is more of that feeling in her songs coming through. I feel that Blues is also about life and the way life is experienced and conveying life experiences through blues music I have found the the best masters of Blues were the artist that were more mature in their years and therefore really conveyed that true grit feeling in their songs
Yeah. I agree that the blues is about singing/playing about life's up's and down's. Being a bit older helps with this. I was basing my comments on just the clip you posted, in which she has about as much feeling as a piece of wood IMO. Perhaps her later performances were better. I have not checked them out. In the Christine Perfect/McVie clip that I posted, she is around the same age as Samantha Fish is now.
While having many years under your belt helps in playing blues with feeling, it is not necessarily a pre requisite. I started my blues journey listening to John Mayall when he was around the same age as Samantha Fish is now. Even at that comparatively young age, he sang and played with conviction and feeling. Same goes for very early Robert Cray.
Here is another female singer who, when this clip was recoreded was fairly young. Granted, it is not blues, but the "feeling" she exudes always sends shivers down my back.
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That's a coincidence alright. No better blues artist to start with than Mayall. I saw him playing here in Dublin back in '09. I grew up listening to his music, and the first album (LP) I ever bought was the "Beano" one (Mayall&Clapton).
Mayall was a champion of the old blues greats in that he often included covers of songs by the original artists. He always gave them credit on the cover of the album. Some artists he particularly likes are J.B Lenoir and Sonny Boy Williamson (who influenced his harp playing).0 -
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