I've been listening to the Hoodoo Hounds, trying to think how I'd represent their music visually. I keep looking at the pictures on their website thinking that their faces might say something about "the blues" and the music, but the photos don't do it for me. I keep looking at the faces of the members of the band, and what *I* see are the people I know. I look at the pictures and remember real conversations I've had with Andrew or sitting in the football stands at Daniel High School eating boiled peanuts with Walt and his wife, Becky. I realized that what's missing from the photos for an audience other than me is a STORY. The pictures on the website don't tell a story for me; they don't narrate THE BLUES and the culture from which the blues emerged. The picts satisfy someone's natural curiosity about "what do these guys look like," but they don't answer the question "what will the music on this CD sound like" because they're not telling a story.
I wonder what I will find if a use Google and Bing and do an "image" search for terms like "blues music" or "blues culture"? Maybe:
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I'm struggling with the musical influences behind Hoodoo. Understanding their past, given the way they contextualize the band on their website, seems important to the future. It seems so integral to the question of building a visual story...a hook...a rhetoric to connect Hoodoo Hounds visually with their target demographic.
ReplyDeleteHere are some breadcrumbs to help the class (and little ol' me :). I'm continuing to follow them myself, and will certainly post what I find...
The Trail of the Hellhound (history of Delta Blues. Hoodoo Hounds, on their website, list this as one of their primary musical influences. There's a distinct Americana to this website): http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/blues/
Martin Scorsese's "The Blues": http://www.pbs.org/theblues/
Delta Blues Museum: http://www.deltabluesmuseum.org/
Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage: http://www.deltablues.org/
Also interesting (some resources on the Chicago Electric Style):
Chicago Blues Foundation: http://www.chicagobluesfoundation.org/
World of Blues (Chicago section): http://worldofblues.com/Blog/category/chicago_blues/page/2/
Happy researching!!