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re: Time to rank the New SEC's Top Ten Historic Music Destinations
Posted on 3/7/24 at 1:01 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 3/7/24 at 1:01 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
On a per capita basis Ferriday, LA would have to be on a top ten list. A town of 3,500 people produced Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, and Jimmy Swaggart. All had an impact on and expanded three different genres of music, rock/rockabilly, country, and gospel. And while I wouldn’t say he had an impact on music, it also produced Dale Houston who did have a #1 gold record and #1 single.
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Posted on 3/7/24 at 1:05 pm to Knocksville
He is also a historian of the genre
Posted on 3/7/24 at 1:09 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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1. Arkansas Delta Blues
Did you just appropriate Mississippi culture?
Posted on 3/7/24 at 1:40 pm to nealnan8
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The entire list is a non sequitur,,, Some lists types of music, some lists artists, some lists cities or areas. Which is it?
Exactly this. Is it places where people were born or is it destinations?
Destinations are Memphis, Austin, and Nashville. Those places are where pretty much everyone that is actually historic and listed on this thread went to launch their careers into significance.
Times are changing though. Memphis is mostly just history now(still the best history) and Austin has lost its monopoly on alt-country with many of today’s top acts skipping over it completely and staying closer to their roots. Nashville is still being Nashville.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 2:05 pm to ManBearSharkReb
What is the difference between Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas?
Posted on 3/7/24 at 2:08 pm to dchog
Um, one is in Arkansas and one is in Mississippi?
Posted on 3/7/24 at 2:32 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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7. Macon, GA - the birthplace of southern rock? I want this to be #1, but it's been so long since the Allman Bros and Marshall Tucker, my heroes as a small child.
Too low.
And In Memory of Elizabeth Reed is in the Holdover's soundtrack, so, still topical.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 2:41 pm to dchog
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What is the difference between Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas?
One is world renowned for inventing the Blues and the other is on the wrong side of the river. NO ONE associates Arkansas with the blues.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 2:51 pm to 49 to nada
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Austin has to be #2 for food
Austin is not a bad restaurant town, but it cant even beat Lockhart much less Houston, San Antonio, or New Orleans.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:00 pm to PubeCrab
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Are you truly this ignorant to not comprehend electronic, house, etc and a whole slew of sub-genres of live DJ music exist in the world?
I believe his point was none of that qualifies as music. There are no musical instruments actually being played, no lyrics were written, and no one is singing. It is, for the most part, a production of digital noise. At best, they are the equivalent of sound board operators.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:02 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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1. Arkansas-Mississippi Delta Blues - withstood the test of time
The majority of the culture/music stems from the Mississippi side of the river, but I will allow this. Also if anyone ever gets a chance to go, the Delta is awesome.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:03 pm to ManBearSharkReb
Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:12 pm to BhamBlazeDog
Many blues artists crossed the river in both states so many times that some biographies admit that they are not sure where some truly originated from.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:25 pm to Dallaswho
These 10 cities and smaller towns that punched well above their weight pop to mind as focal points of developing music scenes, sounds, and genres.
In no order:
New Orleans
Memphis
Miami (disco, latin, 80s electro etc -- if we're not just talking about music middle aged white dudes like)
Muscle Shoals
Athens
Austin
Nashville
St Louis
Clarksdale, Miss
Atlanta (Hip Hop)
In no order:
New Orleans
Memphis
Miami (disco, latin, 80s electro etc -- if we're not just talking about music middle aged white dudes like)
Muscle Shoals
Athens
Austin
Nashville
St Louis
Clarksdale, Miss
Atlanta (Hip Hop)
This post was edited on 3/7/24 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 3/7/24 at 3:29 pm to Dallaswho
Memphis bbq is arse. Actually, most bbq from the SE is arse. It ain’t bbq.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 4:11 pm to WoodyOrnamental
You don't like pulled pork BBQ?
Posted on 3/7/24 at 4:15 pm to WoodyOrnamental
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Memphis bbq is arse.
False. Texas is the worst. Plain as can be and doesn’t digest. Fortunately, there are some Tex-Mex ppl that realized this and are doing new and wonderful with Texas’s tired old tradition. I recommend Panther City BBQ in Fort Worth. Get the elote.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 4:19 pm to dchog
I’ve never heard anyone before today even mention Arkansas and blues in the same sentence. 
Posted on 3/7/24 at 4:25 pm to Basura Blanco
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Austin is not a bad restaurant town, but it cant even beat Lockhart
Lmao what? Lockhart is right outside Austin. The Blacks came from there.
Posted on 3/7/24 at 4:31 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
You just wanted to crap on Nashville, didn’t you?
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