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Girls singing covers of country music?


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strange take on  Dolly song

Really, it comes down that I've known too many academic musicians. That is, they wanted to excel at an instrument, so they majored in it. They learned technique and performance. Once they had it all down, they studied "jazz" because it had all sorts of descriptions and charts.

What they never had was any soul. They're technically proficient at an instrument, but their stuff is devoid of feeling.The notes were all there in the correct order, pitch, and time, but it just didn't swing.

Like having your ears unplugged, I had to learn that jazz didn't have to be clinically boring. I was just hearing boring stuff.

That's why my favorite band has all the chops and skills, but all the feel and groove too.  Not a lot of people hit that rare blend, but it's my sweet spot.  

A lot of my favorite musicians are people who were trained in jazz, but then applied it elsewhere.  Went on to live in a different world, so to speak. 

My church music is boring now, but at my home church in Louisiana, it was not.  Lot of gospel music, sometimes relatively complicated stuff.  I began to notice at some point that my favorite gospel musicians were guys who were trained not so much in gospel, but in jazz (closely related, tho) and then moved into gospel and brought elements of jazz with them out of habit. 

Another well-known example is Flea of the Chili Peppers.  He grew up woodshedding jazz on the trumpet.  When he got interested in bass and joined a funk rock band, it really worked out for him.  A lot of his best "Flea" moments over the years are just him dipping into his childhood bag of tricks.  

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