Episode 5

In the begin they talked about how this music is an influence on the people and music that they make , I think is a very true statemnet. Even though I am not a big fan of some of this music doesn't mean that I don't think it was important in any way. The reason I wonldn't normal listen to some of these types of music is because i'm don't care for the really twangy sound some types of music have. I thought it was a little surprising about the song that talked about murder, I think it was called' Fatal Flower Garden.' It was funny that this guy had the worlds largest collection of paper airplanes. It's kind of a weird thing to collect.

Episode 4

I didn't like as much music in this episode compared to the last. There was a song calle 'Judgement,' which was really weird/interesting, I'm not really sure how to descrbe it. I am also not sure if I liked it or not, it's not something I've heard very much. I thought it was interesting how the names of music types have change over time, for example hillbilly is now country music, or race music is now rythem and blues. I thought the song 'Minglewood Blues' was an okay song. I did enjoy the song by Blind Lemon Jefferson. I was a little surprised to hear that he died by freezing to dead on some street.

Episode 3

I admite that I wasn't getting into the music very much. It wasn't until the poem 'The Women Gather' was I intrested. I thought the peom was very interesting. After that they got into the sounds of my city where the guy brought a tape recorder around, I think it was New York City. I liked the guitar in the background. I really liked the song, 'Anytime' from The Music of New Orleans, Volume 3: Music of the Dance Halls. Then another song, 'Snowy Morning Blues,' I liked that song too. Then later they went into a little bit of yodaling music, which honestly I did not like very much. From then on I didn't really get into any of the other music, until they played the Bob Dylan song. I think it's interesting how he sings stories. This one being about a mother who's son goes to war and comes back practically unrecognizable from being shot and wounded and disfigured from the war. It sounded to me like the son only went to for his mothers pride and when he came back, it seemed like he slightly blamed her. May be I am totally off, but thaats what it kind of struck me as.

Disscusion summary for Oct. 24 & 26

On our Tuesday disscusion, Micheal told us about a guitarist named Richard Thompson. He's a kindof folk guitarist whose made a ton of music. Personally Folk rock type music isn't my type of music, but I thought he was pretty good guitarist for that type of music. I thought it was interesting that Rolling Stone named him one of Top 20 Guitarists of all time. We also discussed our ideas for Jamboree. I'm excited that we finally know what we're ggoing to do.
Thursday disscusion day was all about the dance performance. It was alot of fun learning how to do the watermelon crawl and the other, faster line dance. I'll admit I'm not much of a dancer but I had fun learning those dances. I was our first real hands on performance and I thought it was good to get out of the classroom for a change. Good job to everyone in class at learning the watermelon crawl, even if you screwed up alot like I did.