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140789, mostly the second, I believe
Posted by lonesome_d, Mon Aug-24-09 03:28 PM

>2. When the different time sig is actually a part of the
>verse structure. (like the Roots song ITAL that has 3 bars of
>4/4, 1 bar of 3/4, then repeat...I guess you could call this a
>15 count)

but it's a little different, since for a lot of the pre-war blues players, rhythm was more fluid than we tend to think of it.

Check out this one from Furry Lewis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eyTfr5B98

it's basically a standard blues, but if you listen carefully to the first verse
-there's an extra beat thrown in at the end of the 2d and 4th bars
-the inter-verse break appears to be only 6 beats

and some verses are played straight, others have differing random extra beats.

Furry did this a lot but he certailly wasn't the only one.