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Topic subjectRE: so detriot stepppers step to Stevie Wonder's my eyes don't cry?
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12807051, RE: so detriot stepppers step to Stevie Wonder's my eyes don't cry?
Posted by Deacon Blues, Sat May-16-15 04:23 PM
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>>I miss regionalism in music, now when I travel the radio
>>stations all play the same songs.
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>> In the south, (Georgia at least) they got this kind of R&B -
>sort of Clarence Carter "I been strokin'" or Marvin Sease -
>that sounds SOOOOOO SIMPLISTIC and basic - yet it's their
>thing.
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>The northern radio stations (I left NY in 2010) definitely
>don't play this simplistic Southern stuff.
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>I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone when I go to a cookout in
>Georgia and they play nothing but this simplistic HIGHLY
>SEXUALLY EXPLICIT R&B stuff.


Man that's that southern soul/blues , that's some good stuff but I guess you have to be from the south to appreciate it


I know the more current stuff can sound simplistic but it's rooted n that good stuff tyrone Davis/ johnnie Taylor