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| Band Information "So, whaddya wanna know?" |
4 The Blues - Blues With Attitude The Blues has always been a vehicle for expressing ideas that resonate with everyday people. Within the genre there has always been ample evidence of the political and the satirical: J.B. Lenoir, Big Bill Broonzy and John Lee Hooker all used their music as a means of communicating and proclaiming ideas of importance. The essential feature of the Blues is its capacity to remain uplifting and entertaining despite often being portrayed as conveying only melancholy and sadness. Those who play the blues know the full truth. |
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4 the Blues tries to retain the tradition of the Blues as a vibrant, progressive and influential musical vehicle for presenting ideas and observations in the same way that visual art has used cartoons and caricature to satirise and lampoon conventionally held views. The band writes material that deals with topics ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous and portrays a typical, and laconically, Australian perspective of some of society's sacred cows. It isn't protest music. The intention is not to offend but to poke fun and entertain whilst encouraging audiences to contemplate the absurdities of living in the 21st century. And it's also about groove. Really about groove. The music has got to have groove.
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