12/30/2018
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What kind of music do you play?
People ask me this question and it should create a connection between us, but I don’t think I ever have a good answer to it. If I answer with an artist I’ve been listening to, they’re usually not well-known enough to offer anything. So, I’m left with listing genres. I hate doing this for two reasons (and many more if I keep thinking). First, those genre boundaries are made up by each listener. When I say “country,” people may think I mean something you can hear on the radio today. But, I mean Bob Wills, Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings and Patsy Cline. So, genre is such a gray area. Second, I despise being pigeon-holed so I worry that by naming a genre people will start to expect me to play within it. And when someone tells me, “I don’t like insert genre here,” I take that as a challenge to change their mind. My attitude comes from two quotes I’ve used as ideals. Duke Ellington said, “There are only two types of music; good and bad.” Ray Charles: “Every music has a soul.” They’re expectations for me so I keep an open mind and stay diligent when searching for new music.
But, here I will acquiesce. Unless I limit myself with a theme; a list of genres that you will probably hear on when I DJ:
rock ‘n’ roll (Memphis); funk rock; blues (Chicago, British); jazz (American, British, German, modern, soul-jazz, hard bop, big band, jazz-rock); Africa (70s Nigeria, Afrobeat, Ethiopia, hip-hop); country (western swing, outlaw, Bakersfield); soul (Philly, northern, Stax, Southern, Motown); funk; early hip-hop through the 90s; disco (pop, Euro, symphonic, proto-house); garage; house (Chicago, acid, deep); Brazil (bossa, tropicalia, samba, axe, batucada); Cuba; Jamaica (ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub); salsa. And, the 1970s is my favorite decade.
That may help answer the question, but without coming to hear me play, then looking at the playlists I’ve posted is the easiest way to get an idea of how I like to play.
