Talk:Blues ballad

Some destructive concern troll just destroyed this article and ended my wikipedia contributions
The last thing I will ever do for wikipedia, and I have done a lot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ortolan88), is to stick back in here a lot of stuff about blues ballads removed in a spate of condescending hypocrisy by a concern troll who doesn't want the world to know what a blues ballad is, or any examples of one:


 * The blues ballad uses the blues scale and blues style chord progressions with a bridge using a different bluesy chord progression in the conventional 32-bar popular song from Tin Pan Alley.


 * Among the best known blues ballads are Percy Mayfield's love song in the form of a prayer, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" and Buddy Johnson's "Since I Fell for You", most successfully recorded by Lenny Welch. Lonnie Johnson's "Tomorrow Night" is a pop standard. B.B. King has recorded several blues ballads, "You Know I Love You", his second hit, and "Sneakin' Around". Bobby Blue Bland recorded as many blues ballads as he did straight blues. Clarence Carter's "Slip Away" is another notable example.


 * Blues ballads are also popular in country music. Hank Williams's "Your Cheating Heart" and Freddy Fender's two classics, "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the Next Teardrop Falls", for example.


 * The blues ballad differs from conventional blues in its structure. Blues ballads have the Thirty-two-bar form of verse-verse-bridge-verse, while blues songs have the 12-bar A-A-B form or its 8-bar A-B variant. Both blues and blues ballads rely on the mainstay three chords and the blues scale. One subtle variation is found in some 8-bar blues, such as "Walkin' by Myself",, where one eight-bar blues melody forms the "A" part and another the "B" bridge.


 * Conversely, the blues ballad differs from bluesy pop songs like Harold Arlen's "Blues in the Night" by simpler harmonies and more direct language. That said, in the hands of a skillful and emotional performer like Dakota Staton, Dinah Washington, or Etta James, songs like "Mean to Me" or Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" can be hard to distinguish from formal blues ballads.


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 * Blues-Ballad's real beauty comes through with Staton, a review by Chicago Tribune writer Larry Kart of performances by Dakota Staton.

Ironically, this guy's whole point, insofar as he has one, is encapsulated in the last point, which he has willfully obscured.

Goodbye, Ortolan88 (talk) 17:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Overly cerebral analysis
The present content of this entry has little to do with blues. It is a string of opinions and broad generalizations unsupported by anything. Ironically, it is meant to be a definition. Also, the writing style is by-an-academic-for-academics. What should be different? Like most art there is an ineffable quality to The Blues. Because it's a state of being it's mos' difficult to describe. It seems to me that a blues ballad is a blues song that contains a story.

AnuthaMule (talk) 23:57, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Anutha purson who doesn't know what a blues ballad is. See above for definition, examples.  Ortolan88 (talk) 01:05, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Ortolan, we miss you! –  SJ  +  02:25, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

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