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Yet I also find similar with Billie Holliday and others just say genius
Love him, not everything, but mostly. No point trying to assess this kind of music by bars beats and notes per minute, there's not always a rigid sticking to exactly 12 bars or ideas of fixed rhythms. Try Son House if you want loose... mind he was full of whiskey most of the time. RL Burnside live, the bar counts are sometimes all over the shop but the band follows on without a hitch. Lots of other examples.
For a country boy born into poverty with not much other music to hear & be influenced by there's some good stuff in there playing wise. Diminished chords and inversions, half-dims largish stretches and suchlike. . Several different tunings used. He was no fool.
I suspect part of the problem is that since the sixties we have come to expect our blues to be regular 4/4 12 bar format and to serve as a vehicle for mucho guitar widdling.
Originally, however, the guitar served as a backdrop to the lyric (which was the important bit) - it didn’t matter if it wasn’t regular 4/4 - that was never the point. Another example might be John Lee Hooker casually throwing in the odd 13 bar verse to make the lyrics fit.
https://youtu.be/_JKS3j8fl_g
I've never listened to him I don't think, other than the clip you posted, but that very early blues is revered as one of the main roots that basically all rock music evolved from but hard to imagine many people would enjoy listening to that kind of thing the way people enjoy listening to modern rock bands.
At first when I put it on I was thinking "isn't he a camp looking white guy who plays a Strat very competently?" but that was Eric Johnson
Speaking of musical conspiracy theories, there's one that the standard tuning of A=440 is some kind of conspiracy to keep everyone down!
I believe there are also less extreme versions of the theory where they don't believe it's a conspiracy but that music sounds better at other tuning reference pitches. I think it's a load of nonsense - it could only make it sound either slightly higher pitched or slightly lower pitched but nowhere near as higher or lower as simply transposing it. And there's obviously no key that sounds objectively better than others or everyone would just stick to that one.
Some 80s metal bands did this AFAIK
Sort of the "auto-tune" trick of the day, makes your playing sound faster
Edit - this explains it better than I can...
https://youtu.be/6c_LeIXrzAk
This seems to be an effort from a dude to understand why he cant play or sing like one of the most famous musicians of the 20th Century. Its like saying "well if Louis Armstrong didnt have that gravelly voice i would sound just like him"
Its silly. frankly.