The guitar in Jimi Hendrix’s in the driving and
dominant factor of every song, which is a common characteristic of rock and
roll music. The Jimi Hendrix Experience
does have lyrics in the songs but because the guitars (and the more nominal
percussion) are so central to the genre and feel of the body of work, I think
that the removal of the words from some of the songs would do the album almost
the same amount of justice.
The lyrics are pivotal
to the entire feel of the Avett Brother’s sound and the banjo and other
instruments in the songs seem to be their secondary support. The high pitched
and ranging chords and melodies make the majority of The Carpenter’s songs fit into the blue grass and folk genres. With
the Avett Brothers originating in Concorde, North Carolina, the indigenous Appalachian
banjo sound, discussed in “Give Me the Banjo”, is clearly an influence on their
sound. Although banjo sound is the defining instrument in most of the music,
the orientation of the other instruments is what makes The Carpenter a genre-crossing album.
The two albums are
related to blues through their genres origins with blues, slave music, and African
American instruments. The respective chord progressions in the two albums’
songs also lend themselves to the evident roots in the Blues genre. Hendrix
also incorporates the common blues practice of call and response between his
speech and guitar or guitar chord progressions that is a very unique and
interesting interpretation with Blues pedigrees. The last obvious Blues related
feature I see in Hendrix’s music is his rhythmic sing-talking that is extremely
popular in both Rock & Roll and Blues music. The way that the use,
orientation, and sounds of the different instruments categorizes the genre of
each album, and even more so each song, is yet another characteristic that
stems from the Blues genre.
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