Johnny Horton (Re: [鄉村] 敘事鄉村？)

看板CountryMusic (鄉村音樂)作者currie (咖哩顆粒)時間18年前 (2007/06/03 17:55)推噓1(1推 0噓 0→)

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※ 引述《currie (咖哩顆粒)》之銘言： : 我很喜歡的50年代歌手Johnny Horton有一堆歷史敘事歌, 不只好聽, 題材也很豐富: : 例如"The Battle of New Orleans"(英美戰爭), "Sink the Bismarck"(二次大戰) : "North to Alaska"(淘金熱) Johnny Horton (1925-1960), 人稱 The Singing Fisherman (因為他嗜釣如命) 錄音生涯只有短短五年 (1956-1960), 風格卻相當多樣: 除了在傳統 honky-tonk 和新興的 rockabilly 之間游走的輕快歌曲佔了大半, 也有懷念金曲級的芭樂歌 (老歌精選都會收的 "Whispering Pines", "The Mansion You Stole", "All for the Love of a Girl"), 以及生涯晚期源自民謠, 用歌說故事的 "saga songs" 這些敘事歌有些滿"卡通"的, 舉兩段 "The Battle of New Orleans" 的歌詞 Well we fired our cannon til the barrel melted down so we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind and when they tetched the powder off, the gator lost his mind Yeah they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico 也有像"Jim Bridger"這種敘述拓荒史上的無名英雄, 帶著歷史重量的歌: Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name Yet he deserves the front row seat in History's Hall of Fame He forgot more about the Indians than we will ever know He spoke the language of the Sioux - the Black Foot and the Crow He spoke with General Custer and said listen Yellow Hair The Sioux are the great nation so treat 'em fair and square Sit in on their war councils, don't laugh away their pride But Custer didn't listen - at Little Big Horn Custer died 他死後發表的單曲 "North to Alaska" 也是 John Wayne 同名電影 (中譯"北國尋金記") 的主題曲, 講的是19世紀末的淘金熱; Horton本人年輕時也去淘過金, 而他另一首作品 "When It's Springtime in Alaska" 或許就把個人經驗寫了進去吧對了, 唱不同風格的歌時, Horton 的唱腔聽起來也大不相同淺斟低唱的 "Whispering Pines" 和尖酸滑稽的 "The Battle of New Orleans" 完全不像是同一個人唱的 :) 他也常在樂句尾轉個喉音, 聽來就是多了一分詼諧感附個八卦: Horton 的遺孀 Billie Jean 原是 Hank Williams 的老婆 (1952年10月結婚) Hank Williams 過世後 (1953年1月) 改嫁給 Horton (1953年9月) 而 Horton 1960年車禍喪生的地點 (Milano,Texas), 正是當年他得知 Williams 死訊的所在參考網頁 http://www.rockabillyhall.com/JohnnyHorton1.html 試聽 (Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Horton-Greatest-Hits/dp/B0000026AG 我還記得小時候家母天天放Johnny Horton當起床號如果放的是快歌我就乖乖起來, 放的是芭樂歌就繼續賴 XD -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 219.87.12.52 ※ 編輯: currie 來自: 219.87.12.246 (06/03 22:14)