I’ve been learning so much lately and I’ve been using ChatGPT to accelerate my learning which is sort of like getting plugged into that thing Neo got plugged into in the Matrix. You really have to know the right questions to ask and what the right response is in advance. If you don’t this thing will lie to you. But now I know Kung fu.
Almost always when I start a conversation with this thing, it will try and deceive me. But I don’t relent, and I continue to issue qualifiers until I get to what I am after. I don’t always get there, but it’s usually because it will point me to links to evidence that’s been wiped from the internet. I’ll give you an example. Today, I was trying to illustrate that the Blues and, thus, all Western Popular Music evolves from Indigenous Music like The Stomp Dance Music of the Muscoegee and Yurchi.
Most of the links to these recordings are either dead or you cannot access them. They will say “request access” but they don’t grant it. I tried.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_anthropology/26/
Here is some sheet music with lyrics but that’s going to be of limited help in a comparison.
https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/parchman-959-camp-b/levee-camp-holler?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Music of the Mississippi
Do you know why they catalogued all those “slave” songs and field recordings? Do you get why these started getting called “field” recordings? They would go out into cotton fields with a recorder and record these songs. (Today they go out into the “field” to get recordings from nature and things like that for films ect.) Sound engineers ect. There’s a whole lot of them that mean things they aren’t aware of. I’ll give you an example:
We are told that Wade in de Water is about traveling in creeks and streams to avoid being tracked by dogs on the “Underground Railroad.” (A Hollywood-style reinvention that isn’t at all historical. Nor is Harriet Tubman. Start looking for patterns. Dr. Martin Luther King was a trained actor. Any genuinely revolutionary Black Man gets shot straight off and does NOT get a day.)
But what this song is really about is Enlightenment.
“Wade in de water.
God’s gonna trouble de water.”
John 11:4 – For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Baptism isn’t a literal act. It’s a metaphor for enlightenment. But the Catholic Church has everyone thinking it’s some kind of ritual that actually effects some meaningful change. Friends, you can’t get enlightened by dunking in a swimming pool full of highly-toxic chlorinated water. It takes far more work than that.
I found a few great sites archiving old Blues songs I did not know about and want to share. These are amazing resources. https://oldtimeblues.net/. They are suppressing this site on chrome I noticed. You have to force the browser to display the site. It’s not any more dangerous than any other site. It’s the content they are trying to suppress.
https://the78rpmrecordspins.wordpress.com/category/78-rpm-label-discography/page/3/
Musings of the Mad 
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