What Are You Listening To?

[jazzboCR]

This collection is unusual in that it intersperses Patton songs with those from other Blues artists to illustrate the development of the form in the early years of recorded Blues. If you think plagiarism is a new phenomenon, think again. They were all pinching ideas for all they were worth

Gotta take a little issue with this overly restrictive view of plagiarising. If you pick elements out of a confluence, is it plagiarising or just melding into a new whole? How much was yours and how much was theirs? Are you saying this is wholly yours? To be remembered is that those early Bluesmen were total entertainers--if the audience wanted the Blues, they got it--if they wanted some and some rag-time or popular songs, they got that. Not downplaying the Originals but they were working musicians first, last, always and only later got lumpily categorized as "Bluesmen". A career retro of ALL they did might show a different picture than we've been presented. Here's about plagiarism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
Jimmy Page, on the other hand, knew very consciously what he was doing...