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NormanKliman -> RE: Juan Talega por soleá (Nov. 24 2012 9:58:56)
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Thanks guys; glad you like it. I should have expressed myself more clearly in the OP when I asked people to listen to their copies and to check the letras. The idea is to use the letras on the webpage to identify your recordings and, ideally, to let me know if you have any cantes that aren't included in the study. I'm pretty sure I've covered nearly everything, but some of the series are very short. Also, I should have made it clear that I'm not trying to use these recordings for profit and that I'm not planning on uploading them to my website.
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...a labour of love for "el arte".
There are in-depth studies and/or anthologies of Chacón, Torre, Pastora, Tomás, Vallejo, Chaqueta and others, and the Solers' book on siguiriyas and soleás covers nearly all the recordings of singers born up to 1920, so it seemed to me that the next artist to be studied in similar detail should be Juan Talega.
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Wow that is a formidable amount of information to take in.
The letras are the bulk of the text. It's actually pretty easy to get one's head around his versions of these cantes as there's very little variation. His versions of some styles are different from those of other artists but he always sang them the same way.
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Do you have any ideas about which guitarists are playing on the private non commercial tapes?
In the first paragraph, it says that Diego accompanies on nearly all the recordings. Nephew Paco plays on at least one series (number 31).
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That must have taken a serious amount of time to compile.
A couple of months. The greater part of that time was spent on HTML and CSS issues and on three or four letras. Fortunately, some friends lent an ear and now all of the letras are on the website.
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I have about 50 cassette tapes with nothing written on them that my dad collected back in the 70's 80's. The thought of going through them all is tiring. I really should go through them, see what's there, and copy over interesting stuff.
That's a very good way to consolidate your knowledge and appreciation of singers and guitarists. It's certainly not everyone's cup of tea, but I get a great amount of satisfaction from identifying artists like that.
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