# Would you rather spend an evening with Bix Beiderbecke or Grandma Moses? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 29, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168 "2018-09-29T17:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/1 "2018-09-29T17:23:12Z")
I like New England rural landscapes as much as the next guy, and everything I’ve read about Grandma makes her sound like a real sweetie, but I’d have to go with Bix. Bix and a couple of fifths of good bourbon. Unless Moses made a pie. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/2 "2018-09-29T17:58:52Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I like New England rural landscapes as much as the next guy, and everything I’ve read about Grandma makes her sound like a real sweetie, but I’d have to go with Bix. Bix and a couple of fifths of good bourbon. Unless Moses made a pie. Granny would doctor you real good with her homemade tonic, and cook up a batch of grits and jowls too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/3 "2018-09-29T18:14:47Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Granny would doctor you real good with her homemade tonic, and cook up a batch of grits and jowls too. 😉 Grandma Moses, not Granny Clampett. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/4 "2018-09-29T18:45:50Z")
I think I would pick Anna Moses. I would love to discuss her use of natural materials for paint, and maybe compare potato chip recipes. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/5 "2018-09-29T19:08:23Z")
Moses – a pleasant, interesting person who’s life spanned a remarkable century. I would love to spend an evening with her! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/6 "2018-09-29T19:13:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Grandma Moses, not Granny Clampett. _Ahem!_ > **[Daisy Moses (Granny)](https://beverlyhillbillies.fandom.com/wiki/Daisy_Moses_(Granny))** > > Granny (Daisy May Moses) Called "Granny" by all, relatives or not, shotgun-toting Daisy Moses, Jed's mother-in-law, is a true daughter of Dixie. Paul Henning, the show's creator/producer quickly disposed of the idea of Granny being Jed's mother,... ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/7 "2018-09-29T20:12:32Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > _Ahem!_ > > [Daisy Moses (Granny) | Beverly Hillbillies Wiki | Fandom](http://beverlyhillbillies.wikia.com/wiki/Daisy_Moses_(Granny)) I rock corrected. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/8 "2018-09-29T21:01:51Z")
Bix was expelled from school and drank himself to death. Who you think I’m gonna pick? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/9 "2018-09-29T21:26:55Z")
Never heard of Bix Biederbeck, but I’m confident he would be a better choice than Dale. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/10 "2018-09-30T00:19:46Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Never heard of Bix Biederbeck, but I’m confident he would be a better choice than Dale. Beiderbecke’s classic recording of “Singin’ the Blues,” with Frankie Trumbauer on C-melody saxophone. Along with Louis Armstrong’s “West End Blues,” one of the two most famous recorded cornet solos in early jazz. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Ue9igC7flI/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDBkBWwx85dQjgvAd58KeB_ZJ6UDA "Singin The Blues - Bix Beiderbecke") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ue9igC7flI) Bix comes in at 1:03. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/11 "2018-09-30T13:12:48Z")
Rather than pick one or the other, I’d try to convince them each to set aside their petty differences so that the three of us could hang out together. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/12 "2018-09-30T19:27:54Z")
Although I’m an artist, I’m also a music lover. I’d have to go with Bix. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/13 "2018-09-30T21:08:32Z")
Do we get to choose the point in their careers where we meet them? A lot of people don’t know this, but when Grandma Moses was in her twenties, she was pretty easy. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/14 "2018-09-30T22:22:56Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Do we get to choose the point in their careers where we meet them? A lot of people don’t know this, but when Grandma Moses was in her twenties, she was pretty easy. It’s clear that Bix was often drunk, so he was probably easy too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/15 "2018-10-01T00:01:17Z")
Grandma Moses ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/16 "2018-10-01T00:27:18Z")
I’d go see her exhibit, but hang out at the bar with Bix. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/17 "2018-10-01T00:30:21Z")
Considering how Bix spent his life drinking only bootleg whiskey and bathtub gin, imagine how delicious he would find today’s boutique liquors. He’d probably have drunk himself to death much earlier. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/18 "2018-10-01T03:26:19Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Grandma Moses, not Granny Clampett. Setting up her easel by the cee-ment pond. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-spend-an-evening-with-bix-beiderbecke-or-grandma-moses/822168/19 "2018-10-01T05:33:01Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Setting up her easel by the cee-ment pond. At least she’s not setting it up on the banks of the the Nile. (That would be Moses’s Grandma.) 🙂