Showing posts with label Alan Lomax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan Lomax. Show all posts
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10 July 2012
JOE SAVAGE - Dangerous Blues - 1978 - Lomax
Via Folkstreams and Alan Lomax's The Land Where The Blues Began :
Joe Savage is one of the four muleskinners--along with Walter Brown, William S. Hart, and Bill Gordon--that Alan Lomax interviews in the film about his experiences working as a laborer building the massive levee systems so prominent throughout Mississippi. Savage, who spent several years in the Parchman State Penitentiary, also speaks on film about the brutality he faced while serving time and sings several blues songs capturing his emotions. See Lomax's book The Land Where the Blues Began, Chapter 5, pp. 235-55; Chapter 6, pp.257.
Joe Savage is one of the four muleskinners--along with Walter Brown, William S. Hart, and Bill Gordon--that Alan Lomax interviews in the film about his experiences working as a laborer building the massive levee systems so prominent throughout Mississippi. Savage, who spent several years in the Parchman State Penitentiary, also speaks on film about the brutality he faced while serving time and sings several blues songs capturing his emotions. See Lomax's book The Land Where the Blues Began, Chapter 5, pp. 235-55; Chapter 6, pp.257.
13 March 2012
R.L. BURNSiDE - When My First Wife Left Me - 1978
R.L. Burnside at home in Independence, Mississippi, shot by Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop in August, 1978.
17 February 2012
31 January 2012
THE ALAN LOMAX ARCHiVES ARE GOiNG DiGiTAL!
In what has to be among the most exciting and important music news of the year, The Alan Lomax Archives has announced via The New York Times that, "some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads."
03 November 2011
07 October 2011
LONNiE PiTCHFORD's Perfectly Unique Gravestone.
Via the wonderful Ukeleleist Shelly Rickey
Lonnie Pitchford (October 8, 1955 – November 8, 1998) was an American blues musician and instrument maker from Lexington, Mississippi. He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned and was continuing the Delta blues and country blues traditions of the older generations.
In addition to the acoustic and electric guitar, Pitchford was also skilled at the one-string guitar and diddley bow, a one-string instrument of African origin.
If you look closely at the picture you will see a Diddley Bow permantly mounted to the right-hand side of his gravestone.
In this wonderful documentary by Alan Lomax called 'The Land Where The Blues Began' you can see and hear Lonnie Pitchford demonstrating his amazing technique on the Diddley Bow beginning at 3:58.
In addition to the acoustic and electric guitar, Pitchford was also skilled at the one-string guitar and diddley bow, a one-string instrument of African origin.
If you look closely at the picture you will see a Diddley Bow permantly mounted to the right-hand side of his gravestone.
In this wonderful documentary by Alan Lomax called 'The Land Where The Blues Began' you can see and hear Lonnie Pitchford demonstrating his amazing technique on the Diddley Bow beginning at 3:58.
15 May 2011
Alan Lomax- THE LAND WHERE THE BLUES BEGAN on YouTube
I had no idea Lomax
's The Land Where The Blues Began was
on YT!
I've got it on vhs and have seen clips on YouTube. 's The Land Where The Blues Began was on YT! C.R. Humphrey from Old Gray Mule sez,
I'd say it's a three-way tie with Deep Blues
and You See Me Laughin'
. All three are essential viewing for blues fans.
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