Blues Festivals: Part 2
Another blues festival stands out in my mind was a festival that was set up so that once inside the paid areas that had more than one stage for daytime and then reduced to just the main stage in the evening after dark. The main stage was at the bottom of a small hill and at the top of the hill was a tent where you could find a little shade. I believe this was in very early September, maybe Labor Day weekend. anyway it was hot. My family and I were sitting in chairs at the edge of the tent. Just upwind from us there was a Salsa vendor and every time they would cut up another bunch of peppers it was strong enough to make our eyes water. I believe this to be the festival where I ate some alligator on a stick. I was not real impressed. There was so much spicy breading on the meat that I wasn’t able to taste the meat. Maybe so I wouldn’t notice that it tasted like chicken.
what are some difference between blues and country blues lyrics?Why are they different?
what are some difference between blues and country blues lyrics?Why are they different?
Well i mean City blues and country blues sorry
Let my try to break it down. when you talk about Blues, first things that come to mind are "downed times", "foxy ladies", "makin’ a livin’, givin’ what’s given". when you mention Country, you think of western songs and cowboys with straws in their mouths and plaid shirts.
Any hints on the lineup for Air J Jazz and blues festival?
It’s about time that people started booking and I would really like to be hinted on possible/tentative headliners before I go ahead.
What are some must listen to blues artists?
I’m talking old blues, for example, Son House and Robert Johnson type.
Rev. Gary Davis
Bukka White
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Mississippi John Hurt
Big Bill Broonzy
Willy Dixon
What are some 12 bar blues songs for females?
I currently am taking a blues vocals class at my college and I am required to find a 12 bar blues song. But I need it to be a female vocalist as I need to "mentor" from her for myself. I understand that 12 bar blues is also used in other genres, but I need real Blues songs. Can you help?
Do you consult movie/album reviews before buying them?
Its sort of like a poll.
Nope. My ears tell me for songs…what to buy(online radio stations)…and my friends know what I like…so they tell me about movies to pick up.
John Miles – Music
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JOAN BAEZ “North Country Blues”
Joan Baez sings Dylan ‘North Country Blues’
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Bloody Ol’ Mule | Deep Blues Festival | Sugar Baby | Dock Boggs original
Bloody Ol’ Mule from Oklahoma is a powerhouse. This footage, shot in the summer of ’09 at the third annual deep blues festival features Shilo Brown playing an old traditional of Dock Boggs – Sugar Baby. Look up Shilo Brown/Bloody Ol’ Mule on myspace (http://www.myspace.com/bloodyolmule).
Moran Lee “Dock” Boggs (February 7, 1898 February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of banjo playing, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues. Contemporary folk musicians and performers consider him a seminal figure, at least in part because of the appearance of two of his recordings from the 1920s, “Sugar Baby” and “Country Blues”, on Harry Smith’s 1951 Anthology of American Folk Music collection. Boggs was initially recorded in 1927 and again in 1929, although he worked primarily as a coal miner for most of his life. He was “rediscovered” during the folk music revival of the 1960s, and spent much of his later life playing at various folk music festivals and recording for Folkways Records.
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Roots of Blues — Blind Boy Fuller „Pistol Slapper Blues”
„Pistol Slapper Blues”
(Fuller)
Recorded:
New York City, April 05, 1938
Blind Boy Fuller (vcl) (g), Sonny Terry (h)
Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) (July 10, 1907[1] – February 13, 1941) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.
Fulton Allen was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina to Calvin Allen and Mary Jane Walker. He was one of a family of 10 children, but after his mother’s death he moved with his father to Rockingham. As a boy he learned to play the guitar and also learned from older singers the field hollers, country rags, and traditional songs and blues popular in poor, rural areas.
He married Cora Allen young and worked as a labourer, but began to lose his eyesight in his mid-teens. According to researcher Bruce Bastin, “While he was living in Rockingham he began to have trouble with his eyes. He went to see a doctor in Charlotte who allegedly told him that he had ulcers behind his eyes, the original damage having been caused by some form of snow-blindness”. However, there is an alternative story that he was blinded by an ex-girlfriend who threw chemicals in his face.
By 1928 he was completely blind, and turned to whatever employment he could find as a singer and entertainer, often playing in the streets. By studying the records of country blues players like Blind Blake and the “live” playing of Gary Davis, Allen became a formidable guitarist, and played on street corners and at house parties in Winston-Salem, Danville, and then Durham, North Carolina. In Durham, playing around the tobacco warehouses, he developed a local following which included guitarists Floyd Council and Richard Trice, as well as harmonica player Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry and washboard player/guitarist George Washington.
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911, Greensboro, North Carolina – 11 March 1986, Mineola, New York was a blind blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts. He was also an accomplished Jews harp player.
His father, a farmer, taught him to play basic blues harp as a youth. He sustained injuries to his eyes and lost his sight by the time he was 16, which prevented him from doing farm work himself. In order to earn a living Terry was forced to play music. He began playing in Shelby, North Carolina. After his father died he began playing in the trio of Piedmont-style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller. When Fuller died, he established a long-standing musical relationship with Brownie McGhee, and the pair recorded numerous tracks together. The duo became well-known, even among white audiences, as they joined the growing folk movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This included collaborations with Woody Guthrie and Moses Asch, producing Folkways Records (now Smithsonian/Folkways) classic recordings.
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