Low Down Dirty Blues B-Roll
For decades, Blues artists have captivated audiences with the Dirty Blues, music packed with passion and soul, along with innuendo, insinuation and, above all, humor! Featuring songs made (in)famous by the likes of Mae West, Muddy Waters, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker, Howlin’ Wolf, Pearl Bailey and many others, Low Down Dirty Blues is a rousing, raucous, musical good time!
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‘John Henry’ BIG BILL BROONZY (1951) Country Blues Guitar Legend
” John Henry ” (1951)
The ” RED HOT BLUES ” (1925-1945)
Texas Alexander
Pink Anderson
Kokomo Arnold
Barbecue Bob
Scrapper Blackwell
Black Ace
Ed Bell
Blind Blake
Ishman Bracey
Big Bill Broonzy
Richard “Rabbit” Brown
Willie Brown
Bumble Bee Slim
Gus Cannon
Bo Carter
Sam Collins
Floyd Council
Gary Davis
Sleepy John Estes
Blind Boy Fuller
Son House
Peg Leg Howell
Mississippi John Hurt
Papa Charlie Jackson
Jim Jackson
Skip James
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Willie Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
Robert Johnson
Tommy Johnson
Charley Jordan
Luke Jordan
Leadbelly
Furry Lewis
Cripple Clarence Lofton
Tommy McClennan
Robert Lee McCoy
Blind Willie McTell
The Memphis Jug Band
Buddy Moss
Memphis Minnie
Hambone Willie Newbern
Charley Patton
Robert Petway
Jimmie Rodgers
Frank Stokes
Sonny Terry
Henry Thomas
Ramblin Thomas
Curley Weaver
Casey Bill Weldon
Peetie Wheatstraw
Bukka White
Josh White
Robert Wilkins
Big Joe Williams
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John Nemeth Song #2 – Salmon Arm’s Roots & Blues Festival
John Németh is a rising star – a singer steeped in the blues tradition reminiscent of B.B. King, Ray Charles and Junior Parker. With origins that are an unlikely breeding ground for such an impressive blues talent, this Boise, Idaho native grew up singing in the Catholic Church. “I’ve been singing all my life,” he says. From the day I was born, I’ve been screamin’, singin’, hollerin’, and cryin’. I guess it’s my only reason for existence.”
When he was fourteen, John discovered the blues. “Junior Wells was the artist that hooked me. He was funky like James Brown and lowdown like Muddy Waters.” A bright new talent on the blues scene, John began playing with the Junior Watson Band in 2002, as well as gigging with his own band, the Jacks. In 2004, he recorded “Come And Get It” with Junior’s band, an album that received rave reviews and scored well on independent blues radio charts.
A vocalist with great range, ability, and soulfulness, John also developed into a top-notch blues harmonica player. At a performance in 2006, label head Jerry Del Giudice was so impressed, he signed John to a multi-recording deal with Blind Pig Records. “In our nearly thirty years in the business,” Del Giudice said, “we have never before offered a new artist a recording contract on the strength of one performance.”
The buzz around John Németh is substantial. The Cascade Blues Association selected him as “crowd favorite” at the 2002 Portland Waterfront Blues Festival, and the Washington Blues Society named him the “show stealer” at the 2003 Winthrop Rhythm and Blues Festival. John’s decade long career has found him opening for Robert Cray, Keb Mo’, and Earl Thomas, and performing major festivals around the US, Europe, Canada and Asia.
His uncanny blend of retro-modern blues and soul prove John is a natural-born bluesman with every note he sings, shaping each one with emotion, taste and inspiration. With his pleasingly gruff soul vocals and searing harmonica, this supremely versatile performer has made true believers of some of the biggest names in the business. A 2010 Blues Music Award nomination for Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year is the latest nod to come his way, so be sure to catch John Németh now so you can say you saw him in the early years of his soon-to-be giant career!
Visit www.rootsandblues.ca for more information regarding our next event in August! British Columbia
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Daydream performed by Chantel Mcgregor (Young Blues Artist of the Year 2011)
Chantel Mcgregor (Young Blues Artist of the Year 2011)performing Robin Trower’s Daydream at Blakeys Bar King Georges Hall Blackburn 1 April 2011
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Blues Traveler – Hook
Music video by Blues Traveler performing Hook. (C) 1994 A&M Records
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AMERICAN FOLK BLUES FESTIVAL 1962-1969
A mini-feature (running time 6:30) about an annual event that featured the cream of American blues musicians barnstorming their way across Western Europe every Fall from 1962 through 1966. These historic and unseen performances filmed with superb camera work and pristine sound, the festivals featured a dazzling array of talent that included such greats as Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, and playing alongside other legends such as T-Bone Walker, Lightnin Hopkins, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Memphis Slim and Big Mama Thornton to create the most significant group of blues artists ever assembled!
Unearthed some 40 years after the fact, our production takes the viewer through an extraordinary lineup of bluesmen and women. Thanks to a couple of young promoters who brought the musicians to Europe–where they were treated with a good deal more respect and dignity than in America– Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Sippie Wallace… the list goes on. Their concert performances (several in stagy but effective down-home settings) before a rather formal but appreciative German audience have them playing in some cool combinations (T-Bone Walker backing Memphis Slim, Otis Rush with Junior Wells), introducing one another (Williamson on guitarist Lonnie Johnson, an elder statesman on the tour: “A very nice musician”)–and all with great sound (mono, but still flawless) and visuals (in black and white). This is one for blues fans to treasure.
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Chicago Blues Festival 2011 Performers
ChicagoCultureEventshttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/chicagocultureeventsMusicChicago, Blues, Festival, Fest, Grant, Park, David, Honeyboy, EdwardsChicago Blues Festival 2011 Performers
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Tennessee Rocky Top Tennessee Nashville TN Memphis Blues Art Photography Fine Arts
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A video of Tennessee history. The Tennessee Theme song Rocky Top. There is so much spirit in Tennessee. Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale video about state of Tennessee. Corey Barksdale has lived in Atlanta for about 15 years and has become one of Atlanta’s premier artist. Corey Barksdale has exhibited his artwork at the Atlanta Dogwood festival, Decatur Art Festival, Virginia-Highlands Art Festival, National Black Art Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Artsplosure in Raleigh North Carolina, Art Festival in Paducah, Kentucky, One of a Kind Show in Chicago, etc. Decatur, GA artist Corey Barksdale has painted for audiences in the city of Atlanta,
This video was created by Atlanta & Decatur Fine Artist Corey Barksdale. Please visit Corey’s website. http://www.coreybarksdale.com/
The song was written by a married couple, songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. They wrote “Rocky Top” in only ten minutes in 1967. The Bryants were working in Gatlinburg on a collection of slow-tempo songs for a project for Archie Campbell and Chet Atkins. Writing the fast-paced “Rocky Top” served as a temporary diversion for them. Recorded by the Osborne Brothers in 1967, the song was a top 40 hit on the country music charts in early 1968.
Although a staple of their concerts, the song did not achieve mass popularity until Lynn Anderson had a hit with it in 1970, and when the “Pride of the Southland” University of Tennessee marching band used it for one of their drills in 1972. The song was very popular and was officially adopted as a state song in 1982. In the 1970s, the song achieved such popularity among bar crowds that the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, old-time band the Red Clay Ramblers [1] national tours included a crowd-pleasing satire informally titled “Play ‘Rocky Top’ (or I’ll Punch Your Lights Out.)”[2]
The original “Rocky Top” song describes a place called Rocky Top, Tennessee, which is one of the three peaks of Thunderhead Mountain in Tennessee (located in the Smoky Mountains) in the eastern part of the state. The peak is actually located along the border between Tennessee and North Carolina.[3][4]
Despite its fast and upbeat tempo, the song’s first verse is actually a lament over a failed love affair and a vanishing way of life. The song’s second verse is an ode to two apparent revenuers and the illegal production of alcoholic beverages by moonshining, with a reference to “looking for a moonshine still.” These are all common country music themes. With its good-natured regional references to a carefree lifestyle, the singing of “Rocky Top” by Tennessee college students and alumni at sports venues such as Neyland Stadium is well established. The University of Tennessee has been granted a perpetual license to play the song as much and as often as success on the field dictates by the copyright holders, House of Bryant.
Contrary to popular belief, “Rocky Top” is not UT’s official fight song, although it is so closely identified with the university that many believe this to be the case. UT’s official fight song is a radically different tune called “Here’s To Old Tennessee”, adapted from the Yale University fight song “Down the Field”.
“Operation Rocky Top” was the FBI’s code name for a public corruption investigation into the Tennessee state government in the late 1980s which resulted in the eventual suicide of the Tennessee Secretary of State, Gentry Crowell, and the incarceration of several other individuals, most notably state House Majority Leader Tommy Burnette. The focus of the investigation was the illegal sale of bingo licenses.
The jam band Phish played “Rocky Top” regularly from 1987 to 2003. There have been additional cover versions of the song by such country music artists as Dolly Parton, Conway Twitty, and Billie Jo Spears. It can also be known as the official fight song of David Webb, a noted band director in Central Virginia at Jefferson Forest High.
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U.S. BLUES TOUR ’63
Featuring: Victoria Spivey, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Spann, Matt Guitar Murphy, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim and Billy Stepney.
The 1960s European tours by American Blues artists were legendary. They introduced a music that had only been previously available on hard to find discs to a new generation of young people and changed the face of our popular music forever.
Diehard blues fans at last got the chance to see their idols in the flesh and for those who werent able attend the concerts, many of them were documented on film. The very rare footage on this DVD includes artists who were playing in the early days of the music as well as masters of the Chicago Blues. Due to age, this material contains a few minor visual glitches; the audio is excellent however and nothing distracts from these inspiring and important performances.
Bonus material: Three audio tracks from Victoria Spivey, Lonnie Johnson and Big Joe Williams plus images and biographies.
You can order this DVD at http://www.bluesdvd.nl
Duration : 0:8:36
Blues, Country Blues, Rhythm & Blues
3 fine slices of blues music. Got my mojo workin’ – Muddy Waters, Frankie – Missisipi John Hurt, Crawling up a hill – John Mayall
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