John Jackson Teaches Louis Collins (w/host Roy Book Binder)
This DVD is a must-have for all guitarists who want a lesson with a traditional blues artist. The Piedmont style comes alive as John Jackson teaches songs from his wide repertoire, detailing the finer points of his fingerstyle technique and reminiscing about Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Son House and other classic blues guitarists who influenced his music. As a child, John Jackson picked up his father’s guitar and taught himself to play by listening to 78 rpm records and watching the legendary blues artists who passed through his home town in Rappahannock County, VA.
Roy Book Binder observes that there appear to be “four or five distinct John Jackson styles,” and you’ll get a taste of each one on this video, from “Little Brown Jug” (the very first piece John learned on guitar) to Mississippi John Hurt’s classic “Candy Man.” “West Coast Blues” and John Hurt’s “Louis Collins” will benefit those just getting into the fingerpicking style, while Blind Blake’s “Police Dog Blues” makes use of more advanced blues technique.
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Duration : 0:3:45
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.
Duration : 0:6:30
T Model Ford | Live | Deep Blues Festival III | Summer ’09 | with Gravel Road
T-Model’s credentials are impeccable; if anything he’s over qualified. He was born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi. T-Model thinks he’s seventy-five but isn’t sure. He was plowing a field behind a mule on his family’s farm by age eleven, and in his early teens he secured a job at a local sawmill. He excelled and was later recruited by a foreman from a bigger lumber company in the Delta, near Greenville, and eventually got promoted to truck driver. During the time he spent driving and working in a log camp, T-Model ran into trouble, and was eventually sentenced to ten years on a chain-gang for murder. He lucked out and was released after serving two. He says, grinning, “I could really stomp some back then, stomp it good. I was a-sure-enough dangerous man.” When asked how many times he’d been to jail, T-Model responded, “I don’t know. How many?” He seemed to think it might be a trick question. Upon realizing it wasn’t, he answered to the best of his ability. “Every Saturday night there for awhile.” As disheartening as this is, it’s also a refreshing reminder of how ridiculous the present image of a bluesman is. Nothing could be more twisted than the romanticized and picturesque standard…an old black man devoid of anger and rage happily strumming an acoustic guitar on the back porch of his shack “in that evening sun”. T-Model couldn’t be further from this fabricated image. At 3/4 of a century old and with a dislocated hip, hes still cussing, fighting, and outdrinking men a quarter his age. Spam to his friends,Tommy Lee Miles to the authorities, he has been T-Model’s A-number-one drummer for the past eight years. T-Model and Spam are the only men still playing on Greenville’s Nelson Street. Most of the audience has scattered due to violence from the crack trade, and with the exception of T-Model, the street that once boasted Booba Barnes and others is dead. On a typical night Spam and T-Model will arrive at the club and unpack T-Model’s guitar and amp, and the bass drum and snare he allows Spam to use. When T-Model feels there are enough people, they start banging away in their own post-war Peavey-powered hill stomp. It’s nothing unusual for T-Model to play eight hours a night. They keep going until no one’s left standing. After his equipment’s packed up T-Model will coat himself with Off and climb into his van to crash.
Duration : 0:5:21
Dock Boggs-Country Blues
Dock Boggs-Country Blues
Duration : 0:3:6
North Country Blues – Bob Dylan (Newport Folk Festival – 1963) (Türkçe)
North Country Blues, Bob Dylan, Newport Folk Festivali, 1963, Türkçe altyazılı – Turkish Subtitled.
Duration : 0:4:15
American Folk Blues Festival 1982 feat. Billy Branch
Son’s Of The Blues:
this is there version of the Little Walter classic Juke
Billy Branch, harmonica
Lurrie Bell, guitar
Elisha Murray, guitar
J. W. Williams, bass
Mose Rutues, drums
rec. November 1982 in Germany
Duration : 0:4:41
Andrew Jackson Jihad- Knife Man ALBUM REVIEW
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With an almost unmeasurable poetic bitterness, Andrew Jackson Jihad are as sharp as ever on their new album, Knife Man. As usual, the music here is about the lyrics. The chord progressions are familiar copies of folk songs and punk tunes. Hell, some of the songs even sound similar to tracks from the band’s previous album.
Still, the lyrics here throw me into fits of laughter and depression. These tracks make me swing back and forth like an emotional pendulum. That’s the show of a great Andrew Jackson Jihad album. Well, to me, anyway.
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FAV TRACKS: THE MICHAEL JORDAN OF DRUNK DRIVING, AMERICAN TUNE, HATE, RAIN ON ME, SAD SONGS (INTERMISSION), BIG BIRD,
LEAST FAV TRACK: BACK PACK
ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD- KNIFE MAN / 2011 / ASIAN MAN / FOLK PUNK, PUNK ROCK, INDIE ROCK
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Duration : 0:7:16
Dr. Isaiah Ross – 1965 – Feel So Good – The American Folk Blues Festival
Dr. Isaiah Ross (vocal, guitar, harmonica, drums)
The one man blues band !
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Duration : 0:3:31
Giles Corey- Giles Corey ALBUM REVIEW
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Dan Barrett’s latest project, a full-length album and book, is both a personal and fictional exploration of death, suicide, depression, and the afterlife. Because of that, this video takes a look at both the music and the book that comes with this package.
If anything makes the tracks on this CD stand out, it’s the atmosphere. Dan Barrett has a somewhat messy production style, but like any Mount Eerie album, it lends this project an interesting sound you’re not gonna hear anywhere else.
With one track after another being slathered in reverb, there are moments on here that remind me of Grizzly Bear’s 2007 album Yellow House. However, there’s a disturbing aura surrounding this album, which the book empowers.
Though there are some standout songs on this release, I like to take it as more of an experience–not just an assembly of tracks. Because to me, this album stirs up the same emotions any great piece of horror or science fiction would. Those emotions are filtered through a singer-songwriter lens, and it somehow works.
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FAV TRACKS: THE HAUNTING PRESENCE, GRAVE FILLED WITH BOOKS, NO ONE IS EVER GOING TO WANT ME, SPECTRAL BRIDE
LEAST FAV TRACK: BURIED ABOVE GROUND
GILES COREY- GILES COREY / ENEMIESLIST / 2011 / SINGER-SONGWRITER, FOLK, SHOEGAZE, NOISE, EXPERIMENTAL, DRONE
Duration : 0:11:2
My Morning Jacket- Circuital ALBUM REVIEW
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My Morning Jacket’s latest album was a two-part surprise for me. First, I was happy to hear how alive and ambitious the first half of this album was. Not only are the hooks and instrumentation strong, but the band seems equally comfortable saying something beautiful or funny with their lyrics.
But the second shocker was when the latter half of this record pulled the rug out from under me with some pretty underwhelming songwriting and vocal deliveries. While it’s nice to have some familiar reference points on this album–which show up in some tried and true chord progressions and melodies–My Morning Jacket doesn’t exactly refurbish these ideas in a very exciting way.
I am literally split on this album. Some points really seduce me, but others make me feel like the steam just ran out halfway through. Dang!
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5/10
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FAV TRACKS: CIRCUITAL, WONDERFUL (WAY I FEEL), OUTTA MY SYSTEM
LEAST FAV: HOLDIN ON TO BLACK METAL
MY MORNING JACKET- CIRCUITAL
Duration : 0:5:57
