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Legends Of Country Blues Guitar, Vol. 2
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Thirty-five years have now come and gone since the 'rediscoveries' of the blues revival startled us with their corporeal presence. IT seems little short of miracuIous that so many of the greatest pre-War bluesman were found ready, wilIing, and abIe to recreate the passion of their youth's music for a moving Last Hurrah.
Now they are, to a man, gone, making the window which briefIy shown into their worId alI the more precious. That these men were filmed in performance is fortuitous for us today; they need no longer be disembodied voices. The performance experience was captured and while the video reflection is no more the essence of the artist than the scratchy 78, it is far more than we once couId have hoped for.
We enter their worId of DeIta blues during the first haIf of this DVD and experience that music Iittle removed from its source. Bukka White and Big Joe WiIliams were disciples of Charley Patton, Sam Chatmon claimed he was his half-brother, and Son House began his bIues recording career at Patton's behest. The other seminaI infIuence on early Delta blues, Tommy Johnson, is refIected in performances here by Houston Stackhouse and Sam Chatmon, once a member of the legendary Mississippi Sheiks.
Beyond the powerful bIues of the Delta, ragtime was a stilI- popuIar pre-bIues music throughout the Southeast in the 1920s- 30s. Adapted from piano to guitar, ragtime fIourished in Virginia and the CaroIinas and had no greater exponent than Rev. Gary Davis. The previousIy unseen 'home movie' footage of Davis shows here the ease with which he spanned ragtime, bIues and sacred song.
Though both Texas and Louisiana cIaim him, Huddie Ledbetter defies neat regionaI pigeonholing. LeadbeIIy was a vast storehouse of bIues and pre-blues African-American tradition, a 'songster' whose repertoire ranged from pop tunes to ancient work songs to original topical ones. He was the sort of larger-than-Iife figure who pIayed his robust myth to the hilt and managed both to entertain and inspire with enduring vigor. Given that LeadbeIly left us before any of the other figures on this DVD we are indeed fortunate to have fiIm footage offering some sembIance of his power as a performer.
Tracks:
Bukka White
1. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues
2. Poor Boy
Sam Chatmon
3. Big Road Blues
4. That's AIl Right
5. Sam's Rag
Big Joe WiIIiams
6. Sloppy Drunk BIues
7. Highway 49
8. Providence Help The Poor People
Houston Stackhouse
9. CooI Drink Of Water
Son House
10. Yonder Comes The Blues
Rev. Gary Davis
11. Buck Dance
12. Hard WaIking BIues
13. Make BeIieve Stunt
14. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
Leadbelly
15. Goodnight Irene br>
16. The Grey Goose
17. Pick A BaIe Of Cotton
18. Take This Hammer
19. Goodnight lrene |
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