西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Gene Logsdon brings up "Mississippi John Hurt’s remark that all music was about human sexual relationships" — Sexual Attitudes In Agrarian Life . "John Hurt was an early country blues singer and a real farmer whose music is now enjoying a resurgence among country music purists," explains parenthetically Mr. Logsdon. Here's a song by Mississippi John Hurt that seems to...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Last week, I stumbled into a jam session with Frank Fairfield and other musicians by accident, and blogged a quick iPhone video snapshot. The next day, I started googling and YouTubing and Myspacing to find out more about each of the musicians, and found this. A stunning video of Fairfield performing "Nine Pound Hammer." Give me chills. Shot and directed by Keith Musil (I'm dying to know...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
In the late '30s and '40s, Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys were the biggest stars in country music, but when he appeared onstage at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, he did so after a number of years spent toiling in relative obscurity The 1963 Newport Folk Festival boasted a roster filled to the brim with up and coming young performers including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Ian and Sylvia. Though the...
Sixeyes (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Nick Cave put his own spin on the oft recorded story about Lee "Stag Lee" Shelton, and called his take "Stagger Lee", on the classic 1996 album Murder Ballads . I say "his take" because other recordings have various versions of the name (and details) likely due to the story spreading across the US orally in the late 1800's (Stagolee, Stack O' Lee, Stackerlee, Stackoo...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
I won't argue plagiarism in the music business. It happens & has been happening for a century or more (how many versions of Stagger Lee are there?) The real crime is how these original artists were treated. Don' talk about royalites not received now. Most NEVER received any royalties. $5 or $10 or $20 (maybe!) to record a song and then the music company owned the rights and the artist never saw...
BluesHound (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Blues Routes Mississippi John Hurt - Mississippi John Hurt
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Heartbreak & Vine Music Festival Day 13 Songsters Lonnie Johnson Mance Lipsomb Skip James Mississippi John Hurt
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
I don't think I can recommend this mp3 album more enthusiastically. I love it, and think that fans of the blues, folk music, and gospel music will too. Just check out the various artist who are included here. The cool part about mp3 albums is that you only have to buy the tracks that you like, but in this case each track is a keeper. Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will The Circle Be Unbroken click image...
Keep The Coffee Coming (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
I Don't Hear Nothin' But The Blues is a hilariously apt title for the new CD by saxophonist John Irabagon and drummer {{Mike Pride = 14952}}. The phrase--and the cover art, featuring both as well-dressed train-hoppers--would suggest a certain something to most listeners, maybe a tribute to Louisiana Red or Memphis Slim or Mississippi John Hurt. And while the one long, extended jam that makes up the...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
VARIOUS: I Have to Paint My Face - Mississippi Blues 1960 [Arhoolie] In the summer of 1960 I had made my first trip through Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi with British blues scholar, Paul Oliver and his wife Valerie. Paul's homework and dedication to meet, interview and record a good many older blues artists for a series of programs sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was in...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
In the folk and country blues revival of the 1960s he was listening to Broonzy, Brownie McGhee and Lightnin' Hopkins and beginning to collect old 78 rpm records from the 1920s and 1930s. This brought him into contact with other collectors, including John Fahey, Ed Denson, Bernie Klatzko, Tom Hoskins and Nick Perls. Collecting the 78s developed into searching for the artists who had recorded them, with...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
Califone Will Release Their New Album All My Friends Are Funeral Singers October 6 On Dead Oceans Califone The critically acclaimed Chicago post-rock act Califone is set to release their forthcoming album All My Friends Are Funeral Singers October 6 on Dead Oceans. The album marks the highly anticipated follow-up to 2006's Roots and Crowns, which The New York Times calls "enthralling," and...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Mississippi John Hurt Stagger Lee
My[confined]Space (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
Damn fine and DIDN\’T sell his soul to Satan.
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