Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The folk music sourcebook By Larry Sandberg, Dick Weissman

Page 9, 14, 15

6da9d250fca0bb3b6b236010_L  The Folk Music Source Book

Title
The folk music sourcebook
A Borzoi book
[Marshall F. Granros collection]

Authors
Larry Sandberg, Dick Weissman

Edition
illustrated

 

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House; 1st edition (1976)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0394496841
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394496849
  • Monday, November 29, 2010

    Coda magazine, Issues 177-187

    Pages 35, 37

    Title
    Coda magazine, Issues 177-187

    Publisher
    J. Norris, 1981

    Original from
    the University of California

    Digitized
    23 Mar 2010

    Sunday, November 28, 2010

    Coda magazine, Issues 188-193

    On Pages 20, 65

    Title
    Coda magazine, Issues 188-193

    Publisher
    J. Norris, 1983

    Original from
    the University of California

    Digitized
    23 Mar 2010

    Friday, November 26, 2010

    THE BATH FESTIVAL OF JAZZ: Regency Ballroom, Bath, June 2nd-June 7th, 1958: Concert program.

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    16pp; illus from photographs. Contains the programme for each day of the Festival, along with photographs of the performers and groups and considerable biographical material. 10.5" x 8.25 In this first year for jazz as one of the art forms at the Bath Festival, the musicians were: Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, The Omega Band; Humphrey Lyttelton & His Band; Chris Barber's Jazz Band, with Ottilie Patterson, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee; Mick Mulligan & His Band, with George Melly, Beryl Bryden and Neva Raphaello; Tony Kinsey Quintet; Tommy Whittle Quintet; Dill Jones Trio; Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra. Each evening concert was accompanied by an expert lecture on the particular jazz idiom featured that night.

    Thursday, November 25, 2010

    North Carolina folklore By North Carolina Folklore Society, University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Folklore Council

    Pg 102

    Title
    North Carolina folklore

    Authors
    North Carolina Folklore Society, University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Folklore Council

    Publisher
    North Carolina Folklore Society., 1971

    Original from
    Indiana University

    Digitized
    6 Jul 2009

    Wednesday, November 24, 2010

    Music Minus One (Book No. 140) Weissman, Dick

    Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some shelf wear, light stain in the upper corner of the rear of the wrapper, overall a nice well-preserved used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! No publishing date. Black and white wrapper with a white illustration on the front and a black and white photograph on the rear with black lettering. 48 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! (RECORD NOT INCLUDED) Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "The purpose of this book is to teach you how to play the blues on the guitar. No previous knowledge of the guitar is required, and extended examples are given of each style. The blues style is roughly a hundred years old, and arises from the lives and feelings of the Negro people in Souther U.S. This music encompasses a broad though subtle musical scope. The best way to feel the blues is to listen to and know personally as many blues singers as you can. In my own case, my first night club job was with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. Listening to them night after night, I learned more about the form and spontaneity of the blues than any book or record could have taught me

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    Tuesday, November 23, 2010

    Signed Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. New York: New Directions, 1955. First Edition, First Issue.

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    Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. New York: New Directions, 1955. First Edition, First Issue. 8vo., 197pp. An essentially fine copy showing minimal use. Neatly signed in blue fountain pen by Williams on the second free endpaper. First state binding without mention of the New York Times review on the copyright page & no credit for Mielziner or Ballard on p. XII. The original Alvin Lustig designed dustwrapper in very good or better condition [A couple of closed tears, minor wear]. An important title, difficult to find signed. The original 1955 Kazan directed theatrical performance, featured Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pat Hingle, & blues greats Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman starred in the film version. A nice copy of this Pulitzer winning Williams masterpiece which along with "Streetcar" ranks as his most desirable title to find signed. $4575.

    Monday, November 22, 2010

    Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. [Original Playscript], [n.d.] [c: 1954]

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    Williams, Tennessee. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. [Original Playscript], [n.d.] [c: 1954] Ts, 133 pp. [Typescript Carbon Original]. Acts I, II & III. Numbered internally by Act. Bound into a grey two hole duo tang style folder showing some use, with the red printed label of "Anne Meyerson Manuscript Typing And Mimeographing Service pasted onto the top left corner. Originally sold by Harvey Tucker of Black Sun Books in 1981 with his signed note on the title page: "This script of Tennessee Williams is from the collection of Audrey Wood, his agent, and is authentic". The play was dedicated by Williams to Audrey Wood his long-time literary agent. From 1939 Wood helped guide & focus Williams' writing. With her nurturing, he created some of his greatest works, including: Menagerie, Streetcar & Cat. An essentially fine copy of this rare playscript with holographic red pencil corrections [of uncertain origin, likely Williams or Wood's] suggesting a move of Brick's line: "I might be impotent - Maggie" from 3-39 to the close at 3-40, adding a line for Margaret [Maggie the cat]: "I'm not afraid" & then "Curtain"; the text unrevised or revised does not appear in any later published editions. This very early unsanitized pre-New York playscript contains the original lewd "Elephant Joke" [Texas 14, 15: Parker 484-5] 3-31 with Brick's uproarious laughter which Kazan gradually eliminated from successive drafts but which was incorporated into the original Philadelphia play tryouts. 'Cat's' Brick & Maggie originated in the short story "Three Players of a Summer Game," first published in The New Yorker, November 1, 1952 which Williams developed into the play. In late 1954, the Playwrights Company agreed to produce Cat on a Hot Tin Roof & named Elia Kazan as director who suggested revisions to the script, asking Williams to rewrite the third act for Broadway. The play opened March 25, 1955, & the revised ending has engendered an ongoing debate over its correctness that remains to this day. New Directions published the first edition in book form later that year with both Williams' original version of the third act & the Broadway version, with a "Note of Explanation" discussing the circumstances of the revision. The original Kazan directed theatrical performance, featured Ben Gazzara, Burl Ives, Barbara Bel Geddes, Pat Hingle, & blues greats Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Newman starred in the film version. A very early state of this Pulitzer winning Williams masterpiece. $39500.

    Sunday, November 21, 2010

    CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    Review

    Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. -- Howard Kissel, The Daily News
    The introductions, by playwrights as illustrious as Williams himself, are the gem of these new editions. -- Ken Furtado, Echo Magazine, 23 September 2004
    [Cat on a Hot Tin Roof] is [Williams'] most impassioned and articulate statement on human isolation. -- Ben Brantley, The New York Times

    Product Description

    The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003-04 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams' essay "Person-to-Person," Williams' notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author's life.

    One of America's greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright's perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (September 30, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0811216012
  • ISBN-13: 978-0811216012

  • Saturday, November 20, 2010

    Belafonte Folk Song Book

    The Belafonte Folk Song Book, Songs of the People with Commentary

    Here are 22 folk songs arranged for voice, piano, & guitar with lyrics. In addition to the music, Harry Belafonte has provided commentary about each of the songs. Titles: Angelique-o Bald-headed woman Bamotsweri Brown-skin gal Cu cu ru cu cu paloma Day-O Dont ever love me Go down, Ol Hannah Im goin away In the evenin Mama Its the same the whole world over Jamaica farewell John Henry Judy Drownded Jump down, spin around Kingston market The marching saints Matilda Michael row the boat ashore My Lord, what a morning Scarlet ribbons Scratch, scratch

  • Paperback: 95 pages
  • Publisher: Consolidated Music Publishers (1962)
  • Language: English

  • Friday, November 19, 2010

    The story of the blues, Volume 2 By Paul Oliver

    Pages 129,131,174

    Title
    The story of the blues, Volume 2
    [Marshall F. Granros collection]

    Author
    Paul Oliver

    Edition
    4, illustrated

    Publisher
    Chilton Book Co., 1969

    Original from
    Indiana University

    Digitized
    22 Jul 2009

    Length
    176 pages

    Thursday, November 18, 2010

    The Down Home guide to the blues By Frank Scott

     

    Buy This Book   The Down Home Guide to the Blues
    513SchNe8mL From Library Journal

    This book is an outgrowth of Down Home Music 's mail-order catalog. Thirty-five hundred blues records, cassettes, and compact discs are listed, along with brief reviews and biographical information on the artists. The author has a genuine reverence for the blues and is unafraid to criticize poor material. The periods and styles covered range from the country blues of the 1920s to Robert Cray's latest release. Many items listed are vintage recordings reissued by foreign labels, while the newer material is often from small independent labels. You won't find these recordings at the local K-Mart, so the interested patron will appreciate the ordering information supplied. The recent rebirth of interest in this long-neglected, distinctly American artform makes this a valuable addition to any library.


    - Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
    Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

    Product Description

    A discographical guide to more than 3,000 blues and gospel LPs, CDs, and cassettes with information on the featured artists, and the quality and availability of the recordings.

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: A Cappella Books; 1st ed edition (August 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1556521308
  • ISBN-13: 978-1556521300
  • Tuesday, November 16, 2010

    The Country Blues

    The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback)

    The Country Blues: Roots of Jazz, Samuel B. Charters, From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues. On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neglected music was Sam Charter's The Country Blues. In it, Charters recreates the special world of the country bluesman--that lone black performer accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar, his music a rich reflection of his own emotional life. Virtually rewriting the history of the blues, Charters reconstructs its evolution and dissemination, from the first tentative soundings on the Mississippi Delta through the emergence, with Elvis Presley, of rock and roll.His carefully-researched biographies of near-legendary performers like Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Tampa Red--coupled with his perceptive discussions of their recordings--pay tribute to a kind of artistry that will never be seen or heard again. And his portraits of the still-strumming Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins--point up the undying strength and vitality of the country blues.

    Synopsis:

    From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music--recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, More...

    and Robert Johnson--had all but disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late 1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country blues.On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neglected music was Sam Charter's The Country Blues. In it, Charters recreates the special world of the country bluesman--that lone black performer accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar, his music a rich reflection of his own emotional life.Virtually rewriting the history of the blues, Charters reconstructs its evolution and dissemination, from the first tentative soundings on the Mississippi Delta through the emergence, with Elvis Presley, of rock and roll. His carefully-researched biographies of near-legendary performers like Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Tampa Red--coupled with his perceptive discussions of their recordings--pay tribute to a kind of artistry that will never be seen or heard again. And his portraits of the still-strumming Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins--point up the undying strength and vitality of the country blues

    The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) (ISBN: 0306800144 / 0-306-80014-4)
    Charters, Samuel B.

    Monday, November 15, 2010

    The Art of jazz: ragtime to bebop By Martin T. Williams

    On Pages 7, 9, 252

    The Art of Jazz: Ragtime to Bebop (Da Capo Paperback)

    A collection of writings on jazz deals with the major areas and personalities of this musical style

  • Paperback: 253 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press (March 1981)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0306801345
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306801341

  • Sunday, November 14, 2010

    Jazz records, 1942-1965: a discography, Volume 8 By Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen


    Jazz records, 1942-1965: a discography, Volume 8
    Jazz records, 1942-1965: a discography, Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen

    Author
    Jørgen Grunnet Jepsen

    Publisher
    K.E. Knudsen, 1965

    Original from
    the University of Virginia

    Digitized
    26 Jan 2010

    Saturday, November 13, 2010

    American folk masters: the National Heritage Fellows By Steve Siporin, Michel Monteaux, Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

    On Pages 128, 234, 245

    Buy This Book  American Folk Masters: The National Heritage Fellows

    American Folk Masters celebrates the lives and work of nearly 150 National Heritage Fellows, named since 1982 as exemplary practitioners of traditional folk arts. Sometimes likened to Japan's Living National Treasures, the Fellows are selected each year by the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts for their achievements in a wide variety of visual and performing folk arts. The National Heritage Fellows come from Maine and Hawaii, from Alaska and Puerto Rico, and from most states in between. A random roll call of even a few of their names - Duff Severe, Periklis Halkias, Canray Fontenot, Alice New Holy Blue Legs - reflects America's rich ethnic diversity. And the same diversity characterizes the arts the Fellows practice, which range from blues music, pottery, tap dancing, and lace making to Lakota quillwork, Sicilian marionette theater, African-American story-telling, and Hawaiian quiltmaking. Published on the tenth anniversary of the National Heritage Fellowships, this volume was inspired by an exhibition organized by the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. Its fifty full-page color photographs show the compelling, beautifully crafted objects made by the visual artists among the Fellows, while its black-and-white portraits and personal quotations capture the fascinating backgrounds and personalities of these people. Steve Siporin, folklorist and Associate Professor at Utah State University, has written a lively yet thoughtful essay that considers the Fellows as inheritors, innovators, and conservers of tradition. There are contributions by Bess Lomax Hawes, Director of the Folk Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts (1977-92), and BarreToelken, Professor of Folklore at Utah State University. A comprehensive illustrated Directory of all the Fellows from the last ten years includes an invaluable bibliography, discography, and filmography. The first full-length study of a groundbreaking program, American Folk Masters has much to offer anyone who values our national heritage. Whether descendants of the original Native peoples or members of the newest immigrant group, we can all learn from these consummate artists who are keeping our folk traditions alive today.

    From Publishers Weekly

    The melting-pot image of America belies the crazy-quilt ethnic diversity that continues to flourish, as revealed in this folk sampler, the catalogue of a recent exhibition at Santa Fe's Museum of International Folk Art. A Pueblo potter, Creole and Appalachian fiddlers, a Czech American egg painter, African American tap dancers and singers, a Finnish-American accordionist, cowboy poets, Latino muralists and a Laotian-born shamanic dancer are among the nearly 150 folk artists and performers profiled. All of them were selected since 1982 as grant recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' Folk Arts Program. In his celebration of multiculturalism, accompanied by 160 plates (50 in color), Siporin, a folklorist at Utah State University, interprets these vernacular artists as both innovators and conservers of tradition. The artists' own modest, moving statements reflect their commitment to forging a community-based aesthetic.
    Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

    Title
    American folk masters: the National Heritage Fellows

    Authors
    Steve Siporin, Michel Monteaux, Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

    Photographs by
    Michel Monteaux

    Illustrated by
    Michel Monteaux

    Edition
    illustrated

    Publisher
    H.N. Abrams, 1992

    Original from
    Indiana University

    Digitized
    3 Jul 2009

    ISBN
    0810919176, 9780810919174

    Length
    256 pages

    Friday, November 12, 2010

    Wednesday, November 10, 2010

    Tuesday, November 9, 2010

    Howlin' Wolf - Chicago Days

     

    On Copacaba Night Club. Early of 60's

    Saturday, November 6, 2010

    Brownie McGhee - Kansas City Blues

    Interview 90's and Solo show 1966.

    Wednesday, November 3, 2010

    Auto Mechanics Blues - Brownie McGhee

    Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee 1915 - 1996 recorded "Auto Mechanic Blues" in 28/5/1947. Toured and recorded with harmonica player Sonny Terry through 1980's. But on this track he's with New Orleans boogie woogie piano man Jack Dupree, and early jazz drummer Walter "Baby" Dodds.
    Talk about love.
    Lyrics:
    Your motor's missing* lady let me look up under your hood.
    Your motor's missing* lady I've got to look under your hood.
    Well I've got a feeling* that I can do your motor some good.
    Your battery needs charging* your plugs ain't firing at all.
    Your battery needs charging* your plugs ain't firing at all.
    Your rear is very dry it's completely out of oil.
    Your gears have been striped your transmission is awful dry.
    Your gears have been striped your transmission is awful dry.
    Let me be your mechanic then you'll be satisfied.
    Who checked this motor before you brought it to me?
    It's all out of time and everything.
    That ain't no way to take care of a car.
    Got to change the oil even if your old*** man ain't around.
    You** should change every thousand miles if you** want to keep the motor running* good.
    My prices ain't high I can make this motor go.
    My prices ain't high baby I can make this motor go.
    When I get through grinding* your valves you'll be ready to ride some more.
    I'll give you a number one job because**** I like your little machine.
    I'll give you a number one job because**** I like your little machine.
    It's not your generator mama you been burning* bad gasoline.
    * drop the g
    ** drop the ou
    *** drop the d
    **** drop the be

    Monday, November 1, 2010