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Page 541
Friday, December 31, 2010
Jazz Records, 1942-80: A-Ba By Erik Raben, Ole J. Nielsen
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Blues unlimited, Issues 147-149
Page 41
Title
Blues unlimited, Issues 147-149
Publisher
BU Publications Ltd., 1986
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
20 Jul 2009
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Give my poor heart ease: voices of the Mississippi blues By William Ferris
 | Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues |
From Publishers Weekly
For blues lovers who love their experience pure and strong, Ferris (Blues from the Delta) conducted more than 20 interviews of blues and gospel performers from the Mississippi Delta for his latest book. The author did much of this fieldwork as a graduate student during the 1960s and 1970s, capturing these singers close to where they grew up, chopping cotton and tending the farms during the day and prowling around the jukes and roadhouses at night. From among the Delta locals of sacred and secular music, Ferris interviews such blues masters as James Son Ford Thomas, Willie Dixon and B.B. King, with their words accompanied by a stirring CD/DVD of their music. There is an intriguing section on the infamous Parchman Penitentiary in the Delta, where cruel overseers and defiant inmates battle each other. Joyous, powerful and authentic, this package is designed to both inform and entertain those willing to plunge into this audacious world. (Nov.)
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Jazz in the movies By David Meeker
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
A Hard Days Night
5 -5 5 6 6 6
It's been a hard day's night,
6 6 -5 6 -7 6 -5 6 -5 5
and I been work-ing like a dog---
5 -5 5 6 6 6
It's been a hard day's night,
6 6 -5 6 -7 6 -5 6 -5 5
I should be sleep-ing like a log---
7 7 7 7 -7 -7 -6
But when I get home to you
7 7 7 -8 -8 7 -7
I find the things that you do
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 6
Will make me feel al-l-right
5 -5 5 6 6 6
You know I work all day
6 6 -5 6 -7
to get you mon-ey
6 6 -5 6 -5 5
to buy you things---
-5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
And it's worth it just to hear you say
6 6 6 6 -7 -7
you're gon-na to give me
6 -5 6 -5 5
ev-'ry-thing---
7 7 7 7 7 -7 -7
So why on earth should I moan,
7 7 7 -8 -8 7 -7
'cause when I get you a-lone
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 5
You know I feel al-l-right
6 -7 7
When I'm home
7 -7 -6 -6 -7 7 -8
feel-ing you hold-ing me tight,
-8 -8
tight,yeah
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 5
You know I feel al-l-right
5 -5 5 6 5 -5 5
You know I feel al-l-right
Midnight Special
| "Midnight Special" | |
| Written by | Traditional |
| Language | English |
| Form | Country blues |
| Original artist | Traditional |
| Recorded by | (Historically) |
"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song that probably originated among prisoners in the American South. The title refers to the light of a train that shines through the prison window and represents a light of salvation that can deliver the prisoner from his prison walls. The song is played in the country-blues style. Verses vary and intermix with other prison songs, such as "Jumpin Judy," "Ain't That Berta," "Oh Berta," and "Yon Comes de Sargent." Many of the components of these songs became standard in the blues repertoire and appear in other types of blues songs.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Gramophone, Volume 38, Part 1 By Sir Compton Mackenzie, Christopher Stone
Page 199
Title
Gramophone, Volume 38, Part 1
Authors
Sir Compton Mackenzie, Christopher Stone
Publisher
General Gramophone Publications Ltd., 1960
Original from
the University of Michigan
Digitized
29 Sep 2009
Monday, December 20, 2010
Great American Websites: an online discovery of a hidden America By Edward J. Renehan, Edward Renehan
Pg 311
 | Great American Websites: An Online Discovery of a Hidden America |
Amazon.com Review
Who better to lead an online tour of America than Edward J. Renehan? He's a respected historian, Internet guru, and even a much-traveled musician. You might expect such a person to give a very personal view of this country, and you'd be right. Each of the 21 chapters begins with a mini-essay--entertaining and information-rich, despite their brevity--offering Renehan's personal insights into some topic's place in the American experience. The great thing is that the tour he provides leaves much room for every reader's take on American culture. Renehan serves up his selection of the best American Web sites with an eye on diversity. Here are sites showing both the range of American foods and the many ways we see our criminals and our legal system. There are sites devoted to all aspects of the American religious experience, historic events and sites, celebrations and extravaganzas, travel, natural wonders, politics and much more. What you'll get out of this book, besides a huge collection of wonderful web sites, is an enhanced appreciation for America's greatness--not just greatness in the sense of exalted, but in the sense of the expansiveness of its people, places, and subcultures.
From Library Journal
This is really a book on American history using the net. This might be compared to the Wolff New Media subject guides to the net?NetSex, Net Scifi, etc.?but we are dealing with a serious topic that will bring truly new resources to students' fingertips. Taking a broad view of American history, chapters deal with sports, architecture, crime, the outdoors, and food as well as the expected patriots, law, maps, and politics. From Gettysburg to T.S. Eliot to the My Lai massacre, it's all here for the clicking.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title
Great American Websites: an online discovery of a hidden America
Authors
Edward J. Renehan, Edward Renehan
Edition
illustrated
Publisher
Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1997
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
16 Oct 2009
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Dealing With The Devil Volume Two
1977
Dealing With The Devil - Jimmy Cotton
Rockin' & Whoopin' - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Born With The Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
New Vicksburgh Blues - Little Brother Montgomery
Hot Nuts - Roosevelt Sykes
St Louis Blues - Jimmy Rushing
I Keep On Drinkin' - Little Brother Montgomery
Jet Plane Blues - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Farrish St. Jive - Little Brother Montgomery
Sweet Old Chicago - Roosevelt Sykes
Am I Blue - Jimmy Rushing
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Big Blues. Music for Little People.
Big Blues. Music for Little People. 46min. Imagine learning to sing the ABCs with Taj Mahal or singing along to "Zip a Dee Doo Dah" with the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Children can "Pick a Bale o' Cotton" with the legendary Sonny Terry, take a "Flying Lesson" with Michelle Shocked, or sing the blues with Rita Coolidge or B. B. King. This melding of the best of America's blues artists with children's music is truly a recording that families can enjoy together.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Making People's Music : Moe Asch and Folkways Records
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Description:
The biography of Folkway Records founder Moe Asch who is best known for his recordings of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. A clean, tight unread copy. DJ is somewhat rubbed with one closed tear to back. Bookseller Inventory # 000928
Editorial Reviews:
Synopsis: The founder of Folkways Records in 1948 and its director for nearly forty years, Moe Asch was committed to preserving the entire range of the world's musical and oral traditions. Using Asch's career as a lens through which to view folk music, leftist politics, and the recording industry, Peter D. Goldsmith shows how Asch's breadth of vision produced an extraordinary recorded legacy--from jazz, historical ballads, and children's street rhymes to the folk music of Woody Guthrie and the blues of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
Review: "...as an examination of how Folkways successfully mined obscure veins of vernacular music for four decades, this is a valuable study."
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1ST edition (January 1, 1998)
(ISBN: 1560988126 / 1-56098-812-6 )
Goldsmith, Peter D.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The big book of blues: a biographical encyclopedia By Robert Santelli
Pgs 286, 396, 397
 | The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia |
From Library Journal
This ambitious biographical encyclopedia delivers the goods, listing over 600 entries from every era and style of the blues. Santelli's wide definition of blues music includes styles from folk to rock to zydeco. Important British artists like Eric Clapton and John Mayal are covered, and songwriters and producers also receive recognition. Some purists may quibble about the inclusion of Lucinda Williams and the absence of Koerner, Ray and Glover (the trio that introduced country blues to many white college students in the Sixties). Still, the concise, informative biographical data and the lists of essential recordings that follow each entry make this book essential for any comprehensive music collection. Highly recommended.
- Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The blues seem to have been making a reference-publishing comeback in the past few years. The Big Book of Blues, by music-journalist Santelli, explores the lives of 650 blues musicians, with a few nonmusicians, such as the Lomaxes from the Library of Congress, mixed in.
The biographical essays open with the names of band members or individual artists, the real name or other performing nom de chanson, and birth and death dates. Entries cover the performers' career and include other musicians who influenced or played with them, hit records or singles, discussion of style, etc. Entries range in length from approximately 100 words for Eddie "Vaan" Shaw to more than 650 for Blind Lemon Jefferson. There are some discrepancies in dates between this and other sources for early blues performers, stemming mostly from unclear records. Unlike the recent Encyclopedia of the Blues by Herzhaft [RBB Ja 1 93], which had some entries by genre such as Female Blues Singers or White Blues, The Big Book of Blues is by individual or band name only, and as a result some performers have longer essays here than in Herzhaft (e.g., Sippie Wallace).
There are cross-references to other performers within essays, but no references from real names or lesser-known nicknames to the entry under the best-known performing name. Profiles end with a brief discography. A bibliography of sources and a name index conclude the work.
Libraries owning Blues Who's Who by Harris (Da Capo, 1981) and the Encyclopedia of the Blues may not need The Big Book of Blues unless they have an active blues audience. However, the book is well written, inexpensive, and current, making it an attractive purchase.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Masters of the Country Blues - Rev. Gary Davis and Sonny Terry
The Rev. Gary Davis and Sonny Terry both went from the streets of Durham, North Carolina, to worldwide acclaim, so it's appropriate that two blind musicians share a tape. Davis was a single-note fingerpicker par excellence, with a strong ragtime base. Though he repudiated blues and would sing only gospel music, he could be talked into numbers like "Candy Man" as long as he only played them. So three of the eight selections are blues-rag instrumentals, two are vaudeville-flavored pieces, "She Wouldn't Say Quit" and "Where You Get Your Liquor From," and the rest is pure gospel. Davis's sprightly picking contrasts with his rather foreboding appearance. (Guitarists will appreciate that all 
Sonny Terry is the virtuoso harp player who was teamed - and often at odds - with guitarist, singer, and songwriter Brownie McGhee for some 30 years. Terry played with the best, including Leadbelly, Blind boy Fuller, and Woody Guthrie, but he's a standout on his own. This set features him on five solo numbers, with quite gregarious, slightly off-the-wall introductions. His single-note playing with accompanying hand flutters for tone altering is captured nicely, especially on his showcase "Hooting the Blues." He alternates between harp notes and sung falsetto tones so rapidly it's mind-boggling; he was one of a kind.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The country blues By Samuel Barclay Charters
Page 221
 | The Country Blues (Da Capo Paperback) |
Product Description
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.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author
Samuel Charters is a musicographer, novelist, poet, and producer of jazz and blues records who for many years has also been seriously interested in every aspect of black music. His book, The Country Blues, was the first to be published on the subject. He began making field recordings in the South in the early 1950s and has subsequently produced many recordings, both of individual blues artists and of the musical backgrounds of the blues in the United States and the Caribbean. He has since extended his research and recording to West Africa. His other books include Jazz: A History of the New York Scene, The Blues Makers, and The Roots of the Blues.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Blacks in America, 1492-1970: a chronology & fact book By Irving J. Sloan
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Pg 95
Book overview
A chronology of blacks in America with such additional lists of information as major Afro-American organizations and publications, libraries with black history and literature collections, and a statistical abstract of Afro-American economic and social status.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
A guide to the blues: history, who's who, research sources By Austin M. Sonnier
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Book overview
The only book about the blues that embraces a complete history, this ambitious work traces almost 1,000 years of cultural history and connects the blues to its roots in African history and musical forms and to the history of slavery. This comprehensive reference contains an up-to-date biographical dictionary which includes discographies of over 300 blues men and women. Nicknames by which the musicians are known are cross-referenced; photos of many blues greats, some from the author's personal collection; an extensive filmography, discography, and bibliography; visits to highly musical places where the blues flourished in America; and a study of the influence of voodoo on the blues and, in turn, the influence of the blues on rock and roll. Sonnier has been involved with the blues all his life, and brings to this work both professional expertise and an intimate knowledge of the music and its interpreters.
From Library Journal
Sonnier's attempt to produce a comprehensive guide to the blues succeeds on most levels. We follow the development of the blues from its roots in Africa through slavery to its influence on modern popular music. The Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, Texas, and Chicago are detailed for their own particular contributions to the blues form, while a discussion of the distinct scale systems, melodic phrases, and harmonic traditions that characterize the blues offers musicians some technical insights. A chapter on the Twenties and Thirties gives the classic women blues singers their due. The longest section of the book, a series of some 300 biographical sketches, is devoted to performers. Recommended for music libraries.
Dan Bogey, Clearfield Cty. P.L. Federation, Curwensville, Pa.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Combining the history of the blues and information about those who created that history into one volume is the aim of this latest blues entry.
The first six chapters outline the history of the blues. Of particular interest is the explanation of the similarities and differences in the musical scales used in European and African music and the blues. Other chapters focus on such issues as the influence of slavery on the blues, the geography of blues evolution, the classic blues belters, voodoo and New Orleans blues, and the blues from the 1950s on.
Almost 400 performers are profiled in the biographical dictionary, which comprises the second section. Entries range from a few sentences to a full page. They include, when possible, a brief discography, filmography, and bibliography. The essays cover the performer's important works, influences, collaborations, style, and importance. Performers represent a variety of time periods and styles. They include Big Maceo, Alberta Hunter, Albert Collins, Clifton Chenier, Johnny Winter, Etta James, and Bonnie Raitt. A section of black-and-white photos closes out the biographies. A select filmography, bibliography, and discography (arranged by record label) append the book. The book has a good index, although there are also see references in both sections.
With so many good blues books published recently, such as Herzhaft's Encyclopedia of the Blues [RBB Ja 1 93], which also includes some historical and geographic entries, or Santelli's Big Book of Blues [RBB Mr 15 94], Sonnier has some strong competition for the library dollar. His is a well-written book that will be an attractive choice, if a library needs additional material on the blues.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 344 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group; 1ST edition (June 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0313287244
- ISBN-13: 978-0313287244
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Stereo review, Volume 47
Pg 82
Title
Stereo review, Volume 47
Publisher
CBS Magazines, 1982
Original from
the University of Michigan
Digitized
27 Dec 2007
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Coda, Issues 188-193 By Traditional Jazz Club of Toronto
Pages V, VI, 23
Title
Coda, Issues 188-193
Author
Traditional Jazz Club of Toronto
Publisher
J. Norris, 1983
Original from
the University of Virginia
Digitized
12 Feb 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Southern exposure, Volume 2 By Institute for Southern Studies
Pages 56, 61, 62
Title
Southern exposure, Volume 2
Author
Institute for Southern Studies
Publisher
Institute for Southern Studies., 1974
Original from
the University of California
Digitized
12 Aug 2009
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Coffee House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
2005 Japanese exclusive limited edition
1. Introduction - Lightnin' Hopkins
2. Big Car Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
3. Coffee House Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
4. Stool Pigeon Blues - Lightnin' Hopkins
5. Ball Of Twine - Lightnin' Hopkins
6. Blues For Gamblers - Lightnin' Hopkins with Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
7. Walk On - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
8. Blues For The Lowlands - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
9. Down By The Riverside - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
10. Blowin' The Fuses - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
11. Right On That Shore - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry with Lightnin' Hopkins
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Blues Hoot - Lightnin' Hopkins
1963
1. Introduction
2. Big Car Blues
3. Coffee House Blues
4. Stool Pigeon Blues
5. Ball Of Twine
6. Blues For Gamblers
7. Walk On
8. Blues For The Lowlands
9. Down By The Riverside
10. Blowin' The Fuses
11. Right On That Shore
Friday, December 3, 2010
![Harmonica Blues [1998]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxhpsVe-SDB_Ctykb9iMm3WBnvPFW6zW8M3wMAJexlKPAQSkrsfW7EhhV1_Bh_h_oNBV9KeCLO-WsKVgWtF1-JnusFE7vFPQPNP1oNK76yFwqbj5Idh7lgD3VK-XeI_wJE1t6eiJAiy7g/s1600-h/Harmonica%20Blues%20%5B1998%5D%5B5%5D.jpg "Harmonica Blues [1998]")
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
1964
1. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
2. Children Go Where I Send Thee
3. What A Beautiful City
4. Glory Glory
5. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray
6. I'm Going To Shout
7. I Shall Not Be Moved
8. Packing Up
9. Get Right, Church
10. Some Of These Days
11. If You See My Saviour
12. You Can't Hide
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Brownie's Blues - 1962
1. Jump Little Children
2. Lonesome Day
3. One thing For Sure
4. The Killin' Floor
5. Little Black Engine
6. I Don't Know The Reason
7. Trouble In Mind
8. Everyday I Have The Blues
9. Door To Success
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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