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Britannia is a series of television documentaries by BBC Four that began in 2005. The documentaries mostly deal with the evolution of a music genre or other aspect of musical culture over a period of several decades within the United Kingdom, although some episodes have covered music in other countries (Ireland, the United States, Italy) or such diverse subjects as comic books, games ...
Many blues songs were developed in American folk music traditions and individual songwriters are sometimes unidentified. [1] Blues historian Gerard Herzhaft noted: In the case of very old blues songs, there is the constant recourse to oral tradition that conveyed the tune and even the song itself while at the same time evolving for several decades.
Ballads and Blues may refer to: Ballads & Blues (Milt Jackson album), 1956; Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, 1957 debut album by folk singer Odetta; Ballads & Blues (The Mastersounds album), 1959; Ballads, Blues and Boasters a 1964 album by Harry Belafonte; Ballads and Blues (Miles Davis album), compilation album by American jazz musician Miles ...
In his late 70s, Lomax completed the long-deferred memoir The Land Where the Blues Began (1993), linking the birth of the blues to debt peonage, segregation, and forced labor in the American South. Lomax's greatest legacy is in preserving and publishing recordings of musicians in many folk and blues traditions around the U.S. and Europe.
Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues is the debut solo album by American folk singer Odetta. It was released in November 1956 by Tradition Records. [1] Like much of Odetta's early work, Ballads and Blues combines traditional songs (e.g. spirituals) with blues covers. Some songs on this album were also recorded for Odetta & Larry's 1954 album The Tin ...
Scope The project includes any articles in the following categories . Roots Music (both American folk and roots music, and other Roots music); Folk music; Traditional music; The project does not include Art music or popular music such as Classical music, even if it's non-Western (such as Indian classical music), unless there is some distinct connection to one of the above categories.
The focus of the material is the music Odetta performed when recording for the Tradition label — Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) and Odetta at the Gate of Horn (1957). Tradition released The Best of Odetta on LP with a slightly different track list in 1967. It was also re-released on CD on the Collectables label in 2006.