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On April 4, 2006, both "Clarksdale Moan" and "Mississippi County Farm Blues" were released on the collection The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of from Yazoo Records. [2] While "Clarksdale Moan" was a previously unknown song, "Mississippi County Farm Blues" is an earlier (and faster) version of a song Son House later recorded at a session for the ...
"Parchman Farm" or "Parchman Farm Blues" is a blues song first recorded by American Delta blues musician Bukka White in 1940. It is an autobiographical piece, in which White sings of his experience at the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary , otherwise known as Parchman Farm.
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
While the Azalea Festival gets top billing, there are also events happening that aren't necessarily Azalea-related. For starters, there's a "poor man's garden party," some comedy and a Corale.
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" (also known as "One Kind Favor") is a song recorded by American blues musician Blind Lemon Jefferson in two slightly differing versions in October 1927 and February 1928, [1] that became "one of his most famous compositions". [2] Son House used the melody on his 1930 recording of "Mississippi County Farm Blues". [3]
NC Azalea Festival updates: Complete coverage from the StarNews The remaining items on our list were “other” with nine votes, the parade with eight votes, and the queen’s coronation with ...
Azalea Festival, Muskogee When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays through April 30. Where: Honor Heights Park, 1400 Honor Heights Drive, Muskogee.
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes (born July 28, 1947) [1] is an American blues musician and proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe on the Mississippi Blues Trail, the oldest surviving juke joint in Mississippi. [2] Holmes is known as the last of the Bentonia bluesmen, as he is the last blues musician to play the Bentonia School .