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The Land Where The Blues Began, expanded, thirtieth-anniversary edition of the 1979 documentary by Alan Lomax, filmmaker John Melville Bishop, and ethnomusicologist and civil rights activist Worth Long, with 3.5 hours of additional music and video. Ballads, Blues and Bluegrass, an Alan Lomax documentary
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, ... The Land Where the Blues Began: Alan Lomax: 1993 1997
A popular version of this song was played by Delta blues musician Willie Brown and was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1942. Many years later, Lomax wrote in his book, Land Where The Blues Began, about the time when Brown sang "Ragged & Dirty", "William Brown began to sing in his sweet, true country voice, poking in delicate guitar passages at every pause, like the guitar ...
The historian Sylviane Diouf and ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik identify Islamic music as an influence on blues music. [11] [12] Diouf notes a striking resemblance between the Islamic call to prayer (originating from Bilal ibn Rabah, a famous Abyssinian African Muslim in the early 7th century) and 19th-century field holler music, noting that both have similar lyrics praising God, melody, note ...
Willie "61" Blackwell (December 25, 1905 – after March 1972) [1] was an American country blues guitarist and pianist.As an iterinant performer who played mainly on street corners and juke joints, Blackwell did not have a prolific career, but did record with musicologist Alan Lomax in 1942 and was rediscovered during the blues revival of the 1960s.
The Land Where the Blues Began (1979) by Alan Lomax, John Melville Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America , part 3: "The Land Where the Blues Began" (1990), North Carolina Public TV, a lightly re-edited version of "The Land Where the Blues ...
However, in the 1920s, when country blues began to be recorded, the use of the banjo in blues music was quite marginal and limited to individuals such as Papa Charlie Jackson and later Gus Cannon. [65] Blues music also adopted elements from the "Ethiopian airs", minstrel shows and Negro spirituals, including instrumental and harmonic ...
Recording started on August 24 in Bluefield, Virginia, where the pair recorded an old subject of Lomax's, the banjo virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Hobart Smith.For the next two months the pair traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hours of recordings.