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A reworked version, containing several different tracks, was released in 2012, entitled Leland Mississippi Blues. [6] C2C sampled the vocals from Cusic's, "You Don't Have to Go" for their 2012 track, "Down the Road". [7] [8] Cusic died of prostate cancer on August 11, 2015, aged 89. [9]
Lawrence Gellert (1898-1979?), was a music collector, who in the 1920s and 1930s amassed a significant collection of field-recorded African-American blues and spirituals and also claimed to have documented black protest traditions in the South of the United States.
On day five, when I heard the first line, I thought it was me, but all of a sudden, I realized it wasn't. At the end of the song it was announced, "The Moody Blues singing 'Go Now'." I was too out-done. This was the time of the English Invasion and the end of Bessie Banks’ career, so I thought. America's DJs had stopped promoting American ...
Albums such as African Blues by Ali Farka Toure have a noticeable African and American Blues influence. [clarify] The death of Malian guitar legend Ali Farka Touré has inspired a new round of speculation about the roots of the blues in Africa. Touré famously argued that the beloved American genre was "nothing but African", a bold assertion.
In 2004 The Truman and Eisenhower Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs, 1945-1960 was published by Continuum. The third volume of Guido van Rijn's research into blues and gospel singers' reactions to American politics appeared as Kennedy's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK (University Press of Mississippi, 2007).
The music is infused with Euro-American military drum tradition and distinctly African polyrhythms, talking drum influence, and call and response patterns. Performers play blues , marches , minstrel show pieces, popular music , instrumentals , and spirituals such as " When the Saints Go Marching In ", " When I Lay My Burden Down ", " My Babe ...
The Nashville-based and South Carolina-born artist's "A Southern Gothic," has taken her critically-acclaimed 2021 blues album, on the road. Adia Victoria, Lizzie No inspire Black female creativity ...
Saffire recorded their first album, Middle Age Blues, on their own label in 1987, with songs including "They Call Me Miss Thang" and "Middle Age Blues Boogie". The following year, Adegbalola became a full-time blues performer and in 1990 the band recorded its first album for Alligator Records , and they won the "Song of the Year" W.C. Handy ...