by Bman | Dec 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
Alan Lomax, circa 1942. Courtesy of the Association for Cultural EquityIn an age where Justin Bieber can skyrocket to the highest heights of pop consciousness thanks to a couple well-placed YouTube videos, we've forgotten how hard it once was to spread popular music...
by Bman | Dec 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
As many times ad I've posted Boyd, still don't know a lot about him He was filmed by Alan Lomax and he was born December 25,1934 in PICKENS, MS. Write on our Facebook Wall or post your Photos of great blues events! - Here “Like” Bman’s Facebook page (available...
by Bman | Dec 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Bessie Jones leads a work song she first heard as a girl being sung by a road-crew chain gang in North Georgia in the nineteen-teens. With support by Big John Davis, Willis Proctor, and Henry Morrison. The Georgia Sea Island Singers are a group of African Americans...
by Bman | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
"Dangerous Blues," sung by Joe Savage, former muleskinner and Parchman Farm inmate, on the levee in Greenville, Mississippi. Shot by Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop, on September 2, 1978. Alan Lomax recorded another version of this holler in 1959 from a...
by Bman | Nov 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Belton Sutherland (vocal and guitar) performs an improvised blues on Clyde Maxwell's porch. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long at Maxwell's farm near Canton, Mississippi, September 3, 1978. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan...
