Featuring Skip James, Howlin’ Wolf, Son House, Rev. Pearly Brown, Bukka White

Imagine you have stumbled into a juke joint where the mentor of Robert Johnson, Son House, and the idol of the Rolling Stones, Howlin’ Wolf, dis one another. Picture a place where Wolf taunts Bukka White while the robust Parchman Farm alumnus spins his proto-funk dance grooves and the spectral skip James weaves his haunting “Devil Got My Woman.” It’s an archetypal blues “crossroads” where legends of the 1920s Delta and 1950s Chicago share the same musical space, suspended out of time in a super-real present, a non-specific blues time. This is no fantasy. You enter this very juke joint in Devil Got My Woman, a video of extraordinarily powerful footage captured by Alan Lomax at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. This is not, however, concert footage from Newport. Alan Lomax recreated a juke joint at Newport, stocked the bar, and let nature take its course. The resulting footage captures the blues experience in its first and truest milieu, one in which African-American men and women drink, dance, and share their troubles and triumphs. Brooding faces absorbing the wailing pleas of Son House and rubber-legged dancers strutting to Bukka’s buoyant blues are as much a part of the mis en scene as the legendary principals of the cast, themselves more relaxed and unguarded than in any comparable performance footage. A heretofore-unseen glimpse of a unique blues summit, Devil Got My Woman offers a bracing reminder of this music’s elemental vitality and the blues culture that nurtured it.

Titles include:
Skip James: Devil Got My Woman, I’m So Glad, Worried Blues;
Bukka White: Baby You’re Killing Me, Old Lady Blues, Please Don’t Put Your Daddy Outdoors, 100th Man;
Son House: Forever On My Mind;
Howlin’ Wolf: Meet Me In The Bottom, How Many More Years, Dust My Broom;
Rev. Pearly Brown: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning, Pure Religion, It’s A Mean Old World.

971MB | 1h 01m | 704×480 | mkv

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Much of the extremely rare performance footage presented in this video has never before been publicly seen and documents the diversity of a music which was as personal as a fingerprint yet as universal as the blues itself. John Jackson, Pink Anderson, Rev. Gary Davis and the charismatic Josh White manifest different aspects of the rich Piedmont ragtime/blues tradition.
In Memphis, echoes of the Mississippi Delta could be heard in the music of Furry Lewis. While the delightfully eccentric Jesse Fuller and the introspective Robert Pete Williams embody country blues which defies regional identity.

Titles include: FURRY LEWIS Judge Boushe Blues, Furry’s Blues, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, John Henry JOHN JACKSON That Will Never Happen No More, Rag In C JOSH WHITE You Know Baby What I Want, Number 12 Train, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS Dear Old Mother Of Mine ETHEL & GEORGE McCOY Black Mary PINK ANDERSON She Knows How To Stretch It, Ain’t Nobody Home But Me, Crow Jane, You Don’t Know What The Lord Told Me REV. GARY DAVIS Oh Glory How Happy I Am JESSE FULLER Running Wild, The Woman I Had She Left Me.
Running Time: 60 minutes

Quality: DVD5
Format: DVD Video
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: AC3
Videos: NTSC 720 x 480 MPEG-2
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 192 Kbps

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Grossman’s Guitar Workshop – Legends Of Country Blues Guitar Vol.3 (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The blues “rediscovery” era of the 1960s brought to concert and sound stages many veteran artists who had participated in the “Golden Age” of country blues recording prior to World War II. The best of them retained much of their youthful power and brought with them the authority of experience. While these artists have since passed on, their recorded legacy is enhanced by these extraordinary performance clips.
The first generation of recorded Delta bluesmen – Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, the Mississippi Sheiks – is echoed in the stark and powerful performances of Bukka White, Sam Chatmon, Big Joe Williams, Houston Stackhouse and Son House. The East Coast ragtime style is exemplified by its supreme exponent, Reverend Gary Davis, seen here in some recently discovered informal footage. Huddie Ledbetter was a tradition unto himself with his repertoire of work and “play party” songs reflecting pre-blues African-American music idioms. The extraordinary color footage of Lead Belly singing three songs, and the informal footage of him singing Goodnight Irene to his wife Martha, are a treasure for fans of this American folk giant.
Collectively the performers presented here are an extraordinary group, keepers of bygone traditions whose legacies still resonate.

Titles include: BUKKA WHITE Aberdeen Mississippi Blues, Poor Boy SAM CHATMON Big Road Blues, That’s All Right, Sam’s Rag BIG JOE WILLIAMS Sloppy Drunk Blues, Highway 49, Providence Help The Poor People HOUSTON STACKHOUSE Cool Drink Of Water SON HOUSE Yonder Comes The Blues REV. GARY DAVIS Buck Dance, Hard Walking Blues, Make Believe Stunt, Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning LEAD BELLY Goodnight Irene (take 1), The Grey Goose, Pick A Bale Of Cotton, Take This Hammer, Goodnight Irene (take 2).

Quality: DVD5
Format: DVD Video
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: AC3
Video: NTSC 4:3 (720×480) VBR
Audio: Dolby AC3, 2 ch

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https://nitro.download/view/1F03069245AABAE/Legends_Of_Country_Blues_Guitar.Volume_2.part3.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Grossman’s Guitar Workshop – Legends Of Country Blues Guitar Vol.2 (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Blues music was developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by rural black musicians. They shaped it with brilliant inspiration from disparate elements of black song. By the early 1920s recorded urban performers solidified the standard three-verse, 12 bar meter structure that has identified most blues.
The blues revival of the early 1960s brought many of these survivors to the forefront of traditional music. The rare footage presented in this video is a treasure beyond imagining, drawn from a myriad of sources, depicting some of the greatest blues musicians who ever lived.

Titles include: MANCE LIPSCOMB Silver City, Angel Child MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT Spike Driver, You’re Going To Walk That Lonesome Valley Blues BIG BILL BROONZY Worried Man Blues, How You Want It Done, John Henry, Blues in E BROWNIE McGEE Don’t Kid Me SON HOUSE Death Letter Blues , I Had A Woman in Hughes REV. GARY DAVIS Children of Zion, Death Don’t Have No Mercy ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS Mamie HENRY TOWNSEND Cairo Blues JOSHWHITE Jelly Jelly
Running Time: 60 minutes

Quality: DVD5
Format: DVD Video
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: AC3
Video: NTSC 4:3 (720×480) VBR
Audio: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)

https://nitro.download/view/F671FADF5AC1AB5/Legends_Of_Country_Blues_Guitar_Vol.1.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/EE29195561892A4/Legends_Of_Country_Blues_Guitar_Vol.1.part2.rar
https://nitro.download/view/43CF42D552E4032/Legends_Of_Country_Blues_Guitar_Vol.1.part3.rar
https://nitro.download/view/998CE1343D7986E/Legends_Of_Country_Blues_Guitar_Vol.1.part4.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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