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Country Blues => Weenie Campbell Main Forum => Topic started by: btasoundsradio on February 22, 2023, 01:30:29 PM
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Check it out.
https://folkways.si.edu/playing-for-the-man-at-the-door
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Thanks for posting that, btasoundsradio! All of those unfamiliar names in the track list are pretty tantalizing, as are the familiar ones, of course.
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Too cool bta, thanks for posting! Just amazing that we are still getting new releases of these old, new to us and forgotten musicians.
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I've just recently been recalling the Folkways double albums that taught me about Sonny & Brownie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Leadbelly and others. While two-fers ain't what they used to be, this looks like a reason to hook up the turntable.
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Agree completely Jed. I recently hooked up my turntable (bought long ago, so essentially new) to have a 'vinyl party' amongst my old fogey friends (a blast, all agreed worth repeating). So I'm definitely in for the LPs.
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#MeToo. Slack, one of the few things I can remember from the past six years of work with a diversity of groups passionate about equity is that we can call ourselves "elders" now.
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Ha! Well there is an advantage, we elders can get away with quite a bit more.
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Looks like iTunes will only offer a 45 track version. They do have a preview of “Train Roll Up” which seems to have a strong Buddy Moss “Oh Lordy Mama” influence.
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Here's a link to the teaser on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf0mTTgAbsU
It's also available for a listen at Bandcamp (#35):
https://smithsonianfolkways.bandcamp.com/album/playing-for-the-man-at-the-door-field-recordings-from-the-collection-of-mack-mccormick-1958-1971
It was the main feature in the S-F email I received today. Hopefully more sample tracks will be made available prior to its release.
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Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971 is the first compilation of music drawn from this fabled collection, which indelibly documents a pivotal moment in African American history. It features never-before-heard performances not only from musicians who became icons in their own right
Hyperbole, since a large number of these tracks were released on the Treasury of Field Recordings albums in the '60s. But it's good that they're getting properly reissued from the original master tapes.
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Thank you, Gilgamesh. You make an excellent point.
At Stefan Wirz' page for 77 Records: https://www.wirz.de/music/77.htm
at the bottom of the entries for LA 12-2 "A Treasury Of Field Recordings Vol. 1" and LA 12-3 "A Treasury Of Field Recordings Vol. 2" you'll see a magnifying glass in the lower corners of the "notes" to the respective albums with the letters "pdf" in red. If you click on it the notes should either automatically download or open in your browser.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere but McCormick's bio of Robt Johnson is out. Review in The NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/books/mack-mccormick-robert-johnson-biography.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Hi Joe,
You can find a discussion of the book at the following thread:
https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=6341.0
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The liner notes (without photos) are available to download--Just scroll down a little--They're on the right-hand side:
https://folkways.si.edu/playing-for-the-man-at-the-door
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John Troutman and Dom Flemons talk about Playing for the Man at the Door on NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192374019/smithsonian-releases-an-unheard-treasure-trove-of-blues-music
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Thanks for the link to the WaPo article, Dave--It's a good read. All the tracks appear to be available for listening at Bandcamp--So along with the free download of the liner notes at S-F, it looks like we're now in "try before you buy" territory. Links to both are elsewhere in this thread.
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I believe the recordings are also at Spotify.
FYI, Spotify has almost all the Documents and Yazoos and etc. (if anyone is interested in using the platform or already do but didn't realize it has a massive library of pre-war and downhome blues.)