Ed Perl, the founder of the Ash Grove on Melrose in West Los Angeles, the center of the folk revival in L.A., recalls Alan's coming in the club while Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys were appearing. He walked straight up to the stage, and after the second number he asked Monroe where he got the song he'd just played. "I was shocked," Perl said. "Nobody ever did that, let alone to God. Bill responded, "Is that you Alan?" and they proceeded to talk about and demonstrate the influence of black music on Bill and bluegrass - from Alan Lomax, The Man Who Recorded the World, by John Szwed
Big ups to KC King who added a new Henry Thomas lyric, complete with indexing to the right categories, in one hit, and no edits. I'd be hard pressed to do that even though I've been futzing with it for 6 weeks!
KC you are The Man! And good work Andrew on the How To lyrics article, everybody wishing to contribute please read!
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Hey guys, I'm a little confused Could I, for instance, begin uploading Blind Lemon lyrics we worked out on the forum? I'm assuming that's the whole idea right?
Yep. We do have 13 lyrics listed now in weeniepedia for BLJ, - so if there are more that have not been posted and seem to have been worked through -- by all means give it a shot. Thanks!
The only thing we ask is that you bring the lyrics up-to-date with any corrections/suggestions that were made by members that sound right. Something I still haven't got to for Blind Lemon transcriptions I did. There's a lot of Lemon to go through!