Topic: The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No 4 coming up

[jostber]

Good stuff coming later in June:

http://www.frog-records.co.uk/products/fb-ja4

[Blues Vintage]

Looks like it contains the "new" McTell photo.

[tinpanallygurl]

Isn't there a picture of Willie Brown and Willie Moore in this one?

[oddenda]

I am waiting on clich?d tenterhooks for Vol.5 - the final edition, sadly. And not because i have a small piece in it!

pbl

[Randy Meadows]

Willie Moore, Willie Brown, and Fiddling Joe Martin.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ihxdof998k0cgn5/Willi%20Brown%20Photo%20Frog%20Annual%204.jpg?dl=0

[tinpanallygurl]

Good to know that there is fairly conclusive evidence for discovering a picture of Willie Brown.  This is good stuff and long overdue.  Good work digging this up Randy.  Discoveries like this show that there are more gems out there for those who don't mind digging.  Awesome!

[wreid75]

I know here we all love the vast array of the prewar artists, not just who is popular with the media.  The discovery that Meadows and Wardlow got published showing us the face of Willie Brown came with little fanfare.  Now if there had been a vague darkening that kind of 'sort of' resembled the image of Robert Johnson's face appeared on someones toast the board would come alive with activity.  Someone in the media would honestly ask if his "deal at the crossroads" caused him to haunt a toaster and make his face appear on a piece of bread. 

[CF]

Perhaps there was little fanfare because the provenance is inconclusive.

[tinpanallygurl]

I had a conversation with Stephen Calt years ago about the different pictures we have of the blues singers.  While he admitted to being a proponent of the two commonly accepted photos of Robert Johnson that he was heavily doubting if they could be proven.  Say what you want about Calty but he was a true scholar of the craft.  I remember Mack McCormick even casting shade on the Johnson photos ( and not the new ones).  Provenance becomes more and more fleeting as we the decades go by, doesn't mean we can't give a 'reasonable acceptance' in lue of complete verification.  That verification opportunity was likely lost decades ago for most of these fellas.

[CF]

Many people who knew RJ saw his pics in the 1980s & early 1990s & said it was him. This Willie Brown situation is quite different.

[wreid75]

Son House didn't recognize the picture of RJ as the little Robert that he and Willie knew.  Then again he claimed to be almost 100 years old then.

[jostber]

And when is vol.5 coming out?

[oddenda]

jostber -

The answer is the dreaded "SOON". Be patient, grasshopper.

pbl

[jostber]

From the Frog Records web site today:

The Frog Blues and Jazz Annual No 5 is almost there (we are working on index / credits ? even they look fantastic!) and awaiting our printers slot.

[Gilgamesh]

Has #5 come out? This was listed in the current Roots & Rhythm catalog:

FROG BLUES & JAZZ ANNUAL #5 The Musicians, The Record S & The Music Of The 78 Era
"Due next week. The latest volume in this great series of paper bound books printed on glossy paper is their biggest and (probably) best yet. 216 pages full of original research on jazz and blues from the 78 rpm era - copiously illustrated with over 350 beautifully reproduced photographs, vintage advertising and other illustrations - many not seen since the 78rpm era. This volume includes articles on Boyd Atkins, the Atlanta field recordings of 1923-27, from "Kokomo" to "Sweet Home Chicago," Scrapper Blackwell & Leroy Carr, Paramount talent scout Harry Charles, Brownie McGee, Bix Beiderbecke, DeFord Bailey, Eddie Lang, Oscar Woods, Emmet Hardy and much, much more including an early interview with Son House by David Evans. The book comes with a 26 tracks CD featuring rare jazz and blues recordings by artists featured in the text."