Topic: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips

[lindy]

An Internet Archive vid.

I'd heard about this film a long time ago, but never saw it until just now. Ten minute film about Rev Gary Davis, shot in the last apartment he lived in in Harlem, 1963. Followed by street scenes of Harlem that same year. Shows Rev. playing 6-string instead of 12.

https://archive.org/details/BlindGaryDavis

[David Kaatz]

An Internet Archive vid.

I'd heard about this film a long time ago, but never saw it until just now. Ten minute film about Rev Gary Davis, shot in the last apartment he lived in in Harlem, 1963. Followed by street scenes of Harlem that same year. Shows Rev. playing 6-string instead of 12.

https://archive.org/details/BlindGaryDavis

Thanks Lindy. What a great rendition of Death Don't Have No Mercy.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here is Roosevelt Sykes playing guitar on "A Woman Is In Demand".  How about that!



All best,
Johnm

[Mr.OMuck]

[Lastfirstface]

Never heard the Rev do "Come Around and See Me Some Time" before. I've only heard it on the Georgia Yellow Hammers 78. Thanks for posting, OMuck.

[Prof Scratchy]

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[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here's one from George Pegram on banjo and Walter "Red" Parham on harmonica.  What a great backbeat!



All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I just found Johnny Young and Otis Spann doing "Stealin' as a duo.  What a treat!



All best,
Johnm

[lindy]

Roy Book Binder is going to be on faculty at Port Townsend this summer, so I thought I'd post this 20-minute video he made for Acoustic Guitar Magazine last year. Typical Roy, telling stories as much as playing guitar. Pickin'-wise, he's doing real good for his mid-70s.

[lindy]

I just came across a page on the Smithsonian Folkways website with several fine videos on it.

Here are three links, the first is to a mini-documentary (11+ minutes) about Harry Smith's anthology:

https://folkways.si.edu/smithsonian-folkways-remembers-harry-smith/music/video/smithsonian

The second is Phil Wiggins and Mark Puryear playing Leadbelly's Midnight Special:

https://folkways.si.edu/phil-wiggins-and-mark-puryear-play-the-midnight-special/african-american-music-american-folk-blues/music/video/smithsonian

The third is John Jackson playing Steamboat Whistle Blues:

https://folkways.si.edu/steamboat-whistle/african-american-blues/music/video/smithsonian

There must be more on the Smithsonian website, but these are the ones that fell into my lap today.

Lindy

[islandgal]

Lindy,
Thanks for turning me on to the Smithsonian Folkways website. I just spent an hour exploring it and have bookmarked it for more enjoyment.

[lindy]

If you're on the email list for Centrum, you got a copy of this video in your inbox this morning. Here it is for those who aren't.

A powerful song from Phil Wiggins, sans harp.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here is a beautiful cover from Robert Lowery.  He taught at Port Townsend a couple of years.  He was originally from Arkansas and lived for many years in Santa Cruz, California.  He was a nice man.  Boy, I think he sounds great here, and I love his singing.  It's good to hear you again, Robert.



All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Many thanks to Stefan Wirz for posting this clip of Curtis Jones (!) performing "Cherie" live, as part of the American Folk Blues Festival.  It's so great to see performance footage of someone you assumed you would never be able to see.  Here it is:



All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I was very excited to find this posting by Stefan Wirz on youtube this morning.  It's of several tracks by Robert Curtis Smith from a 1999 release, "From Mississippi to Chicago" on the Hightone label.  I was unaware that any later recordings of Robert Curtis Smith were commercially available.  If you enjoy this music, you may want to keep track of Stefan's youtube channel, because he has been posting really stellar music.  Here is Robert Curtis Smith:



All best,
Johnm