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

[JohnLeePimp]

I doubt it's Buddy Moss since he wasn't in jail then and it don't sound like him - there's a coupla discussions of Lawrence Gellert's recordings on weenie... including their (lack of) availability

This particular artist's recordings are on a document release
 
http://www.amazon.com/Field-Recordings-Vol-Carolina-1924-1939/dp/B000006NLG

[daddystovepipe]

you can listen to it on Spotify
search for "Field Recordings, Vol. 9"
Boogie Lovin' is really good (musically and sound quality)

[Slack]

Orville posted this on FB, which features closeups of both hands -- just in case you want to flip your guitar over and play left handed.

[bnemerov]

Hi all,
With the discussion elsewhere on the site of musicians covering  Willie Johnson, I thought some of you might not have heard my friend who I think is the best slide player around here (Nashville/Murfreesboro TN--an area that has a few good guitarists).

Jack also happens to be a superb jazz player, rock and country guitar player, mandolinist and has some good chops on old-time banjo.

best,
bruce

[David Kaatz]

Thanks for that Bruce,
I had seen Jack on YouTube before, but not playing slide I don't think. He is indeed a fine player. I had forgotten about him, as he isn't a famous name to me.

[Pan]

Samuel Charters "The Blues". 20 minutes of fantastic footage from 1962!



Cheers

Pan

Edited to add: the living conditions of some of the musicians are pretty awful to watch!

[Mr.OMuck]

You beat me here Pan, I was just about to post it...great isn't it!

[Pan]

You beat me here Pan, I was just about to post it...great isn't it!

Indeed, Mr. O'Muck!

I had read that Sleepy John Estes lived in dire poverty, when he was rediscovered, but still, seeing it on film, brings a lump in my throat. A great little documentary, nevertheless.

Pan

[frankie]

Samuel Charters "The Blues". 20 minutes of fantastic footage from 1962!

I NEVER thought I'd get a chance to see this. As far as I could tell, it existed only as the soundtrack album.

[CF]

Beat me to posting it too, Paul Vernon hipped me to it this morning.
Can't overstate how important & rare this footage of these gents is, mesmerizing!

[Stuart]

Thanks, Pan. I've been waiting forty+ years to watch it--ever since I heard the LP.

The Youtube poster also has a site:

https://sites.google.com/site/dinosaurdiscscom/

[uncle bud]

Great to see this, for many reasons.

Interesting to see Gus Cannon playing guitar. Is there a recording of him on guitar? I can't think of anything at the moment.

Pan, I took the liberty of deleting the 's' from the 'https:' in your link, which allows the youtube player to appear in your post.

[frankie]

not a 'video' per se, but a great and interesting cover, nonetheless:

[Nicolas Dussart]

Samuel Charters "The Blues". 20 minutes of fantastic footage from 1962!

Fantastic indeed, thanks for the heads up

[Mr.OMuck]

Great McDowel Frank!
Regarding the Charter's video, I posted it on Facebook with this legend "

Necessary viewing if you wish to really understand this mostly grossly misrepresented music. Sound and images not synced but great anyway."

The images of Sleepy John and others, absolutely destitute, should be a cold shower wake up for those who associate Blues only with B.B. King style Glitz, Eric Clapton & Show Biz.I must admit that in looking at some of that footage my heart really did "struck sorrow" and the tears almost came rolling down. It also reaffirmed for me why the interest in these musicians was so much part and parcel of the Civil Right's Movement in general, as Sam Charters has affirmed.

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