There must be heaps more films of the old Blues Festival tours, can't get enough of them, being Australian I rarely get to see a real blues festivals, we have like 100 festivals that call themselves "Blues" festivals but the reality is far different. The biggest one in Australia SOLD OUT to pop music over a decade ago now. If I am gonna drive hundreds of miles I expect nothing less than real blues. Here it seems everyone calls themselves a blues artist now, even though they wouldn't know blues if it hit them in the face.
Folk blues before 1910, nine independent concrete sources: Elbert Bowman very rarely encountered black people in his small Tennessee town when he was young, but remembered that during 1903-1905 a railroad was built through the area, and black laborers building it sang a member of the "K.C. Moan" family. A guitarist on a levee performed a number he called "I Got The Blues" in 12-bar form within Antonio Maggio's earshot in 1907. Gus Cannon learned "Poor Boy Long Ways From Home" from Alec Lee in about 1900, he said; the lyrics of "Can You Blame The Colored Man" support the idea that he was hanging out with Lee and learning songs from him as of roughly 1902. John Lowry Goree included a variant of "K.C. Moan" among the black folk material he said he encountered in Alabama before he moved to Texas in 1903. Emmet Kennedy and a niece of his knew a variant of "Poor Boy Long Ways From Home" before 1910; he said he first heard that song done by blacks on the street. A blues of Texas Alexander's had a stanza about getting a Merry Widow hat, and compare a similar folk stanza collected by Mary Wheeler; those hats were a brief fad (a la Crocs) as of 1908. The "Got No More Home Than A Dog" that W.C. Handy recorded in 1938 is what we generally call a blues, he called it a "blues" on p. 143 of his autobiography, and he claimed he encountered it before 1900; Wheeler's research supports his claim as plausible. Howard Odum's collecting of black folk songs during 1905-1908 included blues songs about having the "blues," such as the 12-bar "Knife-Song." E.C. Perrow's articles that collected folk lyrics included lyrics about having the "blues" sung in 1909, notably similar to blues lyrics collected by Odum.
No man, i also dont know what he said. But i would like to thank you for the video's you put up! because you have got a lot of blues! Carey bell is the one who i find the most inspiration in and there arent a lot of video's of him! But Hej !! Thanks!
... wondering who originally brought out the DVD this has been taken from - wasn't able to find any info about it (except a picture which looks like the front cover of a DVD, funnily enough using the *1968* AFBF poster by Günther Kieser, with an inscription "'83 DVD") --- was it a bootleg or kind of an official release? Would appreciate any further info about that DVD for my AFBF discography at www.wirz.de/music/afbf.htm And - btw - thanks for uploading, I've added a link to it on my page! :-)
There must be heaps more films of the old Blues Festival tours, can't get enough of them, being Australian I rarely get to see a real blues festivals, we have like 100 festivals that call themselves "Blues" festivals but the reality is far different. The biggest one in Australia SOLD OUT to pop music over a decade ago now. If I am gonna drive hundreds of miles I expect nothing less than real blues. Here it seems everyone calls themselves a blues artist now, even though they wouldn't know blues if it hit them in the face.
Without him the Blues wouldn´t have come to Germany, thanks "Rocking"Fritz Rau R.I.P.
This "one string blues" reminds me of a mongolian Horse - fiddle. It sounds in the same way.
Folk blues before 1910, nine independent concrete sources:
Elbert Bowman very rarely encountered black people in his small Tennessee town when he was young, but remembered that during 1903-1905 a railroad was built through the area, and black laborers building it sang a member of the "K.C. Moan" family.
A guitarist on a levee performed a number he called "I Got The Blues" in 12-bar form within Antonio Maggio's earshot in 1907.
Gus Cannon learned "Poor Boy Long Ways From Home" from Alec Lee in about 1900, he said; the lyrics of "Can You Blame The Colored Man" support the idea that he was hanging out with Lee and learning songs from him as of roughly 1902.
John Lowry Goree included a variant of "K.C. Moan" among the black folk material he said he encountered in Alabama before he moved to Texas in 1903.
Emmet Kennedy and a niece of his knew a variant of "Poor Boy Long Ways From Home" before 1910; he said he first heard that song done by blacks on the street.
A blues of Texas Alexander's had a stanza about getting a Merry Widow hat, and compare a similar folk stanza collected by Mary Wheeler; those hats were a brief fad (a la Crocs) as of 1908.
The "Got No More Home Than A Dog" that W.C. Handy recorded in 1938 is what we generally call a blues, he called it a "blues" on p. 143 of his autobiography, and he claimed he encountered it before 1900; Wheeler's research supports his claim as plausible.
Howard Odum's collecting of black folk songs during 1905-1908 included blues songs about having the "blues," such as the 12-bar "Knife-Song."
E.C. Perrow's articles that collected folk lyrics included lyrics about having the "blues" sung in 1909, notably similar to blues lyrics collected by Odum.
No man, i also dont know what he said. But i would like to thank you for the video's you put up! because you have got a lot of blues!
Carey bell is the one who i find the most inspiration in and there arent a lot of video's of him! But Hej !! Thanks!
Carey Bell on harp
Great ! Lonnie R.I.P
... wondering who originally brought out the DVD this has been taken from - wasn't able to find any info about it (except a picture which looks like the front cover of a DVD, funnily enough using the *1968* AFBF poster by Günther Kieser, with an inscription "'83 DVD") --- was it a bootleg or kind of an official release?
Would appreciate any further info about that DVD for my AFBF discography at www.wirz.de/music/afbf.htm
And - btw - thanks for uploading, I've added a link to it on my page! :-)
+Stefan Wirz there is no DVD i recorded it myself back then on VHS tape from German TV
Midnight hour versuch ich andauernd nachzuspielen und zu singen, aber mir fehlte immer der Text. :-)
Damn right, same shit he said
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Nice rendition of MIDNIGHT HOUR by Larry Johnson. Blind willie recorded this.