A Conversation for Down where the Southern Cross the Dog: The Beginnings of the Blues
Parchman Farm
Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... Started conversation Oct 16, 2003
I hope you are going to be discussing the extraordiary recordings made there in later chapters.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 16, 2003
Parchman farm does get a mention, in passing somewhere. The difficulty with any project of this typer is that there simply isn't enough room to fit everything in.
The parchman Farm recordings were mostly done by the Lomaxes who do get a big mention in Chapter 2, I think...
. I have the cd at home somewhere...
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Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... Posted Oct 16, 2003
I have just got 'In Gods Country' music which inspired the Joshua tree off 'Mojo or somehing here in England and its got all my favourites like 'Crawling King Snake' and @If I had Possession Over Judgement Day'.I have never worked out what first got me listening to Blues.Certainly wasn't bought up with it and I was a teenager in the mid eighties which was a peculiarly dry period blues wise here in Britain!!! But I just love it.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 16, 2003
Can't go wrong with JLH and Robert Johnson...
I know exactly what got me listening to the Blues. The BBC did a documentary about Ali Farke Toure and they did a compare and contarst with JLH. I was gobsmacked and never really looked back.
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Yes,I am the Lady Lowena!Get with the programme... Posted Oct 16, 2003
Yoiu here in England then ? I thought you were over in the States for some reason.
Probably the name threw me.I must admit it might have started with to kill a mockingbird and then a book called 'Black Boy'by Richard White who came from Mississippi and ended up in Paris in the thirties and forties it made me want to know more about the South.I may have got in that way that and being bought up in the Church and learning spirituals in the gospel choir. Ive never been to the 'Dirty South'last time I was in states I was working and only got to Virginia.That was ten years ago but I'm taking my kids out this spring. I don't think the'd appreciate an endless drive through the Delta!!! We'll be lucky to get out of Orlando.
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