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Thread #134788   Message #3068962
Posted By: Bobert
06-Jan-11 - 09:39 PM
Thread Name: Have blacks rejected blues?
Subject: RE: Have blacks rejected blues?
BTW, joez... I think I woulda liked yer movie, too... Do a little research on the Fat Possum bluesmen and you'll find some interesting stories...

I was at the late Sam Carr's (Google him up0) house about 8 year ago down in Mississippi and he was talkin' about workin' the door at the juke joints... Purdy interesting...

Lotta stuff out there to tell the stories... Alan Lomax got lotta of it recorded back long time ago in the jukes, penitentiaries, on the streets, etc... It's all in the Library of Congress... Hundreds of hours of stories, blues, field hollers...

Lotta good books out, too... "Honeyboy" Edwards has one... Alija Wald...I mean, all that stuff out there...

BTW, you talk about Willie Brown... Couple interesting things about Willie Brown... First, there are no known photographs of him and second, when he died in 1948, he had been playin' with Son House and upon Willie's death, Son laid his geetar down. moved to New York and worked as a porter on the New York railroad...

Like I said. lotta stuff out there...

B~