In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists, Lawrence Gellert, the lomaxes, John Avery Lomax, Edison Cylinder Phonograph, Presto Recorders, Robert Gordon, Ruby Terrill Lomax, Alan Lomax, balladhunter, Library of Congress, Virginia Lebermann, the Songhunter Documentary, Michael Taft, Cat Iron, Sam Chatmon, Magnecord, Ampex, Kudelski Nagra, RCA D77, Altec Lipstick, Jean Ritchie, George Mitchell, Wollensak recorder, …
In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists (Europe), Paul Oliver, Jazz Journal, The Story of the Blues, Mack McCormick, Mance Lipscomb, Chris Strachwitz, Alex Küstner, Big Joe Williams, Watergate Blues, Ziggy Christmann, The Living Country Blues, James Thoman, Eugene Powell, Furry Lewis, George Mitchell, Lee Friedlander, Michael Roach, Bengt Olsson, Memphis Blues, Mississippi Bottom Blues, …
In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists, Pete Welding, Testament Records, Down Beat, Son House, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Shines, Glenn Hinson, Fire in My Bones, Gospel, Dream Songs, ABC's Windows on the World,The Black Church, Art Rosenbaum, Margo Newmark, The Art of Field Recording, Old Time Banjo Book,Timothy Duffy, We are the Music Makers, …
In this column: blues enthusiasts, folklorists, musicologists, motivation, passion, Nat Blythe, adventures of a ballad hunter, George Lyman Kittredge, Cowboy Songs, John Avery Lomax, Henry Lebermann, Uncle Rich Brown, Muddy Waters, Son Simms, interview Muddy at Stovall's Plantation, Son Simms Four, Bruce Jackson, wake Up Dead Man, Tim Duffy, Eric Clapton, Axel Küstner, Michael Roach, …
In this column: nicknames, stage names, the bigs, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Joe Williams, Big Joe Turner, Big Boy Cudrup, Big Walter Hornton, Big Moose Walker, big-tall-slim, Long John Hunter, Hollywood Fats, Birdlegg Pitmann, Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim In the third episode I tell stories about “The Bigs”; big, tall and slim. William Lee Conley …
In this column: King Biscuit Time, KFFA Helena radio station, King Biscuit Flour, King Biscuit Stomp, King Biscuit Boys, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Boy Williams, Big Walter Horton Well good evening, everybody, people tell me, how do you do? Good evening, everybody, peoples tell me, how do you do? We the King Biscuit Boys, we …
In this column: hard rock (Bukka White), nine-string guitar (Big Joe Williams), kalamazoo Model KG-14 (Robert Johnson), resonader guitar, 1930s Stella parlour guitar The 1933 National Duolin resonator guitar "Hard Rock" of Booker T Washington "Bukka" White. Bukka used used this guitar as his main gigging and touring guitar for three decades. He was a founding …
In this column: Weevil, Boll Weevil, The Katy, The Santa Fe, The Mule, Brook Benton, Bessie Tucker, Taj Mahal, Big Joe Williams Weevil in Can't get no grinding (Muddy Waters) and Boll Weevil (Lead Belly). See an earlier episode.The wheat weevil / grain weevil in "Can't get no grinding" (Muddy Water) is a beetle that …
