Tag: gospel

zzup | Other blues enthusiasts (4B)

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, …

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zzvt | Religion (Part 3) Gospel, Blues and Denomination Blues

In this column:  Gospel, Blues, Denomination Blues, Getting the blues, Washington Phillips, Rosetta Tharpe, Ry Cooder, Big Bill Broonzy, Hans Theessink and Wilson Blount   The blues were generated in the cotton fields, on the levees, or on the front porch of a people who has born unspeakable burdens of privation and destitution. Yet the …

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