Dbm band featured in documentary tuesday, july 14, 2015 at 10. Jul 28, 2017 fat possum records and amazon music recently teamed up for a 10lp set of blues deep cuts called worried blues. This film documents the genesis of this effort and promotes its abidance. Royalty free stock music track for video production, commercial, personal use traditional acoustic delta blues with the slide solo and acoustic guitar. Delta rising tells the story of clarksdale and its importance to the blues, americas classical music. The documentary television premiere aired july 14, 2015. Drawing on the work of earlier mississippi blues artists, notably son house and. Cloaked in mystery, bluesman robert johnson left his mark on american music.
Delta blues is a one hour musicvideo documentary tracing the living history of the blues through the rich brown dirt of the mississippi delta, and through the lives of these traditional bluesmen. The best acoustic blues guitar lessons to learn how to play in the style of the greatest bluesmen such as robert johnson, big bill broonzy, son house and many others. The only nitpicks have nothing to do with the music, but firstly the curious decision to film everything including the interview out takes in black and white and secondly the happily brief appearances of that doyen of mississippi blues, sunderlands own dave stewart, founder of the eurythmics and, even more credibly, the spiritual cowboys. This story is told through the experiences of various musicians in and around clarksdale, some world renown, some simply weekend players but all deeply committed to this style of. Delta blues lessons how to play blues guitar burninguitar.
Explore the blue front cafe to discover more about the blues, including the artists, famous juke joints and blues from old mississippi. Mace has significantly increased knowledge of and pride in the blues as a distinctive form of the mississippi deltas arts and culture. A selfdescribed songhunter, alan lomax traveled the mississippi delta in the 1930s and 40s, at first with his father john lomax, later in the company sometimes of black folklorists like john w. Download the new mississippi blues trail app and make your trip down the trail even more memorable. It originated in the mississippi delta, a region of the united states that stretches from memphis, tennessee in the north to vicksburg, mississippi in the south, the mississippi river on the west to the yazoo river on the east. Mississippi delta bluesman david honeyboy edwards honeyboys stringsnapping guitar riffs and soulful voice harken back to his friends and teachers charley patton, big joe williams, tommy johnson, and robert johnson, who first forged the blues in delta jooks and at country suppers during the depression. That is how i would rank what is currently out there. The delta blues museum band is featured in the documentary, from the crossroads to the white house on mississippi public broadcasting mpb television network. Now family, critics and famous fans look for the real man behind the music. Bobby rush, barbara lynn and their friends awaken the blues in all of us. With morgan freeman, willie nelson, ruby wilson, bill luckett. If your browser supports webgl, launch the interactive experience to visit a 3d recreation of the blue front, with lots of hidden content to discover. The blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by martin scorsese, dedicated to the. Highway 61 runs from memphis to vicksburg through the heart of the land.
Jun 12, 2014 the story of the blues told through the eyes of the artists who lived it. Director martin scorsese pays tribute to the delta blues, tracing the roots of the music by traveling through. See more ideas about delta blues, blues music and blues artists. Oct 08, 2016 king of the delta blues singers was initially issued in 1961 on the columbia records label, and contained sixteen mono tracks. The blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by martin scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. The earliest blues musicians came from the mississippi delta region, where the uniquely american musical genre was born. Keeping the mississippi delta blues alive the atlantic the atlantic. In each of the seven episodes, a different director explores a stage in the development of the blues. Ratcliffe born in avalon, mississippi, john hurt would come to personify the regions sound with his rustic fingerstyle playing after being rediscovered in time for the 1960s folk and blues revival. Blues classes delta blues museum the delta blues museum.
The series originally aired on pbs public broadcasting service in the united states. A showcase of cinematic short documentary films, curated by the atlantic. Music critic robert palmer narrates the insightful story of delta blues and north mississippi hill country blues. Delta blues is available at these online retailers. Jun 27, 2017 a new blues documentary, i am the blues is about to start screening around the country. Blues delta blues delta blues the delta blues style comes from a region in the southern part of mississippi, a place romantically referred to as the land where the blues were born. Bb king charles brown koko taylor buddy guy hubert sumlin robert lockwood and many, many more. The blues trail app points you to markers, helps you create a custom itinerary with turnbyturn directions, and lets you download blues classics via itunes as you stand kneedeep in the cotton fields where the songs were born. Here are our takes on the 15 best delta blues songs. Keith richards, taj mahal, keb mo and bonnie raitt, among others, weigh in on the delta bluesmans musical impact.
The mississippi delta style of bluesor, simply, delta bluesemphasized solo performances by singers accompanying themselves on guitar and relying on a host of distinctive techniques, such as the sliding of a bottleneck or metal object such as a knife along the fingerboard to bend notes, the use of melodic phrases on the guitar to respond to the voice in an. It originated in the mississippi delta, a region of the u. Written, produced and narrated by frank matheis, melon productions, new york. In a land of cotton is a documentary film shot in 2000. Fat possum records and amazon music recently teamed up for a 10lp set of blues deep cuts called worried blues. This album is one of the most important blues album releases ever, because for the most part, it was the first exposure to his music for listeners not his contemporaries. Twenty five musical clips filmed with two cameras to understand the blues of the origins. The mississippi delta is famous for its fertile soil and for its poverty. Forged in the crucible of poverty and racial oppression, blues flourished there as nowhere else, evolving into what.
As opposed being merely historical overviews or straight documentaries of the blues, the films aim to celebrate and promote the diverse. A selfdescribed songhunter, alan lomax traveled the mississippi delta in the 1930s and 40s, at first with his father john lomax, later in the company sometimes of black folklorists. Robert johnson, born in hazelhurst, mississippi, in 1911, was the most important delta musician of the era, although his recorded legacy is limited to 29 songsthe output of sessions held in dallas and san antonio, texas, during the last few years of his life. Shot in the delta of the blues, between memphis and greenwood in mississipi, crossroads tells roberts trip bud johnson on the old abandoned roads and the cotton fields. Jim belushi delta rising can consider me a good friend dan ackroyd a wonderful film ken burns. The series begins with the journey from africa to the mississippi delta where the music grew from slaves field hollers, work songs and.
Keith richards, taj mahal, keb mo and bonnie raitt, among others, weigh in on the delta bluesman. The land where the blues began documentary 1979 youtube. Acoustic blues documentary acoustic guitar music loop. The 6 hour long program series takes its title from a song by mississippi fred mcdowell. Classic delta and deep south blues from smithsonian folkways. Bb king charles brown koko taylor buddy guy hubert sumlin. If you are a fan of genuine traditional blues music, blues history, or black history, this film will suck you in, hold you to the end, and leave you wanting more. The band, in keeping with the efforts of individuals working to preserve the delta blues through advocacy, workshops, music festivals, and education, seek to illustrate a resolute connection between a fabled past and a promising future. The delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. Our new feature documentary a venue for the end of the world is now. The blues represent lessons about ways of dealing with pain and suffering that transcend time.
When the mississippi delta blues festival began in 1978, it was the only major festival of its kind in the south. The land where the blues began is one of five films made from footage that alan lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the pbs american patchwork series 1991. But im on a quest, a quest for the greatest blues concerts ever. The story of the blues told through the eyes of the artists who lived it. Mississippi, particularly the delta, lays claim to being the land where the blues began. Two goofy australian musicians take to the american blues trail to confront the. This wonderful canadian documentary on the delta blues in the s. Both are very good shows with a lot of great performances throughout. The movie deals with the environmental degradation and human health problems in the aral sea region, and how this strains the relations between the former soviet central asian republics especially uzbekistan, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, and turkmenistan. In particular, it focuses on the document waterrelated vision for the aral. Rock n roll country blues archive videos 1,393,938 views 1. Delta blues is one of the earliestknown styles of blues. In 2000 mirrormundo went to uzbekistan for interviews and to shoot footage for the documentary film delta blues subtitled. Official site for the film directed by daniel cross.
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