Featuring: Son House, Johnny Shines, Fred
McDowell, Jesse Fuller, Furry Lewis & Mance Lipscomb.
"This excellent Dvd focuses primarily on Mississippi Delta
bottleneck blues guitarists, and within that framework illustrates
several different playing styles... The highlights of the Dvd are
the two numbers by Son House. 'Levee Camp Moan' is preceded by a
short but hilarious lecture from House about the dangerous business
of love. Both this clip and his 'Death Letter Blues' typify a Son
House live performance, he begins each song with a soft-spoken
introduction, then takes a deep breath, hunches over the guitar, and
explodes into sound and fury. At the end of each song he seems to
collapse with exhaustion. For many of today's younger blues fans,
these Dvd’s offer the only chance to see these great artists perform
the songs they're best remembered for. Highly recommended."
Legends Of Bottleneck Blues Guitar presents rare and
historical recordings from 1965-1970 of some of the greatest
exponents of this blues technique. Black bottleneck guitar styles
were probably initially inspired by lap-style Hawaiian slide guitar
which enjoyed immense popularity shortly after its inception in the
mid-1890s. By 1903, it was already in vogue in Mississippi (and
probably elsewhere) according to testimony from W. C. Handy, Gus
Cannon and others. Although particularly popular in Mississippi and
Louisiana, bottleneck styles could be found the length and breadth
of the rural South.
While there were similarities amongst
guitarists in some locales, there was no preponderant style or
approach other than the ability and imagination of the guitarist
employing a slide technique. The musicians presented in this Dvd are
amongst the greatest exponents of slide blues guitar who ever lived
and are ample testimony to the superb variety available in this
style.
Downloadable booklet in pdf format available
here!
Titles include:
- Son House: Death Letter Blues, Levee Camp Moan
- Johnny Shines: Ramblin', Tell Me Mama, Mr. Tom Green's Farm
- Fred McDowell: Louise, Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning, I
Heard Somebody Call, Break "Em On Down, My Babe
- Jesse Fuller: Hark from the Tomb, I'm Glad Salvation's Free,
John Henry
- Furry Lewis: Brownsville Blues
- Mance Lipscomb: Motherless Children Have a Hard Time
Regioncode - ALL
Tento produkt byl přidán dne Čtvrtek 18. květen 2006.