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Title: Deep Blues by Robert Palmer ISBN: 0-14-006223-8 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: can the impact of "deep blues" be measured?
Comment: Bankrolled by rockstar superstar Dave Stuart and presented by Robert Palmer, author of the superb book of the same name, this film was a very timely voyage into the blues of missisipi. Timely because a number of the cast have died since this film was shot, including the presenter.
Traditional old blues haunts such as Memphis, Clarksdale and Greenville are visited, and fine artists relatively unknown at the time were recorded such as Big Jack Johnson, Booba Barnes and Lonnie Pitchford. Delta old timers Jack Owens, Bud Spires and Booker T. Laury also turn in fine, spirited performances. But for me the highlight is the attention given over to the more obscure "hill country" blues of north missisipi, featuring Jessie Mae Hemphill, R. L. Burnside and the late great Junior Kimbrough and his original juke joint in Holly Springs. Here the music extends from country blues to "drum and fife", a hypnotic musical form that predates blues all the way back to the revolutionary war, but which now faces extinction since the passing of Othar Turner (not featured here, but a close friend of Hemphill). The bonus items are very welcome, especially the extra performances by honkytonk genius Booker T. to the drunk audience comprised of Stuart and Palmer, and Lonnie Pitchford's demonstration of the diddly bow. Also included are extra audio tracks that were originally only available on the soundtrack album (now deleted).
This film helped to revive not just interest in country and acoustic blues in general, but the careers of all of the artists featured. This film is well shot, sounds great, and shares the passion and emotion of some great bluesmen and women. After this, try the "Feelin' Good" CD by Jessie Mae Hemphill. Not only is that a beautiful album, but Jessie's an invalid now who desperately needs the cash!
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic effort
Comment: Palmer's love of the blues shines through in this exceptional book. He's not interested in showing off his knowledge of the form (although that knowledge is exceptional); he's interested in illuminating for the reader the roots of a great indigenous art form and how that form developed in the 20th century. In that effort, he succeeds masterfully.
A fine early section explores how the music that we call the blues was seeded in N. America by African music. That chapter is a mini-history lesson in itself; Palmer shows how the music of slaves from W. Africa was viewed as subversive and dangerous by whites in the new land.
The remainder of the book is chock full of portraits of the heroes of early blues in the Mississippi Delta, from Charley Patton to Son House to Robert Johnson to Little Walter to Muddy Waters and beyond. Palmer shows how these men developed a music that grew directly out of the soil of the Delta, making do with the instruments they had and often living itinerant lives, moving from tiny town to tiny town to play dances and juke joints to keep the music alive.
The book also describes the historic migration of African-Americans from the Deep South to the industrial cities of the North, most importantly, of course, Chicago, where the musicians transformed the blues again, creating the electrified sounds that exerted such a powerful influence on white rock musicians from London to Liverpool to La Jolla, California.
Palmer has given us a great work with "Deep Blues," one that should be read by students of music and social history alike. It deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of any serious lover of music.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sincerity!
Comment: Probably the best music video to ever come around in the late 80s/early 90s.----This is really what the REAL blues is all about!! Not someone prancing about in a Versace suit brandishing a gold-plated Gibson Les Paul! Thanks to the incredible and much missed Robert Palmer and Dave Stewart we have a glimpse of what blues must've sounded like (and looked like) back in the days of Charley Patton.
This is an earthy, funky and sincere look at some of the remnants of that period......the artists are stoned, they play a semi-tone away from the rest of the band,their equipment probably came from sears & roebuck ...but the end result is a raw, gritty and no-holds barred excursion into the basis of rock and roll! Hound Dog Taylor would've looked great also on this video (if he had still been around)
Check out the c.ds of these artists on the Fat Possum label.
If you wish to bypass B.B. King and his gold rings or Clapton and his Dolce & Gabana black suit then this IS the book/video for you!
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Title:The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1 ASIN: B0000AYL2M Publisher: Universal Music & VI Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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Title: The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax ISBN: 1565847393 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 2 ASIN: B0000AYL2N Publisher: Universal Music & VI Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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Title:The Search for Robert Johnson ASIN: B000050IKX Publisher: Sony/Columbia Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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Title:The Howlin' Wolf Story - The Secret History of Rock & Roll ASIN: B0000DJZ81 Publisher: Bmg Distribution (VI Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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