Grand, fascinating, lyrical article on 2 pioneers of early blues (when it was making the transition from merely field music and country church music to a self-defining, self-sustaining genre): http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...blues.html
If you are already a fan of early Blues, this makes your case; if you are new to this sector, the click-throughs will bring you deeper; if you know nothing but have heard...welcome to the club. This article goes everywhere (artists, archivists, obsessed nut-jobs). One word: intriguing. A debt is owed the author. And here's some Q and A with him: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/0...-and-elvie
I don't think this Jeremiah was a bullfrog but you never know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2wutEzjy_E though I sometimes feel like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q
If you are already a fan of early Blues, this makes your case; if you are new to this sector, the click-throughs will bring you deeper; if you know nothing but have heard...welcome to the club. This article goes everywhere (artists, archivists, obsessed nut-jobs). One word: intriguing. A debt is owed the author. And here's some Q and A with him: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/0...-and-elvie
I don't think this Jeremiah was a bullfrog but you never know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2wutEzjy_E though I sometimes feel like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q
