A heated discussion on 'Race, Gender & the Blues'

[jinxblues@AOL.COM]

Does that start make me a fake blues fan? Tip of the hat to the promoters who 
influenced a slew of Brits by exposing them to black american artists in the 
early 60's, thus creating a new blues audience that became musicians. The 
American Folk Blues Festival by German promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau 
were the catalyst.

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Lippmann and Rau got their long overdue induction into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame last month in Memphis.

It's not just that they brought over real blue, they insisted on top of the line players.

I remember one tour (maybe 1967) with Son House, Skip James, Booker White, Hound Dog Taylor, Brownie & Sonny, Sippie Wallace, etc.

And the rhythm sections were great with Willie Dixon on bass, Fred Below on drums, Otis Spann or Roosevelt Sykes or Lafayette Leake on piano.

 

Dick Waterman
1601 Buchanan Avenue
Oxford, MS 38655


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