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

[Jimmy Jacobs]

I have really enjoyed having the opportunity to see those players in the
dvd's of those festival programs.  The name of the series reminds me of the
importance of folk music's influence in bringing awareness of
African-American blues music to the white population.  I recall buying
albums by Dylan, Baez, Lightin' Hopkins and Muddy Waters' "Folk Singer"
while I was in high school.  I was familiar with many of the 50's and 60's
blues performers from WLAC radio, but recall my knowledge of Son House,
Mississippi John Hurt and Bukka White came from folkers.  Later, when the
Stones and others became popular, I knew where their influences (and covers)
came from, but most of my white contemporaries did learn about blues from
the British artists.

 There have been a lot of interesting comments in the responses to this
thread.  Given me a lot to think about.

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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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