The Land Where the Blues Began
The Land Where the Blues Began is a documentary film by the American music researcher Alan Lomax . Between 1978 and 1985, Lomax made recordings in the southern and southwestern United States, which were shown in 1991 as the American Patchwork Series in five films of 60 minutes each on American television on PBS . "The Land Where the Blues Began" is the first of these films, completed in 1979.
Alan Lomax had toured the Mississippi Delta in the 1930s and 1940s, initially with his father John Lomax , and made early recordings of the blues musicians there . In the late 1970s he returned to the Delta to shoot "The Land Where the Blues Began" with filmmaker John M. Bishop and folklore researcher Worth Long. They recorded the music and stories of a number of blues musicians on video, including Johnny Brooks, Walter Brown, Bill Gordon, James Hall, William S. Hart, Beatrice and Clyde Maxwell, Jack Owens, Wilbert Puckett, JT Tucker, Reverend Caesar Smith, Bud Spiers, Belton Sutherland, Napoleon Strickland and Othar Turner .
A book and a CD were published to accompany the film, each with the same title.
Web links
- The Land Where the Blues Began on folkstreams.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ American Patchwork Series on media-generation.com (English)
- ↑ The Land Where the Blues Began on folkstreams.net (English)
- ↑ The Land Where the Blues Began (CD) on Allmusic (English)
- ↑ The Land Where the Blues Began (book) ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on germanblues.org
