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Give my poor heart ease voices of the Mississippi blues

Title
Give my poor heart ease [electronic resource] : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.
Publication
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Ferris, William R.
  • Louis, Joe (Poppa Rock)
  • Williams, Sonny Boy.
  • Williams, Lovey.
  • Gordon, Mary (Monk)
  • Thomas, Son, 1926-1993.
  • Kizart, Lee.
  • Love, Jasper.
  • Dunbar, Scott.
  • Williams, Arthur Lee.
  • Strickland, Napoleon.
  • Thomas, Isaac (Singer)
  • Chapman Family (Musical group)
  • Southland Hummingbirds (Musical group)
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 302 p.) : ill., map.
Series Statement
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Uniform Title
  • Give my poor heart ease (Online)
  • H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Alternative Title
  • Black Delta (Motion picture)
  • Parchman Penitentiary (Motion picture)
  • Give my poor heart ease (Motion picture)
  • I ain't lyin' (Motion picture)
  • Made in Mississippi (Motion picture)
  • Two Black churches (Motion picture)
Subject
  • Blues musicians > Mississippi > Interviews
  • Blues (Music) > Mississippi > History and criticism
  • African Americans > Mississippi > Music > History and criticism
  • Blues (Music) > 1961-1970
  • Blues (Music) > 1971-1980
Note
  • "This book was published with the assistance of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269), discography (p. 269-284), filmography (p. 284-289) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Event (note)
  • CD contents recorded 1963-1974.
Contents
  • Blues roots. Rose Hill : Mary Gordon ; Reverend Isaac Thomas -- Lake Mary : Martha Dunbar ; Scott Dunbar -- Lorman : Louis Dotson -- Centreville : Fannie Bell Chapman -- Gravel Springs : Otha Turner -- Parchman Penitentiary : Johnny Lee "Have Mercy" Thomas ; Camp B work chant ; James "Blood" Shelby ; Ben Gooch ; Sergeant Webb ; Roosevelt Stewart, Jr. -- Tutwiler : Tom Dumas ; Lee Kizart -- A delta road in Coahoma County : C.L. Redwine ; Corine Gardner -- Blues towns and cities. Leland : James "Son Ford" Thomas ; Gussie Tobe ; Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown -- Clarksdale : Jasper Love ; Wade Walton -- WOKJ, Jackson : Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis : The Big Daddy Show ; Bruce Payne, news ; Reverend Marcus Butler : gospel music ; Gary's Meat House ad ; Bruce Payne -- Beale Street : Robert Shaw -- Looking back : Willie Dixon ; B.B. King -- Sacred and secular worlds. Rose Hill Church : Rose Hill Church service ; Clarksdale : house party.
  • CD contents. Why B.B. King sings the blues (Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis) (:35) -- Going down to the station (Sonny Boy Williams) (3:09) -- Going away blues (Lovey Williams) (2:38) -- So glad to be here (3:58) ; He's my rock, my sword, my shield (3:46) (The Chapman Family) -- Lazarus (inmates at Camp B, Parchman Penitentiary) (2:46) -- Hidden violence (anonymous) (1:02) -- Oh Rosie (inmates at Camp B, Parchman Penitentiary) (2:58) -- There are days (Southland Hummingbirds) (2:57) -- You shall be free (Mary Gordon) (1:26) -- You can't carry blues and go to church (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (:53) -- I got the world in a jug and the stopper in my hand (Lee Kizart) (2:35) -- It gives me ease (Jasper Love) (1:05) -- Highway 61 blues (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (2:51) -- It's so cold up north (Scott Dunbar) (3:41) -- Blues is round you every day (Arthur Lee Williams) (:34) -- Mystery train (train I ride) (Lovey Williams) (2:21) -- Somebody knocking on my door (Napoleon Strickland) (2:16) -- Jaybird (Scott Dunbar) (8:51) -- Boogie chillun (Lovey Williams) (1:49) -- One drop (Isaac Thomas) (2:20) -- Cairo blues (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (4:28).
  • DVD contents. Black Delta. Pt. 1-2 -- Parchman Penitentiary -- Give my poor heart ease : Mississippi Delta bluesmen -- I ain't lyin' : folktales from Mississippi -- Made in Mississippi : Black folk art and crafts -- Two Black churches.
LCCN
2009016647
OCLC
ssj0000338143
Title
Give my poor heart ease [electronic resource] : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.
Imprint
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269), discography (p. 269-284), filmography (p. 284-289) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Event
CD contents recorded 1963-1974.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Ferris, William R.
Louis, Joe (Poppa Rock)
Williams, Sonny Boy.
Williams, Lovey.
Gordon, Mary (Monk)
Thomas, Son, 1926-1993.
Kizart, Lee.
Love, Jasper.
Dunbar, Scott.
Williams, Arthur Lee.
Strickland, Napoleon.
Thomas, Isaac (Singer)
Chapman Family (Musical group)
Southland Hummingbirds (Musical group)
Added Title
Black Delta (Motion picture)
Parchman Penitentiary (Motion picture)
Give my poor heart ease (Motion picture)
I ain't lyin' (Motion picture)
Made in Mississippi (Motion picture)
Two Black churches (Motion picture)
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