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Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.
- Title
- Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + compact disc + DVD | Text | Request in advance | ML3521 .G58 2009 + compact disc + DVD | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 302 p. : ill., map; 25 cm. +
- Series Statement
- H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- 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
- Genre/Form
- DVD-Video discs.
- 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.
- Accompanying compact disc and DVD contain original material by artists discussed in the book.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269), discography (p. 269-284), filmography (p. 284-289) and index.
- Event (note)
- CD contents recorded 1963-1974.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- Contents of accompanying CD: 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).
- Contents of accompanying DVD: 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.
- ISBN
- 9780807833254 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807833258 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009016647
- OCLC
- 1051639660
- SCSB-10374011
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library