Alan Lomax deserves a statue - there is so much this good man has done for the preservation of blues and folk music. This was the guy who asked Muddy Waters in 1941 ""From who have you learned this song", after which Muddy answered "Robert Johnson", not telling that Robert had passed away 3 years earlier. Alan then asked "Who do you reckon is a better blues player: Robert Johnson or Son House?" after which Muddy replied "They're about equal". I have immense respect for Alan.
@@johnmontalvo3699 Never heard of Paul Oliver, very thankful for Alan, his father or anyone who preserved this beautiful culture/music.... Ill look up Paul Oliver, but if you have anything else to share about him or what he did, id love to hear, thanks...
@@wheninroamful check out Lowell Fulson too while you’re at it, he was considered one of the most important people in Blues History second only to T-Bone Walker. I love this stuff man, it’s up to us to pass it on to the next generation just like our grandfathers and fathers before us. We can’t let this amazing part of music history be forgotten.
Give Mr John and Alan Lomax family they're Emmy and Grammy award for their hard work and dedication that they gave for education of music in folk and traditional music category that was through the African-American experience this documentary is a very experienced tool for the next generations 🏆
Ridiculous that this is less than 2000 views at this time - Lomax was CRITICAL to blues and what we know today. Thank god for his work. Brilliant vision and sounds captured whilst quite a few of these boys were still around. In the 80's and 90's, most of them had died by then. This is absolute cultural gold.
Documentary was made for the PBS series "American Patchwork," containing music by and interviews with several Delta blues musicians, and is a deeply felt and sympathetic document of the conditions under which many of these blues players lived and which inspired their music.
maybe because PBS is the new BBC and not to be trusted all you have to see is the post-production PBS credits after the documentary and who it was sponsored by 90% socialist org that is destroying western civilization and destroying any real culture replacing it with a matrix illusion of propaganda the media, as well as our own government, has declared war on its own people and using our own culture against us
I wouldn't have known about this documentary if it weren't for finding the booklet (which is a transcript and study guide to the film) that goes along with it in a free library, here in my hometown of Crystal Springs, MS. :)
thanks for this documentary!! hard to hear some of the cruel things they did to the blacks smh but somehow in that ugly dark time something so beautiful was created by expressing there pain hurt and love that motivated them to keep going!! amazing
That man played 12 bar blues with one string. Then he nailed a wire to side of his house, tuned the damn thing played the house blues. He took a straw, tuned into a jazz whistle and blew doors down in his home town. That man got fire inside his heart and soul, born to play any damn thing he get his hands on
... and now as we are flooded with equipment even let robots do the lawn that sweet fire is being traded for a cold chip. There must be a fair weather way in the middle. 🌻
Gee, thanks for stealing my film and putting it on your channel without permission or attribution. What a swell guy you are. You might mention that it was made by Alan Lomax, John Bishop and Worth Long.
I love these guys I was raised in Mississippi now live in NY...when I find myself complaining this remind me how far i came...does anyone has any updates on this????
An amazing music, cultural anthropology and a Historian, of of a man who traveled far and near for the origins of the genre's of music he discovered or recorded Thank you, Mr. Bishop I have some of his PBS specials, but this is a TREASURE.
I doubt I'll ever find the answer, but about thirty years ago...well, just over, but I was in the navy, stationed at Great Lakes, and was listening to a Chicago radio station. They played a piece by R. L. Burnside, something about "me and the wolf" or a very similar phrase. Trouble is, I can't find even the slightest reference to anything by him that could possibly be it. I suppose, if I had copies of everything he recorded over thirty years ago, and listened to them all, maybe, just maybe I'll find it. Knowing my luck, it'll turn out I'd confused what the DJ said, and it was some other musician....but it was what introduced me to R. L. Burnside, and that's not nothing.
My Gosh! Joe Savage is the BEST singer I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. And I grew up in the South. Generation X. My elders were these people. And everyone sang like this. Whether in the Church, or Juke Joint Blues. These people had soul! I am now taking it upon myself to learn to write and play these traditional styles so I can teach my six year old, half Swedish son what the Blues is. Where it came from, and his personal connection to these amazingly rich people.
Folkore verses commercialised music, 2 different things. there will always be shitty commercialised music. the problem is our lack of care for the musical study and preservation of the music and passing it to our childern as theirs. Black, white, brown or green, if you are American this is your music.
It is people like these who have given the world the blues, loved by so many. It is all the cultures of all the peoples, Black, Red, White and Yellow that make this Nation unique and great! Thank You from Heart! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Amazing! Can't believe I only just found this...some things i never thought about before. Like the irony that its both a music to attract women and to get over women....but of course! Also that expression/culture comes from rootless people but that in turn becomes a rooted culture....
@@johnhealy6676 I think he's referring to the fife and drum music at ( 8:35 ) ...and the scene in the beginning of Gangs of New York in which the Dead Rabbits are gathering to fight against Bill the Butcher's nativist gang.
I am amazed that there is no recognition of the Mali blues that existed hundreds of years before this music arrived in the states. "Musicologists and music-lovers alike revere Mali as “the birthplace of the blues.” Mali's traditional music draws on the tales of ancient griots, who effectively kept the country's historical record by singing songs of praise about its nobility". Or any mention of the call and response songs that were work songs from Africa that the plantation slaves sang and are the true origin of the blues. It's more about ownership than the accurate history of this music from Africa. Even though in The Robert Johnson biography they recorded that Robert as a child was greatly influenced by the rhythms and singing of these original language songs. No one owns this music today as it is played in every corner of the world. And is constantly evolving.
Alan Lomax has founded many historic figures and legends in his documentary. I plan on trying to keep his legacy going as far as trying to find talent in delta blues and delta trap music
Lots of people decided they wanted to use the Blue genre as a way to make money and fame because that's how they see the Blue--just another musical genre. And they have done it with no understanding what really the blue is. The blue is a musical expression thru which black people tell their story and experience with pain, sorrow and hardship since we were brought to this land as slaves...something that a guy from a middle class family knows nothing and can't relate to.
Hebrew Israelites music and I'm born and raised in the Mississippi Delta. TMH called us Israelites not American Indian. So who's right THE GOD OF ISRAEL or somebody that told you that
John Bishop you might mention that you were only doing a public service. All acknowledgement should go to the artists you documented first. Not feeling the woe is me vibe.
SERÍA MAS QUE IMPORTANTE SUBTITULAR POR LO MENOS AL''ESPAÑOL''TODAS ÉSTAS OBRAS TAN INTERESANTES DESCONOCIDAS,PERO ESCUCHADAS.-SALUDOS DESDE''BUENOS AIRES C.A.B.A.REP.ARGENTINA''.-
It is called toasting. Toasting is the precursor to what we know today is rapping and hip-hop. This is where it started beeping the south and it spread all over the United States by way of black American migration to the north.
19:16 For reference that barrel weight 300 pounds (136 kg for us accross the Atlantic) when it's full. It's hard, today, to comprend how hard those jobs where. It takes a man (or a woman) who got the blues to play th blues indeed.
The music during the end credits sounds very similar, if not exactly the same as the flute/drum samples used in Gangs of New York.. Did they perhaps borrow music from this documentary? If anyone knows, please comment !
Amazing! I have met folks from rural and I mean rural New Jersey who play an instrument called a 'gut bucket' it was an inverted galvanized pale with a long stick/thin branch and a single string. Our country has a rich history and music has always brought people from different backgrounds together. It is like the arts combine us while other things like politics bifurcate us.
Where are we going to see this otherwise -- DVD unavailable in most of the world. If you have a link (not USA only) please share -- I'd buy this in a shot.
@Aaron D. Digby, Sr. Wow - I thought 12 was the most I had heard of from anyone I've met in person. So menopause kicks in around 50 or 55 years old? Yeah that's pretty much being pregnant for the whole adult life as puberty ends for females around when? 18 or 19? haha. Thanks for sharing.
@Aaron D. Digby, Sr. For real! I'm about to listen to a spiritual master who grew up in Iowa. He told me his grandmother WALKED from deep south to Iowa. haha. That's serious. His dad was also a serious boxer. This teacher was a kungfu master in the 1960s. He is a real "Morpheus" - you know like the Matrix? haha. thanks
en el ano 1962 con trece anos fabriique mí primer ' guitarra 1ro con.cuerdas hilo de algodón luego cambio las cambie por cuerdas de alambre-algo sonaba!
What a great surprise to find back Jack Owens in this mesmerising video! I met him in the 1990's when he performed at the Blues Estafette in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and I had the honour to shake hands with him 👏👏!! Years later I visited Bentonia Mississipi with my family to remember him and Skip James who lived there!
Does anyone what that first guy was playing? On the electric guitar? That riff is SO awesome but I can't figure it out. I think it's a little out of tune for one thing. If you know what he's doing please let me know.
if you are talking bout the fella at 2:50, pretty sure thats R. L. Burnside. buy any of his records and you'll get that groove. thats his bread and butter right there
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Alan Lomax deserves a statue - there is so much this good man has done for the preservation of blues and folk music. This was the guy who asked Muddy Waters in 1941 ""From who have you learned this song", after which Muddy answered "Robert Johnson", not telling that Robert had passed away 3 years earlier. Alan then asked "Who do you reckon is a better blues player: Robert Johnson or Son House?" after which Muddy replied "They're about equal". I have immense respect for Alan.
Ever heard of Paul Oliver ??
Like Alan, he risked his live to record the very cor of these blues before they dissapeared alltogether.
@@johnmontalvo3699 Never heard of Paul Oliver, very thankful for Alan, his father or anyone who preserved this beautiful culture/music.... Ill look up Paul Oliver, but if you have anything else to share about him or what he did, id love to hear, thanks...
Alan is a gem. He also recorded a ton of African music that was still surviving in the Caribbean back in 1962. Truly tremendous.
@@wheninroamful check out Lowell Fulson too while you’re at it, he was considered one of the most important people in Blues History second only to T-Bone Walker. I love this stuff man, it’s up to us to pass it on to the next generation just like our grandfathers and fathers before us. We can’t let this amazing part of music history be forgotten.
When you think you know your blues history, along comes Lomax to show you how much you don't know.
I am impressed by the unadorned integrity of this document. Excellent. Thankyou.
yes indeed a great video documentary -
Give Mr John and Alan Lomax family they're Emmy and Grammy award for their hard work and dedication that they gave for education of music in folk and traditional music category that was through the African-American experience this documentary is a very experienced tool for the next generations 🏆
Ridiculous that this is less than 2000 views at this time - Lomax was CRITICAL to blues and what we know today. Thank god for his work.
Brilliant vision and sounds captured whilst quite a few of these boys were still around. In the 80's and 90's, most of them had died by then. This is absolute cultural gold.
Not AnyMore. WE're the People and WE're Still Here, Hear Us.
these *men* were around, and women
They didn’t die off in the 80’s and 90’s... they still around in the south, it wasn’t that long ago
125.000 views on 2022
I can feel what their pain and struggle trough their music and voice.
Africa is the root of all
Documentary was made for the PBS series "American Patchwork," containing music by and interviews with several Delta blues musicians, and is a deeply felt and sympathetic document of the conditions under which many of these blues players lived and which inspired their music.
maybe because PBS is the new BBC and not to be trusted all you have to see is the post-production PBS credits after the documentary and who it was sponsored by 90% socialist org that is destroying western civilization and destroying any real culture replacing it with a matrix illusion of propaganda the media, as well as our own government, has declared war on its own people and using our own culture against us
🙄
I wouldn't have known about this documentary if it weren't for finding the booklet (which is a transcript and study guide to the film) that goes along with it in a free library, here in my hometown of Crystal Springs, MS. :)
They care about there History . Hell I I WAS BORN 8N SPOKANE WASHINGTON out on the west co
Is there an online transcript? Send link? please.
thanks for this documentary!! hard to hear some of the cruel things they did to the blacks smh but somehow in that ugly dark time something so beautiful was created by expressing there pain hurt and love that motivated them to keep going!! amazing
125k views after nearly ten years is just criminal.
Thank you, Lomax Clan. Thank you to the pickers and bluesman. Most of all, thank you to the Delta.
That man played 12 bar blues with one string. Then he nailed a wire to side of his house, tuned the damn thing played the house blues. He took a straw, tuned into a jazz whistle and blew doors down in his home town. That man got fire inside his heart and soul, born to play any damn thing he get his hands on
... and now as we are flooded with equipment even let robots do the lawn that sweet fire is being traded for a cold chip. There must be a fair weather way in the middle. 🌻
Gee, thanks for stealing my film and putting it on your channel without permission or attribution. What a swell guy you are. You might mention that it was made by Alan Lomax, John Bishop and Worth Long.
Hi John, my father is in this film. How can I get a copy? Also, I'd love to learn more about how he was selected.
Cool, I made a DVD and will send you a copy if you send your address. Who was your father?
Wow! Thanks so much! I sent you a message with the information :-)
HI Kanika, I can't find your message. you can text me at 503-349-5383 or email me at john@media-generation.com
Kanika W That's cool! Which one is your father?
With all we went through our spirit never were broken,we are an Amazing people of high standard
The blues make this southern white boy move! 😎👍🏻. God bless all them folks who gave us this fantastic music
Guy in the white shirt is my cuzn Harold buuka T Bell...Greenville Mississippi..nelson st ..
I love these guys I was raised in Mississippi now live in NY...when I find myself complaining this remind me how far i came...does anyone has any updates on this????
🎉😂❤😢😮😅
An amazing music, cultural anthropology and a Historian, of of a man who traveled far and near for the origins of the genre's of music he discovered or recorded Thank you, Mr. Bishop I have some of his PBS specials, but this is a TREASURE.
I doubt I'll ever find the answer, but about thirty years ago...well, just over, but I was in the navy, stationed at Great Lakes, and was listening to a Chicago radio station. They played a piece by R. L. Burnside, something about "me and the wolf" or a very similar phrase. Trouble is, I can't find even the slightest reference to anything by him that could possibly be it. I suppose, if I had copies of everything he recorded over thirty years ago, and listened to them all, maybe, just maybe I'll find it. Knowing my luck, it'll turn out I'd confused what the DJ said, and it was some other musician....but it was what introduced me to R. L. Burnside, and that's not nothing.
My Gosh! Joe Savage is the BEST singer I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.
And I grew up in the South. Generation X.
My elders were these people. And everyone sang like this.
Whether in the Church, or Juke Joint Blues. These people had soul!
I am now taking it upon myself to learn to write and play these traditional styles so I can teach my six year old, half Swedish son what the Blues is. Where it came from, and his personal connection to these amazingly rich people.
You go man! Keep this alive!!!
The man playing the blues fife or flute is named otha Turner
his video is a national treasure. They should show this in schools.
they do! :) in college, at least
How did music go from this...to what is heard mainstream today?
In my opinion it speaks volumes about the state of society today...
Frightening isnt it!!!
WAP has it's roots in the blues!!!
@HansLiu23 what's WAP?
@@HansLiu23 very true
Folkore verses commercialised music, 2 different things. there will always be shitty commercialised music. the problem is our lack of care for the musical study and preservation of the music and passing it to our childern as theirs. Black, white, brown or green, if you are American this is your music.
53:10, rap began
Terry King I caught that too. immediately
I see
It is people like these who have given the world the blues, loved by so many. It is all the cultures of all the peoples, Black, Red, White and Yellow that make this Nation unique and great! Thank You from Heart! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
The blues have heavy african/african american roots.
The best secret to playing a good harp is whiskey on the lips and tongue.
Pls explain why that works for you 🤔
Europe and Africa? Get the hell out of here with that lie.
Thank you for the blues
Amazing! Can't believe I only just found this...some things i never thought about before. Like the irony that its both a music to attract women and to get over women....but of course! Also that expression/culture comes from rootless people but that in turn becomes a rooted culture....
Blues Compartido ripped this off from an icky pre-release dupe, the ads are his fucking karma
The lady plowing.. I would love to meet her family
I’m watching this for class
@@VanderJam it was.
Thank the Gods for the Goddamn Blues💘💘
Trying to out sing each other to take the edge off of "pure hell". Underpaid,heatstroke and destitution..... 🤔
Gangs of New York ( opening scene) brought me here.
TheTallMan35 Don’t you mean Oh Brother where art thou ?
@@johnhealy6676 I think he's referring to the fife and drum music at ( 8:35 ) ...and the scene in the beginning of Gangs of New York in which the Dead Rabbits are gathering to fight against Bill the Butcher's nativist gang.
Who Knew? - I Grew Up In This Way.
Would absolutely love information on the song around 00:26
Belton Sutherland - th-cam.com/video/ccn6_60NhJI/w-d-xo.html
I am amazed that there is no recognition of the Mali blues that existed hundreds of years before this music arrived in the states. "Musicologists and music-lovers alike revere Mali as “the birthplace of the blues.” Mali's traditional music draws on the tales of ancient griots, who effectively kept the country's historical record by singing songs of praise about its nobility". Or any mention of the call and response songs that were work songs from Africa that the plantation slaves sang and are the true origin of the blues. It's more about ownership than the accurate history of this music from Africa. Even though in The Robert Johnson biography they recorded that Robert as a child was greatly influenced by the rhythms and singing of these original language songs. No one owns this music today as it is played in every corner of the world. And is constantly evolving.
This is about the Mississippi Delta Blues, which is unique and separate from griot traditional music. Mali should have it's own documentary
I know this mofo did not say the blues was african and EUROPEAN inspired. NOTHING European about it. I can't with these colonizers.
Dude rapping before at the end
Was that at the end before, or the before at the end?
Alan Lomax has founded many historic figures and legends in his documentary. I plan on trying to keep his legacy going as far as trying to find talent in delta blues and delta trap music
32:02 is where I took my screen name from...🙂
Great documentary Lomax gave us a gift
Lots of people decided they wanted to use the Blue genre as a way to make money and fame because that's how they see the Blue--just another musical genre. And they have done it with no understanding what really the blue is. The blue is a musical expression thru which black people tell their story and experience with pain, sorrow and hardship since we were brought to this land as slaves...something that a guy from a middle class family knows nothing and can't relate to.
Um documentário de peso, pois conta a realidade dos bluesman. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
OP give credits to the filmmakers vvvvv
I'love blues .
powerfull evocative such real music of soul thanks
American Indian music!!
Hebrew Israelites music and I'm born and raised in the Mississippi Delta. TMH called us Israelites not American Indian. So who's right THE GOD OF ISRAEL or somebody that told you that
The man in the red shirt rocking out in the yard is R.L. Burnside
John Bishop you might mention that you were only doing a public service. All acknowledgement should go to the artists you documented first. Not feeling the woe is me vibe.
This is treasure
I play delta blues but it's much more than just sad tails
Took it off my page after seeing your post, sorry John, great job. Thumbs down for stealing this mans effort.
SERÍA MAS QUE IMPORTANTE SUBTITULAR POR LO MENOS AL''ESPAÑOL''TODAS ÉSTAS OBRAS TAN INTERESANTES DESCONOCIDAS,PERO ESCUCHADAS.-SALUDOS DESDE''BUENOS AIRES C.A.B.A.REP.ARGENTINA''.-
This belongs in the national archives! God bless Lomax and all these gentlemen for doing this!❤
Agreed❤🎉
Just great!! thanks Lomax!!
Thank you for uploading Blues Compartido is real the truth here.Is good to know this,
This is great
(54:40) Rudy Ray Moore's character "Dolemite" immediately came to mind with that storytelling.
It is called toasting. Toasting is the precursor to what we know today is rapping and hip-hop. This is where it started beeping the south and it spread all over the United States by way of black American migration to the north.
Alan and John lomax are real heroes.
Guys loved it! Piece of history!
Btw, what's the song /artist @ 16:07
Jack Owens doing Hard Time Killing Floor
Thank you for sharing - an amazing insight... the real deal...
Thanks lomax
how about it mr/ mme compartido ? CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE.
19:16 For reference that barrel weight 300 pounds (136 kg for us accross the Atlantic) when it's full. It's hard, today, to comprend how hard those jobs where. It takes a man (or a woman) who got the blues to play th blues indeed.
The music during the end credits sounds very similar, if not exactly the same as the flute/drum samples used in Gangs of New York..
Did they perhaps borrow music from this documentary?
If anyone knows, please comment !
"Europe"????😂😂😂😂
Amazing! I have met folks from rural and I mean rural New Jersey who play an instrument called a 'gut bucket' it was an inverted galvanized pale with a long stick/thin branch and a single string. Our country has a rich history and music has always brought people from different backgrounds together. It is like the arts combine us while other things like politics bifurcate us.
Love this doc!❤🎉 so enlightening, eduational and inspiring. Thank you
👩💻💭... MY My My
At 39:00 yessuhh 😆
anybode knows who this is? performing around 3:00
Got u: th-cam.com/video/meC4pmw5u84/w-d-xo.html
It's Burnside
REEL?LIFE!
Thanks for sharing this amazing documentary!
Hope they preserve this gold mine!
GOLD
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
Thanks for sharing ♥️⚜️
24:35 Sam Chatmon whoaaaa that’s some heavy stuff! Listening in 2023 for the fist time and I love it
amazing, amazing. life-changing to watch this.
Wow, the flute music is so West African!
Excellent
Great video .Not enough adverts though. Could have crammed another twenty in at least, to really get the message across.
2019: TH-cam rip off world.
Where are we going to see this otherwise -- DVD unavailable in most of the world. If you have a link (not USA only) please share -- I'd buy this in a shot.
You can see he don't know nothing about chopping a tree down be 2 years trying to get that tree down
18:00 is this woman the mother of Denzel Washington?!
17 kids? Holy moly
@Aaron D. Digby, Sr. Wow - I thought 12 was the most I had heard of from anyone I've met in person. So menopause kicks in around 50 or 55 years old? Yeah that's pretty much being pregnant for the whole adult life as puberty ends for females around when? 18 or 19? haha. Thanks for sharing.
@Aaron D. Digby, Sr. For real! I'm about to listen to a spiritual master who grew up in Iowa. He told me his grandmother WALKED from deep south to Iowa. haha. That's serious. His dad was also a serious boxer. This teacher was a kungfu master in the 1960s. He is a real "Morpheus" - you know like the Matrix? haha. thanks
en el ano 1962 con trece anos fabriique mí primer ' guitarra 1ro con.cuerdas hilo de algodón luego cambio las cambie por cuerdas de alambre-algo sonaba!
I thought this Lomax guy was Dr John
Thank you for posting!
I bought the BOOK!
Do hear slavery stories SMH
10:30 this is what ravers called speaker freakin
Great piece of work.
What a great surprise to find back Jack Owens in this mesmerising video! I met him in the 1990's when he performed at the Blues Estafette in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and I had the honour to shake hands with him 👏👏!! Years later I visited Bentonia Mississipi with my family to remember him and Skip James who lived there!
❤️🥳
Glad to hear!
I was there too, and I was embarresed because people were talking through his playing and being rude
Who is that at 21.06??
Rock'n' Roll Punk Rock!
❤❤❤
Fkn ads ruin this
Does anyone what that first guy was playing? On the electric guitar? That riff is SO awesome but I can't figure it out. I think it's a little out of tune for one thing. If you know what he's doing please let me know.
if you are talking bout the fella at 2:50, pretty sure thats R. L. Burnside. buy any of his records and you'll get that groove. thats his bread and butter right there
@@dansullivan172 That's exactly who I mean. Man that is SUCH a cool groove. Thanks much.
@dansullivan172 that is the great man himself RL Burnside.