VA - Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar (2003)
VA - Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar (2003)
DVD-5 | Runtime: 59 min. | 2,84 Gb | Copy: Untouched
Video: NTSC, MPEG Video at 6 500 Kbps, 720 x 480 (1.333) at 29.970 fps | Audio: AC-3 2 channels at 224 Kbps, 48.0 KHz
Genre: Blues | Label: VESTAPOL
DVD-5 | Runtime: 59 min. | 2,84 Gb | Copy: Untouched
Video: NTSC, MPEG Video at 6 500 Kbps, 720 x 480 (1.333) at 29.970 fps | Audio: AC-3 2 channels at 224 Kbps, 48.0 KHz
Genre: Blues | Label: VESTAPOL
This excellent video focuses primarily on Mississippi Delta bottleneck blues guitarists, and within that framework illustrates several different playing styles… The highlights of the video are the two numbers by Son House. 'Levee Camp Moan' is preceded by a short but hilarious lecture from House about the dangerous business of love. Both this clip and his 'Death Letter Blues' typify a Son House live performance - he begins each song with a soft-spoken introduction, then takes a deep breath, hunches over the guitar, and explodes into sound and fury.
At the end of each song he seems to collapse with exhaustion. For many of today's younger blues fans, these videos offer the only chance to see these great artists perform the songs they're best remembered for. Highly recommended.
Legends Of Bottleneck Blues Guitar presents rare and historical recordings from 1965-1970 of some of the greatest exponents of this blues technique. Black bottleneck guitar styles were probably initially inspired by lap-style Hawaiian slide guitar which enjoyed immense popularity shortly after its inception in the mid-1890s. By 1903, it was already in vogue in Mississippi (and probably elsewhere) according to testimony from W. C. Handy, Gus Cannon and others. Although particularly popular in Mississippi and Louisiana, bottleneck styles could be found the length and breadth of the rural South.
While there were similarities amongst guitarists in some locales, there was no preponderant style or approach other than the ability and imagination of the guitarist employing a slide technique. The musicians presented in this video are amongst the greatest exponents of slide blues guitar who ever lived and are ample testimony to the superb variety available in this style.
Tracklist:
01. Brownsville Blues.(Performed by Played by Furry Lewis)
02. Motherless Children Have a Hard Time (Performed by Played by Mance Lipscomb)
03. Break 'Em On Down (Performed by Played by Fred McDowell)
04. Ramblin' (Performed by Played by Johnny Shines)
05. Tell Me Mama (Performed by Played by Johnny Shines)
06. Louise (Performed by Played by Fred McDowell)
07. Mr. Tom Green's Farm (Performed by Played by Johnny Shines)
08. I'm Glad Salvation's Free (Performed by Played by Jesse Fuller)
09. John Henry (Performed by Played by Jesse Fuller)
10. Levee Camp Moon (Performed by Played by Son House)
11. Death Letter Blues (Performed by Played by Son House)
12. Hark From The Tomb (Performed by Played by Jesse Fuller)
13. I Heard Somebody Call (Performed by Played by Fred McDowell)
14. My Babe (Performed by Played by Fred McDowell)
15. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (Performed by played by Fred McDowell)
VA - Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar (2003)
VA - Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar (2003)
VA - Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar (2003)
VA - Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar (2003)
VA - Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar (2003)
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