Keith Richards
“For me, music is like the center of everything. It’s something that binds people together through centuries, through millennium. It’s undefinable.” “I grew up listening to American music even though […]
Tag Archives: Blues
Son House
Son House had always been torn between God’s music and the devil’s, as blues was often called, even in the black community. The saints and sinners that did battle in […]
Jack White
“There is something magical about those [early blues] records and much of it lies in the voices. Partly because of the way they were recorded, there’s an eeriness and a […]
Tutwiler Station
1903. The place: Tutwiler, a tiny town in the Mississippi Delta, halfway between Greenwood and Clarksdale. It is dusk and the sky is rich in summer color. The slight breeze, […]
Howlin’ Wolf
“He was the big bad wolf… Now the story is he got his name from a dead man who came out the cemetery and tuned his guitar. And he been […]
Dockery Farms
“If you had to pick one single spot as the birthplace of the blues, you might say it all started right here. Son House played here, Willie Brown played here, […]
Hank Williams
Hank Williams’ songs were cries from the darkness; made to be heard while running through the lonely night, racing with the moon… The lyrics dealt not with true love and […]
Charley Patton
“He’s basically the great-grandfather of all American and western music that has lasted the test of time. There’s a lot of music that this country has put out but the […]
It’s What We Don’t Hear
“If the blues seems to have run its course as a 12-bar form, the blues spirit surely has not… that element so uniquely central not just to the blues, but […]
Scorsese Presents: The Blues
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Lead Belly singing See See Rider. I was entranced… All of a sudden, in an instant, I could hear where it had […]
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