I am impressed by the unadorned integrity of this document. Excellent. Thankyou.
@hollywoodjoe1233 ай бұрын
yes indeed a great video documentary -
@Joenathan-jf3uj6 ай бұрын
I can feel what their pain and struggle trough their music and voice.
@gijsschubert79013 жыл бұрын
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.
@johnmontalvo36993 жыл бұрын
Ever heard of Paul Oliver ??
@johnmontalvo36993 жыл бұрын
Like Alan, he risked his live to record the very cor of these blues before they dissapeared alltogether.
@wheninroamful3 жыл бұрын
@@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...
@africaRBG3 жыл бұрын
Alan is a gem. He also recorded a ton of African music that was still surviving in the Caribbean back in 1962. Truly tremendous.
@CocoKickz943 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@jimjones58726 ай бұрын
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
@aureliobrighton18716 ай бұрын
... 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. 🌻
@TheBluesmanBlue Жыл бұрын
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 🏆
@frostyeverclear6 ай бұрын
This belongs in the national archives! God bless Lomax and all these gentlemen for doing this!❤
@madleneroulette53713 ай бұрын
Agreed❤🎉
@patriwarner92753 жыл бұрын
When you think you know your blues history, along comes Lomax to show you how much you don't know.
@FlarkusChunswen9 ай бұрын
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.
@ariellejade258 ай бұрын
his video is a national treasure. They should show this in schools.
@emmaselvaggio9037Ай бұрын
they do! :) in college, at least
@sayerma7 жыл бұрын
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.
@ellane84414 жыл бұрын
Not AnyMore. WE're the People and WE're Still Here, Hear Us.
@j.masonbrown62163 жыл бұрын
these *men* were around, and women
@blackknight2953 жыл бұрын
They didn’t die off in the 80’s and 90’s... they still around in the south, it wasn’t that long ago
@donniekingston21542 жыл бұрын
125.000 views on 2022
@markwajdeman71183 жыл бұрын
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.
@damongardiner41333 жыл бұрын
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
@sherrard54922 жыл бұрын
🙄
@nathanmccloud3572 Жыл бұрын
With all we went through our spirit never were broken,we are an Amazing people of high standard
@JohnnyRebKy2 жыл бұрын
The blues make this southern white boy move! 😎👍🏻. God bless all them folks who gave us this fantastic music
@vincentvalle96972 жыл бұрын
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
@manoelteixeira4936Ай бұрын
Um documentário de peso, pois conta a realidade dos bluesman. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
@JoyUnderwood7 жыл бұрын
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. :)
@LUCKYB.2 жыл бұрын
They care about there History . Hell I I WAS BORN 8N SPOKANE WASHINGTON out on the west co
@joshuacasano40120 күн бұрын
Is there an online transcript? Send link? please.
@VanguardSound73 жыл бұрын
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.
@lfuhr3905 Жыл бұрын
You go man! Keep this alive!!!
@daveyjoweaver51834 жыл бұрын
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
@jasminepearls1047 Жыл бұрын
The blues have heavy african/african american roots.
@mr.nobody685 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the blues
@JAY-lu3cx2 жыл бұрын
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????
@dorothywhitsett1937 Жыл бұрын
🎉😂❤😢😮😅
@mauiluido257 жыл бұрын
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.
@oceanamoore35645 жыл бұрын
Thank the Gods for the Goddamn Blues💘💘
@ingles1a122Ай бұрын
Just great!! thanks Lomax!!
@oldman98432 жыл бұрын
Great documentary Lomax gave us a gift
@vintage349 Жыл бұрын
I'love blues .
@enkiabzu5792 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this amazing documentary! Hope they preserve this gold mine!
@madleneroulette53713 ай бұрын
Love this doc!❤🎉 so enlightening, eduational and inspiring. Thank you
@oberonstar62784 жыл бұрын
powerfull evocative such real music of soul thanks
@eastlondonblues3 ай бұрын
amazing, amazing. life-changing to watch this.
@coravisser38462 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading Blues Compartido is real the truth here.Is good to know this,
@BKaneNp8 Жыл бұрын
24:35 Sam Chatmon whoaaaa that’s some heavy stuff! Listening in 2023 for the fist time and I love it
@rustyshackleford38722 ай бұрын
The man playing the blues fife or flute is named otha Turner
@gaca27373 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing - an amazing insight... the real deal...
@ronaldotto5349 ай бұрын
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.
@mikekaatman31943 жыл бұрын
How did music go from this...to what is heard mainstream today? In my opinion it speaks volumes about the state of society today...
@lfuhr3905 Жыл бұрын
Frightening isnt it!!!
@HansLiu23 Жыл бұрын
WAP has it's roots in the blues!!!
@paulgordon6949 Жыл бұрын
@HansLiu23 what's WAP?
@DockingFreidmanRecords9 ай бұрын
@@HansLiu23 very true
@happybeach7775 ай бұрын
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.
@djhill13j5 жыл бұрын
I’m watching this for class
@djhill13j4 жыл бұрын
@@VanderJam it was.
@paulmayhew25453 жыл бұрын
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....
@StephenGarcia-p6x5 ай бұрын
Great piece of work.
@patzimmusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting!
@TomDenneyArt6 жыл бұрын
This is great
@motorbikeray2 жыл бұрын
(54:40) Rudy Ray Moore's character "Dolemite" immediately came to mind with that storytelling.
@Number1DriversSeat Жыл бұрын
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.
@marjovankuik4317 Жыл бұрын
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!
@eleonorevk Жыл бұрын
❤️🥳
@bluesandfriends10 ай бұрын
Glad to hear! I was there too, and I was embarresed because people were talking through his playing and being rude
@choppacity43483 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing ♥️⚜️
@gayjustinbieber62253 жыл бұрын
The best secret to playing a good harp is whiskey on the lips and tongue.
@Robert-yk8tx6 ай бұрын
Pls explain why that works for you 🤔
@matthawkins8197 Жыл бұрын
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.
@jenniferd756311 ай бұрын
This is about the Mississippi Delta Blues, which is unique and separate from griot traditional music. Mali should have it's own documentary
@pederlong1784 Жыл бұрын
Excellent
@TheEudaemonicPlague7 ай бұрын
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.
@joejoe45222 жыл бұрын
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
@mruntamed9635 Жыл бұрын
This is treasure
5 ай бұрын
Wow, the flute music is so West African!
@hawghawg3813 жыл бұрын
The lady plowing.. I would love to meet her family
@Tubulous123 Жыл бұрын
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
@ellane84414 жыл бұрын
Who Knew? - I Grew Up In This Way.
@FreeDanielLarson20253 жыл бұрын
Thanks lomax
@Jay-gv9vd Жыл бұрын
Amazing art
@TheTallMan506 жыл бұрын
Gangs of New York ( opening scene) brought me here.
@johnhealy66764 жыл бұрын
TheTallMan35 Don’t you mean Oh Brother where art thou ?
@g.lowenklee22684 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@narasimhiah2 жыл бұрын
Excellent excellent
@liljimitwofeatherz97358 ай бұрын
Guy in the white shirt is my cuzn Harold buuka T Bell...Greenville Mississippi..nelson st ..
@JackTheRabbitMusic5 жыл бұрын
32:02 is where I took my screen name from...🙂
@HvnterWade6 жыл бұрын
Would absolutely love information on the song around 00:26
The man in the red shirt rocking out in the yard is R.L. Burnside
@SilverLoggerhead2 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤
@timshaw7007 Жыл бұрын
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 !
@terryking43804 жыл бұрын
53:10, rap began
@sike2284 жыл бұрын
Terry King I caught that too. immediately
@Nleezie334 жыл бұрын
I see
@antoniosergiomiranda1543 Жыл бұрын
Rock'n' Roll Punk Rock!
@cesarmedina4350 Жыл бұрын
Africa is the root of all
@florindolemos61124 жыл бұрын
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!
@kennethnick32134 ай бұрын
Alan and John lomax are real heroes.
@ramsayross3 жыл бұрын
Great video .Not enough adverts though. Could have crammed another twenty in at least, to really get the message across.
@WaltKurtz11093 ай бұрын
GOLD
@MrRX753 жыл бұрын
Guys loved it! Piece of history! Btw, what's the song /artist @ 16:07
@Odin0293 жыл бұрын
Jack Owens doing Hard Time Killing Floor
@mediageneration3 жыл бұрын
Blues Compartido ripped this off from an icky pre-release dupe, the ads are his fucking karma
@941lowelife24 жыл бұрын
Dude rapping before at the end
@iansing52783 жыл бұрын
Was that at the end before, or the before at the end?
@belovaklebelovak7770 Жыл бұрын
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.
@vincentmondello20527 жыл бұрын
Took it off my page after seeing your post, sorry John, great job. Thumbs down for stealing this mans effort.
@patrickbodenham6879 Жыл бұрын
Who is that at 21.06??
@vanhafford78292 жыл бұрын
I bought the BOOK!
@cassadyfr5 жыл бұрын
how about it mr/ mme compartido ? CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE.
@ZachVance1087 жыл бұрын
OP give credits to the filmmakers vvvvv
@bigmintsgamer72322 ай бұрын
I play delta blues but it's much more than just sad tails
@alabamaaboriginal59353 жыл бұрын
American Indian music!!
@alphonsojohnson86953 ай бұрын
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
@tahzwalker5 жыл бұрын
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.
@leonblum78984 жыл бұрын
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''.-
@charles-iii6759Ай бұрын
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.
@mediageneration7 жыл бұрын
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.
@_me.Kanika7 жыл бұрын
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.
@mediageneration7 жыл бұрын
Cool, I made a DVD and will send you a copy if you send your address. Who was your father?
@_me.Kanika7 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks so much! I sent you a message with the information :-)
@mediageneration7 жыл бұрын
HI Kanika, I can't find your message. you can text me at 503-349-5383 or email me at john@media-generation.com
@JoyUnderwood7 жыл бұрын
Kanika W That's cool! Which one is your father?
@941lowelife23 жыл бұрын
And 44:53 love it
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang8853 жыл бұрын
17 kids? Holy moly
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang8852 жыл бұрын
@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.
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang8852 жыл бұрын
@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
@carypasseroff33314 ай бұрын
REEL?LIFE!
@florinstanzer53983 жыл бұрын
anybode knows who this is? performing around 3:00
@kmpw2 жыл бұрын
Got u: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5amZaOjrJqobpY
@Robert-yk8tx6 ай бұрын
It's Burnside
@941lowelife23 жыл бұрын
At 39:00 yessuhh 😆
@Rennyblue3 жыл бұрын
I thought this Lomax guy was Dr John
@PaulTheSkeptic2 жыл бұрын
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.
@dansullivan172 Жыл бұрын
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
@PaulTheSkeptic Жыл бұрын
@@dansullivan172 That's exactly who I mean. Man that is SUCH a cool groove. Thanks much.
@athitayastirling82598 ай бұрын
@dansullivan172 that is the great man himself RL Burnside.
@meevluv3 жыл бұрын
10:30 this is what ravers called speaker freakin
@deloreswilson17982 жыл бұрын
Trying to out sing each other to take the edge off of "pure hell". Underpaid,heatstroke and destitution..... 🤔
@PaulTheSkeptic2 жыл бұрын
Come on camera guy. Get the hands.
@YasinAlmak2 жыл бұрын
18:00 is this woman the mother of Denzel Washington?!
@georgepops31382 жыл бұрын
This make me think about what my dad told me about the redriver bottoms northeast Texas bowie county texas up around dekalb tx hooks tx redbank tx wamba tx north of texarkana texas Mandeville ar over the state line in miller County arkansas redriver bottoms first old river texarkana Arkansas second old river lost parie the beck bottoms hack and bend bottoms glass hill bottoms on the redriver was northeast of dekalb tx on farm road 992 on 3side farm it was a prison on there also my dad grandfather which is his dad Father that's how he got to dekalb tx around 1901 to 1910 he was lock up in that prison when he was released in 1910 he didn't have no where to go so he stayed on that plantation and the where alot of families who lives on them farms the pops johnson the hooks the Neal's Traylor family Jones galbert family McGowans so he married a McGowan his name was elis pops whe was born in texarkana bowie county texas miller county arkansas area he move to hooks tx 12 miles west of texarkana on highway us 82 he killed somebody around 1901 that's how he got to that prison in dekalb tx 18 miles west on 82 my dad dad didn't meet his father until some time around 1910 my dad dad was from hooks his name was John pops he was born 1900 in hooks tx he was a couple of months old when he dad elis pops went to prison my dad name George pops my name is George Lee pops Jr my Dad married a Ganaway my mother name is Debra ganaway pops her mother name was Helen hooks ganaway my blood line come from the farm my mother's mother mother name was Sally Johnson hooks her husband's name was forrest hooks which is my mother mother's father he was A big time boss his grandfather name was forrest hooks a mixed man who father was Warren hooks the founder of hooks tx so bowie county texas run deep I'm my roots redriver bottoms baby
@rosalindhampton2410 ай бұрын
👩💻💭... MY My My
@chopitupradio4286 Жыл бұрын
Europe and Africa? Get the hell out of here with that lie.