http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20...
Unfortunately there is more than a little controversy over the means in which he acquired some of his information, see
http://observer.com/2014/04/robert-mc...
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Elvie & Geeshie - Hard Women in Hard Times
In 1930 Paramount took two young women from Houston north to Wisconsin
to record six sides of remarkable music that has been shrouded in
mystery ever since. Blues historians knew NOTHING until a recent NY
Times article by John Jeremiah Sullivan finally uncovered who these
women were. See
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20...
Unfortunately there is more than a little controversy over the means in which he acquired some of his information, see
http://observer.com/2014/04/robert-mc...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/20...
Unfortunately there is more than a little controversy over the means in which he acquired some of his information, see
http://observer.com/2014/04/robert-mc...
5 comments:
Fascinating
Thanks so much for posting this article! Those six sides are among my favorite all-time blues recordings.
Le Roi, Now you post their music? After reading about them in the Times article, I went on Amazon and bought every collection that contained their music. Oh well, I'm sure the music industry is grateful for my donation to its diminished coffers. Thanks for posting this. Early blues was dominated by female singers and I've been paying considerable attention to them lately. It;'s time well spent.
Again, thanks for the effort expended in providing the music we love so much. I try to imagine a time before music could be reproduced on wax, cylinder, vinyl, or any other medium, and think how very lucky we are to have so much great music at our ear-tips, so to speak. When you add the internet and what is available from music blogs into the calculus, it becomes that much more magical and wondrous.
http://www.embedupload.com/?d=0CGUKNCWCY
if you haven't seen it, Sullivan's earlier piece for Harper's (from 2012) is worth a read as well. It's like a preamble to the main event.
http://ourblues.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/unknown_bards.pdf
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