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Prison Blues

Once will not hurt, I could compose this package in the manner of Question for a champion . Top it off! Born in 1914 sentenced homicide, I am serving my sentence at Angola Penitentiary where I sing the blues in accompanying me on guitar ... and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah ...

It says there anything? No. Is not that stupid? Si Could I ever say something? This is not won!

(photo Taylor Lasseigne)

Splash, splash ...! In 1958, came to record songs of prisoners, ethnomusicologist Harry Oster landed at Angola Prison eventually fall on the prisoner Robert Pete Williams who convicted of murder, pays his debt to society by pushing the song in his last entrenchments. Between these walls at the foot of these towers, where 30 years earlier, Alan Lomax another ethnomusicologist, recorded Leadbelly for the first time, Harry Oster engrave in wax laments electrifying Robert Pete Williams and even help secure his release on parole. What should we think of this? Know that what destroyed the rebuilt power? That American society - its brutality, its violence - leads his black artists in the dungeon? Than in the U.S., prisons, run by whites, blacks make great artists? That art, far from being a path that leads nowhere, opens a path to salvation? Who knows ...?

Harry Oster & Robert Pete Williams

Leadbelly and Alan Lomax

The answer, as obvious as a multiply, yet fits in a few LPs of light and sorrow. Set in the human soul to eternity, the blues of Robert Pete Williams took birth in a guitar slightly off, slightly sour, almost out of tune when read as a leathery hand already, the thousand faults of a life, the mistakes along the way, repentance, the pain of being, the questions turned to the sky ...

Robert Pete Williams

So he gave us here to live another life that looks very much like ours.

• Pardon Denied Again (I'm Blues As A Man Can Be • Arhoolie Records • 1959)
• Come Here Baby (ditto )
• Motherless Children Have A Hard Time (ditto )

Blind Test Day

• Beep

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Messenger heart

In the very large number of letters - telepathic, alas ! - Received as a result of my last shipment (see, Charlie Feathers), faithful users ... Cadillac essentially asking me what could well be the time and place "where I would rather be than here and now. "Their request seems so legitimate that I feel compelled to answer them, in part at least. Here is the list is not exhaustive, places and times where I would be events where I would have liked to attend or to which I would have liked to be one of the actors, so I was also heavily and fatally myself.

So would I like

• Living in Dakar in the 60s and 70s. And Addis Ababa, during the same period.
• Spending a few days in the basement of this house, near Woodstock, which came out - no one knows how - Basement Tapes
• Become friends with Billie Holiday . Tighten against my heart
• Smoking a little herb with Lester Young
• Match with Erik Satie (who never opened his mail)
• Joining the trio Lightnin 'Hopkins ...
• Owning a jazz club in New York in the 40 and 50
• Playing football with Duke Reid and Clement "Coxon" Dodd
  

However, I was very happy to be on 13 Last September, a Tuesday evening, General Food, bar and restaurant in the rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud where twice per month, the friend Aduna in charge of music programming, has come to share its treasures. We met, chatted, justified the existence of beer. The cook, Senegalese, we even offered an assortment of small entries, exotic tapas, spicy carrots, potatoes and cumin marinated squid with lemon ...

Aduna (earth, world, Wolof )

Finally, there was music, Bembeya Jazz National , Ghana Soundz , Orchestra Baobab ... Incomparable. From beginning to end. Ballads cut the breath and voices as if God whispered to you that you forgive, it is up to you to be happy ... So that's what I did, I was happy.

Wherever you are, paradise it is here ...

• Make It Slow, Make It Fast (Ghana Soundz • Afro-Beat, Funk & Fusion Music in 70's • Soundway)
• Ballake (Bembeya Jazz National • Special Reports • Souvenir Bolibana)
• Aduna Jarule Naawo (Orchestra Baobab • • N'Wolof DakarSound)

Blind Test Day

• Incognito (15 minutes of happiness)

Blind Test September 16
My Rifle, My Pony And Me Dean Martin & • Ricky Nelson in My Rifle, My Pony and Me

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Early rock

Starting to research two years ago, of Get With It: Essential Recordings (1954-1969) of Charlie Feathers, appeared on the label Revenant , I'm not back, just to discover, putting their hands on this disc coveted, Charlie Feathers and Junior Kimbrough had jostled and could remain sound track of this meeting. Sure wish I was a little mouse to see it with my own eyes, two specimens of savagery as it did not stop occurred since prehistoric times, to breathe, to gauge the board to finally hit on the guitar. Anyway, there are so many places and times when I rather be than here and now that I'm there myself more careful. Anyway, Charlie Feathers, I knew little except that he had tried, unsuccessfully, to claim authorship of rock 'n' roll, wrongly attributed, he thought the King Kong became [ed]. As before him Jelly Roll Morton with that of jazz. Classier, old Charlie was not going to print it on his business cards. Had he only business cards? Imagine there a Tyrannosaurus move his card to the principle of evolution is about to win?

On reflection, I think he was right, Charlie Feathers. And that rock 'n' roll owes a lot! Maybe he is not exactly the father - everyone who cares to bottom - but the rock was not the same without these forty-two titles together key where I said. In addition to Elvis and he had crossed at Sun Records course, before Charlie takes its cliques and claques, exasperated by Sam Philips, the boss, who was keen to make a country singer.

How paint the portrait of a man whose music, primitive, raw - if possessed the good Lord himself, assuming that there would be hard to exorcise the demons - has no equal. Should we stick to the few images that moved the net, her pretty face cowboy movie, a palimpsest of Chet Baker, James Dean and Jack Palance? At Vital? Which claims that it was born June 12, 1932 in Holly Springs to get in, one evening in August 1998, in the eternal night. As I know, it happens portrait!

Just listen, it's simpler. Let yourself go! And with any luck, soon you will survey the streets of Memphis in pursuit of a phantom whose wild dreams were washed away by the wind.

• One Hand Loose (1956 - Get With It: Essential Recordings 1954-69)
• When You Decide (1957 - idem )
• I've Been Deceived (1955 - idem )
• Feel Good Again (1969 - Junior Kimbrough (gtr, vcl) ; Charlie Feathers (gtl) - idem )

Blind Test du jour

• Nomen Nescio (très, très, facile)

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Fade Fundi

child, I imagined Kenya as a huge reserve, an unknown land acquired primarily to hunters and ivory traders from squandering the riches of the wilderness, fantastic territory which I learned to love the natural splendor in the encyclopedia Wildlife (Ed. Grange Batelière ). The brutality of living there spread out, full page, large pictures where we saw lions and lionesses devouring zebras or gazelles, perfect metaphor - I only knew later - a country, and a whole continent, Africa, ruthlessly butchered by a predator more fierce than even the fiercest of them. Today things are different. I grew and matured, acquired a know a little bit different and make me another picture of Kenya. Which, obviously, goes, also, for music.

How I discovered Fundi Konde and these 17 tracks compiled by RetroAfric , whose label seriously - only real guarantee of fun - commits the quality? Thanks to Louis Skorecki again, inexhaustible reservoir of musical, which chronicles Disc - published in World, a magazine now defunct - I had packed. "Packaged, it weighed! "As they say. And all things considered, this is a wonderful disc that can be recognized - whatever one may think - just one source of popular music in Africa today. This is not nothing. Known as the first musician from East Africa to have grabbed an electric guitar, Fundi Konde is remembered for having composed in 1956 Malaika , it registers with one of the most popular Kenyan performers of the era, Fadhili William. This tube will be true again later by many African musicians without the paternity of her title is still recognized.

Fadhili William (left) and Fundi Konde

ballads, lullabies - imagine, lullabies! Who writes? - Pulsating calypso and rumba hypnotics comprise the bulk of this Retrospective (1947-1956) or seventeen historical rarities recorded the first time in 1946 in Calcutta, India on label Dum Dum . Until you can listen to this stuff, nothing will be quite rotten in the field of recorded music!

Cognac-Jay here at the studios ... you

• Jambo Sigara (Fundi Konde - Retrospective Vol. 1 (1947-1956) - RetroAfric - 1994)
• Kipenzi Waniua-Ua (ditto )
• Kipenzi Tuka Wawili (ditto )

Blind Test of the day (difficult)

• Mysterioso

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Hotpoint Iced Diamond

Rose that's life or Murphy's Law

December 14, 1948, a young black woman, round as an apple of love, enters the RCA studios in Hollywood. A guitarist, Jack Marshall , and a bassist, Major Holey Quincy, accompany it. The following month, she will celebrate her 35 years. Meanwhile, she sings, tease a piano stomps on a washboard. A few hours later, A Little Bird Told Me; Baby, Baby; Pennies From Heaven and You Were Meant For Me are boxed. Belote. 31, just before New Year's Eve Eve, Rebelote, Rosetta Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys; Honeysuckle Rose Busy Lines ... run into the wax. In a flurry of titles, The Chee-Chee Girl was born. Champagne! Many other sessions will follow you will find pleasure in a wonderful assortment of sweets, (The Chee-Chee Girl), The Complete RCA Victor Recordings . I beg you, use you, take as many as you want!

Formed by pianist Fats Waller 's voice Rose Murphy, his singing does not owe anything to anyone. How are they even have suggested to him not to sing as her voice may sound strange, shrill, as if shedding did not come to argue that his voice remained that of a little girl that was good 'to a recitation of rhymes while jumping rope? I guess nothing is easy when the great singers of the era called Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald , Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington , Helen Humes , Betty Carter ...

photo: Rodney Jay Atienza

Is the pleasure lavished on piano to start exploring it in a way no less personal, wonderfully rhythmic, at once firm and flexible. And then the voice. Voice of an angel, an altar boy more accurately, whose candor can sometimes squeak squeaks like sugar, tease teeth. Listen to what becomes Honeysuckle Rose , sketched by that voice. You tell me the news.

The altar is here

• Honeysuckle Rose (The Chee-Chee Girl - 1948-1949 - BMG)
• Busy Lines ( ditto)
• Pennies From Heaven (ditto)

Blind Test of the day (very easy)

• Enigma

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The clothes do not make the monk

With his improbable cap Herman Alexander a bit like the captain of a ship wheels with gigantic blades never cease to stir as if the Mississippi was to mix colors or to take the rich silt. Or maybe it is a cap of Employee Railway that he is not come to mind to take off for the camera. Far from being enforced, these similarities are bound to be pushed farther soon realized that this incredible bluesman, whose morphology is almost as dry as the game has not registered more than a genuine sign vessel or a professional background.

Eleven titles skinny - the longest does not exceed four minutes - are a total of twenty-seven minutes in all and for all, a rustic blues whose music power catapult Herman Alexander in the community more closed than we think, of very great blues musicians. For eternity! Pace Wim Wenders, then these musicians have never needed to jump into the air or trigger hurricanes decibels to leave footprints and memories. A skimpy costumes, an acoustic guitar, a life in the best case, were largely the case.

Exit Theatre on Beale Street, 1939

Born in Tunica, Mississippi, 1 st January 1925, Herman Alexander learned to play guitar by listening to records while his father taught him the harmonica. A few years later, he met pianist Alabama Red to which he will complete his education by greatly expanding his repertoire. Street musician, his reputation would probably never exceeded Beale Street and Handy Park (Memphis), where officials Austrian label Wolf Records had had the foresight to save it. One may regret about it that it was necessary to add to these eleven tracks of eight new titles Cedell Davis . Despite all the love that we devote to it, a disc full devoted to the work of Herman Alexander would probably have been preferable.

The raw material is here

demonstration,

• Poor Boy Blues (Highway 61 - Wolf Records, 1990)
• Baby Please Do not Go ( idem )
• Catfish Blues (ditto )

Blind Test Day

• Schmilblick

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