I am impressed by the unadorned integrity of this document. Excellent. Thankyou.
@hollywoodjoe123
3 ай бұрын
yes indeed a great video documentary -
@gijsschubert7901
3 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.
@johnmontalvo3699
3 жыл бұрын
Ever heard of Paul Oliver ??
@johnmontalvo3699
3 жыл бұрын
Like Alan, he risked his live to record the very cor of these blues before they dissapeared alltogether.
@wheninroamful
3 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...
@africaRBG
3 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.
@CocoKickz94
3 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.
@patriwarner9275
3 жыл бұрын
When you think you know your blues history, along comes Lomax to show you how much you don't know.
@manoelteixeira4936
26 күн бұрын
Um documentário de peso, pois conta a realidade dos bluesman. maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.
@markwajdeman7118
3 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.
@damongardiner4133
3 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
@sherrard5492
2 жыл бұрын
🙄
@jimjones5872
5 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
@aureliobrighton1871
5 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. 🌻
@VanguardSound7
3 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!!!
@daveyjoweaver5183
4 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.
@ingles1a122
Ай бұрын
Just great!! thanks Lomax!!
@JohnnyRebKy
Жыл бұрын
The blues make this southern white boy move! 😎👍🏻. God bless all them folks who gave us this fantastic music
@mauiluido25
6 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.
@oldman9843
2 жыл бұрын
Great documentary Lomax gave us a gift
@mr.nobody68
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the blues
@madleneroulette5371
3 ай бұрын
Love this doc!❤🎉 so enlightening, eduational and inspiring. Thank you
@enkiabzu5792
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this amazing documentary! Hope they preserve this gold mine!
@coravisser3846
2 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
@mikekaatman3194
2 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?
@DockingFreidmanRecords
8 ай бұрын
@@HansLiu23 very true
@happybeach777
4 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.
@StephenGarcia-p6x
4 ай бұрын
Great piece of work.
@vintage349
Жыл бұрын
I'love blues .
@djhill13j
5 жыл бұрын
I’m watching this for class
@djhill13j
3 жыл бұрын
@@VanderJam it was.
@gaca2737
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing - an amazing insight... the real deal...
@oceanamoore3564
5 жыл бұрын
Thank the Gods for the Goddamn Blues💘💘
@ronaldotto534
8 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.
@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
❤️🥳
@bluesandfriends
10 ай бұрын
Glad to hear! I was there too, and I was embarresed because people were talking through his playing and being rude
@paulmayhew2545
3 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....
@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.
@jenniferd7563
11 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
@mruntamed9635
Жыл бұрын
This is treasure
@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 🏆
@FreeDanielLarson2025
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks lomax
@ellane8441
4 жыл бұрын
Who Knew? - I Grew Up In This Way.
4 ай бұрын
Wow, the flute music is so West African!
@Jay-gv9vd
Жыл бұрын
Amazing art
@Tubulous123
Жыл бұрын
Yes!!! Thank you!!! 1Nation4Life
@liljimitwofeatherz9735
8 ай бұрын
Guy in the white shirt is my cuzn Harold buuka T Bell...Greenville Mississippi..nelson st ..
@narasimhiah
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent excellent
@TheTallMan50
6 жыл бұрын
Gangs of New York ( opening scene) brought me here.
@johnhealy6676
4 жыл бұрын
TheTallMan35 Don’t you mean Oh Brother where art thou ?
@g.lowenklee2268
4 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.
@terryking4380
4 жыл бұрын
53:10, rap began
@sike228
4 жыл бұрын
Terry King I caught that too. immediately
@Nleezie33
4 жыл бұрын
I see
@JackTheRabbitMusic
4 жыл бұрын
32:02 is where I took my screen name from...🙂
@HvnterWade
6 жыл бұрын
Would absolutely love information on the song around 00:26
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!
@mediageneration
3 жыл бұрын
Blues Compartido ripped this off from an icky pre-release dupe, the ads are his fucking karma
@mediageneration
7 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.Kanika
7 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.
@mediageneration
7 жыл бұрын
Cool, I made a DVD and will send you a copy if you send your address. Who was your father?
@_me.Kanika
7 жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks so much! I sent you a message with the information :-)
@mediageneration
7 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
@JoyUnderwood
7 жыл бұрын
Kanika W That's cool! Which one is your father?
@ramsayross
3 жыл бұрын
Great video .Not enough adverts though. Could have crammed another twenty in at least, to really get the message across.
@charles-iii6759
13 күн 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.
@carypasseroff3331
3 ай бұрын
REEL?LIFE!
@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.
@ZachVance108
7 жыл бұрын
OP give credits to the filmmakers vvvvv
@leonblum7898
4 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''.-
@941lowelife2
3 жыл бұрын
At 39:00 yessuhh 😆
@tahzwalker
5 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.
@941lowelife2
3 жыл бұрын
And 44:53 love it
@rosalindhampton24
9 ай бұрын
👩💻💭... MY My My
@meevluv
3 жыл бұрын
10:30 this is what ravers called speaker freakin
@deloreswilson1798
2 жыл бұрын
Trying to out sing each other to take the edge off of "pure hell". Underpaid,heatstroke and destitution..... 🤔
@florinstanzer5398
3 жыл бұрын
anybode knows who this is? performing around 3:00
@kmpw
2 жыл бұрын
Got u: kzitem.info/news/bejne/zpt5mqSjsGema2k
@Robert-yk8tx
5 ай бұрын
It's Burnside
@Rennyblue
3 жыл бұрын
I thought this Lomax guy was Dr John
@YasinAlmak
2 жыл бұрын
18:00 is this woman the mother of Denzel Washington?!
@PaulTheSkeptic
2 жыл бұрын
Come on camera guy. Get the hands.
@peace2u430
2 ай бұрын
"Europe"????😂😂😂😂
@bradburkley5811
5 жыл бұрын
2019: KZitem rip off world.
@sdrtcacgnrjrc
5 жыл бұрын
Where are we going to see this otherwise -- DVD unavailable in most of the world. If you have a link (not USA only) please share -- I'd buy this in a shot.
@sidneytyson3772
2 жыл бұрын
Do hear slavery stories SMH
@lfuhr3905
Жыл бұрын
Wow, talk abt less is more!!! I wonder what the 1 string players could have done with 6!!!
@Summerdaze365
2 ай бұрын
I know this mofo did not say the blues was african and EUROPEAN inspired. NOTHING European about it. I can't with these colonizers.
@yvocinfo3381
4 жыл бұрын
The white man introducing the blues does not even specifically name the Native Black Americans who created it. The same racist pattern that whites have about Native Black American musical and artistic creations.
@Slinkygal
4 жыл бұрын
yvic info:. You're the one who's racist. Why spoil a good documentary with this hateful ranting?
@robertcronin6603
3 жыл бұрын
Save it - there is no damn racism here and I assure you that no one wants to engage in your ignorance - folks like you that see racism everywhere need their damn heads checked - *newsflash* --- if there's any racism here it's coming from you
@deloreswilson1798
2 жыл бұрын
Ignore trouble and it will go somewhere else.Misery likes company.🤔
@deloreswilson1798
2 жыл бұрын
Heat,hell and heaven..🤔
@paulgordon6949
Жыл бұрын
Native black Americans?
@Fat_bastard77
4 жыл бұрын
Mashpotatoe johnson brought me here
@JoyUnderwood
7 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
@sayerma
7 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.
@ellane8441
4 жыл бұрын
Not AnyMore. WE're the People and WE're Still Here, Hear Us.
@j.masonbrown6216
3 жыл бұрын
these *men* were around, and women
@blackknight295
3 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
@donniekingston2154
2 жыл бұрын
125.000 views on 2022
@vincentvalle9697
2 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
@Joenathan-jf3uj
5 ай бұрын
I can feel what their pain and struggle trough their music and voice.
@cesarmedina4350
Жыл бұрын
Africa is the root of all
@FlarkusChunswen
8 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.
@nathanmccloud3572
Жыл бұрын
With all we went through our spirit never were broken,we are an Amazing people of high standard
@JAY-lu3cx
2 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
🎉😂❤😢😮😅
@gayjustinbieber6225
3 жыл бұрын
The best secret to playing a good harp is whiskey on the lips and tongue.
@Robert-yk8tx
5 ай бұрын
Pls explain why that works for you 🤔
@TheEudaemonicPlague
6 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.
@ariellejade25
7 ай бұрын
his video is a national treasure. They should show this in schools.
@emmaselvaggio9037
26 күн бұрын
they do! :) in college, at least
@chopitupradio4286
11 ай бұрын
Europe and Africa? Get the hell out of here with that lie.
@rustyshackleford3872
Ай бұрын
The man playing the blues fife or flute is named otha Turner
@hawghawg381
3 жыл бұрын
The lady plowing.. I would love to meet her family
@941lowelife2
4 жыл бұрын
Dude rapping before at the end
@iansing5278
3 жыл бұрын
Was that at the end before, or the before at the end?
@joejoe4522
2 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
@TomDenneyArt
6 жыл бұрын
This is great
@oberonstar6278
4 жыл бұрын
powerfull evocative such real music of soul thanks
@vincentmondello2052
7 жыл бұрын
Took it off my page after seeing your post, sorry John, great job. Thumbs down for stealing this mans effort.
@alabamaaboriginal5935
3 жыл бұрын
American Indian music!!
@alphonsojohnson8695
2 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
@rustyshackleford3872
Ай бұрын
The man in the red shirt rocking out in the yard is R.L. Burnside
@bigmintsgamer7232
Ай бұрын
I play delta blues but it's much more than just sad tails
@frostyeverclear
5 ай бұрын
This belongs in the national archives! God bless Lomax and all these gentlemen for doing this!❤
@madleneroulette5371
3 ай бұрын
Agreed❤🎉
@motorbikeray
2 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.
@kennethnick3213
3 ай бұрын
Alan and John lomax are real heroes.
@MrRX75
3 жыл бұрын
Guys loved it! Piece of history! Btw, what's the song /artist @ 16:07
@Odin029
3 жыл бұрын
Jack Owens doing Hard Time Killing Floor
@cassadyfr
5 жыл бұрын
how about it mr/ mme compartido ? CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE.
@WaltKurtz1109
2 ай бұрын
GOLD
@choppacity4348
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing ♥️⚜️
@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 !
@eastlondonblues
2 ай бұрын
amazing, amazing. life-changing to watch this.
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
2 жыл бұрын
17 kids? Holy moly
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
2 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.
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
2 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
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