blues
This is the grave of W.C. Handy. Born in 1873 in Florence, Alabama, William Christopher Handy grew up in the poor but respectable Black community there. His father was a.
I don't often read scholarly music books, but I just finished B. Brian Foster's, 2020 book, I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life. Foster.
This is the grave of Pinetop Perkins. Born in Belzoni, Mississippi in 1913, Joe Perkins grew up as a sharecropper. This was the reality of Black life in Mississippi at.
This is the grave of Freddie King. Born in Gilmer, Texas in 1934, King grew up first in Dallas and then in Chicago. This was the standard Great Migration pattern.
This is the grave of Mississippi John Hurt. Born in 1893 in Teoc, Mississippi, John Hurt grew up as part of the impoverished sharecropping Black working class of the South..
This is the grave of Sonny Boy Williamson. Born at some point in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century and probably either in Greenwood or Glendora, Mississippi, Aleck Miller,.
Awhile back here, I profiled Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied, the groundbreaking film about Black gay life that sent Jesse Helms through the roof. Last night, I watched Riggs' UC-Berkeley thesis.
This is the grave of James Cotton. Born in Tunica, Mississippi in 1935, Cotton was heavily influenced by the blues musicians a generation older than he in the Delta. He.