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Post by davey on Oct 17, 2013 12:33:07 GMT
Have a look on here. Full of utterly amazing fims and free to view. Much better than TV. Start with Peg Leg Sam Jackson. Bill Monroe is also brilliant and taught me a lot about Bluegrass music which I'd never taken an interest in before. He calls Bluegrass a cross between old southern blues and mountain music. Apparently Elvis Presley's first recording was "Blue Moon of Kentucky" written by Bill Monroe, but he says the other style Elvis was trying to sing was "Delta Blues". Shame he didn't go back to it instead of the gold jumpsuit period stuff. www.folkstreams.net/?list=1 |
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Post by Brad Bechtel on Oct 17, 2013 17:43:33 GMT
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Post by davey on Oct 17, 2013 19:40:40 GMT
Brad, thanks for the correction !
I believe that Bill Monroe said on the film that it was Elvis's first recording, maybe I misunderstood. Elvis apparently apologised for messing about with the original song when they subsequently met.
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Post by bod on Oct 19, 2013 15:47:19 GMT
Have a look on here. Full of utterly amazing fims and free to view. Much better than TV. Start with Peg Leg Sam Jackson. ... ... www.folkstreams.net/?list=1Funny, I just chanced upon folkdtreams.net from another direction (only dawned on me it was the site mentioned above when coming to the forum to post about it). I do have to agree with Davey, it's a great resource. Not only films, either - lots of interesting further documents linked to the relevant film pages. I came in on Gravel Springs Fife and Drum, which is just brilliant! (I read elsewhere that the chap seen playing the wall-mounted diddley bow at the picnic is none other than Napolian Strickland  ) Think I'll watch Land Where the Blues Began next... |
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Post by slide496 on Oct 19, 2013 17:10:05 GMT
("I read elsewhere that the chap seen playing the wall-mounted diddley bow at the picnic is none other than Napolian Strickland" ) .................................................................. That it is! He's also playing one of the fifes. One of the Alan Lomax films shows him carving one. |
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Post by bod on Oct 20, 2013 13:50:18 GMT
("I read elsewhere that the chap seen playing the wall-mounted diddley bow at the picnic is none other than Napolian Strickland" ) .................................................................. That it is! He's also playing one of the fifes. One of the Alan Lomax films shows him carving one. Thanks for the corroboration.  Re. the fife playing, I did think as much, but couldn't get beyond the hypothetical (IF that is Strickland playing the bow, THEN that is also him playing that fife...) so stuck to reporting another's identification. Actually, I knew very little about Napolian Strickland until yesterday (other than being aware of his involvement in McDowell's Come and Found You Gone ) and so had no idea he was fife player (!) let alone "the fife-blowingest man in the state of Mississippi" but having spent some hours reading about him while listening to more of his work, it seems to me that the man played just about everything he got his hands on and with a whole bunch of people! Always good to find these things out, I reckon, and I'm pretty much glad there is, no doubt, more to find out... |
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