MOTT WILLIS
Una de estas historias poco conocidas que se encuentran en libros como el que referenciamos BIG ROAD BLUES, del autor DAVID EVANS, músico e historiador que podéis ver más abajo en un video donde interpreta el tema que dá título a su interesante trabajo recopilatorio
From the Giants of Country Blues Guitar Vol. 1 (1967 - 1991)
Recorded in Crystal Springs, Mississippi on July 11, 1975 by Hannes Folterbauer and Christoph Steffl...
Photography by Cheryl T. Evans: Mott Willis, source: David Evans' Big Road Blues, page 185; Cheryl T. Evans: Mott Willis and friend, source: David Evans' Big Road Blues 1982, p. 186; Axel Küstner: Mott Willis, Terry/Mississippi, September 1980, source: Blues Forum 12 (1983), p. 37; Cheryl T. Evans: Mott Willis, source: David Evans: Big Road Blues, page 187
d. October 1982 in Crystal Springs, Mississippi
Big Road Blues: Tradition And Creativity In The Folk Blues
by David Evans
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This book analyzes the process of composition, learning and performance of the Southern folk blues of black America. Never before has this musical form been examined so scrupulously. Evans traces the impact of commercialism, especially the phonograph record, on blues history, as well as the various local traditions that produce a given blues tune and text. The author has done extensive field work in Mississippi and provides here a structure for understanding not only the blues but almost any other oral literature from other cultures. This book won the University of Chicago Folklore Prize. All of the greatest blues singers - Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blink Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson - are discussed in relation to their predecessors and followers.
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