Blues Routes: Heroes and Tricksters: Blues and Jazz Work Songs and Street Music
produced by Nicholas R. Spitzer, fl. 1986 (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1999), 1 hour 9 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- American Music
- Description
- Blues Routes is a resonant almanac of blues styles and blues-related music and musicians including: Memphis barrelhouse and Harlem parlor piano players; blues guitarists from the Delta and Piedmont, San Francisco and Chicago; Kansas City and New Orleans jazz masters; hambone call-and-response and Mardi Gras Indian chants; Texas jump blues and Louisiana Creole zydeco; minstrel and jazz banjomen; street go-go bucket-drummers and railroad track-lining gandy dancers. In this fin de siècle collection, the diversity of American blues and blues-influenced styles and the unity of their African ancestral heartbeats can be heard in great performances recorded live at the influential Folk Masters concert and radio series.
- Content Type
- Music recording
- Duration
- 1 hour 9 mins
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- City/Urban Blues, Work Song
- Label
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Producer
- Nicholas R. Spitzer, fl. 1986
- Release Date
- 1999
- Subject
- American Music, World Music, Music & Performing Arts, American Studies, Vocal + Choral Music, United States and Canada, Música Vocal y Coral, Música Coral + Vocal, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá, United States
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Música Vocal y Coral, Música Coral + Vocal, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá