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Black Music Research Journal articles from March 2000
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Black Music Research Journal archives from March 2000
Editor's introduction.(Blind Lemon Jefferson)(Editorial)
March 22, 2000... Although he was not the first folk (or "country") blues singer-guitarist, or even the first to make commercial recordings, Blind Lemon Jefferson is generally--and appropriately--viewed by music historians as the first "star" of this type of...
Blind Lemon Jefferson: the myth and the man.
March 22, 2000... In recent years, the life of Blind Lemon Jefferson has been the subject of considerable speculation.(1) Although his recordings are extensive, details about his life are relatively few. The facts of Jefferson's life are scattered in an array of...
Blind Lemon meets Leadbelly.(Blind Lemon Jefferson, Huddie Ledbetter)
March 22, 2000... Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous African-American folk singer in U.S. history. (1) Born in 1889 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana (near Shreveport), Leadbelly grew up in an almost entirely black world at the...
The language of Blind Lemon Jefferson: the covert theme of blindness.
March 22, 2000... I am an invisible man.
(Ellison 1986, 17)
And it's tough to see a man go to the rack and almost starve and die.
--Blind Lemon Jefferson ("Tin Cup Blues," 1929)
I can't see ya, but I can smell ya!
--Blind Lemon Jefferson...
Musical innovation in the blues of Blind Lemon Jefferson.
March 22, 2000... Although a few other guitar-playing bluesmen had made records before Blind Lemon Jefferson, it is he who wears the crown for being the first popular star of folk (or "country") blues. His rivals for this distinction (i.e., his predecessors in...