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Title Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
©2009

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  781.643 F38    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  781.643 GIVE    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 302 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.) + 1 videodisc (DVD 4 3/4 in.).
Series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Note "This book was published with the assistance of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--T.p. verso.
Event CD contents recorded 1963-1974.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-269), discography (pages 269-284), filmography (pages 284-289) and index.
Contents Blues roots. Rose Hill : Mary Gordon ; Reverend Isaac Thomas -- Lake Mary : Martha Dunbar ; Scott Dunbar -- Lorman : Louis Dotson -- Centreville : Fannie Bell Chapman -- Gravel Springs : Otha Turner -- Parchman Penitentiary : Johnny Lee "Have Mercy" Thomas ; Camp B work chant ; James "Blood" Shelby ; Ben Gooch ; Sergeant Webb ; Roosevelt Stewart, Jr. -- Tutwiler : Tom Dumas ; Lee Kizart -- A delta road in Coahoma County : C.L. Redwine ; Corine Gardner -- Blues towns and cities. Leland : James "Son Ford" Thomas ; Gussie Tobe ; Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown -- Clarksdale : Jasper Love ; Wade Walton -- WOKJ, Jackson : Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis : The Big Daddy Show ; Bruce Payne, news ; Reverend Marcus Butler : gospel music ; Gary's Meat House ad ; Bruce Payne -- Beale Street : Robert Shaw -- Looking back : Willie Dixon ; B.B. King -- Sacred and secular worlds. Rose Hill Church : Rose Hill Church service ; Clarksdale : house party.
CD contents. Why B.B. King sings the blues (Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis) (:35) -- Going down to the station (Sonny Boy Williams) (3:09) -- Going away blues (Lovey Williams) (2:38) -- So glad to be here (3:58) ; He's my rock, my sword, my shield (3:46) (The Chapman Family) -- Lazarus (inmates at Camp B, Parchman Penitentiary) (2:46) -- Hidden violence (anonymous) (1:02) -- Oh Rosie (inmates at Camp B, Parchman Penitentiary) (2:58) -- There are days (Southland Hummingbirds) (2:57) -- You shall be free (Mary Gordon) (1:26) -- You can't carry blues and go to church (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (:53) -- I got the world in a jug and the stopper in my hand (Lee Kizart) (2:35) -- It gives me ease (Jasper Love) (1:05) -- Highway 61 blues (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (2:51) -- It's so cold up north (Scott Dunbar) (3:41) -- Blues is round you every day (Arthur Lee Williams) (:34) -- Mystery train (train I ride) (Lovey Williams) (2:21) -- Somebody knocking on my door (Napoleon Strickland) (2:16) -- Jaybird (Scott Dunbar) (8:51) -- Boogie chillun (Lovey Williams) (1:49) -- One drop (Isaac Thomas) (2:20) -- Cairo blues (James "Son Ford" Thomas) (4:28).
DVD contents. Black Delta. Pt. 1-2 -- Parchman Penitentiary -- Give my poor heart ease : Mississippi Delta bluesmen -- I ain't lyin' : folktales from Mississippi -- Made in Mississippi : Black folk art and crafts -- Two Black churches.
Subject Blues musicians -- Mississippi -- Interviews.
Blues (Music) -- Mississippi -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Music -- History and criticism.
Blues (Music) -- 1961-1970.
Blues (Music) -- 1971-1980.
Added Author Ferris, William R.
Louis, Joe, 1914-1981 (Poppa Rock)
Williams, Sonny Boy.
Williams, Lovey.
Gordon, Mary (Monk)
Thomas, Son, 1926-1993.
Kizart, Lee, 1902-
Love, Jasper.
Dunbar, Scott.
Williams, Arthur Lee.
Strickland, Napoleon.
Thomas, Isaac, singer.
Chapman Family (Musical group)
Southland Hummingbirds (Musical group)
Added Title Black Delta (Motion picture)
Parchman Penitentiary (Motion picture)
Give my poor heart ease (Motion picture)
I ain't lyin' (Motion picture)
Made in Mississippi (Motion picture)
Two Black churches (Motion picture)
ISBN 9780807833254 cloth alkaline paper
0807833258 cloth alkaline paper
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