Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / William Ferris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferris, William R.

Contributor:

Southland Hummingbirds (Musical group)

Chapman Family (Musical group)

Series:

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues musicians--Mississippi--Interviews.

Blues musicians.

Blues (Music)--Mississippi--History and criticism.

Blues (Music).

African Americans--Mississippi--Music--History and criticism.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music and a DVD of original film, the book features more than twenty interviews....

Contents:

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.

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).

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.

Notes:

CD contents recorded 1963-1974.

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Two Black churches (Motion picture)

Made in Mississippi (Motion picture)

I ain't lyin' (Motion picture)

Give my poor heart ease (Motion picture)

Parchman Penitentiary (Motion picture)

Black Delta (Motion picture)

ISBN:

979-88-9313-305-9

979-88-908826-8-4

1-4696-0529-5

0-8078-9852-X

OCLC:

496114512