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| Name | Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sonny Boy Williamson (#1): Life Is Like That (1947) |
| Video Uploader | Video From Alan Lomax Archive |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 09-04-2020 17:00:33 |
| Video Discription | You got to cry a little, sigh a little And sometimes you got to lie a little Life is like that – that's what you got to do And if you don't understand, peoples, I'm sorry for you. Sometimes you'll be held up, sometimes held down, Well, and sometimes your best friends don't even want you around... There's some things you got to keep, Some things you gotta repeat People, happiness is never complete Sometimes you'll be helpless, Sometimes you'll be restless, Well, keep on strugglin' So long as you're not breathless. Performed by Memphis Slim, vocal and piano; Big Bill Broonzy, guitar; and Sonny Boy Williamson #1 (John Lee Williamson), harmonica. Recorded by Alan Lomax at Decca Studios in New York City, March 2, 1947. * In 1947 Alan Lomax recorded bluesmen Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim, and Sonny Boy Williamson on a Presto disc recording machine at Decca Studios in New York City after a concert they had played at Town Hall. In a session of candid oral history and song, the three artists, Southern-born but with established careers in Chicago, explained the origin and nature of the blues. “They began with blues as a record of the problems of love and women in the Delta world,” Lomax later wrote. “They explored the cause of this in the stringent poverty of black rural life. They recalled life in the Mississippi work camps, where the penitentiary stood at the end of the road, waiting to receive the rebellious. Finally, they came to the enormities of the lynch system that threatened anyone who defied its rules.” The interviews were issued in a fictionalized form in the magazine Common Ground (1948) under the title “I Got the Blues,” but they were deemed so controversial that their audio release was delayed for ten years. When United Artists finally issued them in 1959 on LP as "Blues in the Mississippi Night," Alan used pseudonyms at the artists’ request to shield their identities and protect family members who still lived in the South against possible reprisals — such was the reach of the prohibition even then against public commentary on Southern racial and labor conditions. [pBzBM6A7_OQ] |
| Category | Music |
| Tags | Alan Lomax | American Patchwork | lomax | lomax recordings | field recordings | alan lomax library of congress |
