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Legends of the Delta Blues VEST13038DVD $23.98
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This video presents the unalloyed power of these Delta
legends as they performed in the 1960s and 1970s. Son House is both
philosopher and a man possessed; Johnny Shines, by turns subtle and
intense, brings as much to Robert Johnson's example as he takes from
it; Bukka White extols women and rambling freights in his stream-of-consciousness
growl; a meditative John Lee Hooker reflects, I'll Never Get Out Of
These Blues Alive. This is music which has mesmerized everyone from
a young Muddy Waters to today's blues-based rockers. Its earthy vitality
remains fresh in rare performances rife with slide guitars, driving
rhythms and songs as searing as a hellhound's bay across the Delta darkness.
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Legends of Traditional Fingerstyle Guitar VEST13004DVD $24.98
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Traditional fingerstyle guitar is particular to its
time and place, drawing heavily upon local cuture, but allowing for
personal expression and innovation. Each of the artists presented here
is a master of fingerstyle guitar, whether two- or three-finger picking.
With rare exceptions, most were born around the turn of the century,
or in its early years.
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John Lee Hooker Rare Performances 1960-84 VEST13035DVD $24.98
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John Lee Hooker is one of the foremost blues performers
of the postwar period. He is in actuality a Mississippi country bluesman
and his music has always been firmly grounded in the traditional blues
of his native state. He has remained true to its fundamental principles
throughout a professional career of more than five decades. Whether
playing solo in 1960 or with the Muddy Waters Band in the same year,
or with his touring bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, John Lee
Hooker's genius for writing and performing magnificent, intense and
emotionally potent blues can be seen in all its glory in this one hour
video collection of rare performances.
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Lightnin' Hopkins "Rare Performances" 1960-1979
VEST13022DVD $24.98
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Lightnin’ Hopkins is generally considered the
last true giant to have appeared on the acoustic blues scene.This video
bears out that reputation, though even in the earliest cuts he is clearly
happier when his acoustic guitar is plugged into an amp and can give
him some extra sustain. Showing him in 1960, ’67, ’70 and
’79, and mixing live concert footage with quiet filming sessions
for the University of Washington, the video tracks Hopkins through the
glory days of his “discovery” by a young audience.
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Lightnin' Hopkins/Sykes, Roosevelt YAZOO513DVD $24.98 |
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Video showcasing performances by Sam( Lightnin')
Hopkins and Roosevelt Sykes on the second part of the video. |
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Muddy Waters Got My Mojo Working: Rare Performances YAZOO521DVD
$24.98
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These rare performances -- all electric -- capture
Muddy as the embers of his career glowed anew. By 1968, the folk blues
had waned and the sound he popularized in the mid-1950s was returning
to the fore. Over the next decade, Muddy secured his place as the godfather
of rock and roll. The slide guitar technique he plays on these versions
of Country Boy, Honey Bee, and Long Distance Call is at once contemporary
and as pure as when he learned it as a dusty child in the delta fifty
years earlier. In Got My Mojo Working, Muddy works the vocals from his
cavernous chest into his mouth and then shakes the words from his jowls
and cheeks. His singing is as glorious as his playing. |
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