On this episode, Marquise Knox and I discuss the issues that prompted Chris Thomas King to write his open letter addressing the gentrification of the Blues based on him being removed from the Grammy nomination list for best Blues Album. As we address…
Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode, I speak to Actor, Historian and Blues Dance NY Instructor/Dj Odysseus Bailer on the importance of Blues Dance to the tradition of the Blues People, and the great program and community of Blues Dance NY,…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
During a 1939 folklorist excursion to the Clemens State Prison Farm, John Lomax and his wife Ruby recorded several musicians as they stayed on the Varner-Hogg Plantation in West Columbia and drove about 15 miles to Clemens.
There they recorded Blues…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
In the late 1980’s throughout the 1990’s I attended several social gatherings from the south to the northeast in which I had no idea, that in fact, I was living a piece of history and tradition shared by my ancestors.…
BLACK FOLK MUSIC: GOD IS GOOD, VOL. 1 - SHELTON KOTTON POWE JR
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation releases it's first album of our Field Recording series. Check out Shelton Kotton Powe Jr. He's a current Black Traditional Music Practitioner.
“ The…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
John and Ruby Lomax recorded Roosevelt 'Giant' Hudson at the Cummins State Farm in Gould, Arkansas, Camp #1
Jack Dappa Blues Public Media and Heritage Preservation Foundation reintroduces African American Traditional Music and the Black Experience to the People of the…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
Jack Dappa Blues has been producing podcasts re-introducing the WPA's Slave Narrative to our audience. We are currently working on more...however, here's a nice littles something to wet your whistle.
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SPEAKER: J. Weldon Norris, Steven Cornelius, Samuel Perryman
EVENT DATE: 2013/03/30
RUNNING TIME: 46 minutes
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DESCRIPTION:
A panel discussion on African-American spirituals of the Civil War.
Reference:Library Of Congress
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Lamont Jack Pearley
On this episode, I sit and speak with Piedmont Blūz Ben and Valerie Turner, Dena Ross Jennings, Jim Bunch, and Steve and Melissa Waggy, all musicians and attendees of Augusta Heritage Blues and Swing week in West Virginia. We engage…
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Lamont Jack Pearley
On this episode of The Jack Dappa Blues Podcast, I speak with Joel Bailes, historian, musician, and husband of a Blues Harp Woman at Augusta’s Blues & Swing Week, which provides participants with the opportunity to work with some of…