Give my poor heart ease voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, |
| Description | xiv, 302 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.) + 1 videodisc (DVD : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Ferris, William R. |
| Other author/creator | Louis, Joe (Poppa Rock) |
| Other author/creator | Williams, Sonny Boy. |
| Other author/creator | Williams, Lovey. |
| Other author/creator | Gordon, Mary (Monk) |
| Other author/creator | Thomas, Son, 1926-1993. |
| Other author/creator | Kizart, Lee. |
| Other author/creator | Love, Jasper. |
| Other author/creator | Dunbar, Scott. |
| Other author/creator | Williams, Arthur Lee. |
| Other author/creator | Strickland, Napoleon. |
| Other author/creator | Thomas, Isaac (Singer) |
| Other author/creator | Chapman Family (Musical group) |
| Other author/creator | Southland Hummingbirds (Musical group) |
| Series | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series. ^A402585 |
| 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. |
| Contents | 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). |
| 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. |
| General 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269), discography (p. 269-284), filmography (p. 284-289) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | CD contents recorded 1963-1974. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Other title | Black Delta (Motion picture) |
| Other title | Parchman Penitentiary (Motion picture) |
| Other title | Give my poor heart ease (Motion picture) |
| Other title | I ain't lyin' (Motion picture) |
| Other title | Made in Mississippi (Motion picture) |
| Other title | Two Black churches (Motion picture) |
| LCCN | 2009016647 |
| ISBN | 9780807833254 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807833258 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |