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Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press,
Descriptionxiv, 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
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorFerris, William R.
Other author/creatorLouis, Joe (Poppa Rock)
Other author/creatorWilliams, Sonny Boy.
Other author/creatorWilliams, Lovey.
Other author/creatorGordon, Mary (Monk)
Other author/creatorThomas, Son, 1926-1993.
Other author/creatorKizart, Lee.
Other author/creatorLove, Jasper.
Other author/creatorDunbar, Scott.
Other author/creatorWilliams, Arthur Lee.
Other author/creatorStrickland, Napoleon.
Other author/creatorThomas, Isaac (Singer)
Other author/creatorChapman Family (Musical group)
Other author/creatorSouthland 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269), discography (p. 269-284), filmography (p. 284-289) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Date/time/place of a event noteCD contents recorded 1963-1974.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
Other titleBlack Delta (Motion picture)
Other titleParchman Penitentiary (Motion picture)
Other titleGive my poor heart ease (Motion picture)
Other titleI ain't lyin' (Motion picture)
Other titleMade in Mississippi (Motion picture)
Other titleTwo Black churches (Motion picture)
LCCN 2009016647
ISBN9780807833254 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807833258 (cloth : alk. paper)

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