Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton is the musical equivalent of a limited-edition, fine-press book, and it's easily one of the most beautiful collections of recorded music ever assembled. Exquisitely designed, this 78-album-inspired, seven-CD package contains a wealth of information and music, featuring not only the Delta blues pioneer's complete recorded works, b...
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Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton is the musical equivalent of a limited-edition, fine-press book, and it's easily one of the most beautiful collections of recorded music ever assembled. Exquisitely designed, this 78-album-inspired, seven-CD package contains a wealth of information and music, featuring not only the Delta blues pioneer's complete recorded works, but...
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Stressing that the principal theme of the country blues, if not all blues, is sexual relationships, Oakley writes:Most frequently the core of the relationship is seen as inherently unstable, transient, but with infinite scope for pleasure and exultation in success, or pain and torment in failure. this gives the blues its tension and ambiguity, dealing simultaneously with togetherness and loneli...
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BENTON, Ark. - A band of hail, heavy rain and twisters pounded Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma, damaging hundreds of homes, flooding roads and leaving thousands without power. The worst wasn't over for Arkansas, which braced Thursday for another hit. Some residents in the small north Arkansas town of Leslie were being evacuated because of flooding and the threat of mudslides. Workers were sandbagg...
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In The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues Giles Oakley suggests that the Delta blues players often identified with the figure of the boll weavil in both its destructiveness and its homelessness, imagining its migrations as a search for a home. This variation on the theme by Charley Patton certainly bears this insight out. Here Boweavil is personfied and enters into dialogue with the singer. ...
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