The Land Where the Blues Began [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Various Artists - Blues - Traditional

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Rounder Select
• ASIN: B00006LA2F
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,084 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Folklore Man, Alan Lomax Does It Again!, March 9, 2003

By	shoutgrace "savedbyhisgrace" (Charleston, WV United States) - See all my reviews

The Land Where Blues Began is Alan Lomax's master ensemble of the music that shaped American music. It is the music that influenced the works of Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Ewan McColl and most recent Norah Jones. Take the tour of the Mississippi Delta of the 1930s and 1940s and listen to the story who gave birth to the Blues with such legends as Muddy Waters, Leadbelly and Fred McDowell.

We need more music hunters like Lomax to record our music heritage for future generations. Lomax cross many towns and landscapes to get these first time field recordings of the now Blues greats. Lomax 'cornbread-and-poteen odyssey' across the American heartland is well documented in his candid conversations with the bluesmen and the story of how the blues became daddy of all modern-day music. It's told through those legends and through work songs, hymns, ballads, sermons, stories and smoky bars. The album captures the vivid sounds and the impossible to hold back energy and soul of the Blues fathers that changed American history.

NOTE: The CD is chronicled in the book of the same name by Alan Lomax as an addition to adding to your Blues collection. The book also includes a 4 track CD sampler as well. It won the 1993 National Book Critics Award for nonfiction.