Mississippi Fred McDowell
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J.B. Lenoir, Buddy Guy, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thornton et al: Fairfield Hall, Croydon
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 21 October 1965
WHEN EIGHT blues artistes leap about a stage, blowing harmonicas, thumping drums and piano, playing guitars and singing and shouting their song, it is impossible ...
Fred McDowell, Forest City Joe, Etc.: Roots Of The Blues (Atlantic Special 590019)
Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968
ALAN LOMAX, assisted by Shirley Collins, made a recording expedition in the South during '59 which produced 80 hours of taped folksong and instrumental music. ...
Mississippi Fred McDowell: Church House, Farnham
Live Review by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 8 March 1969
"I'M NOT a rock and roll singer. The only way you make me rock is by putting me in a rockin' chair. But if you ...
The Memphis Country Blues Festival
Report by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 23 June 1969
AN ARTICLE ON the Memphis Country Blues Festival in a local Memphis newspaper was headlined: "BLUES ARE REBORN IN COTTON-FIELD HEAT." ...
Johnny Winter And... Mississippi Fred?
Live Review by Rick McGrath, The Georgia Straight, April 1970
WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTED to go to every bloody concert that comes to town and try to reach a critical judgment (or something like that), sometimes ...
Fred McDowell: Unspoiled Master
Obituary by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 22 July 1972
Tribute by Jerry Gilbert ...
North Mississippi Hill Country Blues
Overview by John Sinclair, Honest Tune, Spring 2005
WHEN YOU hear the word "blues" you're bound to think of Mississippi. The phrase "Mississippi blues" leads at once to thoughts of Clarksdale and Greenwood ...
Sleeve notes by Neil Slaven, JSP Records, 2011
LET SHIRLEY COLLINS set the scene. In her fascinating autobiography, America Over the Water, she tells of her first meeting with Fred McDowell at the ...
John Szwed: The Man Who Recorded the World – A Biography of Alan Lomax
Book Review by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 8 January 2011
Richard Williams hails the man who devoted his life to recording the songs and soundscapes of America and beyond. ...
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