At Metafilter, links to some wonderful old videos on YouTube including Son House, Bill Monroe, Skip James, et al: enough to keep you off the streets for an evening or two. Howlin’ Wolf – from the Ed Sullivan show?? – is introduced by a very young and very English-sounding Brian Jones. Whatever you think of the Stones, they were always scrupulous about acknowledging their blues heroes, and making sure they got recognition.
Update: it’s not difficult to get hooked on this. I couldn’t resist searching for the Louvin Brothers, and found this. It’s still amazing, even though the sound is out of synch. And then there’s this, excerpted from the BBC series on country music from a few years back. You know…if you like that kind of thing….
Leave a Reply