27-Oct-14
If you’re not already familiar with www.folkstreams.net, click on over and lose a couple hours.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has a great article on Folkstreams….check it out.
Here’s a brief excerpt:
“An account of the blues experience through the recollections and performances of NEA National Heritage Fellow B.B. King, Son Thomas, inmates from Parchman prison, a barber from Clarkesdale, a salesman from Beale Street, and others. Give My Poor Heart Ease (1974) is one of a series of films made in Mississippi in the mid 1970s by William Ferris and the Center for Southern Folklore and produced in association with Howard Sayre Weaver. View the entire film here.”
OCTOBER 27, 2014
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997)
American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the Nashville sound”. He was known for his “slip note” piano style, where an out-of-key note slides into the correct note.
For more information, surf over to this page.
