DEVIL GOT MY WOMAN - BLUES AT NEWPORT 1966
Bukka White, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf , Rev. Pearly Brown, and Son House
Imagine you've stumbled into a juke joint where the mentor of Robert Johnson, Son House, and the idol of the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, "dis" one another. Picture a place where Wolf taunts Bukka White while the robust Parchman Farm alumnus spins his proto-funk dance grooves and the spectral Skip James weaves his haunting Devil Got My Woman. It's an archetypal blues "crossroads" where legends of the 1920s Delta and 1950s Chicago share the same musical space, suspended out of time in a super-real present, a non-specific "bluestime."
This is no fantasy. You enter this very juke joint in this video of extraordinarily powerful footage Alan Lomax captured during the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. Devil Got My Woman is not, however, concert footage from Newport. Alan Lomax recreated a juke joint at Newport, stocked the bar, and let nature take its course. The resultant film footage captures the blues experience in its first and truest milieu, one in which African-American men and women drink, dance, and share their troubles and triumphs.
Brooding faces absorbing the wailing pleas of Son House and rubber-legged dancers strutting to Bukka's buoyant blues are as much a part of the mise-en-scene as the legendary principals of the cast.
A 30-page booklet featuring biographical material, rare photographs, and details on the tunes performed on this DVD can be accessed and downloaded from guitarvideos.com.
Contents
- 100th Man Bukka White
- Baby You're Killing Me Bukka White
- Devil Got My Woman Skip James
- Dust My Broom Howlin' Wolf
- Forever On My Mind Son House
- How Many More Years Howlin' Wolf
- I'm So Glad Skip James
- It's a Mean Old World Rev. Pearly Brown
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Rev. Pearly Brown
- Meet Me In The Bottom Howlin' Wolf
- Old Lady Blues Bukka White
- Please Don't Put Your Daddy Outdoors Bukka White
- Pure Religion Rev. Pearly Brown
- Worried Blues Skip James
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