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Times a-Getting Hard

Times a-Getting Hard
[1955]
Scritta da Lee Hays (1914-1981) a partire da una canzone popolare americana il cui ritornello (“Take my true love by the hand
...”) è riportato da Carl Sandburg nella sua raccolta “The American Songbag”, pubblicata nel 1927.
In vari dischi di Pete Seeger, a cominciare da “Pete Seeger at the Village Gate with Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon” pubblicato dalla Folkways Records nel 1959.
In seguito molte versioni del brano furono offerte da altri artisti, come Lonnie Donegan e The Limeliters.
Times are getting hard, boys
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2016/4/28 - 16:24
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Down in Mississippi

Down in Mississippi
[1965]
Parole e musica di J. B. Lenoir
Outtake dell’album intitolato “Alabama Blues!” del 1966, con Freddie Below e Willie Dixon
Si trova in una riedizione degli anni 90 per i tipi della tedesca Bellaphon

In seguito interpretata anche da Ry Cooder e Mavis Staples

In Mike Rowe’s book, Chicago Blues, Lenoir describes why he left Mississippi for Chicago in 1949, at the age of 20. Lenoir said, “The way they does you down there in Mississippi, it ain’t what a man should suffer, what a man should go through. And I said, after I seen the way they treat my daddy, I never was going to stand that no kind of way. So I just worked as hard as I could to get that money to get away.”

His description of the Mississippi hunting season is a chilling reminder of the state’s history of lynchings, shootings, and bombings, the assassination of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963, and the murdered... (Continues)
Far back as I can remember
(Continues)
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby 2016/1/14 - 20:23
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It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)‎

It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)‎
‎[1983]‎
Dall’album “Mighty Earthquake and Hurricane”‎



Un altro bellissimo blues contro la guerra dall’autore di Study War No More.‎
You have made great planes to span the skies
(Continues)
Contributed by Bartleby 2011/9/14 - 12:03
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Vietnam Blues

Vietnam Blues
(1965)
Sulla falsariga della precedente "Korea Blues".
Prodotta da Willie Dixon
Lord I got my questionnaire
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2006/9/13 - 12:12
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Alabama Blues

Alabama Blues
Title track dell'album del 1965, con Willie Dixon.
Un potente brano blues che fa eco ad "Alabama" di John Coltrane.
I never will go back to Alabama, that is not the place for me
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2006/9/13 - 11:39




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