Legends of Country Blues Guitar Vol.1 - Bosworth Music

As a genre, blues music was developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by rural black musicians. They shaped it with brilliant inspiration from disparate elements of black song. By the early 1920's, recorded urban performers solidified the standard three-verse, 12 bar meter structure that has identified most blues. Fortunately, during that same period, there were recorded musicians who grew up with the blues and whose guitar-styles were more fluid and improvisational. They played with a personal adaptation of their regional style, shaping blues and related material to their own needs and those of their audience.
The music they played was alien to formula, possessing such skill and robustness as to be captivating. Their fame was local, tied intimately to their time and place, and only the providence of a chance encounter with a talent scout or record company preserved their art. Even then, it seemed fated that they would remain flamboyant names on exotic record labels.
The blues revival of the early 1960's brought many of these survivors to the forefront of traditional music. The technique of a Rev. Davis, the power of a Son House, the charm of a Mississippi John Hurt suddenly leaps into sight becoming mor tangible, more awesome and more human. The rare footage presented in this DVD is a treasure beyond imagining, drawn from a myraid of sources, depicting some of the greatest blues musicians who ever lived.

Mance Lipscomb
01 Silver City

Mississippi John Hurt
02 Spike Driver

Henry Townsend
03 Cairo Blues

Son House
04 Death Letter Blues

Reverend Gary Davis
05 Children Of Zion

Big Bill Broonzy
06 Worried Man Blues
07 Hey, Hey
08 How You Want It Done
09 John Henry
10 Blues in E

Robert Pete Williams
11 Mamie

Brownie McGhee
12 Don't Kid Me

Josh White
13 Jelly Jelly

Son House
14 I Had A Woman In Hughes

Mance Lipscomb
15 Angel Child

Mississippi John Hurt
16 You're Going To Walk That Lonesome Valley Blues

Rev. Gary Davis
17 Death Don't Have No Mercy

Bonus: John Jeremy's Film
18 Blues Like Showers Of Rain