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Create a new account. Log In. We need you! Help build the largest human-edited lyrics collection on the web! June 19, in Indianapolis, Ind. Home About Adv. Favourite auctions Favourite searches. Favourite Auctions. Description Ultra rare blues 78 from , the dawn of Urban Blues, before electricity! Carr was born in Nashville, Tennessee in and grew up in the black section of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Here he partnered with jazz guitarist Scrapper Blackwell and their work showed a distinctive urban influence that was unlike the intensely emotional vocals and heavyily rhythmatic guitar back up, often bottleneck guitar style, of the Mississippi bluesmen. He was one of the first Northern bluesmen. But when it comes to racial tensions in the present day, blues blogs, websites, and facebook groups are surprisingly silent.
The time difference between the US and the UK being what it is, I went to bed last night with that all too familiar heaviness; the feeling you get when you know you will wake up to bad news. My radio, set for 6am, punctured the morning gloom with the words I that had been hoping not to hear for several weeks now — that a Grand Jury has failed to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown, Jr.
Brown, who was eighteen years old, was shot six times , including twice in the head, on 9th August. As I logged on to social media this morning, my various news feeds loaded up the various topics, groups and voices that reflect my three main internet reading habits: a healthy dose of populist left-wing writing; a number of prominent African American and black British cultural and political commentators; and numerous blogs and groups devoted to the blues.
My blues groups, on the other hand, chugged away as usual, blithely unaware of recent developments. Why is the blues community so silent on Ferguson — or, for that matter, on the recent deaths of Jonathan Ferrell , Tamir Rice , or Aiyana Jones at the hands of the police?
I should make clear at this point that I do not wish to question the legality or the outcome of the Ferguson grand jury. As President Obama has pointed out, we have to hope that the grand jury assessed the evidence presented to them in a fair and just manner, and that the evidence itself was a fair and reliable account of the event. Nor am I interested in getting into a discussion about the precise events that took place; there are so many conflicting accounts, and many people more qualified than I am to assess their legal implications.
I am concerned that the blues community makes few connections between modern day depictions of African American society and culture, and those of the past that we celebrate in the blues. Some commentators suggested that Brown may have had marijuana in his bloodstream, and evidence emerged showing Brown taking some cigarettes from a local store in the hour prior to his death. Again, I do not seek to cast doubt on these claims — although it is worth stating that neither theft nor narcotics use are punishable by death under US law.
Robert Johnson is famously thought to have died from drinking poisoned whiskey given, continuing to drink more and more despite the protestations of his friends. After saving his pennies as a teenager, Wells found himself short on the price of a Hohner Marine Band. Exasperated, he threw what pennies he had on the counter, and took the harmonica. Wells blew a few choruses. Blues history also valourises the apparently aggressive and dangerous nature of the African American entertainment scene.
Walter turns, pulling a revolver from his waistband, and fires. The imposter drops to the ground. Returning to the car, Walter coolly draws on his cigarette. We chuckle at the overzealous store clerk who took a young Junior Wells to court over a 50 cent debt. Newspapers adorned their front pages with photos of the teenager in a hoodie, ignoring many of the more childlike photographs available. This tactic is commonplace and has prompted the social media campaign iftheygunnedmedown , where young black men and women highlight the multiple personas presented in their social media photo albums.
The media would portray me as a hard and mean-looking girl who was asking for it. As blues fans, the stories we tell about our favourite musicians often justify their misdemeanors and misfortunes. But it would be incorrect to say that these depictions of our favourite blues musicians are simply voyeuristic fantasies.
Blues audiences know their history. We know that the emotional intensity of the blues was a response to the oppression of its performers by their white oppressors. It ignores the fact that Junior Wells might have come off a lot worse had he stolen his first harmonica from a shop in twenty-first century Ferguson.
Neither am I saying that Brown was a saint, but then neither were any of our favourite blues musicians. I simply have one question: why is the blues community — for all that it does to recognise the historical achievements of its idols — not more vocal in condemning the many aspects of American racism that are still alive and well today?
The silence is deafening. First released in , the song was so popular that Carr recorded five further versions of it between and Singer and pianist Leroy Carr was one of the most popular African American blues entertainers of the s and 30s.
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