Just ease on into one of the most laid-back grooves to ever weave its way through a New Orleans junkyard, and join the procession as the estimable Dr. John is led through the rusting automobiles on a
mule. After that, you'll be ready to enter the Inner Sanctum of Deep Mystic Hoodoo, with the good Doctor as your intoning, night tripping guide through the
Zu Zu Mamou hallucinations. You won't be the same, afterwards...
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Nov 27, 2009 -
22 comments
Labors Of LoveHere are some handmade pages, personal and corporate, on American Vernacular Music and more:
First, here's
Long Time Coming, with three separate shrines to
Dock Boggs,
Pretty Boy Floyd and
Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, worthy subjects all. I have no idea what the
Eyeneer Records revenue model is or was but their
American Music Archive,
(Latest Update - August 20, 1999), albeit spotty, is still a must stop and see with pages on
Charley Patton,
Sleepy John Estes and
Lucille Bogan, for example, and that's just the blues section. It's a very promising sounding site--and it's too bad they never finished it, but, on the other hand, thank god,they have not yet pulled the plug.
Lea Gilmore's It's A Girl Thang's Historical Profiles has it goin' on with
Sister Rosetta Tharpe,
Big Maybelle and
Georgia White for examples. Catherine Yronwode, of course, is a name well known here, as is her wondrous
Lucky Mojo, cornucopica that it is. There, among much riches, is the extensive and authoritative
Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo --but that's Not All ! »→ »→ »→
posted by y2karl
on Feb 12, 2003 -
21 comments
