http://www.metafilter.com/tags/HooDoo Posts tagged with 'HooDoo' at MetaFilter. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:06:52 -0800 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:06:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/87005/the%2Dpsychedelic%2Dhoodoo%2Dgonna%2Dgetchoo 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 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7nv83KAIw">mule</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhOqtCuP1yQ">Zu Zu Mamou</a> hallucinations. You won't be the same, afterwards... tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.87005 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:06:52 -0800 Dr DrJohn hoodoo John music New NewOrleans night NOLA Orleans tripper flapjax at midnite http://www.metafilter.com/75986/Who%2Ddo%2Dyou%2Dlove <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEfRJ8DzUks&amp;feature=related">It started in 1956</a> and led in 1969 to Quicksilver Messenger Service recording the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2fiSfw4pZ8&feature=related">song</a> as an entire side on the <a href="http://www.penncen.com/quicksilver/happy.htm">Happy Trail</a>s album. This song was later to be covered by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GVxB7j7ZL0">The Doors</a> (1970); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYPVyJwzerM">The Band</a> + Ronnie Hawkins (1976); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1B8rc-16_k&feature=related">George Thorogood</a> (1978) among <a href="http://www.secondhandsongs.com/song/557.html">many</a>. The second side also featured a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D79ujliNh4Q&feature=related">composition</a> by the same writer; performing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVRtQUTd7Gk">here</a> with Tom Petty. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiYWrvsuONk">Hey Bo Diddley</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75986 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:02:34 -0800 BoDiddley GeorgeThorogood Hoodoo Mona QuicksilverMessengerService RonnieHawkins TheBand TheDoors WhodoyouLove adamvasco http://www.metafilter.com/23499/Labors%2Dof%2DLove%2DAmerican%2DVernacular%2DMusic%2Dand%2DLucky%2DMojo%2DToo &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><i>Labors Of Love</i></b></i><br>Here are some handmade pages, personal and corporate, on American Vernacular Music and more: <br><br>First, here's <a href="http://www.longtimecoming.com/" title="A source for extremely specific, miscellaneous archival information">Long Time Coming</a>, with three separate shrines to <a href="http://www.longtimecoming.com/dockboggs/" title="Dock Boggs -- old time banjo player and musician, former bootlegger. Recorded twelve tracks during the late twenties. Rediscovered in 1963 by Mike Seeger and recorded three full-length albums.">Dock Boggs</a>, <a href="http://www.longtimecoming.com/prettyboy/" title="Pretty Boy Floyd -- famous Dust Bowl bank robber and outlaw, immortalized forever in song by Woody Guthrie. Oklahoma's most famous, who was finally brought down by the FBI in a field near East Liverpool, OH. ">Pretty Boy Floyd</a> and <a href="http://www.longtimecoming.com/jugstompers/" title="Cannon's Jug Stompers -- old time jug band featuring Gus Cannon, Noah Lewis, Ashley Thomson, Elijah Avery, and Hosea Woods. Quite popular in the late twenties, they utilized elements of country and blues, recording only a little over a couple album's worth of material. ">Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers</a>, worthy subjects all. I have no idea what the <a href="http://www.eyeneer.com/index.html">Eyeneer Records</a> revenue model is or was but their <a href="http://www.eyeneer.com/America/index.html" title="American Music Archives is dedicated to preserving the traditional musics of the United States through historical backdrops, biographies, discographies, information on recordings, photos, quick-time video, and sound samples. ">American Music Archive</a>, <i>(Latest Update - August 20, 1999)</i>, albeit spotty, is still a must stop and see with pages on <a href="http://www.eyeneer.com/America/Genre/Blues/Profiles/patton.html" title="Charley Patton is considered, with some justification, to be the archetypal Mississippi Delta Blues singer, but he can equally be thought of as a songster, in view of the wide-ranging repertoire - blues, ballads, spirituals and popular songs - that he displays on record. ">Charley Patton</a>, <a href="http://www.eyeneer.com/America/Genre/Blues/Profiles/estes.html" title="John Adam Estes was born in Ripley, Tennessee, in 1899. He got his nickname as a result of a chronic blood pressure disorder that caused him to pass out briefly every so often. ">Sleepy John Estes</a> and <a href="http://www.eyeneer.com/America/Genre/Blues/Profiles/lucille.bogan.html" title="Perhaps the most well-known whores' complaint in the blues is the graphic, ''Tricks Ain't Walkin' No More.'' Lucille Bogan recorded it twice, the first time in March 1930, with the slightly bowdlerized title, ''They Ain't Walking No More.'' The subject, however, remains clear from such lines as ''duckin' and dogin' the cadillac squad'' and ''I got a market where I sell my meat.'' ">Lucille Bogan</a>, 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. <a href="http://bluesland.net/thang/index.asp#profiles" title="OK, so here is the part where you get to read about me. I know that you are thrilled at the prospect of learning about this 30-something, blues lovin' sistah-woman from Baltimore. Well, below is my complete bio and you can feel free to read to your heart's (or patience's) content. Here are a few things I love: - Blues (ha ha, what a shock!), but I also love Chopin, Diane Reeves, GOSPEL (Amen!), Puccini, Bela Fleck, Al Green, Jill Scott. - P.W. Fenton, without him this tribute to blues women would not be possible. - Laughing at myself when I take myself too seriously (at least once every minute a day) - The ocean - Butter: man, it just tastes so good--WHY does it live on my hips?? - Traveling: why wasn't I ordained a travel writer for National Geographic?? - Peace, Love, Justice, Equality--and I am very serious about that. - Humorous and honest people - God - People who read this and don't think I am a nutcase. - Most of all: My Boys!! David, Jonathan and Gabriel. ">Lea Gilmore's It's A Girl Thang's</a> <a href="http://bluesland.net/thang/historical.htm" title="Memphis Minnie, Rosetta Tharpe, Sara Martin, Alberta Hunter, Viola McCoy, Ma Rainey, Dinah Washington, ''Big'' Maybelle, Roberta Martin, Nina Simone, Clara Ward, Lucille Hegamin, Lil Green, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Georgia White, Trixie Smith, Rosa Henderson, Etta James, Koko Taylor and Big Mama Thornton">Historical Profiles</a> has it goin' on with <a href="http://bluesland.net/thang/tharpe.html" title="Rosetta was an incredible singer. But as she could sing, she was a phenomenal guitar player. She was one of the first to use the instrument as an instrument for melody-plucked lines. Her guitar playing was rich an intricate. With the exception of Memphis Minnie, no other woman gained the prominence that Rosetta Tharpe did prior to the 1930's playing the guitar.">Sister Rosetta Tharpe</a>,<a href="http://bluesland.net/thang/maybelle.html" title="Big Maybelle sang with a powerful voice with a stage presence to match. Full-figured and powerful, Big Maybelle sang the blues with controlled abandon and a flair for style."> Big Maybelle</a> and <a href="http://bluesland.net/thang/GeorgiaWhite.html" title="The revival of ''Trouble In Mind'', the better known of Jones' compositions made famous by Berha ''Chippie'' Hill in 1926, was Georgia White's greatest, and most enduring, success. And is not difficult to understand why: you may have listened to an infinity of versions of this classic, but Georgia's melancholy, world-weary vocal approach over Les Paul and R.M. Jones delicate guitar-piano dialogue belongs in the Twentieth Century Music (any Music!) Hall Of Fame, if there is one. ">Georgia White</a> for examples. Catherine Yronwode, of course, is a name well known here, as is her wondrous <a href="http://www.luckymojo.com/index.html" title="Lucky Mojo Site Map: a descriptive entry-level index to the whole Lucky Mojo pile; Lucky W Amulet Archive Home Page: an online museum of folk-magic charms; Sacred Sex Home Page: essays on tantra yoga, karezza, sex magic, and sex worship; The Sacred Landscape Home Page: essays on archaeoastronomy and sacred geometry; Freemasonry for Women Home Page: a history of mixed-gender Freemasonic lodges; The Lucky Mojo Curio Co.: manufacturers of spiritual supplies for hoodoo and conjure; The Comics Warehouse: a source for back-issues of comic books and trading cards; catherine yronwode, the eclectic and eccentric author of all the above web pages; nagasiva yronwode: tyaginator, nigris (333), nocTifer, lorax666, boboroshi, !; and The Lucky Mojo Esoteric Archive: captured internet files on occult and spiritual topics ">Lucky Mojo</a>, cornucopica that it is. There, among much riches, is the extensive and authoritative <a href="http://www.luckymojo.com/blues.html" title="My online book about 20th century African-American folk-magic, Hoodoo in Theory and Practice, will conveniently answer most questions that blues fans have about these lyrics, but i have created this sub-site on ''Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo'' because in gathering information on hoodoo, i have found that some of the clearest descriptions of magical materials and their methods of employment can be found in acoustic blues of the period between the two World Wars. In other words, blues lyrics themselves form a primary source of oral history and shed light on little known by-ways in folk custom. From the blues we can learn or receive independent confirmation about such things as how Goofer Dust was used in Memphis in the 1920s or the mechanisms of dream divination systems employed to obtain lucky numbers for lottery gambling. Thus these pages not only serve to ''explain'' obscure lyrics to fans, they use the blues to demonstrate rural folk-magic to contemporary practitioners. ">Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo</a> <i>--but that's <b>Not All !</b></i></b> <b><i>&raquo;&rarr; &raquo;&rarr; &raquo;&rarr;</i></b> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23499 Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:56:15 -0800 Americana Blues Folk HooDoo Music y2karl