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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2013 7:52:30 GMT -5
Lazy Lester
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Post by celeste on Sept 26, 2013 22:16:16 GMT -5
I like the late, great Precious Bryant. She is from Talbotton, Georgia which is where I live. She died last year and I was sad to see her go. I have seen her perform many times and once I even sat in the living room of her old broken down trailer and played a few songs with her. She was quite a character.
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2013 3:36:13 GMT -5
I like the late, great Precious Bryant. She is from Talbotton, Georgia which is where I live. She died last year and I was sad to see her go. I have seen her perform many times and once I even sat in the living room of her old broken down trailer and played a few songs with her. She was quite a character. A great tribute article to Precious from The Ledger-Enquirer back in January of this year (2013) Precious Bryant - Blues MusicianPrecious Bryant was definitely in the mold of the early Piedmont Blues guitar players. This one is traditional Piedmont - fingerstyle, what was known as Travis Picking but can be traced to earlier blues artists who performed before Merle. Now, this is one of my favorite Precious Bryant songs: Morning Train That song has a lot it's roots buried deep in the old Georgia Gospel/Spiritual music. Thanks for bring this great blues artist to our attention.
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Post by AlanB on Sept 27, 2013 10:44:01 GMT -5
It was Timothy Duffy who first introduced the world to Precious Bryant with a one page article in Living Blues 137 (Jan/Feb 1998). Seven years later Andria Lisle's appreciation - "Precious Bryant: Chattahoochee River Valley Blues" - was published in Living Blues 177 (Mar/Apr 2005 pps 12-17).
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2013 10:45:39 GMT -5
It was Timothy Duffy who first introduced the world to Precious Bryant with a one page article in Living Blues 137 (Jan/Feb 1998). Seven years later Andria Lisle's appreciation - “Precious Bryant: Chattahoochee River Valley Blues” - was published in Living Blues 177 (Mar/Apr 2005 pps 12-17). Thanks Alan. I'd love to see both of those articles. smiley-eatdrink004
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Post by celeste on Sept 27, 2013 10:59:09 GMT -5
She is an example of a person with a relative amount of fame not being rich. She lived in a ramshackle single-wide trailer. Close to the end of her life, a group of local musicians, fans, and club owners collected up money to buy her a new trailer. She had lost all of her guitars in a fire, and she told me that Taj Mahal gave her new guitars so that she could keep playing. She was especially proud of her epiphone acoustic. She felt that it was special because it was "electric" as it had pickups in it.
The locals say that she really lived the blues. Alcohol. An abusive husband that she eventually shot in self defense. More alcohol. Poverty. Music. More alcohol. She had more personality than a bantum rooster.
I was pretty impressed that she let a random white woman (me) come into her house and play a few songs. I knocked on her door with a present wrapped box of candy and a guitar, and she let me stay for several hours.
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2013 11:03:18 GMT -5
She is an example of a person with a relative amount of fame not being rich. She lived in a ramshackle single-wide trailer. Close to the end of her life, a group of local musicians, fans, and club owners collected up money to buy her a new trailer. She had lost all of her guitars in a fire, and she told me that Taj Mahal gave her new guitars so that she could keep playing. She was especially proud of her epiphone acoustic. She felt that it was special because it was "electric" as it had pickups in it. The locals say that she really lived the blues. Alcohol. An abusive husband that she eventually shot in self defense. More alcohol. Poverty. Music. More alcohol. She had more personality than a bantum rooster. I was pretty impressed that she let a random white woman (me) come into her house and play a few songs. I knocked on her door with a present wrapped box of candy and a guitar, and she let me stay for several hours. Nice tribute and some great personal insight into a remarkable person. Thanks so much Celeste.
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Post by earleg on Sept 27, 2013 22:33:39 GMT -5
Junior Parker - Still looking for my CD with this and other of his tunes.
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Post by AlanB on Sept 28, 2013 2:44:27 GMT -5
Junior Parker - Still looking for my CD with this and other of his tunes. This was the first Jr Parker record I ever bought. It was on a school trip to France in 1961 and couldn't resist the cover! Here's a discography koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/juniorparker.htmAttachments:
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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2013 8:14:43 GMT -5
Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Phil Guy, A.C. Reed - Mystery Train 1974
One hell of a blues performance by these legends.
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Post by carolinablues on Sept 28, 2013 12:50:14 GMT -5
I like the late, great Precious Bryant. She is from Talbotton, Georgia which is where I live. She died last year and I was sad to see her go. I have seen her perform many times and once I even sat in the living room of her old broken down trailer and played a few songs with her. She was quite a character. Yes, I did some research on Precious Bryant shortly after her death in 1967. I just wish I had the time to do an interview before her passing. Do you know of any such interviews? Precious is a fascinating subject. This is the only interview I know of but it's now lost with the passing of the newspaper. D. S. Rotenstein Interview
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Post by celeste on Sept 28, 2013 14:09:06 GMT -5
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Post by carolinablues on Sept 28, 2013 15:36:32 GMT -5
You must think I'm nutty as a fruitcake. I guess I omitted few words. It should have read shortly after I met her in 1997. Sorry for the mistake.
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Post by carolinablues on Sept 28, 2013 16:27:15 GMT -5
I think I found the reason for the mistake. Inadvertently put in the file.
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Post by celeste on Sept 28, 2013 17:45:19 GMT -5
Is that the mother of Precious?
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