Folkways Collection Episode Five
Oops. I accidently saved this as a draft instead of publishing it.
"Everything I say is a lie"
studying the beauty around you?
The New Lost City Rambles
Penny's Farm
Bob Dylan! I saw him play this song.
Blues and folk based bands. Songs that were easy to play, made it our own, went beyond that music
Foxtrot...
Strange religion
Hillbilly music, race records
Take old records and put them together in a new way. Pfft. I wish I could make money doing this.
Anthropoloy
peyote ceremonies, sometimes lasting several days
Harry Smith...He just recorded the stuff, I don't get it.
4 hrs 4 hrs. Drugs opening his mind up to new possibilities
Allen Ginsberg, woah, he lived with him.
Blind Willie Johnson w/ wife Angeline- "John the Revelator"
cantancorous
in that complexity came the positive w/ the negative
Bleh! Moooooooooore muuuuuuuuuuuusic. Less Harry Smith.
Hawaiin guitar...ritual murder, Milstone Hawaiins, Fatal Flower Garden
True Renaissance Man
collectors...string games, paper airplanes
Harlem. jumps into garbage. sold photographs
Carter Family, John Harding was a desperate little man
Dangerous, living in a very different world
lunch w/ Alan Lomax, lunch w/ Harry Smith
"Spike Driver Blues"
the bible
Mississippi John Hurt I liked this one.
exotic records
The study of knowledge
Is Allen Ginsberg still alive?