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Mac Arnold performs with his band, Plate Full O' Blues, at the 'Fall for Greenville' arts festival, October 2013. On September 23, 2017, Mac Arnold was inducted into the Alabama Blues Hall of Fame at the historic Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. [27] [28]
Josh White, transitioned from a career as a traditional Piedmont blues artist to emerge as a unique and integral voice in the burgeoning folk music world of the 1940s, and in so doing played a seminal role in introducing new audiences to the blues.
19 sie 2016 · Folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary wrote a tribute song, “Goodbye, Josh,” after White’s death. The lyrics recall White’s advice to Yarrow: “Live it hard and then let it be.”
18 sie 2016 · This is Greenville native Josh White, and it’s less a cry of pain than it is a conversation with a wise, experienced man. The song is “St. James Infirmary,” one of the best-known and most-covered blues songs of the 20th century, and it kicks off the 1956 album “Josh At Midnight.”
17 maj 2016 · A powerful form of secular African American musical and cultural expression, blues developed in the South around the turn of the twentieth century, a product of the large plantations and rail-road, mining, and logging camps where black workers congregated.
21 cze 2021 · Here are 21 of those people: twenty-one blues musicians you should know in 2021. This is not an exhaustive list of current blues musicians. For one thing, we could only feature so many, and the list could potentially include hundreds or even thousands of artists.
16 maj 2019 · Josh White sang the blues. Also gospel, folk and even some jazz. One of the finest and most famous black guitarists and singers of the 1930s and '40s, this Greenville-born and reared musician...
