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Bluesman Harris made this set of field recordings in Mississippi and Mali, aiming to highlight the music's bicontinental roots. The result is anemic and too academic -- with minimal production values and accompaniment often consisting of kitchen-sink acoustic pitter-patter.
CHRISTIAN...
2003 RS:
Biography
Roughly around the time that OutKast and Goodie Mob rose from the
South to represent country manners, several fleet-fingered
musicologists were similarly rehabilitating the reputation of
acoustic blues. The tradition of Son House and Charley Patton had
long been maligned as shabby and backward by young black bluesmen
who favored the flashy urbanity of the music's Chicago descendants.
Along with Ke...
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