CHASING
THE BLUES
THE BLUES
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CHASING
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Sponsored
by the University of Vermont’s Division of Continuing Education
& the ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies Program Information: markgvt@yahoo.com |
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In January, 2006 and 2007, Chasing the
Blues explored the music and history of the Mississippi
Delta and visited such blues landmarks as the “blues crossroads,”
the Delta Blues Museum, the Riverside Hotel (where Bessie Smith died),
the Stovall plantation (Muddy Waters), the Tutwiler train station where
W.C. Handy first heard a farmhand singing the blues, and Mississippi
John Hurt’s cabin. In Memphis we visited Beale Street, the Civil
Rights Museum, Sun Records, and The Center for Southern Folklore. Along
the way, we heard live music and met with local musicians and with blues
photographer and former blues musician manager Dick Waterman and musician/blues
scholar Andy Cohen. |
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January, 2007 Click on a picture for a larger image |
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| Howl-N-Madd at Ground Zero, Clarksdale, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) | Howl-N-Madd & the Blues Chasers (l to r: Bob, Greg, Ivey, Howl-N-Madd, Lauren, Michael, Jean, Josh) (photo: M. Greenberg) | Razor Blade (rt) & 14 year old guitarist at Ground
Zero (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Red's Jook Joint, Clarksdale, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
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| Blues Chasers at Tutwiler, MS station (photo: M. Greenberg) | Friars Point, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Mailbox at John Hurt's cabin, Avalon, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) | Blues Chasers at Mississippi John Hurt Museum (photo: M. Greenberg) |
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| Mark at Mississippi John Hurt's Cabin (photo: I. Inman) | Blues Chasers at Fred McDowell's grave, Como, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) | Blind Mississippi Morris & Brad Webb, Center for Southern Folklore, Memphis (photo: M. Greenberg) | Morris, Brad, & Ivey (photo: M. Greenberg) |
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| Morris & Michael (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Corey Osborne at B. B. King's, Memphis (photo: M. Greenberg) | Blues Chasers at Sun Studio, Memphis | Andy Cohen, Memphis (photo: M. Greenberg) |
January, 2006 Click on a picture for a larger image |
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| Delta Blues Museum, Clarksdale, MS (photo: A. Doolittle) |
Clarksdale, MS (photo: A. Doolittle) |
Ground Zero Blues Club, Clarksdale, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Big T at Ground Zero (photo: M. Greenberg) |
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| Big T & the All Stars (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Big T & the Blues Chasers (l to r, rear: Kyle, Big T, Moses, Amy, Steve; front: Eric, Emily) (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Riverside Hotel (where Bessie Smith died), Clarksdale, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) | Blues Chasers at Muddy Waters marker at Stovall Plantation, outside Clarksdale, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
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| Cotton Field, Stovall's Plantation (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Stovall's Store (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Blues Chasers at the site of the Tutwiler, MS train station (where W. C. Handy first heard the blues) (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Tutwiler, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
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| Tutwiler, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) | Tutwiler, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) | Main Street, Friars Point, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
John Hurt marker, Avalon, MS
(photo: M. Greenberg) |
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Mississippi John Hurt's
grave, Avalon, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Mississippi John Hurt's home/the John Hurt Museum,
Avalon, MS (photo: S. Jamele) |
Store, Avalon, MS (photo: S. Jamele) |
Robert Johnson marker, Greenwood, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
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Blues Chasers at Robert Johnson's
grave, Mt Zion Church, Greenwood, MS (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Blues Chasers at Sun Studios, Memphis, TN (photo: M. Greenberg) |
Andy Cohen session, Memphis, TN (photo: M. Greenberg) | Memphis, TN (photo: S. Jamele) |
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Mark in Tutwiler, MS (photo A. Doolittle) |
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All photos© 2006, 2007 |
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