Passion
Posted by TFG on 20th April 2005
You gotta love guys who love music this much:
This is just a brief posting to alert anyone who might be interested in (or curious about) the Delta blues that Stein’s 2002 documentary — which I hadn’t been aware of until I Tivo’d it off the Independent Film Channel — is a good one. Stein appears to have spent years visiting the Delta and getting to know such homegrown giants as Johnny Farmer, Asie Payton, T-Model Ford, Cedell Davis, Junior Kimbrough, and R.L. Burnside — all of them artists who make me want to say: Anybody who claims that American art is short on genuine greatness can KISS MY ASS. (Incidentally, not a considered critical judgment either, just a direct expression of how this music makes me feel.)
My dad was a big Delta blues man, so we had it around all the time growing up. Good, good stuff.
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