Give my poor heart ease voices of the Mississippi blues (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
"This book was published with the assistance of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) , discography (p. 269-284) , filmography (p. 284-289) and index
Blues roots - Rose Hill - Mary Gordon - Reverend Isaac Thomas -- - Lake Mary - Martha Dunbar - Scott Dunbar -- - Lorman - Louis Dotson -- - Centreville - Fannie Bell Chapman -- - Gravel Springs - Otha Turner -- - Parchman Penitentiary - Johnny Lee "Have Mercy" Thomas - Camp B work chant - James "Blood" Shelby - Ben Gooch - Sergeant Webb - Roosevelt Stewart, Jr. -- - Tutwiler - Tom Dumas - Lee Kizart -- - A delta road in Coahoma County - C.L. Redwine - Corine Gardner -- - Blues towns and cities - Leland - James "Son Ford" Thomas - Gussie Tobe - Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown -- - Clarksdale - Jasper Love - Wade Walton -- - WOKJ, Jackson - Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis : The Big Daddy Show - Bruce Payne, news - Reverend Marcus Butler : gospel music - Gary's Meat House ad - Bruce Payne -- - Beale Street - Robert Shaw -- - Looking back - Willie Dixon - B.B. King -- - Sacred and secular worlds - Rose Hill Church : Rose Hill Church service - Clarksdale : house party
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a dual CD/DVD that presents his original field recordings and films, this book features more than 20 interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South. Oversize, with 45 halftones a