Peg Leg Sam
On http://www.folkstreams.net/film,1
you can find a documentary of Peg Leg Sam
A portrait of Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson --black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living "busking" on the street and performing in patent-medicine shows touring southern towns. Footage includes excerpts from one of his last medicine shows, videotaped at a county fair in 1972, and material filmed near his home in South Carolina in 1975. The performance includes harmonica solos, songs, a parody of a chanted sermon, folktales and reminiscences, and three buck dances.
there is some nice harmonica playing in it.
This documentary gives (my opinion as a non-american) a good view of the soul of the blues.
I saw this documentary footage a few years back. This guy really looked like he'd been dragged through the wringer of life and still had the ability to smile about it.
I really love the trick he had of treating his harp like a juicy pork rib - nibbling up one side, then the other, then turning it on end in his mouth to suck the marrow, and then to follow it all up, wipe it across his mouth to get rid of the grease.
The playing through the nose stuff was a little nasty, though.
Thanks for the tip Troy,
I looked it up on CDbaby and I liked it so I went to the local CD-shop specialized in blues and jazz in my hometown Groningen and after some searching I found the CD.
FANTASTIC!
I can recommend this CD for everyone who likes acoustic rural blues
Apparently there is another CD with performances from Sam but from a label that does not exist anymore
Thanks Izaak,
I would listen to his album "Early In The Morning" all the time, something about it I just love.
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