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REMEMBERING
bukka white
Bukka White
Live at The Ash Groove
Los Angeles, CA, USA
August 17, 1967
Setlist:
01 Shake 'Em On Down 03:34
02 Song Introduction 00:48
03 Aberdeen Mississippi Blues 09:21
04 Song Introduction 01:17
05 Poor Boy 04:57
06 Song Introduction 00:38
07 Gibson Hill 06:23
08 Song Introduction 01:30
09 The Doctor Blues 05:52
10 Song Introduction 01:24
11 The Panama Limited 07:02
12 Bukka's Jitterbug Swing 01:51
(1906-1977)
Booker T. Washington White (Bukka White), one of the pioneers of Delta Blues and influenced by Charlie Patton, began recording in 1930, and his life was full of ups and downs. In 1937, he moved to Chicago, where he recorded "Shake 'em on Down." He spent a couple of years at Parchman Farm penitentiary due to a fight, and it was there that Alan Lomax found him and recorded new material. After his release, Bukka returned to Chicago to perform with Washboard Sam and recorded what would become his best song, "Fixin' to Die," in 1940. He served in the army during World War II, and upon returning, settled in Memphis in 1944 and abandoned music to take on various jobs. During the 1960s, he was rediscovered by emerging folk singers, located again, and his career was relaunched, now with multiple recordings and recognition at festivals not only in the United States but also in Europe, where he traveled with the American Folk Blues Festival. Considered one of the greats and most influential in the use of the bottleneck, Bukka White, with his raspy and deep voice, was an essential bluesman in the development of Delta blues from the 1930s onward, and his full potential is undeniably present in the boom of white blues in the 1960s and everything that followed.
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1994 (Compilation)
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