Habt ihr Euch schon einmal gefragt wo viele der wunderbaren Titel von Canned Heat herkommen?
Der echte Bluesfan weiß das natürlich
Henry Thomas
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Henry Thomas (* vermutlich 1874; Sterbedatum unbekannt), auch bekannt als Ragtime Texas, war ein früher US-amerikanischer Blues-Gitarrist. Er gilt als der älteste afro-amerikanische Musiker, der eine beachtenswerte Anzahl von Aufnahmen hinterließ.Über das Leben von Henry Thomas ist wenig bekannt. Zwischen 1927 und 1929 nahm er 23 Songs auf, darunter 8 Blues-Titel. Neben der Gitarre spielte er die Panflöte. Die Gitarre spielte er eher wie ein Banjo.
Zu seinen bekanntesten Stücken gehört der Bull Doze Blues, der später von der Band Canned Heat zu Going Up The Country umgearbeitet wurde. Don't Ease Me In wurde von Grateful Dead aufgenommen.
Liste aller Songs
Fishing Blues
Old Country Stomp
Charmin' Betsy
Lovin' Babe
Railroadin' Some
Don't Leave Me Here
The Little Red Caboose
Bob McKinney
Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance
Run, Mollie, Run
Shanty Blues
Woodhouse Blues
John Henry
Cottonfield Blues
Arkansas
The Fox And The Hounds
Red River Blues
Jonah In The Wilderness
When The Train Comes Along
Bull Doze Blues
Don't Ease Me In
Texas Easy Street
Texas Worried Blues
Fishing Blues
Old Country Stomp
Charmin' Betsy
Lovin' Babe
Railroadin' Some
Don't Leave Me Here
The Little Red Caboose
Bob McKinney
Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance
Run, Mollie, Run
Shanty Blues
Woodhouse Blues
John Henry
Cottonfield Blues
Arkansas
The Fox And The Hounds
Red River Blues
Jonah In The Wilderness
When The Train Comes Along
Bull Doze Blues
Don't Ease Me In
Texas Easy Street
Texas Worried Blues
Texas songster Henry Thomas remains a relative stranger who made some great recordings, then returned to obscurity. Evidence suggests he was an itinerant street musician, a musical hobo who rode the rails across Texas and possibly to the World's Fairs in St. Louis and Chicago just before and after the turn of the century. Most agree he was the oldest African-American folk artist to produce a significant body of recordings. His projected 1874 birth date would predate Charley Patton by a good 17 years. Like Patton and a handful of other musicians generally termed songsters (including John Hurt, Jim Jackson, Mance Lipscomb, Furry Lewis, and Leadbelly), Thomas' repertoire bridged the 19th and 20th centuries, providing a compelling glimpse into a wide range of African-American musical genres. The 23 songs he cut for Vocalion between 1927 and 1929 include a spiritual, ballads, reels, dance songs, and eight selections titled blues. Obviously dance music, his songs were geared to older dance styles shared by black and white audiences. Thomas' sound, like his repertoire, is unique. He capoed his guitar high up the neck and strummed it in the manner of a banjo, favoring dance rhythm over complex fingerwork. On many of his pieces, he simultaneously played the quills or panpipes, a common but seldom-recorded African-American folk instrument indigenous to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Combining the quills, a limited-range melody instrument, with his banjo-like strummed guitar produced one of the most memorable sounds in American folk music. For example, his lead-in on "Bull Doze Blues" still worked as a hook when recycled 40 years later by blues-rockers Canned Heat in their version of "Going Up the Country." "Ragtime Texas," as Thomas was known, provides a welcome inroad to 19th century dance music, but his music is neither obscure nor merely educational: it has a timeless quality -- and while it may be an acquired taste, once you catch on to it, you're hooked. ~ Barry Lee Pearson, Rovi
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