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SUMMARY:Tinariwen + T-Model Ford
LOCATION:AB Grote zaal (Anspachlaan 110\, 1000 Brussel)
DESCRIPTION:&  present    How the blues travelled from the Western\nSahara to the Mississippi Delta: TINARIWEN + T-MODEL FORD +\nThe Screening of ‘The Land Where The Blues Began (Alan\nLomax)’In autumn 2009\, the AB will be organising a\ntribute to the American ethno-musicologist Alan Lomax\n(1915-2002). It is thanks to his pioneering work that anyone\ncan now acquaint themselves with the earliest folksong\nrecordings. Together with his father\, he was responsible\nfor the discovery of blues legend Leadbelly and folk icon\nWoody Guthrie. Lomax was later the most important staff\nmember of the Archive of Folk Song or to the Library of\nCongress in Washington. As part of this tribute\, the AB\nwill be organising and evening with 2 performers who are\nable to perfectly demonstrate the link shown by Alan Lomax\nbetween the blues of the Western Sahara and that of the\nMississippi Delta. The Touareg collective Tinariwen were\nalready onto their third CD when they released ‘Aman\nIman’ in 2007. De Standaard wrote at the time:\n'Rapture from the desert... what fantastic power... this\nis deep\, hypnotic music that is rooted in centuries old\ncraftsmanship’. That was later followed by festivals like\nGlastonbury and Womad\, concerts with Carlos Santana and\nRobert Plant\, support act to The Rolling Stones and\npositive press reactions worldwide. This is still timeless\nmusic that blows over to us from another universe. African\nblues as it were\, that draws its grief from the heavy\nstride that the Touareg tribes pursued with the Malinese\ngovernment. A new album\, recorded in Tessalit (North\nMali)\, has just been finished and should be released this\nsummer. T-Model Ford\, born James Lewis Carter Ford\, year\nof birth: unknown (although 1924 would seem to be most\nlikely)\, is one of the last original blues men of the\nMississippi Delta (just take a look at the brilliant DVD\n‘M for Mississippi’ www.mformississippi.com). His life\nis one of a jack-of-all-trades\, interrupted by a 10-year\njail term (working on the chain gang) for murder. The Fat\nPossum label (see: young lads\, The Black Keys and that\nother old blues legend R.L. Burnside) looked after T-Model\nFord and already released 5 of the man's albums. His\nmusic is also the last memory of the raw blues of the\nMississippi Delta that is rooted in the Western Sahara. We\nare also extremely pleased that T-Model Ford will be\nvisiting AB again at the age of 85(?). Isn't it about\ntime he retired? ‘No way ... only the good lord knows when\nI'm gonna stop’.On this evening\, we will also screen\nthe documentary ‘The Land Where The Blues Began’ from\nthe hand of Alan Lomax. This documentary is one part of\nLomax’ five-part American Patchwork series. In 1979\, Alan\nLomax\, John Bishop and Worth Long went up the Mississippi\nDelta looking for the roots of the blues. They came into\ncontact with charismatic storytellers who bring you back to\nthe origins of this Afro-American genre. Ex-convicts\,\nrailway-workers and dock-workers sung their lungs out. Get\nto know the authentic work songs\, the heartbeat of\nhard-labour. This documentary contains performances from\noldies like R.L. Burnside and Jack Owens. Lomax also wrote a\nbook on this subject\, with the same title\, which won the\nNational Book Critics Award for non-fiction in 1993.Those\nwho want to see the film now already can head to the\nbrilliant website Folkstreams. ‘The Mississippi hill\ncountry sheltered a fantastic African music that fed the\nblues’ (Alan Lomax)
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