And then The New York Times did a story on her, and suddenly she's no longer lost to time, but is a part of the pantheon of country blues.
In his rummaging about the internet, and the catalogs of small record labels that persist in releasing this music, Jenkins recalls uncovering a woman named Geeshie Wiley, who recorded just a handful of songs in 1930. And those sort of, just the fact of living today, influences how I will approach songs, or preamble songs." "And I live now and have access to the internet and I listen to NPR all day and listen about the impeachment. "I think part of it is the fact that I'm alive now," Jenkins says with a laugh. Where does the 34-year-old musician find this music that is decades older than he is? By 2010, he'd hooked up with The Carolina Chocolate Drops, whose "Genuine Negro Jig" had won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album.įor the most part, this is about the archaeology of long-forgotten songs. Jenkins took them to the streets, busking on the sidewalks of New York City, then streets and coffee shops and bars throughout the country. That opened up another door, and just feeling the weight and the power that one person with a guitar or a banjo could have was very illuminating to me." "It was around then that I learned that the banjo was a black instrument.
0 kommentar(er)
