Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport (1966)
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Imagine you've stumbled into a juke joint where the mentor of Robert Johnson, Son House, and the idol of the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, 'dis, one another. Picture a place where Wolf taunts Bukka White while the robust Parchman Farm alumnus spins his proto-funk dance grooves and the spectral Skip James weaves his haunting evil Got My Woman". It's an archetypal blues 'crossroads' where legends of the 1920's Delta and 1950s Chicago share the same musical space, suspended out of time in a super-real present, a non-specific 'blues time'. This is no fantasy. You enter this very juke joint in Devil Got My Woman, a programme of extraordinarily powerful footage Alan Lomax captured during the 1966 Newport Folk Festival. 'Devil Got My Woman' is not, however, concert footage from Newport. Alan Lomax recreated a juke joint at Newport, stocked the bar, and let nature take its course. The resultant film footage captures the blues experience in its first and truest milieu, one in which African-American men and women drink, dance, and share their troubles and triumphs. Brooding faces absorbing the wailing pleas of Son House and rubber-legged dancers strutting to Bukka's buoyant blues are as much a part of the miseen scene as the legendary principals of the cast, themselves more relaxed and unguarded than in any comparable performance footage. A heretofore-unseen glimpse of a unique blues summit, 'Devil Got My Woman' offers a bracing reminder of this music's elemental vitality and the blues culture which nurtured it.
Skip James
- Devil Got My Woman
- I'm So Glad, Worried Blues.
Bukka White
- Baby You're Killing Me
- Old Lady Blues
- Please Don't Put Your Daddy Outdoors
- 100th Man
Son House
- Forever on My Mind.
Hoklin' Wolf
- Meet Me in the Bottom
- How Many More Years
- Dust My Broom.
Pearly Brown
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
- Pure Religion
- It's a Mean Old World- Actors:
- Various Artists
- Studio:
- Music Sales Limited
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
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