Appaloosa
From Appalachia to the Grand Ole Opry, from the Bristol Sessions to Cajun music, from the ear of Ralph Peer to the recordings of Alan Lomax.
Image Credits: Patty Willis, Untitled print proof, n.d. Color woodblock print, 8 x 9 in. Washington Family Collection
w/ diagonal del duende
Tutto è cinema. Il cinema è uno. Il cinema è tutto. Poi vengono il suono degli Appalachi, il vino, il jazz e i blob sonori, i cattivi maestri, le geuze, Bazin, l'alchimia, Eisenstein, Ian Fleming, Daney, gli scotch, la via della stoà, l'hardcore continuum, il western, il viaggio dell'eroe, lo specifico filmico (ancora), il corpo grottesco, la vaporwave, i situazionisti (l'ultima avanguardia). Non necessariamente in quest'ordine.
Podcast
maltempo si avvera
Tracklist:
- Left in the Desert - Earth
- Black Desert - Western Skies Motel
- Sea - Codeine
- Nightfall - Western Skies Motel
- Lens of Unrectified Night - Earth
- Whirl - Western Skies Motel
- Cigarette Machine - Codeine
- Two Worlds - Western Skies Motel
- Big Shot - Bark Psychosis
- The Quiet Rust - Western Skies Motel
- Burning the City - Bark Psychosis
- The Dry Lake - Earth
Flamenquería.
Tracklist:
- Colombiana de Bajo-Guía - Manolo Sanlucar
- Soleares - Pepe Torre
- Un mal Ensueño (Bulerías) - Capello de Jerez
- ¡Viva Jerez! - Manolo Sanlucar
- Tangos - Antonio Reyes y Diego del Morao
- La Tarara (Taranto) - Camarón de la Isla
- Herencia Oriental - Manolo Sanlucar
- Luna de Cristal (Rondeña) - Gerardo Nuñez
- Monte Pirolo - Rafael Riqueni
- Bulerías por Soleá - Rosalía de Triana
Dalle Hawaii al Mississippi, dal Kentucky a Milano.
Tracklist:
- Alligator Crawl - Doc Cook and His 14 Doctors of Syncopation
- I Am Resolved - McGhee and Welling
- Gimme a Pig's Foot and a Bottle of Beer - Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon
- Willie the Weeper - Doc Cook and His 14 Doctors of Syncopation
- I Wants My Lulu - McGhee and Welling
- Hard Working Woman - Mississippi Matilda
- The Picture On the Wall - McGhee & Welling
- I'm a Dreamer Aren't We All - Hawaiian Beachcombers
- Jive Man Blues - Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon
- Brainstorm - Doc Cook and His 14 Doctors of Syncopation
- Gray Eagle - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
- Can't You Wait Till You Get Home - Frankie "Half Pint" Jackson
- Honolulu Bound - Hawaiian Beachcombers
- I Got Worry [Love Is On My Mind] - Doc Cook and His 14 Doctors of Syncopation
- If You're in Love You'll Waltz - Hawaiian Beachcombers
- Forked Deer - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
- Waikiki Blues - Hawaiian Beachcombers
- Sourwood Mountain - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
- No More Masoch - Gianfranco Manfredi
Tiritalla, tiritalla, morirai senza ’ssajalla… a pizza co’ zibibbo calla, calla
Il brusio dell'entroterra.
Tracklist:
- First Long Space - Rafael Toral
- Sleeping in the Driveway - Brian Harnetty & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Optical Flow - Rafael Toral
- Then the Letting Go - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Maersk Line - Rafael Toral
- Ohio River Boat Song - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Your Goodbye - Rafael Toral
- Super Sabre - Rafael Toral
- Love Is a Velvet Noose - Trembling Bells & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Birch Ballad - Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Harem Scarem & Alen Neilson
- Death in the Sea - Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
- Changes Reprise - Rafael Toral
- Mixed States Uncoded - Rafael Toral
- CII - Marquis de Tren & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Al Bowlly, il più grande crooner mai vissuto, per dirla con Louis Skorecki.
Tracklist:
- Over the Rainbow - Al Bowlly
- Bella Bambina - Al Bowlly
- I'ts Psychological - Al Bowlly
- Penny Serenade - Al Bowlly
- When You Wish Upon a Star - Al Bowlly
- Deep in a Dream - Al Bowlly
- Guilty - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- Oceans of Time - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- Isle of Capri - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- Freckle Face, You're Beautiful - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- By the Fireside - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- Why Dream? - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- This Is Romance - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- Where Am I? - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- Time On My Hands - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
- You Oughta Be in Pictures - Al Bowlly
- The Moment I Saw You - Al Bowlly
- You're a Sweet Little Headache - Al Bowlly
- Close Youre Eyes - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and His Orchestra
In questo episodio ci concentriamo su Fess WIlliams, clarinettista e band leader della Royal Flush Orchestra, e Uncle Dave Macon. Ai lati degli uccelli che cantano.
Tracklist:
- Hot Mama - Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Ya Gotta Know How to Love - Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Dixie Stomp - Fess Williams and His Joy Boys
- It's Breaking My Heart to Keep Away from You - Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Sweet Savannah Sue - Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Alligator Crawl - Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider - Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Kentucky Blues - Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra
- Down in Arkansaw - Uncle Dave Macon
- Sourwood Mountain Medley - Uncle Dave Macon
- Watermelon Smilin' On the Vine - Uncle Dave Macon
- Bake that Chicken Pie - Uncle Dave Macon
- Old Maid's Last Hope (A Burglar Song) - Uncle Dave Macon
- Cumberland Mountain Deer Race - Uncle Dave Macon
- (She Was Always) Chewing Gum - Uncle Dave Macon
In questo episodio: Curley James Weaver, detto Slim Gordon, chitarrista blues, in compagnia dei Georgia Browns; Isaac L. Robinson, detto Banjo Ikey, specialista di "hokum", canzoni blues con non molto sottili riferimenti sessuali; Ola Belle Reed e due registrazioni di Alan Lomax ("Devil's Dream" e "How Long Blues").
Tracklist:
- Tampa Strut - Curley Weaver feat. The Georgia Browns
- A Minor Stomp - Banjo Ikey Robinson
- Old Rock Island Blues - Lonnie Coleman
- Next Door Man (take 1) - Curley Weaver feat. The Georgia Browns
- My Four Reasons - Banjo Ikey Robinson
- My Epitaph - Ola Belle Reed
- Next Door Man (take 2) - Curley Weaver feat. The Georgia Browns
- I Ain't a Bit Drunk - George Shortbuckle Roark
- Decatur Street 81 - Curley Weaver feat. The Georgia Browns
- How Long Blues - Leadbelly, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Rerry
- Slocum Blues - Banjo Ikey Robinson
- Who Stole De Lock? - Curley Weaver feat. The Georgia Browns
- High On a Mountain - Ola Belle Reed
- Devil's Dream - Sidney Hemphill
- Gee I Hate To Loose That Girl - Banjo Ikey Robinson
- Joker Man - Curley Weaver feat. The Georgia Browns
Lottie Kimbrough, cantante e compositrice blues attiva negli anni '20 tra il Kansas e il Missouri, che spesso ha collaborato con l'agitatore e produttore Winston Holmes, nome cardine del country blues nella Kansas City della Grande Depressione.
Tracklist:
- Don't Speak to Me - Lottie Kimbrough
- Rolling Log Blues - Lotti Kimbrough & Winston Holmes
- Going Away Blues - Lottie Beaman-Kimbrough
- Skinner - Winston Holmes and Charlie Turner
- Mama Can't Lose - Lottie Beaman-Kimbrough
- The Kansas City Call - Winston Holmes and Charlie Turner
- Blue World Blues - Lottie Kimbrough & Winston Holmes
- The Death of Holmes' Mule Part 1 - Charlie Turner and Winston Holmes
- The Death of Holmes' Mule Part 2 - Charlie Turner and Winston Holmes
- Low Down Painful Blues - Lottie Beaman-Kimbrough
Chippie Hill. E la Memphis Jug Band.
Tracklist:
- Lonesome, All Alone and Blue - Bertha Chippie Hill & Louis Armstrong
- Lonesome Weary Blues - Bertha Chippie Hill
- Some of These Days - Bertha Chippie Hill
- Hard Time Blues - Bertha Chippie Hill
- Pleadin' for the Blues - Bertha Chippie Hill
- Papa Long Blues #1 - The Memphis Jug Band
- Coal Oil Blues #1 - The Memphis Jug Band
- Jazzbo Stomp - The Memphis Jug Band
- Whitewash Station Blues - The Memphis Jug Band
- Take Your Fingers Off It - The Memphis Jug Band
Burnett e Rutherford, i Callahan Brothers e Coley Jones con la Dallas String Band. Io sto, te? Io 'un passerei, poi fai te.
Tracklist:
- Cumberland Gap - Rutherford, Moore & Burnett
- Gonna Quit My Rowdy Ways - The Callahan Brothers
- Army Mule in No Man's Land - Coley Jones
- Curley Headed Woman - Burnett & Rutherford
- Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band
- Little Stream of Whiskey - Burnett & Rutherford
- Maple On the Hill - The Callahan Brothers
- He Throws That Thing - Coley Jones, Bobbie Cadillac
- Knoxville Rag - Dick Burnett, Byrd Moore & Dick Taylor
Laura Smith, blueswoman.
Tracklist:
- Fightin' Blues - Laura Smith
- Two-Faced Woman Blues - Laura Smith
- When a Gator Holler (Folks Say Sign o' Rain) - Laura Smith
- Red River Blues - Laura Smith
- Face to Face - Laura Smith
- I'm Gonna Kill Myself - Laura Smith
- I'll Get Even with You - Laura Smith
- Hatefull Blues - Laura Smith
- Lonesome Refugee - Laura Smith
- Jackass Blues - Laura Smith
Bill Carlisle, countryman.
Tracklist:
- Rattlesnake Daddy - Bill Carlisle
- Three Women to Every Man - Bill Carlisle
- Sugar Cane Mama - Bill Carlisle
- Unpucker - Bill Carlisle & The Carlisles
- A Shack by the Side of the Road - Bill Carlisle
- Jumpin' and Jerkin' Blues - Bill Carlisle
- Cowgirl Jean - Bill Carlisle
- Big at the Little, Bottom at the Top - Bill Carlisle
- Ditty Wah Ditty - Bill Carlisle
- Unclouded Sky - Bill Carlisle's Kentucky Boys
Lowe Stokes, musicante d'altri tempi dalla Georgia.
Tracklist:
- Learning to play, early recording sessions [talk with Lowe Stokes]
- Prohibition Is a Failure - Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians
- Georgia Wagoner - Lowe Stokes
- Take Me to the Land of Jazz - Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians
- Liberty - Lowe Stokes
- Left All Alone Again Blues - Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians
- Row, Row, Row - Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians
- The Bucking Mule - Lowe Stokes
- Bone Dry Blues - Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians
- Shortening Bread - Lowe Stokes
- Home Brew Rag - Lowe Stokes & His North Georgians
Cripple Clarence Lofton, nume del boogie-woogie.
Tracklist:
- Pitchin' Boogie - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Mercy Blues - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Sweetest Thing Born - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Pine Top's Boogie Woogie - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Brown Skin Girls - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- House Rent Struggle - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Juicy Mouth Shorty - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- Mistaken Blues - Cripple Clarence Lofton
- When the Soldiers Get Their Bonus - Cripple Clarence Lofton
Atlanta, Georgia, fine dei ruggenti anni venti. Un cuoco che suona la chitarra con un collo di bottiglia: Barbecue Bob. Lo chiamano Piedmont blues, stile particolare del blues orientale, della Virginia, caratterizzato da una percussività figlia del ragtime, che nello specifico del nostro si traduce in uno stile grattato e incerto (sia nella voce che nello strimpellio).
Tracklist:
- Barbecue Blues - Barbecue Bob
- Atlanta Moan - Barbecue Bob
- Easy Rider Don't You Deny My Name - Barbecue Bob
- Red Hot Mama Papa's Going to Cool You Off - Barbecue Bob
- Goin' Up the Country - Barbecue Bob
- Cold Wave Blues - Barbecue Bob
- She Moves It Just Right - Barbecue Bob
- Trouble Done Bore Me Down - Barbecue Bob
- Jesus' Blood Can Make Me Whole - Barbecue Bob
Kanui e Lula, coniugi hawaiani, portano il Pacifico nel vecchio mondo: lui voce e chitarrista steel, tra i pionieri dell'Hawaii sound, lei ballerina di danze tipiche. Poi, nel mezzo, Harry Lipman, meglio noto come Harry Roy (da solo o con i suoi Bat Club Boys), clarinettista e direttore d'orchestra, tra i più celebri cantori dirty blues.
Tracklist:
- Pua Carnation - Kanui & Lula
- Yaka Hula - Kanui & Lula
- My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua - Kanui & Lula
- Tomi Tomi - Kanui & Lula
- Hilo Hanakahi - Kanui & Lula
- Pussy! - Harry Roy & His Bat Club Boys
- Oua Oua - Kanui & Lola
- Ua Like No A Like - Kanui & Lola
- Mauna Loa - Kanui & Lola
- Aloha Beloved - Kanui & Lola
Paul Kennerley, country-man, musicista e producer, troviamo qui una selezione dei migliori pezzi del nostro o a cui ha messo, più o meno, mano. Buon country!
Tracklist:
- Dixie, Now You're Done - Waylon Jennings
- The Death of Me - Johnny Cash and Levon Helm
- When I Get My Rewards - Harry Dean Stanton
- That's the Truth - Johnny Cash
- Wish We Were Back in Missouri - Emmylou Harris
- White Trash - Steve Cash
- The Last Dance & The Kentucky Rac - John Dillon & Jessi Colter
Un 'buto a Bruce Langhorne, di certo non un talentato di capello, con estratti e distillati dalle sue colonne sonore western per Peter Fonda. Una volta un giullare gli gridò: - Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, I Don't Wanna Joke.
Tracklist:
- Bruce Langhorne - I'm Cold
- Bruce Langhorne - Riding Through the Rain
- Bruce Langhorne - Everybody, I Guess
- John Fahey - Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today (excerpt)
- Bruce Langhorne - Harry and Hannah
- Bruce Langhorne - They Were All in Plastic Bags
- Eugene Chadbourne - Graveyard (Response to Dead Girl)
- Bruce Langhorne - Leaving Del Norte
- Bruce Langhorne - Windmill
- Daniel Bachman - The Sound of the Sun
- Bruce Langhorne - Arch Leaves
- Bruce Langhorne - And Say Goodbye
Daniel Bachman, primitivo di oggi.
Daniel Bachman, today's primitive.
Tracklist:
- Wine and Peanuts - Daniel Bachman
- 540 Supercell - Daniel Bachman
- Blues in the Anthropocene - Daniel Bachman
- Scrumpy - Daniel Bachman
- Coming Home - Daniel Bachman
- Old Country Rock - Daniel Bachman
- Chattanooga - Daniel Bachman
- Rappahannock River - Daniel Bachman
Non necessariamente in quest'ordine (di quella volta che lo chiamarono "brotha" in pubblico e nel suo piccolo privato fece un quarantotto)
Claude Ely, detto "Brother" dai baciapile.
Claude Ely, called "Brother" by bigots.
Tracklist:
- Brother Claude Ely - Shout and Shine (with Patricia Ewing, Rev Jim Ewing Jr.)
- Brother Claude Ely - There Ain't No Grave Hold My Body Down
- Brother Claude Ely - Lost and Doomed
- Brother Claude Ely - The Old Fireside
- Brother Claude Ely - Sweet Jesus
- Brother Claude Ely - Dip Your Finger in the Water (and Cool My Tongue)
- Brother Claude Ely - There's a Leak in This Old Building
- Brother Claude Ely - Stop That Train
- Brother Claude Ely - I Want to Rest
- Brother Claude Ely - Do You Want to Shout
Carl T. Sprague, l'originale.
Carl T. Sprague, also known as "The Original Singing Cowboy".
Tracklist:
- Carl T. Sprague - The Cowboy
- Carl T. Sprague - Last Great Round-Up
- Carl T. Sprague - The Gambler
- Carl T. Sprague - Bad Companions
- Carl T. Sprague - The Prisoner's Meditation
- Carl T. Sprague - If Your Saddle Is Good and Tight
- Carl T. Sprague - The Wayward Daughter
- Carl T. Sprague - Following the Cow Trail
- Carl T. Sprague - When the Work's All Done This Fall
Shel Silverstein, comico e countryman.
Tracklist:
- Never Bite a Married Woman on the Thigh - Shel Silverstein
- I Can't Touch The Sun - Shel Silverstein
- The Flooby Dooby Doo - Shel Silverstein
- Boy Named Sue - Shel Silverstein
- Sahra Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out - Shel Silverstein
- Going Down To Texas - Shel Silverstein
- Lemmebesomethin' (Live) - Shel Silverstein
- Fuck 'Em - Shel Silverstein
Inizia il viaggio.
The journey begins.
Tracklist:
- Dock Boggs - Old Rub Alcohol Blues
- Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virginia Reelers - The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
- Hobart Smith - Drunken Hiccups
- Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby
- Texas Gladden - Dark Scenes Of Winter
- Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virginia Reelers - It's A Shame To Whip Your Wife On Sunday
- Hobart Smith - Railroad Bill
- Dock Boggs - Down South Blues
- Fiddlin' John Carson and His Virginia Reelers - The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going to Crow
- Texas Gladden - Hick's Farewell






