ONE DEEP RABBIT HOLE

I'm posting this again because I was in the mood to see it again. I wanted to return to that weird hypnotic vibe. It did not disappoint. This video is unreal in it's primitive organic weirdness. Here's text from the old post (definitely watch the video).:

The chance viewing of the video below put me in a hypnotic state, like some sort of voodoo. It changed my mood entirely. Then I realized that it's only part two of a nine part collection of this heretofore mysto-combo, Othar Turner's Rising Star Fife and Drum Band. There goes a good hunk of time. Further digging reveals that from a collection of 148 clips from the Alan Lomax Archive on YouTube, and that's just in the 1978: Mississippi Delta & Hill Country collection. There's several other collections too. So, I'm probably not coming back any time soon. But this one, whoa Jesus, after the first minute it started feeling like some sort of David Lynch thing. And it kept that feeling for the duration. 

The Alan Lomax Collection has is all. The vintage regional badass, the down in the bottom, and the weird. Just do a few random clicks and see if you come back.

Video:
Rising Star Fife & Drum Band at Othar Turner's farm (1978) Part 1, part 2 (above), part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9
Alan Lomax Collection at YouTube

TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT YOUR CRATEDIGGING

Many of you may not know life without accessible computers. Accessible at all, let alone home computers. You may have never looked at a card catalog, a periodical index, or old newspapers on reels of microfilm. You may not know what the Dewey Decimal System is. These were all required to do the most basic of research. And all would take place in a building outside of the home, requiring travel and time. But you've got Google. On your thing. How badly do you want to research something? How much effort do you want to put forth? Crack your knuckles punks, Alan Lomax wanted it bad.

Lomax was a fiend supreme. In a perfect world his archives would be online. False. Because it is an imperfect world, and his archives are online. Folk music of all sorts, blues, jazz, country, zydeco, cajun, and more, and that's just from the U.S. He went all over the country, not just the better known pockets. He also traveled, extensively, overseas. All over the Caribbean, Europe, Russia and North Africa. Lomax is not only one of the greatest music historians and archivists of any era, he is one of the greatest fiends, of any era and of any field. We are all Blues Hammer before him.

~ NOTE: ALL MEDIA IS HOSTED BY THE BLOGS & SITES NAMED BELOW ~

Visit:
Alan Lomax Music page at Cultural Equity
Alan Lomax Photo page at Cultural Equity
Portraits From the Lomax Collection at Photistoric
Alan Lomax Video page at Cultural Equity
Alan Lomax - Biography at Cultural Equity
Cultural Equity Home Page