Five million African-Americans fled north to escape Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan in the second Great Migration. One of the emigrants was a Mississippi sharecropper who had been recorded in 1941 by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress. McKinely Morganfield was a hot commodity at the juke joints and house parties around the Stovall plantation, but he thirsted for bigger … [Read more...] about Monday Evening Thread: Chess Records
The Blues
Thursday Open Thread: The Great Migration
Happy Thursday! The music during the exodus of millions of African Americans to the northern states reflected the spirit and hardship of the times.This music traveled from the Southern Diaspora to the North: Black migrants told their stories in many forms from letters to poems to paintings. Music offered one of the most original forms in which the migration narrative was … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Great Migration
Friday Evening Thread: Back Door Santa
It wouldn't be a good holiday without some brown liquor blues! … [Read more...] about Friday Evening Thread: Back Door Santa