BLUES
- Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues (Wesleyan access only)
- Bessie Smith
- Death of Bessie Smith (Chris Albertson interview with the doctor)
- Short film: St. Louis Blues (daily motion) (youtube)
- W. C. Handy (U. of North Alabama)
- Lightnin’ Hopkins, “Baby Please Don’t Go“
- Articles on Paramount Records artists (Charley Patton and others)
- The Last Jook Joint (cultural tourism) (theawl.com 3/8/2016)
- Mississippi Blues Trail
R&B
- Louis Jordan
- “Caldonia” (movie short) (big band 1946); from Swing Parade (1947, colorized film)
- Beware (feature film, 1946)
- Reet, Petite and Gone (feature film, 1947)
- Sugar Chile Robinson playing Louis Jordan’s “Caldonia”
- “Choo-Choo-Ch-Boogie“
- Nat “King” Cole
- T-Bone Walker
- Rhythm and Blues Foundation
- Maurice Rocco, “Darktown Strutter’s Ball” (Incendiary Blonde, 1945)
ELECTRIC BLUES
- John Lee Hooker
- “Boom Boom” (at BBC studios, mid 1960s)
- “Boogie Chillen” (with Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, 1989)
- Muddy Waters
- Live at the Checkerboard Lounge (Chicago, 1981): “Baby Please Don’t Go“
- BB King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck (Apollo Theater, 1993) (“Let the Good Times Roll,” 8:08)
- “Eric Clapton Isn’t Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense” (Rolling Stone, 10/10/2021)
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Columbia College NYC – Dec 1966
- Cleveland Chenier and Lightnin’ Hopkins (Texas, 1968)
- Albert King at the Fillmore East (9/23/1970)
- R. L. Burnside (1978), “See My Jumper Hanging on the Line” (rec. by Lomax)
- Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, on PBS (11/11/2020)
- Buddy Guy and Toby Lee (12), Denmark
- 3-string shovel guitar
MISC
- Cotton Belt/Black Belt in the 1920s
- Farms Operated by Colored Tenants and Croppers, 1920 (Yearbook of the United Stated Department of Agriculture, 1923, p. 517)
- Farm Statistics by Race (US Census, 1920, p. 296)
- Marian Anderson
- Lincoln Memorial Concert | Voice of Freedom | American Experience | PBS
- at Lincoln Memorial (shorter clip, 1939)
- Marian Anderson in the Far East (documentary, 1957)
- on What’s My Line (1965)
- Who is Marian Anderson, the Woman on the New $5 Bill (Newsweek, 4/21/2016)
- Dominique Johnson (organ), “Great is Thy Faithfulness” and more
- President Obama sings blues with B. B. King at the White House
- Tin Pan Alley
- History (parlorsongs.com
- NY Times article
- Alan Lomax, Beyonce, and Sampling Sounds from the Jim Crow South (genius.com, 4/2016)
- Lining Out
- DANCE
Intergenerational Afro Cuban rumba dance (Routes of Rhythm, part 1, 37:50)
COUNTRY
- Jimmie Rodgers
- The Carter Family
- Hank Williams