http://sundayblues.org/archives/132 ...vintage blues radio & writing Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:34:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://sundayblues.org/archives/132/comment-page-1#comment-21759 Marek Wojtowicz Mon, 11 May 2009 11:25:04 +0000 http://sundayblues.org/archives/132#comment-21759 Roosevelt Holts is super moaning bluesman. I always look for like this. I don't know how to get more recordings this artist. I mean the whole presenting the country blues - Roosevelt Holts. All The Best Marek W Roosevelt Holts is super moaning bluesman. I always look for like this. I don’t know how to get more recordings this artist. I mean the whole presenting the country blues – Roosevelt Holts.
All The Best Marek W

]]> http://sundayblues.org/archives/132/comment-page-1#comment-21425 Big Road Blues Show 12/28/09: Forgotten Blues Heroes Pt. 3 - 1960's Country Blues | Big Road Blues Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:13:18 +0000 http://sundayblues.org/archives/132#comment-21425 [...] Roosevelt Holts was a country bluesman of considerable skill who in a small way was caught up in the blues boom of the 1960’s, finally getting the opportunity to record scattered sides and a couple of LP’s in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Holts, who was born in 1905, likely would have achieved greater recognition if he had gotten the chance to make records in the 1920’s and 1930’s as David Evans emphasized: “If he had been able to get to a record studio in the 1930’s, his records would now be highly prized collector’s items, reissued on albums and talked about by blues fans everywhere. He might have even been “rediscovered” and brought north to the cities for concerts and coffee house engagements before an audience of young whites who were not even born when he recorded his famous numbers.” Holts was born in 1905 near Tylertown, Mississippi, and he took up the guitar when he was in his mid-twenties. He started to get serious about music in the late 1930’s when he encountered Tommy Johnson. Folklorist David Evans began recording Holts in 1965 resulting in two LP’s (both out of print): Presenting The Country Blues (Blue Horizon,1966) and Roosevelt Holts and Friends (Arhoolie, 1969-1970) plus the collection The Franklinton Muscatel Society featuring his earliest sides through 1969 which is available on CD.  In addition selections recorded by Evans appeared on the following anthologies (all out of print): Goin’ Up The Country (Decca, 1968), The Legacy of Tommy Johnson (Matchbox, 1972), South Mississippi Blues (Rounder, 1974 ?), Way Back Yonder …Original Country Blues Volume 3 (Albatros, 1979 ?), Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3 (Wolf, 199?) and a very scarce 45 (”Down The Big Road” b/w “Blues On Mind”) cut for the Bluesman label in 1969. [...] [...] Roosevelt Holts was a country bluesman of considerable skill who in a small way was caught up in the blues boom of the 1960’s, finally getting the opportunity to record scattered sides and a couple of LP’s in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Holts, who was born in 1905, likely would have achieved greater recognition if he had gotten the chance to make records in the 1920’s and 1930’s as David Evans emphasized: “If he had been able to get to a record studio in the 1930’s, his records would now be highly prized collector’s items, reissued on albums and talked about by blues fans everywhere. He might have even been “rediscovered” and brought north to the cities for concerts and coffee house engagements before an audience of young whites who were not even born when he recorded his famous numbers.” Holts was born in 1905 near Tylertown, Mississippi, and he took up the guitar when he was in his mid-twenties. He started to get serious about music in the late 1930’s when he encountered Tommy Johnson. Folklorist David Evans began recording Holts in 1965 resulting in two LP’s (both out of print): Presenting The Country Blues (Blue Horizon,1966) and Roosevelt Holts and Friends (Arhoolie, 1969-1970) plus the collection The Franklinton Muscatel Society featuring his earliest sides through 1969 which is available on CD.  In addition selections recorded by Evans appeared on the following anthologies (all out of print): Goin’ Up The Country (Decca, 1968), The Legacy of Tommy Johnson (Matchbox, 1972), South Mississippi Blues (Rounder, 1974 ?), Way Back Yonder …Original Country Blues Volume 3 (Albatros, 1979 ?), Giants Of Country Blues Vol. 3 (Wolf, 199?) and a very scarce 45 (”Down The Big Road” b/w “Blues On Mind”) cut for the Bluesman label in 1969. [...]

]]> http://sundayblues.org/archives/132/comment-page-1#comment-21007 Living Country Blues USA Revisited - Part 1 | Big Road Blues Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:54:34 +0000 http://sundayblues.org/archives/132#comment-21007 [...] and subsequently recorded, were men like Mance Lipscomb, Robert Pete Williams, Fred McDowell, Roosevelt Holts, Jack Owens, R.L. Burnside, James “Son” Thomas, Lum Guffin, Frank Hovington, Cecil [...] [...] and subsequently recorded, were men like Mance Lipscomb, Robert Pete Williams, Fred McDowell, Roosevelt Holts, Jack Owens, R.L. Burnside, James “Son” Thomas, Lum Guffin, Frank Hovington, Cecil [...]

]]> http://sundayblues.org/archives/132/comment-page-1#comment-20989 Marie Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:07:07 +0000 http://sundayblues.org/archives/132#comment-20989 Can you add the rest of the albums tracks? Can you add the rest of the albums tracks?

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