Corey Harris - Mississippi To Mali (2003)

> The album

Malissippi griot

Who would have guessed that behind Corey Harris nyahbinghi (1) rasta look, there is a university scholar ?!
Harris, who was born in 1969 in Denver, Colorado, got a linguistics diploma from the university of Maine in 1991, traveled to Cameroon where he spent a whole year studying African linguistics in the early 1990s. In Cameroon, he discovered African music, fascinated by its complex poly-rhythmic structure. After returning to the US, Harris taught English and French in Napoleonville, Louisiana, where he got more seriously into blues and gospel. In his spare time he played the clubs, coffeehouses and street corners of nearby New Orleans, then throughout the southern US. He was in Arkansas in 1994 when musician Larry Hoffman discovered him and produced his first album, "Between Midnight and Day" which was released the next year. Harris career was definitely launched in 1997 when his second recording with Hoffman, "Fish Ain't Bitin'", received the W.C. Handy Award for Best Acoustic Blues Album of the Year.

Later, in 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in music. The author of several books, he is currently doing a PhD in music, while teaching and working with university classes in Virginia in between concerts and tours.
Meanwhile, he traveled widely in West Africa and the Caribbean (particularly in Jamaica where he discovered and adopted rasta culture). There he befriended numerous musicians. In 2002, he collaborated with famous guitarist Ali Farka Toure from Mali.

The result in this album "Mississippi to Mali" fusing Mississippi and Louisiana blues and Toure's music. This 2002 voyage to West Africa was filmed by Martin Scorsese for his documentary film "Feel Like Going Home" (2) which traced the evolution of blues from West Africa to the southern US, and was released the same year as this album.
"Mississippi to Mali" is as fascinating as it is highly informative : Harris shows the connections that link West African traditional music to American blues without any unnecessary heavy demonstration but by simply going very naturally back and forth between the Delta and Africa. The simple juxtaposition of pure Delta blues songs and typical West African complaints makes the evidence luminous.

The Fife and Drums pieces from northern Mississippi (Shardé Thomas  ― 12-year-old at the time ―, Otha Andre Evans, Aubrey Turner, Rodney Evans & R.L. Boyce) on "Back Atcha" and "Station Blues" constitutes the ultimate link, to the point that after a while one hardly distinguish anymore between what's from Mississippi and what's from Mali ! 

The two opening tracks, "Coahoma" and "Big Road Blues", are 100% Delta blues but suddenly with Skip James' "Special Rider Blues" you're halfway between two continents : with Harris playing with his Malian friends, this blues sounds as African as American. The following song signed by Toure, "Tamalah", definitely transports us to Mali, before returning to a quite africanized Mississippi on the hypnotic Fife & Drums "Back Atcha".

◄"Otha" Turner & his Fife & Drums band

Back to Africa again with the traditional "Rokie" and "La Chanson Des Bozos" sung in French by Toure and Magassa, then return to vintage Mississippi blues with "Mr. Turner", a tribute from Harris to "Otha" Turner, the late master of the Fife & Drums style.
Then Skip James "Cypress Grove" is given a true African treatment, before a new return to the northern Mississippi Fife & Drums with a down-home version of "Sitting on Top of the World" titled here "Station Blues".

Ali Farka Touré et Toumani Diabate ►

If you don't look closely to the credits, you wouldn't know that the long hypnotic version of ".44 Blues"  is sung by… Ali Farka Toure.
"Njarka" is a 100% African affair with Toure on a 1-string kind of violin called njarka, simply backed by traditional percussion, while the following moving melancholy ballad, "Charlene", sung in a very "African" French by its composer (Harris) mixes sounds from both sides of the ocean.

Like a traveler returning back home after a long rich journey, the albums concludes like it opened, with two authentic Delta blues : Robert Petway's famous "Catfish Blues", though blended with African percussion, and finally, Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" in a true Delta slide style that shows Harris guitar solid skills.

This fascinating album is certainly building the best possible bridge between African music and Afro-American early blues, clearly showing the lineage linking the latter to West Africa. It's as much a cry of rebellion against slavery that cut many from their African roots, as a cry of hope : despite (and because of) slavery the cultural thread between the country of the blues and the mother continent has never been cut. Fortunately... ■

(1) Nyahbinghi is one of the very first structured rastafarian group that appeared in Jamaica in the mid-1930s. It was inspired by a secret animist cult from east-central Africa, centered around the legendary deity figure of a woman named Nyahbinghi who lived in the Rwanda-Uganda region in the second half of the 18th century. This secret cult, using ritual drumming during its trance ceremonies, probably began in Rwanda, around 1800. The Nyahbinghi initiates were violently fighting against European colonization and slavery. The Jamaican Nyahbinghi rastas, who are easily recognizable by the long colorful turbans tied over their dreadlocks, are similarly using ritual drumming in their spiritual ceremonies (along with a psychotropic plant better known there as ganja). 😉

Harris (left) & Toure in Mali (2002) ►

(2) The first chapter of Martin Scorsese documentary series "The Blues, A Musical Journey", "Feel Like Going Home", released on the PBS TV channel in 2003, follows Corey Harris in Mississippi and West Africa where he shows the Delta blues roots largely come from the traditional music of West Africa, particularly Mali and Niger.

The scholar

● Phone interview for an Australian radio station in Melbourne in 2016 (audio) : https://youtu.be/Yp03tIMPuQI

● CH gives a lecture, "Black Ourstory: Liberation Through Culture”, at the Double Shot Festival in Valencia in 2019 : https://youtu.be/3qG1ev8jI88

● Campaign for his book "Blues People" : http://www.tinyurl.com/bluespeoplebook

The Rastafarian
● CH talks of his rastafarian faith to the Priest Isaac's Institute of Holistic Knowledge, based in Antigua : https://youtu.be/hpAJZFzW9MA
● Covid confinement live stream interview on the web site "I-Jah Stars" in July 2020 (skip first 3 mn) : https://youtu.be/PuTgTpq97gU

Around the album "Mississippi To Mali"

● Corey Harris & Ali Farka Toure talking & playing "Catfish blues" (from Martin Scorsese's film "Feel Like Going Home") : https://youtu.be/uahUgXnhcUk

Ali Farka Toure & Boubacar Traore ►

● Corey Harris & Moh Kouyate play "Highway 61" from Fred McDowell, in 2012 : https://youtu.be/2_P74Cj7fjg
● Corey Harris & Baba Sissoko : https://youtu.be/2RvppT_XUgs
● Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart & Hook Herrera play ".44 Blues" in Madrid in 2019 : https://youtu.be/ZndfvA-dx2Y

Live shows videos

● The Corey Harris Band at Live Blues in 2018 : https://youtu.be/IVyejul4E_c
● The Corey Harris Band at the Festival International in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 2017 : https://youtu.be/wsu_8PQ6W7o & https://youtu.be/TRdQ50M0cg4
● Live in Villa San Giovanni (Italy) in Dec. 2017 : https://youtu.be/0JVJFejsGug

● At the Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival in Sept. 2015 : https://youtu.be/Wiw1vPAimVs
● The Corey Harris Band in Toronto in June 2015  : https://youtu.be/MXZe17ipYIs
● Corey Harris & Rasta Blues Explosion full set at the Front Porch Fest. in Stuart, Virginia, in 2014 : https://youtu.be/pMmmGT7lLaU
● The Corey Harris Band in 2014 : https://youtu.be/uWyX7UJtbLs
● Corey Harris streamed concert for the Ark Family Room Series : https://youtu.be/H9OoH55R1LE

Ali Farka Toure

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North Mississippi Allstars - World Boogie Is Coming (2013)

> The album

21st century vintage boogie

Take some old vintage Mississippi blues, preferably Hill Country style, put them through modern rock technologies filters like quasi systematic reverb, saturated amps and synthesizer effects, with pinches of DJ hip-hop style and psychedelia here and there, you've got NMA. The modern tech sound will appeal to rock audiences but the vintage spirit of Hill Country will not turn off blues aficionados. The same recipe has been applied by Fat Possum Records to the late albums of R.L. Burnside in particular, and used by some of his sons.

NMA is a flexible band, built around the core Dickinson brothers , Luther and Cody, sons of the late famous Memphis producer and musician Jim Dickinson. They were of course raised in a musical surrounding. If Luther is the one who's attracting the spotlights, Cody is no less interesting as a multi-instrument player in charge not only of drums and percussion but also quite at ease on guitar or keyboards.

Luther (left) & Cody Dickinson ►

The Dickinson brothers must live a hectic creative life that doesn't leave them with much sleep hours. Cody is also a documentary movies maker and film scores composer, and set up the side project band Hill Country Revue. Luther multiplies the musical ventures : he played guitar in several bands like the Black Crows (from 2007 to 2011), The Word (an instrumental, sacred steel and gospel blues jam band with pedal steel player Robert Randolph and keyboardist John Medeski), The Wandering (with Valerie June, Amy LaVere, Shardé Thomas and Shannon McNally), and nowadays leads The Cooperators (featuring again Shardé Thomas) and The Sisters of the Strawberry Moon. In addition to his own solo albums (like the acoustic instrumentals collection "Hambone's Meditations"), he worked on different projects with Robert Hiatt, the South Memphis String Band (with ex-Squirrel Nut Zippers guitarist Jimbo Mathus and Alvin Youngblood Hart), Jon Spencer, and as a guest player on albums from Calvin Russell, Jimbo Mathus or Jim Lauderdale among many others. He also became as a preservationist of traditional Mississippi folk music by producing "Otha" Turner's two albums : "Everybody Hollerin' Goat" and "From Senegal To Senatobia".

◄ "Otha" Turner & and his Rising Star Fife and Drum Band

Hill Country blues kings Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and "Otha" Turner are largely paid their dues in this album, though the treatment given to their songs might surprise more than one : heavy greasy sound of the saturated guitars and bass, thundering drum beat, electronic effects and background sounds (hard rain fall, talking and clapping...) blended with real rustic traditional North Mississippi drums and fife. And the most amazing thing of all is that this daring mix doesn't sound artificial a bit ! It appears almost as naturally authentic as a joyful Mississippi pic-nic jam. Here appears the Dickinson's talents as musicians, leaders and producers, and the excellent musicianship of their guests.

Rhythm is the master word of the album and one can feel the strong influence of the Mississippi Hills drums and fife rhythmic pattern. Most tracks are killer boogies : the thundering "Rollin 'n Tumblin", the shaking 'n rolling "Boogie", the electro hip-hopish "Snake Drive", the double "Shimmy"/"My Babe", Bukka White's "World Boogie", "I'm Leaving" with Luther's psychedelic guitar solo, the short judiciously titled "Cuttin' Shorty" (!), and the outstanding 10-minute long hypnotic version of R. L. Burnside's "Jumper On The Line", certainly the summit of the album.

◄ Shardé Thomas (on fife)

 The rest is as rhythmical, from the stormy slide versions of "Goin' to Brownsville" from "Sleepy" John Estes and "Furry" Lewis, and of Fred McDowell's "Back Back Train", to the strange bluegrass-tinged "Hodown" featuring a tuba-like sound, or the heavy acoustic rural folk "ML (Goin Home)" that concludes this fascinating opus.

The moral of the story is that tradition and modernity are far from being  incompatible… provided the blend is cooked by talented chefs. And the Dickinson brothers and their pals surely are. ■

Who wrote what

"Otha" Turner & young Shardé

01. "JR" : Junior  Kimbrough
02. "Goat Meat" : Luther Dickinson, Steve Malcolm
03. "Rollin 'n Tumblin" : Traditional
04. "Boogie" : Traditional
05. "Get the Snakes Out the Woods" : R. L. Burnside, NMA
06. "Snake Drive" : R. L. Burnside
07. "That Dog After That Rabbit" : Othar Turner, NMA
08. "Meet Me in the City" : Junior Kimbrough
09. "Turn Up Satan" : Luther & Cody Dickinson, Chris Chew
10. "Shimmy" : Othar Turner
11. "My Babe" : Willie Dixon

 12. "Granny, Does Your Dog Bite" : Othar Turner, Shardé Thomas
13. "World Boogie" : Booker T. Washington White aka Bukka White
14. "Goin' to Brownsville" : John Adam Estes aka "Sleepy" John Estes, Walter E. Lewis aka "Furry" Lewis
15. "I'm Leaving" : Junior Kimbrough

◄ R.L. Burnside

16. "Jumper on the Line" : R. L. Burnside
17. "Cuttin' Shorty" : Cody Dickinson, Steve Malcolm
18. "Crazy Bout You" : Junior Kimbrough
19. "Back Back Train" : Fred McDowell
20. "Hodown" : Traditional
21. "Brooks Run To The Ocean" : Fred McDowell
22. "ML (Goin Home)" : NMA

► NMA official site : https://www.nmallstars.com/

► NMA YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/northmississippiallstars

Free audio downloads
● NMA's live concerts free of rights can be downloaded in Flac quality on : https://archive.org/details/NorthMississippiAllstars

Interviews

● ITW of Luther & Cody Dickinson about NMA's 2019 album "Up & Rolling" on Blues Kitchen TV : https://youtu.be/8oduHSksF-Q

● Luther Dickinson discusses how he has stayed busy during the Covid pandemic : https://youtu.be/C2w-e_bleSE

Extra long live shows videos

● At the "Belly Up" Tavern in Solana Beach, CA, in 2022 : https://youtu.be/iWZJ35lWHNs
● At Hadden Lake Park, GA, in 2021 : https://youtu.be/U0WsmQQ02TI
● At Tuffy's Bottle & Lounge Club in Sanford, FL, in 2021 : https://youtu.be/_l9ulRU0cGI & https://youtu.be/wsq6WVwV8Oc
● At Antone’s in Austin, TX, in 2020 : https://youtu.be/mQ1DyN2k7f8
● In Fort Collins, CO, in 2019 : https://youtu.be/3qB8jaddTIQ
● At the Copper Country Festival in Copper Mountain, CO, in 2019 : https://youtu.be/qpj6uwJLZRI
● At the Boathouse, Newport, VA, in 2019 : https://youtu.be/ODFvJNkz73A

● At Jannus in St. Petersburg, FL, in 2019 : https://youtu.be/HlmrmwL0Uf4
● At Knuckleheads Garage in 2018 : https://youtu.be/YLwrdFWyUmM
● At the 4 Peaks Music Festival in Bend, OR, in 2018 : https://youtu.be/8ASBGTHWwRg
● At the Puistoblues Fest. in Finland in 2017 : https://youtu.be/SrVaYjmIzwo
● In Atlanta, GA, in 2017 :
→ set 1 (acoustic) : https://youtu.be/orrLdeT5wHo
→ set 2 : https://youtu.be/D42_RM6BVuI
→ set 3 : https://youtu.be/f5WJ8PZjbq4

● At the l Lockn' Festival in Arrington, VI, 2015 : https://youtu.be/rFsuS3Sr8Og & https://youtu.be/k4CrlQ2yeZw
● In San Francisco, CA, in 2014 : https://youtu.be/rVah_47Qi44
● At the All Good Music Festival in Legend Valley, Thornville, OH, in  2013 : https://youtu.be/yXqaYtR7__8
● In St. Louis, MO, in 2012 :
→ part 1 : https://youtu.be/PWJ0fJ-njxw
→ part 2 : https://youtu.be/QxjEgXrakEw

● In Birmingham, AL, in 2012 :
→ part 1 : https://youtu.be/w9pl8LViJkg
→ part 2 : https://youtu.be/stss7xBKvhk
● In Brooklyn, NY, in 2012 :
→ part 1 : https://youtu.be/tEn0wuReg7s
→ part 2 : https://youtu.be/qmc5c5jv3g4
● In Hattiesburg, MS, in 2012 :
→ part 1 : https://youtu.be/N9u74s-vWD0
→ part 2 : https://youtu.be/uiuBOFpgkOw

● At the Azkena Festival in Spain in 2012 : https://youtu.be/fEavWRfKS6w

● In Boulder, CO, in 2008 : https://youtu.be/-dm-nEb47-o

● In Burlington, VT, in 2005 : https://youtu.be/v0or-0oxoQo
● Acoustic show at the Univ. of Southern Mississippi in 2001 : https://youtu.be/7JZULS6ypGQ

Luther with his father Jim Dickinson on keyboards

Luther & Lightnin' Malcolm

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Luther & Cody

Luther blowing in the coffe
can that carries a didley bow

Chris Chew

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Tom Feldmann - Lone Wolf Blues (2012)

> The album

Goldfinger(s)

With his eternal clean cut student face, short hair and fancy cow-boy shirts, Tom Feldmann looks like almost anybody but a rock star. But as the proverb says, you can't judge a book by its cover. When Feldmann picks up his acoustic or steel resonator guitar, he could make a lot of so-called guitar hero and other six-string slingers look like beginners ! This guy has ten golden fingers and knows how to use them to deliver one of the best finger-picking and slide styles of the world, on acoustic regular, slide or steel guitar. Folk and/or country blues, gospel blues, Delta or Piedmont style, solo or with a three-piece acoustic band, he can play anything provided it's "interwar" music (1920s-1940s).

Tom was born in May 1978 the youngest of four boys. He started to learn how to play guitar as an autodidact at the age of 17 listening and studying old legendary bluesmen like Bukka White, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Fred McDowell and many other Delta musicians. A year later, at 18, he was already good enough to perform at local Minneapolis venues. For three years, he worked so hard at sharpening his guitar and vocal skills that when he stepped into a studio and recorded his debut solo acoustic blues album, "Lay It On You", he was just 21 !

Feldmann, who settled in Montrose, Minnesota, unfortunately doesn't tour as much as he could due to family reasons : his wife Naomi, who gave him two children, has serious cardiac problems. To make up for this, he's devoting a big part of his time teaching guitar through workshops, videos and numerous instructional DVDs, particularly for Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop, by contributing articles to magazines like Acoustic Guitar and Vintage Guitar, and also working alongside Jorma Kaukonen at his famous Fur Peace Ranch guitar training center.

As years went by, his unique ability to perfectly replicate a song note-for-note by first deconstructing it, then reconstruct it piece by piece, chord by chord, string by string, has made of Feldmann, soon 44 and over 15 albums in his basket, a blues historian and preservationist but not a hardcore purist : in his interpretations he favors the spirit of the songs rather than a strict shortsighted note-for-note copy-cat rendition, arguing that their original creator were far from always playing them in the same monolithic way. "Many people have a view with a very clear hard line that the original musicians probably did not hold, he explains on "The Country Blues" Web site. Just because they recorded these songs one way, does not mean that they always played it the same way, or that these were the only types of music they played. Most of these musicians in the 1920s and 30s played all types of genres and styles. Most did not themselves draw a hard line. Many opinions that people today hold are simply based on fallacy."

He also explained a few years ago to Vintage Guitar Magazine that though he has a fair amount of rag songs in his repertoire, he "learned to play from the Delta side more than anything else. I really don’t mess around much with the Piedmont players, as they never hit me as hard as the Delta ones". When asked what are for him the best "interwar" bottleneck players, he answers : "Son House, Charley Patton, Sam Collins, Bukka White and Fred McDowell. They really shaped how I play. Also check out Black Ace, Casey Bill Weldon, Tampa Red, and Oscar 'Buddy Woods' for a more “city” style."

Lone Wolf Blues clearly shows what Feldmann calls "the gospel sides of [his] blues influences", adding that this album "joins country blues with gospel, two forms of early American music that have always walked hand-in-hand".
Before going any further, let's point out the outstanding technical quality of the recorded sound : it's just amazing and serves magnificently both Feldmann's fine slide and finger-picking work and his gritty voice.

Through the sixteen tracks of this album, he takes us along for a throw-back spiritual voyage from the Mississippi Delta to the hills of the Piedmont region and to Texas : from Bukka White (the excellent "Special Streamline", "Sic Em Dogs"), Fred McDowell ("Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning"), Mississippi John Hurt (the outstanding "Here Am I Oh Lord Send Me") to Son House (the great slide version of "Shetland Pony Blues"), Sylvester Weaver ("Guitar Rag") and Muddy Waters (through a rhythmic slide medley), from Barbecue Bob ("Yo Yo Blues") to Blind Boy Fuller ("Homesick And Lonesome Blues" in a version that already announce what will later become rock'n'roll) and Rev. Gary Davis ("Oh Glory How Happy I Am"), from Blind Willie Johnson ("God Don't Never Change") to Oscar "Buddy" Woods ("Lone Wolf Blues", a lesson of steel resonator guitar slide style).

He even proposes three of his own gospel compositions as tributes to these great elders who inspired him so much : "We Have Overcome", "Ever Flowing Fountain" and "Level The Hollow". Any listener unaware of this would take Feldmann's songs for old spirituals from the interwar era.
And then there is his beautifully moving version of the traditional "Delia" showing, if need be, his mastery of fingerstyle and his vocal ability to express the feeling of deep sorrow of the song.
What else to say to conclude ? That this is a really great and precious album ? It's an evidence. That all lovers of old country and gospel blues should listen to it closely ? It's an evidence too. That Feldmann takes us with him for a magnificent tour back in the golden era of rural blues ? What else ? ■

Tom Feldmann discography

● 2021 - Brothers in the Mud (with Noah Levy)
● 2017 - Dyed in the Wool
● 2015 - Spanish Fandango (feat. Don Flemons)
● 2015 - Stocktime (feat. Mikkel Beckmen)
● 2014 - Delta Blues & Spirituals
● 2012 - Lone Wolf Blues

● 2008 - Tin Roof Sky (with the Get-Rites)
● 2007 - Pedal Steel Heaven (with the Get-Rites)
● 2007 - Side Show Revival  (with the Get-Rites)
● 2005 - Driven To My Knees (with the Get-Rites)
● 2004 - The Night That Johnny Died (tribute to Johnny Cash – single)

● 2004 - Live From Studio One
● 2003 - Blues Stomps, Honky-Tonks, Jigs and Reels
● 2001 - Live...Last Night
● 2001 - Prelude to a Fistfight
● 2001 - Cedar Falls Session – live
● 2001 - Drunk Man's Dream
● 1999 - Lay It On You

▲ The Get-Rites are Tom Feldmann (guitar/vocal), Jed Staack (drums), Paul Liebenow (upright bass) and Jed Germond (pedal steel guitar).

Tom on the Web
● https://tomfeldmann.com/
● https://www.facebook.com/tomfeldmannmusic/

Albums (audio only)
● "Delta Blues & Spirituals" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nB1FQtQv_yrQvsJRKsL3zeK7Se2ANsFx0
● "Brothers In The Mud", full album by Tom Feldmann (guitar/vocal) & Noah Levy  (drums) : https://youtu.be/6dnEQEWmVRQ

● Tom Feldmann & the Get-Rites albums :
→ "Side Show Revival" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nQiBVxwslLrl7Qukl2yugHNk9uKxRMZms
→ "Tribute-The Gospel sides of..." : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mg1upOnNslL9gDZ53ammc4JaQiUfLzHUA
→ "Tin Roof Sky" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kCVn3b7ZVPSq8E4AAMq-PvTJ9H8MsmcTI
→ "Pedal Steel Heaven": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mveeCprvZOfyDhMy_z-Jp3VijCwFYODbE

The Master

Most of TF videos available on YT are devoted to teaching finger-picking and slide guitar techniques. The three following sites are real Ali Baba caverns, full of fascinating pieces !
● Tom Feldmann YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/PlayCountryBlues/featured
● Tom Feldmann on GtrWorkShp : https://www.youtube.com/user/GtrWorkShp/search?query=tom%20feldmann
● Tom Feldmann on Vintage Guitar : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaynhNdfLBF70iOu3mqj4yoPb2pn8xRxY
● "Moanin' The Blues" on Fingerpicking.net : https://youtu.be/6RGSoag9D7M

The Performer

● At Jorma Kaukonen's famous Fur Peace Ranch :
→ Goin' Away Baby (Jimmy Rogers) : https://youtu.be/QTomAkMh3H8
→ Southside Boogie (Tom Feldmann) : https://youtu.be/La0LtsB3geE
→ "God Don't Never Change" (Blind Willie Johnson) : https://youtu.be/pvUL3kyIwy8
● On "Horses Sing None of It" in 2014 : https://youtu.be/8qsqPIOMNBU

● "Sunday Morning Blues" at MerleFest 2016 : https://youtu.be/ISF_asIt460
● Muddy Waters Medley at the LumberJam Americana Music Festival : https://youtu.be/wxf7g_mL4wY
● "Fast Living, Slow Suicide" at the Red Dragon in Baton Rouge in 2011 : https://youtu.be/MP9VuvsQkAQ
● At Folk Night At HeBrews in 2010 : https://youtu.be/x7i2SbsAHyY

Tom Feldmann & the Get-Rites

● On Wisconsin Public Television's 30-minute Music Hour :
→ "I'd Rather Have Jesus": https://youtu.be/AMUqQWJjpwA
→ "Gypsy Russian Rose" : https://youtu.be/YmuP6SPWGvk
→ "10,000 Chains" : https://youtu.be/HTv_bucDCHY
● At the Dunn Brothers coffee house in Excelsior, Minnesota, in 2008 :
► TF solo :
→ "Level The Hollow" : https://youtu.be/9uv86U9Q1A4
→ "I Can't Be Satisfied" (Muddy Waters) : https://youtu.be/IKpf44qzook
→ "Converted" : https://youtu.be/OMy-qbINbXg
► With the Get-Rites :

→ "Save our Souls is Save Us All" : https://youtu.be/6WBECAzBYk4
→ "Stand Your Test In Judgment" : https://youtu.be/WxLRUcSdCes
→ "Psalm" : https://youtu.be/bcjmAVmLnqg
→ "Run to the River is Redeemed" : https://youtu.be/gndSFbpV6iI
→ "Salvation" : https://youtu.be/4cYZbCXlC0o

→ "Christian Cowboy" : https://youtu.be/AE0p21WvMkQ
→ "Sing, Dance, Shout" : https://youtu.be/p6W7IcPQGRQ
→ "Seven Trumpets" : https://youtu.be/4qiP7UXx3Ng
→ "10,000 Chains" : https://youtu.be/WVZj3ZEYFrg
→ "Turn Around" : https://youtu.be/Q0GhvF7Dl0U
→ "Life to the Dying" : https://youtu.be/sf3TIf6-Jr4
→ "Pedal Steel Heaven" : https://youtu.be/r5FH5L2OE_Y

 
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