This week Corey Harris won the coveted Macarthur genius grant. And now he has been selected for his own coveted ILX thread.
Known as a blues musician, though he plays on the overlap with plenty of other genres. Scorcese liked him and Ali Farka Toure in his Blues series, Billy Bragg and Wilco liked him in their Woody Guthrie series.
All I ever heard was his first record, Between Midnight and Day, a great slice of acoustic blues. What's next?
― dad a, Thursday, 27 September 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)
Fish Ain't Bitin' and Greens From the Garden are terrific. I hope it's just a timing thing on the Macarthur grant because the reggae record he put out last month is pretty dreadful. Hope he don't spend his dough making more of those :)
― ellaguru, Thursday, 27 September 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)
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good question. Have heard more about him than actually heard him.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 27 September 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)
Thanks ella! What about his new record was so bad?
Can anyone vouch for or against any of the others?
2000 Vu-Du Menz Alligator 2001 Live At Starr Hill 1/27/01 Njumba Music 2002 Downhome Sophisticate Rounder 2003 Mississippi to Mali Rounder 2005 Daily Bread Rounder
― dad a, Friday, 28 September 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)
VU-DU MENZ is a collaboration with jazz pianist Henry Butler. Haven't listened to it in some years, but I remember it being really good acoustic guitar/piano blues.
If you're down with this kind of "country blues jumping off into eclecticism" thing (Taj Mahal was there first), you might wanna try Alvin "Youngblood" Hart as well.
― Rev. Hoodoo, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)