Film takes a journey with three genuine guitar heroes Aug 28, 2009
White s love for the blues feels as deep as it does in the White Stripes music, and the upside of the movie s randomness is the chance to hear the music of bluesmen Blind Gary Davis and Son House. It s endearing to hear White articulate his band s gimmick of wearing only white and red clothes: They did it to distract from the other gimmick of white kids playing black music. (Boston Globe)
The real guitar heroes Aug 13, 2009
(You'll have to wait until the very end to hear them awkwardly, and charmingly, pick their way through the Band's "The Weight.") But even more entertaining is the way the three trade stories and jokes (en route to the summit, White muses about his ambition to fox the other two into "teaching me all of their tricks") and reflect on the musicians who helped shape their respective sensibilities, an array that includes Link Wray, Son House, the Clash, the Jam and assorted anonymous U.K. skiffle... (Salon)
Seniors get back to the beat May 16, 2009
Giants such as Son House and Mississippi John Hurt had gone unrecognized for decades and no longer performed before blues fans brought them back to appreciate audiences. Nearer home, Orange County native Elizabeth Cotten, of "Freight Train" fame, made her first recordings after age 60 and won a Grammy at age 90. (News & Observer)
A blues musician who rejects the hard and fast Mar 30, 2009
"That whole inclusiveness is much more reflective of the way the whole culture has developed. I am a big fan of putting it all out there together. I saw Son House when I was 14. I saw him at the same festival I saw Tim Hardin.". If there is any need to drive this message home, Bibb is touring Australia with the folk jazz bass player Danny Thompson and the one-time Elton John drummer Larry Crockett. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The real Pickett Mar 29, 2009
"At the crossroads where Johnny Thunders and Son House intersect, Charlie whipped up a bad voodoo vibe of heroin rock and midnight blues," Buck wrote glowingly of Pickett's music. But it wasn't enough. (The Palm Beach Post)
