Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio
By Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio Nov 23, 2021
The Lady and the Empress! Lady D's One Woman Bessie Tribute Show
On this episode of Jack Dappa Blues, enjoy the collaboration of Jack Dappa Blues Radio and Southern Ohio Folklife for a conversation w/ Lady D (West Virginia’s First Lady of Soul) to talk about her recent performance of The Lady and the Empress, a one-woman show about the life and music of Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues. Learn about Bessie Smith, her role in Blues music, her lasting impact, and why Lady D was drawn to her life story.
On the day of the interview, Lady D later performed at the Southern Ohio Museum of The Lady and the Empress!
This project is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts’ Central Appalachia Living Traditions program. Project collaborators include the 14th Street Community Center, Time Out for Me Inc., Portsmouth Unity Project, Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, The African American Folklorist, and Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation.
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Why Is It Always About Race? - “Country, Country Blues, and Blackness”
For some reason, when it comes to Country Music, most people do not associate it with black folk or folk musical expression. The thing is, country music, in its many forms, comes directly from black expression. i.e., the blues, country blues, and more.
To give the context to the roots of commodified music presented and thought of as white music… We can use Leslie Riddle as an example… he was the teacher to the Carters for the music they would be credited for. Maybelle Carter always let that be known.
In this episode, I discuss Why it is Always about Race regarding Country music, Country Blues, and Blackness.
Coffle Gang and Domestic Slavery
Candice Ivory - Queen of Avant Soul Sangs The Blues
Today, I speak with Candice Ivory about her new project, When The Levee Breaks. As said on her website After releasing three acclaimed albums of jazz-driven original songs, vocalist Candice Ivory reveals a whole new sound on When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie. Raised in Memphis and based in St. Louis, Ivory hails from an illustrious musical family that shaped Memphis’s secular and sacred sounds. Her great-uncle was the singer and guitarist Will Roy Sanders of the Fieldstones, one of the premier Memphis blues bands from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ivory grew up in the church, and by the age of eleven, she was singing in a choir that featured the soon-to-be-famous R&B artist D’Angelo. When the Levee Breaks brings together all of her formative musical experiences in a tribute to Memphis Minnie (1897-1973), whose powerhouse vocals and compositional creativity served as inspiration for Ivory’s own innovations as the Queen of Avant Soul. Produced by singular guitarist-bassist Charlie Hunter, a onetime D’Angelo collaborator, Ivory’s When the Levee Breaks is a midnight run to the crossroads, where jazz, blues, gospel, and R&B all converge.
https://candiceivory.com/
Black Scholarship and Black Culture
Many Black Academic Scholars are also active practitioners in our respective cultures and traditions. That doesn't negate their ability to teach, mentor, or share skills and tricks of the trade with the folk. It actually makes them even more qualified. Some feel Black Scholars who are educated or formally trained cannot teach or pass on the folk tradition. I see it differently, and here's why.
NAMA HARLEM (New Amsterdam Musical Association)
You Have A Home
On this episode, I'm encouraging all folks invested in the story of Black American tradition, folklore, folklife, material art, street art, religious belief, spiritual belief, Advocacy, Organization work, Public Programming, and everything that has to do with the "so-called" African American Narrative to submit work to the African American Folklorist Magazine and website. We no longer need to rely on any other platform to share, publish, or even interrogate our narratives. After a long-time supporter contacted me and shared how we are significant in disseminating and distributing the Blues People story, I felt it necessary to put the call out!
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation is a focal point for researching, archiving, and raising awareness of African American Traditional Music, folklore, folklife, public programs, and the Black Experience!!
The African American Folklorist Magazine gives a voice to those writing and working in and on Black American Folklore through the lens of Black Folk. From the nonprofit to the Magazine, this is the space for the story of everything African Americans.
https://jackdappabluesradio.tv/
https://theafricanamericanfolklorist.com/
Shirley Moody-Turner African American Folklorist of The Month
On this episode, I speak with Shirley Moody-Turner, an associate professor of English and African American Studies and founding co-director with Gabrielle Foreman of the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk. She is an Author and award-winning educator that says, “As a young girl growing up in Buffalo, NY, I felt a deep longing to learn more about my family history.
Shirley has worked to unearth those stories and many others. She has authored, edited, and written many books, essays, and journals depicting the African American story through a folkloric and ethnographic lens. She is highlighting and honoring the Black men and women scholars like her who have significantly contributed to the Blues and Black narrative of the Americas.
Her website also states, “Honoring the legacy of the intellectuals and activists I study, I also work in partnerships to carry these histories out into communities beyond the university. Through the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and the Black Women’s Organizing Archive, I work with extraordinary individuals to help public and scholarly audiences forge meaningful collaborations with the shared mission of bringing the buried and scattered histories of early Black organizing to digital life. “
Hannah Mayree and the Black Banjo Reclamation Project
On this episode, I speak with singer, songwriter, and music educator Hannah Mayree about her journey in music, culture, tradition, and the Black Banjo Reclamation Project.
Hannah Mayree (she/her/they/them) is a creative facilitator and musician whose work and art lend itself as a tool for redesigning and reconnecting to our roots as humans on this planet. A banjoist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist, Hannah shares original and traditional banjo compositions and harmonies through acoustic live vocal looping. She reminds us of the power found in our relationship to the earth, music, and community.
They co-founded and creatively direct the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, which is currently creating musical, cultural, and land-based opportunities for Black, Afro-Diasporic communities around the world to work with the banjo as a tool for reclaiming ancestral wisdom & creating Afro-futures.
http://blackbanjoreclamationproject.org
https://www.patreon.com/Hannahmayree?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator (embedded link for Patreon)
(Embedded link for Instagram)
Videos: https://youtu.be/EANT04mAd44
Lessons/Teaching:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19LCljx1e4cvDVKvV0JMYedtJnd4aZvfhge8o-Wsl0A0/edit
Articles:
https://afropop.org/articles/black-banjo-reclamation-projects-hannah-mayree
Kristina R. Gaddy - "Well of Souls - Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History"
In this episode, I will speak with Kristina R. Gaddy about her journey and New York Times best-selling book, Well of Souls - Uncovering The Banjo's Hidden History. Kristina R. Gaddy is an award-winning writer who believes in the power of narrative nonfiction to bring stories from the past to life in order to inform the world we live in today. Her debut nonfiction book Flowers in the Gutter (Dutton 2020), tells the true story of the teenage Edelweiss Pirates who fought the Nazis. Through narratives based on memoirs, oral history interviews, and Nazi documents, she immerses the reader in the world of these teenagers as they resist the Third Reich. Her book Wells of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History (W.W. Norton 2022) is an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, where she uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. For More: https://www.kristinagaddy.com/about.html
Notable Folklorists of Color - The AFS African American Folklore Section
In this episode, Todd Lawrence, Maria Lewis, and Lamont Pearley will host a live stream event offered by the AFS African American Folklore Section, the African American Folklorist and Jack Dappa Blues featuring Notable Folklorists of Color creators and curators, Phyllis May-Machunda, Sojin Kim, and Olivia Cadaval. The conversation will detail the inspiration, vision, purpose, and work of creating such a monumental installment. We will also discuss the follow-up project called, "Notable Folklorists of Color: Expanding the Frames ."
Notable Folklorists of Color is a website that features profiles of BIPOC ancestor scholars of color and their contributions to folklore studies. The 2019 exhibition, Notable Folklorists of Color: Remembering Our Ancestral Legacies, marked the 25th anniversary of AFS’s Cultural Diversity Committee by honoring 25 BIPOC ancestors, and the 2022 Notable Folklorists of Color: Expanding the Frames exhibition highlights the scholarship of approximately another 135 African American, Indigenous, Latino and Hispano, Asian American and Native Hawaiian ancestor scholars. Combined, the two exhibitions feature more than 160 BIPOC folklore ancestors.
The Notable Folklorists of Color: Expanding the Frames exhibition extends the examination of the contributions of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) ancestor scholars to folklore studies that was begun in the AFS Notable Folklorists of Color: Remembering Our Ancestral Legacies exhibition in 2019. Remembering Our Ancestral Legacies marked the 25th anniversary of AFS’s Cultural Diversity Committee by honoring 25 BIPOC ancestor scholars of color and their contributions to folklore studies. Our 2022 exhibition, Expanding the Frames, highlights the scholarship of approximately another 135 African American, Indigenous, Latino and Hispano, Asian American and Native Hawaiian ancestors scholars whose work, in what is now the United States and its territories, spans the 19th century through 2021, bringing the combined total number of BIPOC ancestors featured in these two exhibitions to more than160.
Expanding the Frames recognizes the scholarly contributions of approximately 135 African American, Indigenous, Latino and Hispano, Asian American and Native Hawaiian ancestors scholars whose work in what is now the United States and its territories spans the 19th century through 2021. In contrast to Remembering our Ancestral Legacies (2019), this exhibition, Expanding the Frames, centers BIPOC ancestors—who often have worked within their own communities—as significant producers of scholarly knowledge about the communities and traditions they studied. Although some of these ancestor scholars applied mainstream academic approaches and perspectives in their folklore research, regarding the “folk” as remnants of the past, others alternatively anchored their research in the cultural knowledge frameworks and traditions of their own communities and worked intentionally for the benefit and futures of their living communities. Some of these ancestors’ theories and approaches are resonant with contemporary praxis, while several others are representative of the historical periods and circumstances within which they were conceived.
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Brei Carter: Country Singer-Songwriter
On this episode, I speak with Brei Carter, Country Singer-Songwriter, about her journey in Music and her signing with Brown Lee Entertainment For Exclusive Global Music Distribution & Digital Marketing.
Emerging crossover country and southern pop recording artist Brei Carter proves that faith, patience, and time sometimes pay off. Growing up in Monroe, Louisiana, with a solid, southern upbringing, Brei’s family raised her on several authentic southern staples: the Bible, Lone Star Missionary Baptist Church’s choir, Charley Pride, Loretta Lynn, Aretha Franklin, and no shortage of familial love and devotion. However, before she became the dynamic and vivacious country singer she is today, Brei was busy earning a Bachelor's in Business from the University of Louisiana in Monroe, a Master's in International Relations from Webster University, and a Doctorate in Theology from New Foundation Theological Seminary. She is also a proud Veteran of the U.S. Army, where she served as an enlisted soldier and officer. Having moved to Nashville soon after, Brei has quickly established herself in the songwriter's community as a smooth and sometimes edgy songstress who melds country, soul, and southern pop into one fused style. Her first single at country radio, “Gave Him A Girl,” was immediately recognized as “cute and catchy” by country music journalist and historian Robert K. Oermann in his weekly DISClaimer review column for Music Row Magazine. Brei made her CMA Fest debut in 2022, along with a performance on WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour. Her growing catalog of new music includes her debut album Brand New Country, released in Fall 2022, and new music on the way in 2023 slated for April & June. Carter is quickly proving herself to be a welcomed addition to the emerging new styles of country music in today’s diverse musical landscape.
Black & Indian Folklife, Storyville, Oklahoma, & The Blues
There is excellent Black Folklife, Indian Folklore, Black Music, AND educational oral history in Kentucky and nationally that Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation archives and builds a repository for.
In this episode, I discuss Storyville, Oklahoma, Freedmen, Blues, and the People of the Blues To Raise Cultural and Ethnic awareness of Black American Traditional Music, Traditional Art, Folklore, Oral Histories, and the Black Experience in America.
I'm asking for donations to Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation because their mission means a lot to me, and I hope you'll consider celebrating with me. Your contribution will make an impact. Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support.
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DR DIANA BAIRD N'DIAYE - AAF OF THE MONTH
On this episode, I speak with Dr. Diana Baird N'Diaye, The African American Folklorist of the Month! Dr. Diane Baird N’Diaye is an interdisciplinary Visual artist/maker and cultural scholar. N’Diaye developed and headed the African American Crafts Initiative, is the principal investigator and Curator of the Will to Adorn: African American Dress and the Aesthetics of Identity, was awarded the Smithsonian Secretary's Research Prize for Curatorial Conversations: Cultural Representation at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival; and currently holds the position as Senior Folklife Curator, Cultural Specialist, Directs African American Craft Initiative at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage. She’s written many pieces and engages directly with traditional arts.
Dr. N’Diaye fancies herself a maker, creating everything from quilts to necklaces, clothing, bags, and everything in between. As a maker, her focus is to provoke conversations and contemplations around identity, heritage, healing, and the social terrain in those of the diaspora live. Utilizing her creativity as an anthropologist, Diane’s travel and research permeate through her work. N’Diaye says, “ My art is shaped by my identities as a citizen of global Africa and 2nd generation transnational.”
As the African American Folklorist of the Month, I had the honor to sit with Dr. N’Diaye and discuss her journey, works, and thoughts on Black in the academic and independent Folklore space.
Mending Our Relationship With B.O.B (Black Owned Business) - Glows & Grows
On this episode, we speak about, Why is B.OB. Essential in an era we are supposed to be united and integrated? What do we expect from a B.O.B. that we don’t expect from anyone else? And most of all, How do I determine where I spend my Money?
The criteria for the last question is broken down by :
Customer Service
Products
Locations
We also discuss what is needed in the community. Are there any B.O.B.'s filling those voids, or are they just opening and operating the business that has become culturally popular?
B.O.B = Black Owned Business
MASKS OFF POWERED BY BLACK LOVE:
Hosts
Lamont Jack Pearley
Roscoe McCoy
Coach Black
Glen David Andrews - Treme's Trombone Singer
By Lamont Jack Pearley
On this episode, I speak with Glen David Andrews, born and raised in Treme's 6 Ward, only blocks away from the historical Congo Square in New Orleans, Louisiana! Andrews shares that the gumbo of New Orleans culture is evident in the music and traditions and should be honored. Andrews knows who he is, where he comes from, and the people he descends from. One of the many musicians in his family, Glen's music transmits the roots of New Orleans.
Kesi Neblett - From Civil Rights Legacy to Netflix
On this episode, I speak with the youngest daughter of Civil Rights Activists Charles and Marvinia Neblett, Kesi Neblett, who was born and raised in Russellville, KY, and has a fantastic story. She was also recently featured on THE Mole; a reality game show that originally aired on ABC from 2001 to 2008 before being rebooted on Netflix in 2022.
Charles “Chuck” Neblett’s songs of protest resounded in southern jails, SNCC meetings, and freedom marches. As a child in rural Tennessee, Neblett remembered walking to his one-room schoolhouse and being sickened by the “fancy white school that was two stories tall.” His teachers motivated him, saying, “You’re Black, but you can make it. The one thing they can’t take from you is what’s in your head.”
On September 23, 1955, the murderers of Emmett Till were acquitted, and “it told me that I didn’t count in this country,” remembered Neblett. A little over two months later, the Montgomery Bus Boycott triggered something inside of him: “When I saw those Black men and women standing up to the system, it’s like I got religion.”
Kesi shares with us how she is living, continuing and writing her narrative!
The Greenwood District in Tulsa Ok, the Real Story!
After sitting in and listening to the presentation "Greenwood’s Past, Present, and Future" at this year's American Folklore Society Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Quraysh Ali Lansana (Tri-City Collective) and Carlos A Moreno (Tri-City Collective) shared the true story of the happenings before, during and after the 1921 Riots of Tulsa, I thought it would be beneficial for the Jack Dappa Blues and African American Folklorist Audience to get a more in-depth version of the story by folks that are from there doing the work!
From Me to You - Deidra R. Moore Janvier, Esq.
From Me to You: The Power of Storytelling and Its Inherent Generational Wealth
In this episode, I speak with Deidra R Moore Janvier, Esq. about her new book, From Me to You: The Power of Storytelling and Its Inherent Generational Wealth.
From Me to You is the answer to one crucial question: “So, Mom, what exactly was slavery about?” asked the author’s young son after learning of the atrocities of the Holocaust and slavery. Faced with the formidable challenge of answering her son’s question, Deidra devoted herself to exploring African American history with the end goal of creating a teachable moment. Starting with Ida B. Wells and ending with President Barack Obama, From Me to You features illustrations and short biographies of the most prominent 19th and 20th-century civil rights activists, centering their voices with quotes and affirmations anchored in the time in which they lived. Through stories about family, faith, and the power of multigenerational unity, From Me to You explores the legacy of slavery in America from the viewpoint of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Deidra proves that African American history is American history and that these two concepts rely on each other for posterity.
Author Deidra R. Moore-Janvier, Esq. exemplifies the Bronx area. As an African American mother, wife, and advocate for change, Deidra set out on a journey in 2020 to teach young minds “the value in investing in themselves and in learning about their history.” Deidra is no stranger to self-investment. As a single mother in 1996, she quit her job to attend law school. Upon graduating from the City University of New York School of Law (CUNY School of Law), Deidra worked as a public defender with The Legal Aid Society in Bronx County. In 2004, she established the Law Offices of Deidra R. Moore, P.C. Her work is deeply informed by her personal and professional experiences.
http://www.deidramoore.com/about/
John Wesley Work III - Composer, Ethnomusicologist, Educator, and Choral Director
In this broadcast, Todd Lawrence and I discuss the scholarship and work Of John Wesley Work III and the newly launched Award named in His honor. The AFS African American Folklore Section is proud to issue the first call for submissions for the new John Wesley Work III Award, which the section has launched to honor and spotlight applied folklorists, ethnographers, and ethnomusicologists who actively focus on the research, documentation, recording, and highlighting of African American culture through performance, written word, and music in their scholarly works.
Our Featured Guest is Fisk Alumni George 'Geo' Cooper, a pianist, composer, and music educator. While at Fisk, he was a member of the world-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers.
The prize is named for John Wesley Work III, a composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, and choral director devoted to documenting the progression of Black musical expression. His notable collections of traditional and emerging African American music include Negro Folk Songs and the Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress/Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection (AFC 1941/002). The Stovall Plantation recordings for the Library of Congress where the world is introduced to blues legend McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters. In honor of Work, this award is offered to celebrate and encourage African American traditional cultural expression and galvanize folklorists, ethnographers, and ethnomusicologists of color to participate in the documentation of African American folklife.
Buffalo Soldier Project, San Angelo Texas, and Black History
In this episode of the African American Folklorist, I speak with Sherley Spears, NAACP Unit 6219 President, President of the National Historic Landmark Fort Concho, and founder of the Buffalo Soldier Project. The National Historic Landmark Fort Concho Museum preserves the structures and archeological site features for pride and educational purposes, serving the San Angelo, Texas community.
One significant story coming from Fort Concho and the San Angelo community is the contributions and community development of and by the Buffalo Soldiers. In 1866, Congress established the 9th, 10th, 24th, and 25th U.S. Cavalry Regiments for enlisted colored people in the Army. Eventually, troops from each of these regiments served at Fort Concho. These black troops would be given the name ”Buffalo Soldiers," allegedly, by the Indian tribes because of their dark, thick, curly hair resembling buffalo hair. Fort Concho, originally established in 1867, was built for soldiers protecting frontier settlers traveling west against Indian tribes in the area.
A notable member of the San Angelo community of that time was Elijah Cox. Elijah enlisted in the military and was stationed at Fort Concho, in San Angelo, Texas in 1871. Elijah was a fiddler he and his son, Ben played for all of the dances at the Fort. Elijah, born and remained a freeman, settled in San Angelo, Texas, and would learn the songs of the slave from ex-slaves now soldiers. Elijah would become the traditional bearer of these songs as he played fiddle, guitar, and sang. You can hear my podcast on his story here.
https://youtu.be/jOV68xA9EBE
These, and much more crucial historic narratives are being preserved by Ms. Sherley Spears and the organizations adamant of raising the awareness of African American contributions to the establishment and sustainability of Fort Concho & San Angelo, Texas.
GeminiiDragon - LOUISIANA'S BLUES VIXEN
Louisiana BLUES VIXEN GEMINIIDRAGON is set to take over the BLUES MUSIC community with her latest single JUST THE WAY IT IS from her upcoming album FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE!
From the murky bayous of Louisiana, comes a fresh face to the Blues music scene. A vocal dynamo GeminiiDRAGON has channeled her love for the late 60s era and 70s blues and AOR bands/artists the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Koko Taylor, Jimi Hendrix, ZZ Top, Janis Joplin, Fleetwood Mac, Cream and Led Zeppelin and the supergroup Arc Angels, to name a few, into a ferocious mix of blues-rock soul…. Blues on Steriods!!!
More on GeminiiDragon here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ4TKJUrJUo
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Blues Narrative - Phoenix Moon
The “Blues Narrative: Blues People, Covid-19, and Civil Unrest” focuses on African Americans born between 1945 and 2004. The article delves into the establishment of homes, lifestyles, and traditions on a concrete terrain with Southern and country values, and shares how those values not only weathered the storm of many generations but how they armed interviewees to defend what some call an all-out attack on the Blues People in the present day. This is an ongoing project conducted from the perspective of a folklorist and ethnographer.
This episode, i speak with Phoenix Moon, a Colonial America historian, Forensic genealogist, Civil Rights Activist. Grassroots Political Legist.
Black Southern Food Tradition
The term Soul Food and Southern Style food were not an initial naming convention for the meals eaten in the households I grew up in. We ate what grandma cooked. What granddad bought, for auntie and momma to prepare. As time went on, the meals of my family began popping up in stores around our community, then particular spaces across the nation by the name “Soul Food” or “Country Kitchen.” I remember Country Kitchen specifically, because it was on the route home from church, and on special occasions my family and I would stop there to order meals. The food was good, not as good as my grandma, or mother’s, but non the less we enjoyed. The irony is as I matured in the space of being a folklorist, I wondered why we paid for meals identical to what we ate at home. And when and why did my grandma’s and mother’s meals receive this name. To us it was just dinner. To many people, it’s just dinner, lunch or breakfast.
As I pondered this, I began to remember the great times we had as a family, either around the dinner table, or sprinkled around my grandparents home. My grandparents had five children, and their children had children. So it would be a full house. I began to think about the activities that took place during those times. As a folklorist these are the questions, research and interests we dive into, and in diving, I am introduced to Foodways.
As heard on WKU PUBLIC RADIO & NPR
MARA KAYE JAZZ BLUES SINGER
Mara Kaye is a blues singer, born and raised in Mill Basin, Brooklyn. She has had the pleasure of singing in venues all over NYC and beyond. Some of her most electric and rewarding moments have been her sold-out performances at Joe's Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, and the intimate gatherings at Sunny's Bar. In this episode, Mara shares her musical beginnings, introductions to the Blues, and the importance of connecting with the songs you sing. She also shares with us that she wrote and sang the chorus on AZ and Rick ROss' new song!
https://www.marakaye.com/
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Robert Johnson Recording Session of Nov 23, 1936
On November 23rd, 1936, Robert Johnson partook in what’s considered the most historic recording session in music history. But there's a problem with the story Why was that more iconic than Peetie Wheetstraw, Memphis Minnie, Henry Thomas, or Mamie Smith? Because someone else told the story!
Today we talk about the importance for everybody from any particular community, family, or culture taking the responsibility to document their story utilizing Ethnographic and Folkloristic tools.
Daryl Davis - Interviewing The KKK, Traditional Black Music, and more
Daryl Davis, a musician, author, and race relations expert was assaulted with flying bottles during the Cub Scout parade in 1968 when he was 10. This was his first experience with racism. He spent years studying and researching to answer the question he had about racial hatred. It would be a chance encounter later in life that would birth a dangerously intriguing project, documenting his search for the answers.
Daryl Davis, a musician, author, and race relations expert was assaulted with flying bottles during the Cub Scout parade in 1968 when he was 10. This was his first experience with racism. He spent years studying and researching to answer the question he had about racial hatred. It would be a chance encounter later in life that would birth a dangerously intriguing project, documenting his search for the answers. As an entertainer, Daryl is an international recording artist, actor, and leader of The Daryl Davis Band. He is considered to be one of the greatest Blues & Boogie Woogie and Blues and Rock’n’Roll pianists of all time, having played with The Legendary Blues Band (formerly the Muddy Waters band) and Chuck Berry. As an Actor, Daryl has received rave reviews for his stage role in William Saroyan’s The Time Of Your Life. Daryl has done film and television as well and had roles in the critically acclaimed 5-year HBO television series The Wire.
As an author, lecturer, and race relations expert, Daryl has received acclaim for his book, Klan-Destine Relationships, and his documentary Accidental Courtesy from many respected sources including CNN, NBC, Good Morning America, TLC, NPR, The Washington Post, and many others. He is also the recipient of numerous awards including the Elliott-Black Award, the MLK Award, and the Bridge Builder Award among many others. Filled with exciting encounters and sometimes amusing anecdotes, Daryl’s impassioned lectures leave an audience feeling empowered to confront their own prejudices and overcome their fears.
More on Daryl Here: https://www.daryldavis.com/
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ANNIKA CHAMBERS - BLACK WOMEN IN BLUES
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KING FISH - Blues Music and Black Representation
In this episode of jack Dappa Blues Radio, I speak with Brother Christone Ingram, better known as King Fish. Clarksdale, Mississippi Blues legend in the making! King Fish discusses the culture, history, and meaning of the blues as it relates to fans, the industry, musicians, and the Black Community!
Once a generation, an artist comes along who not only reminds mainstream audiences how deeply satisfying and emotionally moving the best blues music can be but shakes the genre to its core. With both eyes on the future and the blues in his blood, 21-year-old guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Christone “Kingfish” Ingram continue to take the music world by storm after his 2019 release of his debut album, KINGFISH. Sprung from the same earth as so many of the Delta blues masters, Kingfish comes bursting out of Clarksdale, Mississippi, just ten miles from the legendary crossroads of Highways 61 and 49. A student of the Delta’s musical history, he is acutely aware of the musicians and the music that emerged from his corner of the world. “I do think I have an old soul, that I’ve been here before,” he says. “I’m moving forward with one foot in the past.”
"Is Christone "Kingfish" Ingram the future of the blues? The blues savior is one of the most exciting young guitarists in years, with a sound that encompasses B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix & Prince." —Rolling Stone
“You don’t see too many kids into blues music,” says the nascent star. “In my town, every kid wants to be a rapper – I wanted to do something no one else was doing.” And although he grew up near the crossroads where Robert Johnson allegedly cut a deal with the devil, Kingfish insists he didn’t do any of that to make his guitar howl the blues. “I just practice all the time,” he says, “that’s the only deal I made, and it’s with myself.”
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Lea Gilmore, Music, Culture and Ministry
Lea Gilmore, Minister for Racial Justice and Multicultural Engagement, First Service Music Director, and First Lady of the Church speaks with us about her journey in music, faith, and the advocacy of racial justice.
Lea Gilmore is a blues, gospel, and jazz singing civic activist. a recipient of the Blues Foundation’s W. C. Handy Award: Keeping the Blues Alive and was named as one of 25 “Women Shaping the World” by Essence Magazine. She was featured in the October 2005 Leadership' issue.
Over the past eight years, Gilmore has lent her voice to support the cause of ridding third world countries in Africa of leprosy and TB by headlining Gospel concerts in Europe, sponsored by the Damien Foundation, a Belgium-based nonprofit, appearing before 300,000 in concerts throughout Belgium alone. A former deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and Program Director for the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, Gilmore has testified before local, state, and federal commissions on issues ranging from immigration laws to civil rights and liberties of women of color.
Ms. Gilmore is the founder and director of “Umoja (meaning "Unity" in Swahili) Musica,” an international effort promoting non-violence, peace, and human rights, embracing the power and reach of African-American traditional music in union with the traditional music of other cultures. The critically acclaimed first CD, "Umoja Gaelica" featured award-winning African American musicians and traditional musicians from Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England, singing songs of freedom and hope. The project will be reprised and recorded in 2020 in Scotland, with a focus on youth participation.
Lea also hosts MUSIC MONDAY @ GOVANS!
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CHASE JACKSON - Artist, Blues Promoter, and Cultural Ambassador
In this episode, I speak with the Amazing Chase Jackson. She shares with us some of the amazing things she's done for the Blues and the Blues People.
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Gullah Geechee Nation - Elder Carlie Towne
In this episode of the African American Folklorist, I speak to Elder Carlie Towne, Minister of Information for the Gullah Geechee Nation. www.gullahgeecheenation.com
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DK Harrell Blues
In this episode, I speak with Louisiana Bluesman DK Harrell about the culture of Blues, the system that only allows one Black artist to be highlighted at a time, and the importance of reconnecting Blues People to Blues Music.
Born in Ruston, Louisiana on April 24, 1998. Dkieran was given the nickname, D.k. By his grandfather C.H. Jackson who swore that his grandson would be a musician. Dkieran grew up listening to his grandparent’s records that varied between old gospel, r&b, and blues. His mother claims that his first words were BB King’s The thrill is Gone. Dkieran first started performing at 5 years old imitating Ray Charles and James Brown, it was until the age of 12 he took up blues harmonica after seeing the film “Cadillac Records”. At the age of 13, he went from harmonica to guitar and idolized Chuck Berry and John Lee Hooker but with many artists playing like them, he chose his roots to learn the ways of BB King. After years of watching various footage of King from 1968-2014, he has been claimed to play and sound like him. In 2019 he got a chance to show off his talent at the BB King symposium where he played one of BB’s custom Lucille’s. In 2020 he befriended many of BB’s former band members and great upcoming blues musicians like Jontavious Willis and Christone Ingram. Dkieran wants to bring back authentic blues, he feels music needs to continue to stay rich in soul and life.
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We are the African American Folklorist Newspaper. Don't be distracted by the term/classification African-American! Our platform is for the community, whatever your genealogy, identity, or nationality! We tell and help you tell the story of OUR PEOPLE! Join the Black Folk Narrative Revolution and donate, share, even become a contributing writer!
The African American Folklorist is a quarterly Newspaper that contains articles about traditions, traditional beliefs, the cultural context, geographical locations, music, and vernaculars of African Americans and the role each element plays in the lives of the people past and present. AAF furthers the mission of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation by publishing articles that discuss the evolution of our traditions, and that present research about blues people. We include interviews with and articles from musicians, historians, ethnographers, and academics who specialize in and are enthusiastic about the Black Experience in America. AAF includes a variety of perspectives on the black experience and seeks to educate and share perspectives with people of all colors. We also are proud to incorporate youth that shows interest in studying, researching, and preserving our heritage. There is an entire section dedicated to them called the "African American Folklorist Kids & Youth Section," which publishes articles and research papers from young people aged 10-17.
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Boley Oklahoma Another Thriving Black Community to know about
In this episode, I talk about Boley Oklahoma, John Dolphin, and Uniondale, Alabama which is featured in the documentary "The Contradiction of Fairhope" As we celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, we shouldn't repeat the same stories always told. Black Wall St. wasn't the only thriving Black Community, there were many others. n the early twentieth century Boley, Oklahoma was the largest predominantly black town in the United States. Boley was officially opened for settlement in 1903 in Creek Nation, Indian Territory along with the Fort Smith and Western Railroad. The interracial group that founded Boley included Lake Moore, a white attorney, John Boley, a white manager for the Fort Smith and Western Railroad, and Thomas M. Haynes, a black farmer, and entrepreneur from Texas. The trio worked together with James Barnett, a Creek Freedman, to purchase the land of Barnett’s daughter Abigail, to form Boley’s nucleus. Southern migrants in search of better opportunities flocked to Boley and the town experienced rapid growth over the years.
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Bringing Hollywood to Central Avenue, John Dolphin cut records in the back of his store, then broke the record on his radio station that broadcasted in the front window of his store. John’s efforts platformed black music and artists who wouldn’t have had a chance to be heard on a large level. It also broke the color barriers as his record store had Black, White and Chicano patrons who partied together in and around the record store.
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THE CONTRADICTION OF FAIR HOPE Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, composed by Christian McBride and executive Produced/Co-Directed by S. Epatha Merkerson “The Contradictions of Fair Hope” is about the 4 million freed slaves roaming the antebellum, many of them are ill-prepared and unable to cope with the realities of their newfound freedom in 1865 rural Alabama. The film traces the development, struggles, contributions, and gradual loss of the tradition of one of the last remaining African American benevolent societies, known as “The Fair Hope Benevolent Society” in Uniontown, Alabama.
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A New Way To Celebrate Black History Month
In this episode, I discuss a new way we should think about celebrating "Black History Month! Also, forgive me, guys! Carter G Woodson called it Negro History Month when he first established it!
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Family Ethnography & Reading Comprehension
In this episode, I discuss how we should think about removing the word obscure from the vocabulary for ethnography, folklore, and ethnomusicology! The people we document from these cultures are pillars of their community! They are not obscure!
Also, Family Ethnography and Reading Comprehension is a great way to connect with your family history as well as encouraging reading and strong language arts!
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The Story of Ari Merratazon Ep 2
An American Hero & Anti-Hero Talks Reparations – The Story of Ari Merratazon
Most of you are familiar with the movie Dead Presidents starring Larenz Tate. I bet you don’t know that Tate’s character was inspired by the real-life story of decorated war hero and Vietnam Blood, Haywood Kirkland – now known as Ari Merratazon. According to Mr. Merratazon, the heart of his life story actually began where the movie ended. If you remember the movie, it ended with Larenz Tate’s character being sentenced to prison after being convicted of robbing an armored truck. Mr. Merratazon did serve time in prison for armed robbery, however, it was to raise money for the Black liberation movement which he became a part of shortly after leaving the military.
Here is part two of Courtland W. Hankins, III (aka The President of Hip Hop) sit down with Mr. Merratazon to talk about his life and the reparations movement.
Lovecraft Country & FOLKLORE EP ONE
Episode one begins the conversation of Lovecraft Country's inception, who is H.P. Lovecraft, and initial responses audience members have to the show. The purpose of this series is to document the program's folklore, how convergence culture and mass media transmission play a part in the program's popularity, how Lovecraft Country is received, and the audience's interactive response and behaviors, i.e., Participatory culture and Fan Culture. There is a plethora of African and Southern Black spirituality, Christianity, Space and time travel, amongst other things that fall in line with the many folk narratives and beliefs of the people. In this episode, featured guests are Patric Coker, Television writer and producer, Hollie Harper, Comedian and writer, TJ Wheeler, Musician and historian, Ron Wynn, Columnist, and radio personality, and David Wright, Writer and award-winning sound designer.
Freeman Vines Hanging Tree Guitars
In this episode of The African American Folklorist, I speak with Freeman Vines, a North Carolina guitar maker and bluesman. Vines shares with us the context of his latest project Hanging Tree Guitars, which has a spiritual connection, supernatural elements, as well as a tree used for possibly multiple lynchings.
The book is a collaboration between Freeman Vines, photographer Timothy Duffy, and folklorist Zoe Van Buren. Van Buren writes, “Vines and Duffy have since embarked on a relationship of artistic exchange that has transformed their respective bodies of work.” Duffy says that he planned for his shoots for six months just absorbing and taking in Vines and his work. The book also exposes lingering prejudices and unspoken boundaries in rural eastern North Carolina uncovered during an investigation of the region’s history. Vines dove into one specific lynching, learning from research, interviews, and intuition. One friend warned him not to ask too many questions, saying, “These white folks around here are still white.” Van Buren writes, “The hanging tree period took an emotional toll on both Vines and Duffy.”
Holle Thee Maxwell FREEBASE AIN'T FREE
In this interview I speak with Holle Thee Maxwell about her musical journey and recent book, Freebase Ain't Free, which depicts her 15 years working with and helping the Legendary Ike Turner. Chicago-born vocalist Holly Maxwell, now professionally known as Holle Thee Maxwell, found her early fortune in the vibrant California music scene of the 1970s, eventually bringing her to the audience of rock n’ roll icon Ike Turner. What started off as a professional relationship became a strange adventure through the music studios, hotel rooms, and drug houses of Los Angeles, with Maxwell acting as Turner's personal assistant, bodyguard, confidante, and surrogate sister. Holle Thee Maxwell recounts the many years she spent in the company of Ike Turner during his period of self-facilitated seclusion (also known as his “fifteen-year party”), his brief prison stay where he kicked his drug habit, and his eventual return to prominence as the successful and influential musician he was born to be. Freebase Ain’t Free tracks the intersecting and intertwining of these two kindred spirits, their mutual ups and downs, and the arc of their inexplicably dynamic relationship. https://www.facebook.com/FreeBase-Aint-Free-711234022568199/
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Jumping The Broom - The African American Folklorist
In this episode of The African American Folklorist, I speak with Dr. Tyler Parry, author of the book "Jumping The Broom - The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual" In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the "broomstick wedding." Popularly associated with African American culture, Parry traces the ritual’s origins to marginalized groups in the British Isles and explores how it influenced the marriage traditions of different communities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. His surprising findings shed new light on the complexities of cultural exchange between peoples of African and European descent from the 1700s up to the twenty-first century. Drawing from the historical records of enslaved people in the United States, British Romani, Louisiana Cajuns, and many others, Parry discloses how marginalized people found dignity in the face of oppression by innovating and reimagining marriage rituals. Such innovations have an enduring impact on the descendants of the original practitioners. Parry reveals how and why the simple act of "jumping the broom" captivates so many people who, on the surface, appear to have little in common with each other. For more information on the book https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469660868/jumping-the-broom/
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Adam Gussow - Whose Blues
In this episode, I speak with Blues Harmonica Legend, Dr. Adam Gussow about his most recent book "Whose Blues - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music" If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? Award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition’s major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow’s thought-provoking book kickstarts a long-overdue conversation. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYHJbTZklgZU1bEVLaZyvQ
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Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy - A Dream Deferred
On this episode of Jack Dappa Blues, I speak with Corey A Washington, author of the book "Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy (A Dream Deferred). Corey shares with us the importance of the book, as well as the importance and relevance Jimi has and is in the Black community, the history of black music & activism, along with the contributions to the Blues People! Jimi Hendrix - Black Legacy (A Dream Deferred) is the culmination of a two-decade journey of author Corey Washington's exploration of Jimi Hendrix's complex and misunderstood relationship and impact, on the Black Community. Jimi's life has been featured in numerous biographies over the years, but very little has been properly documented when it comes to his influence on people of color. Hendrix was often seen by many to have transcended race, which is a slap in the face to his deep cultural roots, concerning not only his Black musical traditions but simply growing up as a Black person in the '40s-'60s https://jimibl.com/index.html See the promo trailer here: JIMI HENDRIX - BLACK LEGACY (A Dream Deferred).
The Story of Ari Merratazon EP 1 -The African American Folklorist Newspaper
An American Hero & Anti-Hero Talks Reparations - The Story of Ari Merratazon
Most of you are familiar with the movie Dead Presidents starring Larenz Tate. I bet you don’t know that Tate’s character was inspired by the real-life story of decorated war hero and Vietnam Blood, Haywood Kirkland - now known as Ari Merratazon. According to Mr. Merratazon, the heart of his life story actually began where the movie ended. If you remember the movie, it ended with Larenz Tate’s character being sentenced to prison after being convicted of robbing an armored truck. Mr. Merratazon did serve time in prison for armed robbery, however, it was to raise money for the Black liberation movement which he became a part of shortly after leaving the military. While in prison, Mr. Merratazon founded the Incarcerated Veterans Assistance Organization and was personally honored in the White House by then-President Jimmy Carter. There’s a laundry list of amazing accomplishments in Mr. Merratazon’s storied life, however, he is most proud of his work as a reparationist. He is a “soldier” dedicated to achieving reparations for the descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States. Everyone should know his story and his current reparations work. Courtland W. Hankins, III (aka The President of Hip Hop) recently sat down with Mr. Merratazon to talk about his life and the reparations movement.
GARY GOLIO - Dark Was the Night
In this Episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, I speak with Children Book writer, and Musician Gary Golio about his current book "Dark Was the Night - Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars" (Penguin/Nancy Paulsen, 2020). Gary has a catalog of books and shares with us the inspiration and message of his work. He also shares his reverence for Blind Willie Johnson, and how he looked to pay homage to him in "Dark Was The Night."
In Dark Was the Night - Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars, NY Times-bestselling author Gary Golio and Caldecott Honoree E.B. Lewis (Illustrator) tell an inspiring story of how the healing power of music can turn darkness into light. Moving prose and luminous illustrations detail the remarkable journey of a poor child from rural Texas who becomes one of the most accomplished slide guitarists of all time. Years after his death, Willie's signature song, "Dark Was the Night," is rocketed to the heavens on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record, a testament to the talent of a visionary blind man.
Randye Jones- Black Spirituals
In this episode, I speak with Randy Jones. She breaks down the black Spirituals and the many misconceptions about them.
Randye Jones is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from Bennett College in Greensboro. While there, Randye's academic achievements included being named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. She earned a Masters’ degree in Vocal Performance from Florida State University, Tallahassee, where she studied with Barbara Ford and Enrico Di Giuseppe. Some of the greats she studied with are Mary Jane Crawford, Judith Howle, Timothy Hoekman, and Millicent Scarlett. Charlotte Alston and Dominque-René de Lerma encouraged her growth as a musician and researcher. Randye's professional affiliations have included: Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society, the National Association of Negro Musicians, Society of American Music, Music Library Association, the Association of Black Women Historians, the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts, the Recording Academy, and the Washington Area Music Association.
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Blues Narrative interview 1 Waltho Wallace Wesley
The Blues Narrative – “Blues People, COVID19 & Civil Unrest” is a first-person account of the life and experiences of African Americans, Black Indians, Pan-Africanists (individuals and families), aka The Blues People, during this moment in history where there’s a global pandemic, quarantines, protests, and riots happening ALL AT THE SAME TIME and in real-time.
In this episode, I speak to Mr. Waltho Wallace Wesley, a descendant from the Muskogee Creek and Seminole Nations. A Life long resident of Indian territory in present-day Oklahoma, and 'Black' Indian historian.
Rubin Lacy - Old Hallelujahs
on this premiere episode of Black Spirituals, Field Hollers, and Slave Seculars series, David Evans ( tenured ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and Grammy Winner) and I discuss and listen to some of the songs from his 1966 recording of Reverand Rubin Lacy and Congregation. He gives us the story of the legendary Rube Lacy, which most enthusiasts and fans know from his days as a bluesman from the Mississippi and entire delta region. Rev. Rubin Lacy - Vocals Mrs. Rubin Lacy - 2nd Vocals David Evans - Guitar John Fahey - Guitar Alan Wilson - Guitar Mr. & Mrs. Idella Booth - Vocals Mr. McCoy - Vocals Mrs. Johnson - Vocals Congregation Union Baptist Church of Ridgecrest, CA
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Strange Fruit - American Cartoonist Joel Christian Gill
In this episode of jack Dappa Blues "The American Folklorist" I speak with American Cartoonist Joel Christian Gill. Joel shares with us his journey from painting to becoming a cartoonist, his role as a storyteller, his mission to encourage apathy, and the reasons and process behind his many comic novels. Joel Christian Gill is an American cartoonist, educator, and author of a number of graphic novels from Fulcrum Publishing: Strange Fruit Vol I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth No.1, and Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2, Strange Fruit Vol II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, and one picture book "Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield's First Ride" from Lion Forge. He has taught art Illustration and comics for a number of years serving as Chair of the Comic Arts and Foundations programs at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. In the Fall of 2019, he accepted an appointment as Associate Professor of Illustration at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/joel-christian-gill/1900416/ List of Joel's Books Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield's First Ride Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, no. 2 Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence Tales of the Talented Tenth: Bass Reeves Colonial Comics: New England, 1620 - 1750 Robert Smalls: Tales of the Talented Tenth @jcg007 joelchristiangill.com
DREAM FURY COMICS, African American Folklore and the Blues
in this episode of the African American Folklorist, I speak with Newton Lilavois, who is the founder and senior writer for this amazing comic publishing company called Dream Fury Comics. Our conversation focuses on Crescent City Monsters, which is a graphic novel series from DREAM FURY COMICS publishing company. The story incorporates supernatural elements from different cultures. What we call Creole Magic. The story introduces us to a sorcerer named Jonas and explores what happens when his life is violently taken away from him by the monsters of New Orleans. Jonas is a young blues musician deep-seated in that New Orleans supernatural world. Someone from that supernatural world puts a bounty on his head that not only changes Jonas’ life, but also the course of the entire supernatural world. Jonas is pulled back from the dead and desperately needs to find out who put the bounty on him.
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