Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris
Deluxe box set with a 120-page hardcover book edited by William Ferris. The set features essays by Scott Barretta, David Evans and Tom Rankin; Two CDs of Blues and Gospel recordings (1966-1978); One CD of Interviews and Storytelling (1968-1994); One DVD of Documentary Films (1972-1980). Also included are transcriptions for each track and a download/streaming code. Winner of two 2019 Grammy Awards: Best Historical Album and Best Liner Notes.
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WILLIAM FERRIS GOES DEEP INTO THE AMERICAN SOUTH–BLUES, GOSPEL, STORYTELLING, FILMS, AND BOOK. “I tried to record people and document the person. I would try to get to know someone like Son Thomas and then go deeper and deeper into their life.” William Ferris.It’s taken me a while to fully absorb and appreciate this fine set of music, storytelling, and films from the American South. This is another well thought out, produced, and packaged set from the Dust To Digital label, who has released several other very fine sets of music in the past. This box represents a…
Remarkable and essential I met Bill Ferris in Memphis during the late 1970’s when he still was “only” managing the Center for Southern Folklore. He had just published his remarkable book “Sound of the Delta”. 40 years later and while Ferris had become, from Memphis to Washington via Oxford Ms University, one of the main specialist of the deep and downhome blues, comes this boxed set Inside a hard bound box, we have a book with articles and photos by Bill, CDs of music and interviews of unfortunatley…
Voices of Mississippi…Wow, wow, wow!!!