Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 29, 1997.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. SI Permission.
Collection Rights:
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Sweet Miss Coffee and the Mississippi Burnin' Blues Band 1. Pistol Knife & a Razor Too/ Nobody'd Happy/ Broken Hearted Woman medley 2. I'm In Love With a Man I Just Can't Stand Rufus Thomas Group/ Delta Dance Hall 3. Interview with Rufus Thomas by Joe Mulherin 4. Band Introduction 5. Instrumental 6. Walkin' the Dog 7. Fine Hunka' Woman 8. Today I Started Loving You All Over Again (cut)
Track Information:
101 Pistol, Knife and Razor Too / Mississippi Burning Blues Band, Sweet Miss Coffy. Guitar,Piano.
101 Nobody's Happy / Mississippi Burning Blues Band, Sweet Miss Coffy. Guitar,Piano.
101 Broken Hearted Woman / Mississippi Burning Blues Band, Sweet Miss Coffy. Guitar,Piano.
102 I'm in Love with a Man I Just Can't Stand / Mississippi Burning Blues Band, Sweet Miss Coffy. Guitar,Piano.
105 Instrumental / Rufus Thomas. Guitar,Piano.
106 Walkin' the Dog / Rufus Thomas. Guitar,Piano.
107 Fine Hunka Woman / Rufus Thomas. Guitar,Piano.
Local Numbers:
FP-CDR-0277-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, 1997.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Blues Evening/Delta Stage- December 1997 Rufus Thomas Group/Delta Dance Hall 1. Today I Started Loving You Are Over Again 2. Rufus' Got It 3. Funky Chicken (cut) Harry Smith Anthology Vol 4 4. East Texas Serenaders- Ozark Rag 5. Carter Family- Lonesome Valley 6. Wade Mainer- Wild Bill Jones 7. Jess Young's Tennessee Band- Old Weary Blues 8. Joe Werner And Ramblers- Rang Tang Bully 9. Jimmy Wilson's Catfish String Band- Catfish Whiskers 10. Happy-Go-Lucky-Boys- Come Back Sweetheart 11. Gene Gilmore- The Natchez Fire 12. Robert Lockwood- Little Boy Blues 13. Clifford Gibson- Old Time Rider 14. Robert Johnson- Stop Breakin' Down 15. Bukka White- Black Train Blues 16. Heavenly Gospel Singers- I'm a Pilgrim and a Stranger 17. Mitchell's Christian Singers- Blessed Are the Poor In Spirit
Track Information:
101 Today I Started Loving You Again / Rufus Thomas. Guitar,Piano.
102 Rufus' Got It / Rufus Thomas. Guitar,Piano.
103 The Funky Chicken / Rufus Thomas. Guitar,Piano.
104 Ozark Rag / East Texas Serenaders. Guitar.
105 Lonesome Valley / Carter Family. Guitar,Autoharp.
106 Wild Bill Jones / Wade Mainer. Banjo.
107 Old Weary Blues / Jesse Young's Tennessee Band. Guitar,Banjo,Fiddle.
108 Rang Tang Bully / Joe Werner and the Ramblers. Guitar,Banjo,Fiddle.
109 Catfish Whiskers / Jimmy Wilson's Catfish String Band. Guitar,Banjo,Fiddle.
110 Come Back Sweetheart / Happy-Go-Lucky Boys (Musical group). Guitar,Banjo,Fiddle.
111 The Natchez Fire / Gene Gilmore.
112 Little Boy Blue / Robert Jr. Lockwood. Guitar.
113 Old Time Rider / Clifford Gibson. Guitar.
114 Stop Breaking Down / Robert Johnson. Guitar.
115 Black Train Blues / Bukka White. Guitar.
116 I Am a Pilgrim / Heavenly Gospel Singers.
117 Blessed are the Poor in Spirit / Mitchell's Christian Singers.
Local Numbers:
FP-CDR-0278-7
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States.
Collection Restrictions:
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Extent:
compact audio cassette
1 Sound cassette (analog.)
Type:
Archival materials
Sound cassettes
Place:
Memphis (Tenn.)
Tennessee
Date:
1980 December 9
Local Numbers:
FP-1986-CT-0089
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
In 1990, curators at the National Museum of American History began a project to develop a traveling exhibition about American music, and in the course of research, curators repeatedly returned to the Mississippi Delta area and Memphis, Tennessee to conduct interviews. A group in Memphis organized to raise the funds to complete the research, to acquire objects and artifacts, and the project ultimately became the Smithsonian-affiliated Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum, which opened in 2000 at 191 Beale Street.
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of oral and video history interviews conducted by curators at the National Museum of American History with musicians, recording executives, disc jockeys, and others involved with the development of rock'n'soul music. Complete transcripts of all of the interviews exist.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in four series.
Series 1, Original Interviews
Series 2, Reference Copies
Subseries 1: Umatic Videos
Subseries 2: Reference DVDs
Series 3: Audio Cassettes
Series 4: Transcripts
Biographical / Historical:
In 1990, National Museum of American History curators Dr. Pete Daniel and Dr. Charles McGovern, began conducting research with the intention of creating a traveling exhibit about "American music." Their investigations led them to the Mississippi delta and ultimately to Memphis Tennessee, which had developed as a crossroads where people and musical traditions met beginning in the 1930s. Based on their discoveries they refined their scope in order to focus on the music that grew out of the traditions that met and mixed in Memphis. They weren't able to secure funding for the originally proposed exhibit, but instead partnered with the Memphis Rock'n'Soul Museum to develop the exhibit Rock'n'Soul: Social Crossroads. The museum and exhibit opened in 2000 and explores the influential musical form that has its roots in Memphis.
Much of the basic research for the exhibit as well as the production elements for the companion radio series, "Memphis: Cradle of Rock'n'Soul" came from oral and video history interviews conducted with musicians, record producers, radio disc jockeys and others involved with the development and popularization of rock'n'soul during 1992 and 1999. Daniel and McGovern partnered with John Meehan of Smithsonian Productions to create high-quality, informative interview tapes. The Rock'n'Soul Video History Collection is comprised of these unedited interviews.
Provenance:
Made at the National Museum of American History for the Smithsonian-affiliated Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum in 1992 and 1999.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Only refrence DVDs and digital reference copies in the Smithsonian Institution's Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) may be used. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
