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1 week ago

Elijah Wald plays Jean-Bosco Mwenda's "Masanga"

Jean-Bosco Mwenda recorded "Masanga" in the early 1950s, and it became one of the most popular and influential acoustic guitar records in the histo...

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elijahwald commented:

@steveSonko I do perform, but mostly in the US--though if anyone wants to bring me to Kenya I'd be very happy to go...
3:49

2 weeks ago

Elijah Wald plays "Sheik of Araby"

An example of the pop music and family folklore explored in Elijah's book, "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of Amer...

burlesquepaper • 3,921 views

elijahwald commented:

@WayneKotke What's ironic about that? I don't think their version of this song is one of their better recordings, but they obviously are in a very different class from me when it comes to musical genius, or--at the time they did the recording--in terms of youthful energy.
3:38

2 weeks ago

Elijah Wald plays "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor"

This is Mississippi John Hurt's arrangements of one of the most widespread and popular African-American folksongs from the immediate pre-blues era...

burlesquepaper • 3,061 views

elijahwald commented:

@kswilson89 Yes, that's me.
9:05

2 months ago

What Google and Facebook are Hiding -TED

http://www.albumoftheday.co...

Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Escape th...

vigilantchannel • 15,973 views

elijahwald commented:

The problem with this talk is that it assumes the logic behind these algorithms is to help us find what we want, rather than to make Google and Facebook more attractive to advertisers.

Television programming studies have proved that numbers of watchers may be irrelevant to networks if they are no...
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5 months ago

Bill Morrissey's Rube Johnson Rebounds (cover) - Gary Hall LIVE @ the Barking Spider

This performance was recorded at the Barking Spider Tavern on 3/20/2010. I remember when Bill wrote this song back in '74 or '75. He introduced it ...

guitaniac • 247 views

elijahwald commented:

HI again Gary,

If you manage to find that old tape, please let me know. I'm helping the family to arrange a donation of his material to a good archive, and am hoping to hunt up some other early tapes so that material will not be lost to history... mine indeed fell victims to a flood, and in any c...
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8 months ago

Best Rap Battle of All Time - Limpy Kit vs. Mack

A gem I found as I was searching through music, easily one of the top freestyle battles of all time. First there was Eli Porter and now theres the ...

Lupin3rd • 2,339 views

elijahwald commented:

does anyone have any idea where this comes from, or when, or who they are?
5:26

1 year ago

Elijah Wald plays Robert Johnson's From Four Till Late

In "Escaping the Delta," I explored the roots and influence of Robert Johnson's music, and tried to place him in the broader perspective of his tim...

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- 1 year ago
  
  elijahwald commented:
  
  @gadaya Dear Gadaya,
  
  Nice to hear from you--I've often visited your blogs... et il faut dire que je suis en train de devenir un citoyen francais... ca fait du bien connaitre quelqu'un qui joue cette musique la-bas.
2:03

1 year ago

Oscar Pettiford with Coleman Hawkins

Oscar Pettiford with Coleman Hawkins

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elijahwald commented:

So...any chance you'll put up the Josh White segment?
3:56

1 year ago

Elijah Wald plays Furry Lewis's "Casey Jones"

This is one of the most striking examples of a pre-blues, banjo-derived, African-American guitar arrangement, as discussed in Elijah's book "Escapi...

burlesquepaper • 4,272 views

elijahwald commented:

Many thanks for alerting me that there is now video up of Lewis himself playing this--obviously his is the best version to watch. On the first verse, he didn't always sing the words the same way--as with most such songs, there is no single "right" lyric, since he never sang any single version twi...
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2 years ago

Elijah Wald plays Woody Guthrie's Cannonball Blues

Originally recorded by the Carter Family, who learned it from Lesley Riddle, this is a good example of the overlapping Euro-Afro-American tradition...

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2 years ago

Elijah Wald plays Robert Johnson's "Walking Blues"

When I wrote "Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues," part of the research was to learn to play a lot of his music. Thi...

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About elijahwald's channel

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Latest Activity

Feb 17, 2012

Date Joined

Nov 3, 2006

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Writer, musician

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Hometown

Cambridge, MA

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