Blues Houseparty

"Producer Eleanor Ellis offers Piedmont blues fans a rare front-row seat to a private house party that is as down home and authentic as they come on this 57-minute DVD Blues Houseparty. Filmed in 1989 at the late John Jackson's home in Fairfax Station, Virginia, Blues Houseparty includes performances by Jackson and his son James, John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Archie Edwards, Cora Jackson, Flora Molton and Larry Wise, John Dee Holeman, and Quentin "Fris" Holloway. Between songs, performers talk about the history of country breakdowns, demonstrate traditional dances and swap hilarious stories. The atmosphere is natural and relaxed. The audio and video quality are good. One small criticism: Performers could have been identified earlier in the film. But that's a small price to pay for admission to this rip-roarin' good time."
---Review by Dick Spottswood
for a DVD contact eleanordellis(at)yahoo.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Country
• Blues
• old
• time
• Fairfax
• station
• folkstreams
• John Jackson
• John Cephas
• Phil Wiggins
• Archie Edwards
• Cora Jackson
• Flora Molton
• Larry Wise
• John Dee Holeman
• Quentin Fris Holloway
• James Jackson

[bashfulbrother]

What is truly a shame is that 99% of modern rock players have no idea that this is how it all started.

[niko62fr]

Fantastic ! Thank you.

[kernal616]

finding stuff like this is AWESOME. I THOROUGHLY ENJOY THIS.

[Pigeon55]

What i would give, to sit round that table.

[jimmyd327]

I knew John and his wife Cora and the family. My older brother knew John too,My brother lived in FairFax Co.too and when I first went up to visit my brother he took me over to meat John and I learnt how great John was at pitching horse shoes that day, I was a good horse shoe pitcher too but he beat me every game. So I went and had a trophy made with his name on it.Well there all gone now and I sure miss them and my brother too. 

[Tamaresque]

@Tamaresque ... so I had to turn them off again.

[Tamaresque]

Can we have sub-titles, please? Unfortunately I only understand about 20% of what's being said. I turned the captions on via the cc link and the result was hilarious.

[JoeyOnDuty]

@kickalion Lol this isnt a video for that shit :P

[davidphilipsmusic]

This is almost too good!

[moochaka1]

Have not smiled so much in 5 long years, watching this is good for the soul

Cheers

[PaulishMH]

I want all of the guitars they are playing.