CMT previews Plant / Krauss Crossroads show
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant photo by Pamela SpringsteenCMT.com has a preview of the highly anticipated Robert Plant and Alison Krauss episode of Crossroads available online. The show is set to air Feb. 11th on CMT at 7 P.M. CST.
The video clip is of “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” from the unlikely duo’s “Raising Sand” album. The CD was released to critical acclaim in Oct of 2007 and can be viewed here. The backing band on the Crossroads show includes T. Bone Burnett on guitar who also produced the project, Dennis Crouch on Bass and Buddy Miller on Guitar.
Plant and Krauss will also kick off their North American tour April 19th at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, Ky. with additional shows in Knoxville, Chattanooga, New Orleans and Birmingham before kicking off the European leg of the tour. Additional dates are still in the works. For more information visit the Robert Plant / Alison Krauss “Raising Sand” website.
In Other Plant Krauss News:
Below is a clip from the BBC’s “Breakfast” show featuring Robert Plant and Alison Krauss who were interviewed about the “Raising Sand” CD.
White, Compton and Bouska holding Oregon Mandolin Workshop
Pickers in the Northwest might be interested in honing their mandolin and guitar skills in May when Roland White, Diane Bouska and Mike Compton present workshops and a concert at The Humane Society of Redmond Event Center in Redmond, Ore.
White will present a beginning mandolin class and his wife, Bouska, will teach a class on playing bluegrass rhythm guitar. Compton will give mandolin instruction for intermediate to advanced players.
The workshop leaders will present a concert on May 2 and lead the workshops on May 3 and 4.
The workshops will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. The student fee of $135 does not include lodging, but lunch and dinner will be provided on Saturday.
The workshop is limited to 20 students (confirmation with receipt of check). Early reservations are strongly encouraged. Workshop sponsors Dennis Fehling and Pam Bigoni can be contacted at (541) 504-0838.
No commentsMusic Historian John Work III to be celebrated with exhibition
Nashville, Tenn. — Fisk University scholar and music historian John Work III made invaluable contributions in preserving a richer, more detailed and ultimately more accurate view of the life of the black Delta community and the music that ran through it with his field recordings and work with Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress. A new exhibition celebrating his work, The Beautiful Music that Surrounds You, opens at Fisk University in Nashville with a gala reception on Feb. 19 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Free and open to the public, the event is sponsored by Fisk University, Vanderbilt University Press and The Arts Center of Cannon County.
The exhibit and opening are the latest in a series of event shining new light on Work’s contributions in preserving an important part of American history. Vanderbilt University Press recently published “Lost Delta Found:Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library Of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942.” The book presents long lost research from three noted Fisk University scholars—John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones and Samuel C. Adams, Jr.—who journeyed with folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their purpose was to document the musical habits and history of the black community there. The field notes, interviews, and musical transcriptions of the Fisk researchers were a major component of the study and were to be published jointly by Fisk and the Library of Congress. The Fisk material, however, disappeared in Washington D.C., before the findings could be published.
The book was followed by the release of Recording Black Culture, John Work III, a CD featuring Work’s personal field recordings of sacred harp singing, quartets, string bands, blues and gospel singing. The music here represents a broad cross-section of styles and gives a fuller, more nuanced representation of the music that permeated the African-American community in the earlier part of the 20th century. The CD’s liner notes, written by music scholar Bruce Nemerov, who also co-edited Lost Delta Found, have been nominated for a GRAMMY™.
The exhibit, Lost Delta Found and Recording Black Culture make it impossible to overlook the contributions of John Work III in preserving and celebrating African-American music and culture. In many ways this trifecta of events celebrating Work raises to newfound prominence an important historian who has for too long been overlooked. Thanks to Work and his efforts to capture an important time in American music, it is indeed possible to revel in the beautiful music that surrounds us.
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