Blind Alfred REED
“Appalachian Visionary”
23,00€
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Description: CD in hardcover, 84-page book featuring extensive liner notes by Ted Olson. Includes download/streaming code.
“Alfred Reed’s story is that of a man looking within to find a light by which to navigate the darkness within and without.” – Ted Olson
Born blind on June 15, 1880, in Floyd County, Virginia, Alfred Reed grew up on a West Virginia farm. In the 1920s, when radio became available in his area, Alfred listened to and enjoyed performances by several of the era’s popular singers. Alfred would purchase songbooks and hymnbooks, and his wife Nettie would read the lyrics to him. Because the songs he learned from others did not always express aspects of what he was thinking, feeling, and experiencing, Alfred felt compelled to compose his own songs, and he was exceptionally talented in this endeavor—a craftsman with many things to say. Relying upon his talent to generate money for supporting his family, he played music on the streets of nearby towns, gave music lessons, performed at dances and various social and church gatherings, sold printed copies of his own lyrics, and, in 1927 and 1929, made the commercial recordings included on this set.
Alfred Reed (1880 – 1956) musicien né aveugle qui écuma les scènes locales (le comté de Floyd en Virginie) avant d’enregistrer grâce au soutien “technique” de sa femme
quelques titres personnels et de s’aventurer plus loin dans la région des Appalaches.
De lui on connait “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?” qui raconte les malheurs de la grande dépression de 1929.
CD présenté avec un livre de 84 pages (notes de Ted Olson) dans une couverture cartonnée et renforcée au format 18 x 15cm.
