Josh White
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White was amongst the first blues performers to attract a large white and middle-class African American following, transcending the typical barriers at the time associating blues with a rural and working-class African American audience, and performed in prestigious night clubs and theatres during the 1930s and 1940s. His best known song at the time was probably “Jelly, Jelly”, He recorded in a wide variety of contexts, from recordings in which he was accompanied only by his own guitar playing to others in which he was backed by jazz groups and gospel vocal groups. He was prominently associated with the civil rights movement in the 1940s.
Some of his involvement in political causes in the 1940s resulted in him being blacklisted.Controversially, to escape the blacklist, he testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding Communist influence in the entertainment industry and African-American community. He defended his testimony as a friendly witness to HUAC by claiming that the scope of his testimony was limited, that he did not state anything that was not already known, and that he was sincerely opposed to Communism. However, his testimony affected his posthumous reputation, which has only begun to recover in recent years.
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Go Away From My Window
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Green Corn
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Get Along Home Cindy
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Bon Bon's
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So Soon
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Bury Me High
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Achor
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The Legendary…Josh White
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Akayz7
amazing.
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Rolyath321
Such a great voice!
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Maarten541
@ConradPoohs19 Yeah! I just discovered him, and can't believe nobody give me a tip earlier!
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ConradPoohs19
I can't believe there's only 89,000 plays... I mean I realize lots of blues singers are way under-scrobbled, but you'd think one of the caliber of Josh White would get a 100,000 at least by now...
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jesus gonna make up my dying bed
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LondonLouis
Was featured quite prominently in a BBC documentary on American Folk. Included a throwaway story of him as a kid leading a blind blues singer around, and seeing a lynching at close quarters. There's a biography out there by Elijah Wald (http://www.elijahwald.com/josh.html) which seems to do an excellent job. During the 1930s, White was a bigger force than Robert Johnson; for at least part of the 1960s, he was a bigger star than Dylan. Clearly this is a guy who needs some reassessment.
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AuroreMB
One of the best singer ever! Sa musique est tellement touchante!
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