Mississippi Delta Bluesmen from www.folkstreams.net

2010-06-07T10:28:58.000Z

An account of the blues experience through the recollections and performances of B.B. King, Son Thomas, inmates from Parchman prison, a barber from Clarkesdale, a salesman from Beale Street, and others.
Give My Poor Heart Ease is one of a series of films made in Mississippi in the mid 1970s by William Ferris and the Center for Southern Folklore and produced in association with Howard Sayre Weaver. This field work is the basis for Ferris's 2009 book Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues.

Steve Gardner "Been on the Job Too Long!" from the JERICHO CD

2009-10-10T07:17:56.000Z

Steve Gardner "Been on the Job Too Long!" from the JERICHO CD. Recorded with Bill Steber and the Jake Leg Stompers in Nashville, TN. This tune is a musical commentary on USA presidential policy trends and behavior since the days of President Kennedy; a common reference point of political navigation and orientation today.

"Been On The Job Too Long" was nominated for BEST POLITICAL SONG by the JUST PLAIN FOLKS MUSIC Awards 2008.

Mississippi Bluesman Steve Gardner,
based in Tokyo, Japan, plays original, acoustic roots and country blues music, finger picking and slide on National Reso-phonic guitars, with harmonica, banjo, washboard and a variety of home-made instruments. You know, ACOUSTIC STUFF!

Steve Gardner divides his time between conducting American Roots'n Blues Music workshops, recording, playing and touring in Japan, Europe and the USA with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW.

His current Cd with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW, "WOOLY BULLY EXPRESS" (2010 Hoodoo/Blues Cat Records) his fifth release, is the follow up to "WALKIN' THE DOG", chosen as one of the top ten best ROOTS'N BLUES CDs of 2009 by New Orleans Community Public Radio station, WWOZ.

His original song, "BEEN ON THE JOB TOO LONG", from his JERICHO CD was nominated for best political song of the year (2008) by THE JUST PLAIN FOLKS international music awards, Nashville, TN.

* Press Quotes *

...the gut power of Delta blues has had fewer finer exponent than Steve Gardner." Michael Pronko- The Japan Times

"Steve Gardner...story teller, singer, bluesman... blues originale." Dietmar Hoscher- CONCERTO magazine

Steve and his guys bring the best of the back porch to the front of the big stage" Peggy Lou WWOZ community radio, New Orleans

I hear cotton fields, Tom Sawyer, the Mississippi River and the great American open road." BIG BIKE CRUSING Magazine

"Steve Gardner rambles the lost highways of Hank Williams and Jimmy Rogers as easily as the delta of the Mississippi blues men." Radio Tokyo, Norio Higashi

For more information www.stevegardner.info

Video by Kermit Carvell and Steve Gardner
"Let's bring all the troops back home..."

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Mississippi Delta Bluesmen from www.folkstreams.net

Steve Gardner "Been on the Job Too Long!" from the JERICHO CD