Messin' Around
"Blues in the Mississippi Night" is a legendary audio documentary recorded by folklorist Alan Lomax. In 1947, Lomax brought Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sonny Boy Williamson I into a New York studio. To protect...
"Blues in the Mississippi Night" is a legendary audio documentary recorded by folklorist Alan Lomax. In 1947, Lomax brought Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sonny Boy Williamson I into a New York studio. To protect the musicians from violent retaliation for speaking openly about Jim Crow, Lomax claimed the recording was made in a Mississippi juke joint. "Messin' Around" serves as a musical interlude between their harrowing stories of racial terror and prison farms. Slim's rolling, sophisticated piano work provided a stark, beautiful contrast to the heavy, dangerous reality of the spoken-word conversations that surrounded it.