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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: August 20 \| August 19 \| August 18 \| previous days \| by month and year Tuesday, June 26, 2007 Finding real live American blues from the '40s on YouTube (video) Composer, performer, actor, civil rights activist, McCarthyite commie-smear victim, and '30s-'40s sex symbol Josh White singing "John Henry" in 1941: Video Link. There's a wonderful user group at YouTube with more rare, old-time soulful stuff like this (including some smokin' vintage gospel): Link to "The Real Blues Group." Not really related: I've been playing and replaying this video all morning long. Ignore the bird b-roll if you will, but the sound quality's sweet, and it's such a beautiful song. This reminded me, and put the bug in my ear. (Thanks, Tim) posted by Xeni Jardin at 01:12:57 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: August 20, 2007 \| August 19, 2007 \| August 18, 2007 \| August 17, 2007 \| August 16, 2007 \| August 15, 2007 \| August 14, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: