Henry Thomas
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Biography
[Edit]Texas songster Henry Thomas remains a relative stranger who made some great recordings, then returned to obscurity. Evidence suggests he was an itinerant street musician, a musical hobo who rode the rails across Texas and possibly to the World's Fairs in St. Louis and Chicago just before and after the turn of the century. Most agree he was the oldest African-American folk artist to produce a significant body of recordings. His projected 1874 birth date would predate Charley Patton by a good 17 years. Like Patton and a handful of other musicians generally termed songsters (including John Hurt, Jim Jackson, Mance Lipscomb, Furry Lewis, and Leadbelly), Thomas' repertoire bridged the 19th and 20th centuries, providing a compelling glimpse into a wide range of African-American musical genres. The 23 songs he cut for Vocalion between 1927 and 1929 include a spiritual, ballads, reels, dance songs, and eight selections titled blues. Obviously dance music, his songs were geared to older dance styles shared by black and white audiences.
Thomas' sound, like his repertoire, is unique. He capoed his guitar high up the neck and strummed it in the manner of a banjo, favoring dance rhythm over complex fingerwork. On many of his pieces, he simultaneously played the quills or panpipes, a common but seldom-recorded African-American folk instrument indigenous to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Combining the quills, a limited-range melody instrument, with his banjo-like strummed guitar produced one of the most memorable sounds in American folk music. For example, his lead-in on "Bull Doze Blues" still worked as a hook when recycled 40 years later by blues-rockers Canned Heat in their version of "Going Up the Country." "Ragtime Texas," as Thomas was known, provides a welcome inroad to 19th century dance music, but his music is neither obscure nor merely educational: it has a timeless quality — and while it may be an acquired taste, once you catch on to it, you're hooked.
Collections
Title: The Song Before the Song
Genre: Blues
Title: This Is the Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Before the Blues Vol. 3
Genre: Rock
Title: Big Road Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Roots of Robert Johnson
Genre: Rock
Title: The Story That the Crow Told Me, Vol. 2
Genre: Rock
Title: A Beginners Guide to: Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: O Brother - The Search Continues
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Greatest In Country Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues Roots Of Robert Johnson
Genre: Blues
Title: Country Finest Songs Roots of Country, Vol. 3
Genre: Country
Title: Electric Apricot - Quest for Festeroo
Genre: Alternative, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Country & Western Legends, Vol. 3
Genre: Country
Title: Country Blues Hard Hitters Vol. One
Genre: Blues
Title: Superstitious Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Minimal Tech House 2012, Vol. 10
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: The Start of Rock & Roll, Vol. 1
Genre: Rock
Title: The Roots Of Mumford & Sons
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Essential Blues, Vol. 1: 1920S - 1940
Genre: Blues
Title: American Folk Music, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Southern Country Blues, Vol. 2 (Box Set)
Genre: Blues
Title: Going Away Blues (1926-1935)
Genre: Blues
Title: Southern Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: The Return of the Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Genre: Blues
Title: Deluxe Classics, Vol. 06
Title: Roots of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Missing Country & Blues Album
Genre: Blues
Title: American Folk Music, Vol. 4
Genre: Pop
Title: The Song Before the Song
Genre: Alternative
Title: Gonna Die With My Hammer
Genre: Country
Title: Songs Before Other Acts Made Them Famous
Genre: Pop
Title: Roots - The Blues Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Roots Of Rock
Genre: Rock
Title: History Of Rock Vol 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Before the Blues Vol. 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Future Blues Mixes
Genre: Blues
Title: The Gospel Train Is Leaving 1930-1945
Genre: Gospel
Title: Smokey Mountain
Genre: Country
Title: Blues History
Genre: Blues
Title: Sitting on Top of the World
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Texas Blues (CD2)
Title: Roots Of Rock N' Roll Vol. 1, 1927-1938 (CD1)
Genre: Rock & Roll
Title: The Road To Robert Johnson And Beyond (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Spar Records Story (The Singles Collection) (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: The History Of Country & Western Music (CD1)
Genre: Country
Title: Blues From The Vocalion Vaults 2014 (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Mega Gospel (CD2)
Genre: Gospel
Title: Murder: Songs From The Dark Side Of The Soul
Genre: Blues, Jazz, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: The Blues: A Musical Journey (Martin Scorsese) (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Rough Guide To Unsung Heroes Of Country Blues
Genre: Blues
Featuring albums
Title: DJ Yoda's How to Cut and Paste: The Thirties Edition
Artist: DJ Yoda
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Jazz, Rock, New Wave, Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop, Alternative
Title: How To Cut and Paste- The Thirties Edition
Artist: DJ Yoda
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Dancefloor
Title: Epic Americana: Pre-War Blues, Country & Folk
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist