kudzurunner
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Jan 22, 2013
5:39 AM
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In late December, I contributed some studio work to a 15-minute documentary sponsored by the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University. The project is the creation of Margaret Burnham, a law professor, and it was she who first contacted me, said she'd read my book SEEMS LIKE MURDER HERE, and wondered if I might play some harmonica on the video.
I went into the studio with Bryan Ward, my producer/engineer/guitarist at The Tone Room studio here, and we just....played. We had a script for the doc, but basically we just tried to come up with sounds, grooves, atmospherics, that the producer would be able to choose from. When we were playing, we certainly kept in mind the various sorts of deep sadness evoked in the film.
Here's what they came up with. It's called "The Trouble I've Seen." We don't show up until 2:40 in. All the slide guitar is Bryan's; all the harmonica except the very first little bit--on chromatic, I think--is mine, including the Sonny Terry / train stuff during the outro credits. It would be fair to say that the entire video evokes the blues conditions that I talk about in my blues talk videos:
The Trouble I've Seen
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