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Brooke Sietinsons, The Masked Marvel (Mississippi Boweavil Blues), 2007 |
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MISSISSIPPI BOWEAVIL BLUES BY THE MASKED MARVEL, 1929 REMIX: BROOKE SIETINSONS, MISSISSIPPI BOWEAVIL BLUES, 2007 ‘The Masked Marvel’ was a pseudonym for Charley Patton, considered one of the most important Delta blues musicians. ‘Boweavil Blues’ is a song about the Boll Weevil, a beetle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers. It infested all US cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry. It is both a humerous and distrurbing song, written as a conversation between the farmer and the beetle, describing the ‘Bo weevils’ journey without its “ticket fare” travelling across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi with its family. Sietinson’s work shows Mississippi as the focus from which a mandala of ‘Bo Weevils’ spread their destruction eating up cotton flowers across the Southern states. Brooke Sietinsons is a musician and graphic designer living in Philadelphia. She plays guitar in the psych folk band Espers, they have released three albums: ‘Espers’, ‘The Weed Tree’ and ‘II’ on Drag City Records. www.espers.org |
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