The book has chapters on Blind Willie Johnson, Washington Phillips, Arizona Dranes, Hattie Burleson, Amos Milburn and Charles Brown. Michael has a brand-new book out on Texas artists titled Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music which covers a lot of territory including several artists that crossover with my show. In addition, many of the guitar evangelists, like Blind Willie Johnson, recorded music which had close affinities to blues. There is quite a bit of crossover with blues as many of the blues artists of the 20’s and 30’s I admire recorded some gospel material. Although I do a blues show, I have a long-standing love of vintage gospel music and occasionally spin some of it on the show where it fits into the weekly themes. I came across Michael’s writing on neither of those papers but rather through the liner notes to two Grammy nominated projects He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes (Tompkins Square, 2012) and Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams (Dust-to-Digital, 2017). Corcoran was a music writer at the Dallas Morning News and for some twenty years wrote for the Austin American Statesman. Over the course of today’s show we chat with music writer and researcher Michael Corcoran, someone I’ve wanted to interview for some time now.
The Complete Aladdin Recordings of Charles Brown Washington Phillips And His Manzarene Dreams
American Epic: The Best Of Blind Willie Johnson
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