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Acclaimed roots artist Jake Blount to perform at McCabe’s in Santa Monica By Bliss Bowen earing “The Man Was Burning,” an obscure spiritual recorded in 1936, sparked excitement and a sense of recognition in multiinstrumental roots musician Jake Blount. First, because it had been recorded at a Virginia state prison about an hour away from Blount’s family’s farm, which is located near a plantation where his enslaved ancestors had labored; and second, because the knife-edged intensity in 71-yearold inmate Joe Lee’s performance immediately directed Blount to “where that song needed to go” in a modern arrangement. Blount’s new version sharpens the original’s edge. “My interest in this music is always at least partially coming from wanting to know what my family would have been singing,” said Blount, who found the
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Multi-instrumental roots artist, Jake Blount, revives Black and Indigenous folk music for modern audiences at McCabe’s in Santa Monica on Friday night.
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song on “Virginia Work Songs,” a Smithsonian Folkways collection of field recordings made by John Lomax. Searching for folk songs not already embedded in the traditional canon is challenging when so many potential sources have already been “scoured,” but Blount believes finding something nobody’s heard before is less vital than approaching the material with integrity. “If you’re a modern musician and you’re going after these old songs, everybody’s gonna have a slightly different take on what to do with them,” Blount said. “Part of what encouraged me about working with ‘The Man Was Burning’ is that it would have been very easy for me, given my skill set and what I’m often doing, to make a bluegrass or old-time version; I’ve been performing a bluegrass version of that song on the road because I don’t have a rock band with me
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