The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lonnie Brooks.

Blues musician Lonnie Brooks is a legendary blues singer and guitarist who carved out a career in music. Brooks was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana in 1933. After completing the eighth grade in the 1950s, Brooks travelled to Port Arthur, Texas, where he teamed up with blues guitarist Clifton Chenier. A...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Brooks, Lonnie (Interviewee)
Crowe, Larry F. (Interviewer)
Hickey, Matthew (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Brooks, Lonnie > Interviews.
Brooks, Lonnie.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Blues Musician.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 13 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Lonnie Brooks
Lonnie Brooks
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Blues musician Lonnie Brooks is a legendary blues singer and guitarist who carved out a career in music. Brooks was born in Dubuisson, Louisiana in 1933. After completing the eighth grade in the 1950s, Brooks travelled to Port Arthur, Texas, where he teamed up with blues guitarist Clifton Chenier. After Chenier left for California, Brooks toured with Sam Cooke; and, in 1959, he relocated to Chicago. He continued to play in clubs throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and scored his big break in 1978, after receiving four tracks on the Living Chicago Blues anthology. In 1979, his breakthrough album, Bayou Lightning, made Brooks a star. Since then, Brooks has performed at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, made numerous television appearances, co-starred in the Blues Brothers 2000, and co-written the book Blues for Dummies. Brooks and his sons, both blues guitarists, have performed together often.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:03:13:40
Credits:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Participant or Performer:
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 December 4.
Source of Description:
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