“Clark wades through the massive youtube archives to find some of the coolest video music treasures available. Zappa, Cash, Ellington, Son House and more. It’s eclectic stuff for sure but all great fun.”
- My Thermos

Spend some time reading these posts and you will begin to see a thread running through them. You have heard of the “six degrees of separation” theory, that anybody can find a connection to anyone else through a string of mutual acquaintances no more than sex steps long. In music, the connections are much closer. For example, Clarence Williams, who began his music career at the beginning of the twentieth century in New Orleans, was acquainted with the almost mythical character, Buddy Bolden. Williams discovered and produced records for Bessie Smith, hired Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet as sidemen and, late in his life, taught many of his songs to folksinger Dave Van Ronk. Thus you can go from Buddy Bolden to Dave Van Ronk in two steps.

In Clark’s Picks you will find a short film starring Bessie Smith with a script written by W. C. Handy, Elis Regina singing Jobim’s “The Waters of March” in Portuguese, Doc Watson playing “Deep River Blues” on the guitar, Merle Travis, Chuck Berry, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Charlie Byrd, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald . . .

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