Blues Music is Black History: The Hard Conversation at Hopson Plantation

What does it mean to speak the truth of the Blues on the very soil where our ancestors were enslaved? In this live broadcast, Lamont Jack Pearley—traditional Bluesman, folklorist, and founder of the Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation—reflects on being invited to present his original scholarship on Blues Ecology at Hopson Plantation, once home to Blues legend Pinetop Perkins. As we close out Black Music History Month, this episode holds space for a necessary conversation about land, memory, and music. We'll explore how different landscapes—Mississippi’s cotton fields and Louisiana’s red-light districts—shaped different kinds of Blues, and why where we honor the Blues matters just as much as how we do it. Through personal reflection, fieldwork excerpts, and live performance, we ask: Can you celebrate the Blues without honoring the history that created it? Join us tonight for truth-telling, music, and memory from the Delta to the mic.

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Blues Music is Black History: The Hard Conversation at Hopson Plantation is an episode from Jack Dappa Blues Podcast by Jack Dappa Blues.

This episode is 01:47:08 long.

This episode was published on Jun 30, 2025.

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