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Lamont Jack Pearley

@lamontjackpearley.bsky.social
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🎙️ Traditional Blues Artist | 🎓 Applied Folklorist | 📚 Ethnomusicologist | 🗞️ Publisher of The African American Folklorist Founder of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation — conserving Black traditional music, folklore & cultural memory. 🎧

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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the vein and lineage of Mississippi Blues, Charlie Patton, Son House, Rube Lacy… through the McNeil/Huff Amorite, Natchez, Gloster, MS Blues legacy… This is a song from The African American Folklorist and the Blues Volume One! Blues with me tribe!! youtu.be/BJLqISuUdiA?...
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Nostalgia Blues Official Music Video
YouTube video by Jack Dappa Blues Radio & TV
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Blues Song Birthed from the Death of Black Folk lamontjackpearley.substack.com/p/i-cant-sin...
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The Blues Song Birthed from the Death of Black Folk
Michael Brown, the newsroom, and why I still sing “I Can’t Sing, But I Have a Song.”
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Nostalgia Blues”: Memory, Migration, and the Meaning of Home substack.com/@lamontjackp...
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“Nostalgia Blues”: Memory, Migration, and the Meaning of Home
The Blues, Black Memory, and the Meaning of Home
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
On Saturday, August 8, 2026, the Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation will present an all-day online telethon supporting the Porter Parish Grainger Blues Festival of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Join us online from anywhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWI6...
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Honoring the Legacy, Preserving the Blues | Porter Parish Grainger Blues Festival Telethon
YouTube video by Jack Dappa Blues Radio & TV
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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The African American Folklorist and The Blues: Field Recording, by Lamont Jack Dappa Blues Pearley
9 track album
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Follow us here! lamontjackdappabluespearley.bandcamp.com/album/the-af...
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The African American Folklorist and The Blues: Feild Recording, by Lamont Jack Dappa Blues Pearley
9 track album
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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The Roots and Resonance of Black Music Month
From the Blues People to the Prison Planet: Listening to Land, Labor and Liberation in Black Music.
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Link with me here! lamontjackdappabluespearley.bandcamp.com/album/the-af...
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The African American Folklorist and The Blues: Feild Recording, by Lamont Jack Dappa Blues Pearley
9 track album
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
lamontjackdappabluespearley.bandcamp.com/album/the-af...
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The African American Folklorist and The Blues: Feild Recording, by Lamont Jack Dappa Blues Pearley
9 track album
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We experienced it together, so we Blues it together~
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I wrote a review of Jerron Paxton's album Things Done Changed in this issue!
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Always honored to contribute my expertise to the Journal of American Folklore! #wethebluespeople doi.org/10.5406/1535...
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Things Done Changed
As someone who lives, performs, conserves, and preserves the traditions of Black American folk music, I recognize Things Done Changed as more than an album—it's a living archive, an aural ethnography ...
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@amandaxstanford.bsky.social Thanks for connecting
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The truth is in the details of the writing, whether it is text on the page, sang, or acted out script!
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Blues Ecology and the Prison Planet: Louisiana, Angola, and the Question of Development
A Blues Ecology reading of Louisiana, Angola, the Mississippi River, and the afterlife of plantation power
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Join me here: substack.com/@lpearley
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Lamont Jack Pearley | Substack
Lamont Jack Pearley is a cultural historian, musician, and documentarian whose Blues Ecology bridges Acoustic Delta Country Blues, folklore, oral history, and Black lived experience through scholarshi...
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Make sure to check out The African American #Folklorist and Jack Dappa Blues #Radio
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
What's happening, Blues People!
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Lamont Jack Pearley @lamontjackpearley.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
August African American Folklorist of the Month 🎉 This month, we’re proud to honor Michael L. Jones, a journalist, author, and music historian from Louisville, KY. #africanamericanfolklorist #folkloristofthemonth #jugbandmusic theafricanamericanfolklorist.com/afro-indigen...
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the african american folklorist for the month of august: michael L. jones — The African American Folklorist
Every month, The African American Folklorist highlights a tradition bearer who embodies the spirit of Black folk heritage. For August, we are proud to honor Michael L. Jones —a journalist, author,...
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