{"id":479,"date":"2010-01-26T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?page_id=479"},"modified":"2010-01-26T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:39:53","slug":"billington-mr-johnny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/billington-mr-johnny\/","title":{"rendered":"Billington, Mr. Johnny"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Mr. Johnny Billington<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=150\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Transcript access controlled.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Blues music and culture in the Mississippi Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Dat<span style=\"color: #000000\">e: Pending 28 October, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Lambert, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr. Johnny Billington<\/p>\n<p>Interviewers: James Chapnick, Kyle Coston, Max Paschall, Flosha Tejada<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Unknown<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Blues guitarist Johnny Billington was born in Crowder, Mississippi, in 1935 and spent most of his early years working with his parents on their farm.\u00a0 He first learned how to play guitar through a book and by listening to the radio.\u00a0 Eventually, he began playing at blues clubs on Saturday nights for $20, more than that both parents would make in a single week.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Billington discusses how he first learned how to play guitar, and the blues style.\u00a0 He describes the differences between church and blues music, and some of the attitudes that accompany the two styles.\u00a0 As a musician, Billington is of the opinion that one should not mix styles, describing it as a kind of intellectual theft.\u00a0 He offers a comparison between older blues and new blues, stylistically, and conceptually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa |\u00a0Mississippi Interview with Mr. Johnny Billington Transcript access controlled. General Topic of Interview: Blues music and culture in the Mississippi Delta. Date: Pending 28 October, 2008 Location: Lambert, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mr. Johnny Billington Interviewers: James Chapnick, Kyle Coston, Max Paschall, Flosha Tejada Transcriber: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-479","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}