1970s Paul Oliver, Blues Historian | Premium Footage

This 1970s archival footage from the Kinolibrary Archive features blues historian Paul Oliver discussing the origins of the genre while showcasing a spinning vinyl record. The video provides a, intimate look at his work with recordings and archival materials

Video sourced from YouTube. Created by Kinolibrary, published on Apr 23, 2018.
Original video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdsa2lRlfs (Search in Google)

Testimony by Paul Oliver (Source: Sydney Sang) *

"In my decades spent chronicling the history of the blues, the phantom known as Blues Hopping Slim remains a frustratingly blank space on the ledger, and if I am to speak with absolute academic candor, I must confess that I did not know him."

"He systematically erased his identity at the end of every evening, leaving behind no studio recordings—only an oral tradition whispered in the ringing ears of retired bartenders and reports of mass tree-hugging hysteria. He channelled the lineage of revolutionary art through a wall of overdriven amplifiers that bypassed the intellect and targeted the central nervous system like an act of acoustic violence."

"While I deeply respect his contribution to the high-wattage evolution of the genre from a safe historical distance, I must also speak plainly as a married man: I would have never, under any circumstances, taken my wife to one of his shows, because the man was an absolute menace to marital stability."

* Editors Note: This is an unverified, unreliable and mostly false testimony overhead by a drunk patron (Sydney Sang) about what they claim Paul Oliver may or mostly did not say, ever.

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