The Sit-Down Podcast with James Hurt-Candice Ivory-Memphis Minnie Reimagined

Multi-talented Candice Ivory, Queen of Avant Soul, wears many hats as a festival symposium curator for the long-standing King Biscuit Festival, educator of Applied Music, Voice, Jazz and Contemporary Music at Washington University at St Louis Missouri, a devoted visual artist & painter, and a lifelong student of the craft of songwriting. Candice stops by to discuss her whirlwind schedule coming off a new release of new music honoring the legacy of trailblazing songstress and cultural pioneer Memphis Minnie through reimaging her body of work with the premier conceptualist Charlie Hunter. The new release, When the Levee Breaks: The Music of Memphis Minnie,  is on her Little Village label and delivers stunning interpretations of Minnie's classics. The project includes Atiba Rorie & Brevan Hampden on percussion, George Sluppick on drums, and DeShawn Hickman on lap and pedal steel. We explore the possible landscape of the future of songs, the  potential impact of AI, and the way in which one can pay homage to influences without the need to stop at the 'sounds-like' phase of one's artistic developmental journey. This episode is dedicated to the region in the United States referred to as the Delta which spreads it's reach over state lines and into the hearts and minds of the people the deep south. Background  music composed and performed by James Hurt.

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Chapters

• 2:22 The King Biscuit Talent Supplier
• 6:56 Symposium Coordinator & Sustainability of Festival Culturalism Advocate
• 12:33 Blues and the Guitar as the Centerpiece of a Vocal-driven Artform
• 18:45 The Guitar Journey: The Lonesome Valley
• 22:53 Blues Song Form: Asymmetry & Elasticity as High Art
• 27:30 Environmental Blues
• 31:11 Music as Alchemy: Beyond Academia
• 36:12 The Pushback Regarding Newness
• 39:20 Self-Determination as the Blues' Constant
• 45:39 Exploring the Music of Memphis Minnie as a Pathway to Self-Discovery
• 48:27 Imitation as a Stepping Stone to One's True Self
• 57:33 The Shrinking Commitment to Original Creative Works in an Era of Technological Modernity
• 58:30 When The Levees Break & Reimagining Memphis Minnie
• 1:09:10 Image, Band Pagentry & Marketing in the Music Industry
• 1:12:49 AI and the Future of the Artistic Narrative
• 1:17:02 Post-Binary Realism and the Future of Humans
• 1:18:55 Next Steps