Who is Belton Sutherland?

October 29, 2008

To start, Belton Sutherland appears to have been a jazz musician, that is all I know.

Well, Its been a long night. And a long week at that.  However I was up all night last night trying to figure out who Belton Sutherland is.  I could only find one clip on youtube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo87d-blXg0) and then. Nothing. No wikipedia, and a google search for his name revealed… The same clip over and over again.  I dont know who this guy is, but I have listened to that 1 minute long clip for almost an hour now, its that good.  Anyways. That is all.

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11 Responses to “Who is Belton Sutherland?”

  1. james eller Says:

    hey man, same issue for me. when i googled him i found this. looks like the world’ll never be lucky enough for that recording.

  2. Daniel Says:

    It’s from a larger video clip which is an Alan Lomax documentary. The youtube video was cut short because alan lomax is speaking over part of it, but that appears to be all history wrote about this guy. Here’s the link
    http://www.folkstreams.net/film,109

  3. Goran Says:

    i am form Croatia,this is the best blues i ever hour,but i cant find anothing more

  4. Goran Says:

    i thing this is regular man from the people,eksedentley in tv unfortinaly

  5. Goran Says:

    sorry for bad english

  6. John Bishop Says:

    We shot Belton Sutherland on the last night of our shoot for The Land Where the Blues Began. WE met him that afternoon, he only gave us those two songs, and nobody followed up on him (as far as i know). He was too good not to have had a lot more. the two song, complete performances with no voice over are part of the extras on the just released LWBB 30 Anniversary DVD, available from Media-generation.com

  7. wesley Says:

    Ah, thank you for the reply, quite an honor actually. Loved the film, going to buy it now.

    Have any other blues singers you want to send my way?


  8. of the many video clips that i download, i always watch those that are very funny :;;

  9. Daniel Cohen Says:

    the old one’s gone, but I just found this 4 minute one on youtube. Not nearly as badass, but still good. It looks like he’s just kinda playing to himself.

    Always loved those lyrics – how did he not mean any harm?


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