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Sam Lucas - The Old Arm Chair (sung by Williamson Brothers And Curry)

#samlucas#theoldarmchair#WilliamsonBrothersAndCurry#Ohio#bluegrass#banjo#africanamericanmusic#americanmusic Sam Lucas (August 7, 1840 – January 10, 1916) was an American actor, comedian, singer and songwriter born in Washington Court House, Ohio. He was also a Black Civil War Veteran, and his many of his songs have become standards within the bluegrass genre. He also became one of the first African Americans to branch out of minstrelsy into more serious drama. He was vocal about liberating himself from the minstrel profession and was the only composer of spirituals in his time to present them consistently within the context of jubilee concerts. In 1858 he began his career as a performer with the traveling African-American minstrel companies. Over the next five years, he sang and acted on stage and riverboats, and composed music for his shows. Meanwhile, he found ways to integrate his African-American roots into the mostly white form; for instance, his tune "Carve Dat Possum" borrowed its melody from a black religious song. As a writer and performer of jubilee songs, Lucas was unique in branding himself a "jubilee singer" and in forming a jubilee group in 1881 to highlight the popular songs of black composers, as well as his own character songs. His jubilee troupe never performed jubilee songs in the original sense of arranged traditional spirituals. Instead, he mixed commercial spirituals, cultivated songs, instrumental selections and comedy, forging a new kind of concert that was part variety, part band concert and part art music.