
Swingmaster video used with permission. look also for Albert Macon with Robert Thomas on a Swingmaster lp www.swingmasterrecords.com short story on the Alabama arts site: June, 1993 BLUESMAN ALBERT MACON REMEMBERED by Anne Kimzey The untimely death of blues guitarist Albert Macon last month surprised and saddened Alabama blues fans, many of whom were looking forward to annual performances by Macon and musical partner Robert Thomas at the Alabama Folklife Festival in Montgomery and City Stages music festival in Birmingham. Friends report that Macon's death followed complications from a shooting injury received while he was cleaning his gun. After being treated by a doctor for the gunshot wound in his leg, he returned home and appeared to be mending well. His condition took a rapid turn for the worse, however, and he was admitted to the East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika where he died May 12 of kidney failure. Macon, born in 1920 in Society Hill, played a type of music he called "boogie and blues," which he learned from his father, Buster Macon, at house parties and frolics in the rural Macon County community. They played old-time, country blues tunes, such as "John Henry," and "Staggerlee," in a rousing style intended for dancing. In a 1991 interview with music researcher Joyce Cauthen, Macon described set dances held in neighbors' homes where his father played guitar and Robert Thomas' father called the figures that guided the couples on the dance floor. He also <b>...</b>
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