The Bluesman – With a custom-made national guitar and bottleneck slide, Lamont “Jack Dappa Blues” Pearley will record and present songs and performances of original delta blues traditions, sharing stories, singing songs, and engaging the audience through the oral history of The Indigenous Black American Traditional & Tribal Music called The Blues. With an authentic style of field hollers, accompanied by turn-of-the-century southern-influenced guitar playing, grounded in an urban and country experience, The African American Folklorist and the Blues will share a journey of original songs through the traditional style of music and storytelling.
The Scholar – I utilize my musicianship and multiple media platforms to present engaging, meaningful, and historically accurate content that explores, highlights, and raises cultural and ethnic awareness of African American Traditional Music and the Black Experience. I collaborate with communities and local organizations to document, broadcast, raise awareness, and give cultural context to Black folklife and folk narrative. I also work to strategize and implement long-term goals for tangible and intangible cultural sustainability. I specialize in interviewing, documenting, and raising awareness of African American Traditional Music, Folklore, Folklife, Narrative, Oral History, and the American Black Experience. I have created repositories and archives that have been contributed to various websites, special collections, magazines, and Academic Curricula.