Why aint they no blues thread?
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Hopper
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Don't start me to talkin...I'll tell everything I know!
This is actually the second (but more better known, these here days) harp player who called his self Sonny Boy Williamson (the first was John Lee Williamson, who done the classic "Hoodoo Man").
Born Aleck Ford around 1900, he later adopted the last name of Miller, and was known as "Rice," because he was kinda partial to chinese wimminz. He ran with Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Elmore James, Big Joe Williamson and other bluesmen around the Mississippi Delta back in the '30s. Wolf married his sister, so they bruthaz in law, ya know. Got well known hostin the King Biscuit Flour Hour radio show in Helena, Arkansas, and was still doing that show when in died in 1965. Sonny Boy, he ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwMKpLXj1Sg
If ya likes that one, here's another: (That Lil Girl gives) "Eyesight to the Blind."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bxtS6UeOyo
This is actually the second (but more better known, these here days) harp player who called his self Sonny Boy Williamson (the first was John Lee Williamson, who done the classic "Hoodoo Man").
Born Aleck Ford around 1900, he later adopted the last name of Miller, and was known as "Rice," because he was kinda partial to chinese wimminz. He ran with Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Elmore James, Big Joe Williamson and other bluesmen around the Mississippi Delta back in the '30s. Wolf married his sister, so they bruthaz in law, ya know. Got well known hostin the King Biscuit Flour Hour radio show in Helena, Arkansas, and was still doing that show when in died in 1965. Sonny Boy, he ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwMKpLXj1Sg
If ya likes that one, here's another: (That Lil Girl gives) "Eyesight to the Blind."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bxtS6UeOyo
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Hopper
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Fannie Mae!
All ya gotta know is the title to really wanna hear it bad, I figure. Here's a couple bout my good girl, Fannie Mae. The first is kinda a "jump blues" tune by good ole Buster Brown, the second is a slow blues by the incomparable Lightnin Hopkins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmt4JBnnOBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU4NB_UnY34&feature=fvw
All ya gotta know is the title to really wanna hear it bad, I figure. Here's a couple bout my good girl, Fannie Mae. The first is kinda a "jump blues" tune by good ole Buster Brown, the second is a slow blues by the incomparable Lightnin Hopkins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmt4JBnnOBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU4NB_UnY34&feature=fvw
Hopper
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Howze bout a little tune from Bob Dylan's idol, the great Woody Guthrie, eh? Woody used to travel round with Brownie and Sonny, doin shows, and stuff. One time, when they done a show in Jackson, Mississippi, a well-dressed man invited Woody to a banquet they were holding in his honor over to the Union Hall when they finished. So, when they finished playin, they headed over that way.
When they got there, a man at the door said to Brownie and Sonny, "You colored boys can't come in here." So Woody told them "Just wait here, I'll be back."
When he went in, all the bigwigs in town were there, and they started applauding. In one corner, they was a huge table with a fine lace tablecloth, covered with just about every dish imaginable. Woody went straight to it. When he got there, he yanked on that tablecloth and sent all that food flyin in all directions, smatterin all over women in fancy-*** gowns and men in tuxedos. Then he gave them all a damn good cussin, sayin if his friends weren't good enough for them, then they (the crowd) sure as hell weren't good for him. Then he stormed out.
Brownie and Sonny hadn't been waitin for more than a minute or two when he got outside and he said to them: "I'm hungry, boys, let's go down the street to Ida Mae's juke joint and git us some real chow, eh?" Woody, he ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfq5b1bppJQ&feature=related
When they got there, a man at the door said to Brownie and Sonny, "You colored boys can't come in here." So Woody told them "Just wait here, I'll be back."
When he went in, all the bigwigs in town were there, and they started applauding. In one corner, they was a huge table with a fine lace tablecloth, covered with just about every dish imaginable. Woody went straight to it. When he got there, he yanked on that tablecloth and sent all that food flyin in all directions, smatterin all over women in fancy-*** gowns and men in tuxedos. Then he gave them all a damn good cussin, sayin if his friends weren't good enough for them, then they (the crowd) sure as hell weren't good for him. Then he stormed out.
Brownie and Sonny hadn't been waitin for more than a minute or two when he got outside and he said to them: "I'm hungry, boys, let's go down the street to Ida Mae's juke joint and git us some real chow, eh?" Woody, he ROCKS, eh!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfq5b1bppJQ&feature=related
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Hopper
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I figure I gotta slap up this here vid, even though it wasn't zakly what I had in mind next, for two simple reasons:
1. It aint often ya gitta see Lightnin Hopkins and Sonny Terry playin together, and
2. Theys some HOT little cowgirls in this here vid what makes it worth watchin all by theyselfz.
So, then, take a trip with me, eh?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67gNWxHV0gk&NR=1
Addendum: I don't wanna confuse nobuddy. When I said "It aint often ya gitta see Lightnin Hopkins and Sonny Terry playin together" I didn't mean to suggest that it was Sonny playin harp in the video. It aint. It is Lightnin, though. I shoulda said "hear" them playin together. The tune is just played over the video. Actually, that whole video is also on youtube, and it has it's own soundtrack that records what the people are actually sayin/playin as they appear. If ya wanna see it, just go there, eh?
2nd Addendum: Naw, it aint all there no more, the first couple of minutes is all I see now. Used to be there, done got yanked, I guess.
1. It aint often ya gitta see Lightnin Hopkins and Sonny Terry playin together, and
2. Theys some HOT little cowgirls in this here vid what makes it worth watchin all by theyselfz.
So, then, take a trip with me, eh?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67gNWxHV0gk&NR=1
Addendum: I don't wanna confuse nobuddy. When I said "It aint often ya gitta see Lightnin Hopkins and Sonny Terry playin together" I didn't mean to suggest that it was Sonny playin harp in the video. It aint. It is Lightnin, though. I shoulda said "hear" them playin together. The tune is just played over the video. Actually, that whole video is also on youtube, and it has it's own soundtrack that records what the people are actually sayin/playin as they appear. If ya wanna see it, just go there, eh?
2nd Addendum: Naw, it aint all there no more, the first couple of minutes is all I see now. Used to be there, done got yanked, I guess.
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Hopper
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This here vid is purty intristin, if ya ax me. It part of a tribute to Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. It's introduced by Robbie Roberton (from The Band, and, before that, Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks). Arlo Guthrie, Little Richard, Bruce Springstein, Taj Mahal, John Mellencamp, Emmy Lou Harris, Bono, and mebbe more that I don't remember right now, all appear singin a Woody Guthrie tune.
This tune is now (or at least used to be) included in songbooks for schoolchildren, and I spect yawl be knowin it, or at least parts of it. Several verses were considered to be "subversive" when the tune was written in 1940, and even more so in the 1950's, and they were omitted from the songbooks, of course. Pete Seeger recently performed the unexpurgated version at Obama's inauguration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM9siElQo9A&feature=player_embedded#!
This tune is now (or at least used to be) included in songbooks for schoolchildren, and I spect yawl be knowin it, or at least parts of it. Several verses were considered to be "subversive" when the tune was written in 1940, and even more so in the 1950's, and they were omitted from the songbooks, of course. Pete Seeger recently performed the unexpurgated version at Obama's inauguration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM9siElQo9A&feature=player_embedded#!
Gyp Rosetti
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Is that Morgan Freeman?
Hopper
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Who ya talkin bout, Killa? My sig? Somebuddy in a vid? Morgan Freeman is a huge blues fan, and in fact has an ownership interest in a Clarksdale, Mississippi blues juke joint, (LINK) but I aint seen him in this thread, that I recalls. John Lee Hooker (the guy in my sig) is from Clarksdale, as is the Delta Blues Museum and other Delta landmarks, such as the intersection of Highways 61 (north/south) and 49 (east/west), now claimed to be the very crossroads where Robert Johnson done his deal with the Devil.
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Hopper
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Bob Dylan done a tune about highway 61, but it sho nuff wasn't the first, and it wasn't zakly no blues tune, neither. Howlin Wolf, the natural-born tail-dragger, done a tune bout Highway 49: "Imma stop at the wisky-sto, buy me a jug a wine--then Imma hit that hiway, the one they call hiway 49."
This one here, to be perzak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBTENgdnlwI]
Hopper
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Talkin bout Clarksdale, and all, I caint believes I aint slapped up no John Lee Hooker tune yet, eh!? That oversight probably calls for 2-3 John Lee tunes in a row, I figure. This here one has that HOT little Bonnie Raitt in it, helpin John Lee out with his classic tune "I'm in the Mood." And Bonnie aint the onliest HOT BABE, neither. It ROCKS, eh!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADfOighk4k&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PADfOighk4k&feature=related
Hopper
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Yeah, purty damn good, Blood. Mo betta than I expected. I done heard a bunch about this Cobain character, but I think that's the first time I ever heard him sing. Just the name "Nirvana" kinda made me steer away, I spoze.