A different version of Killing Floor. Still blues?

If this was any cooler it'd be frozen.

Two of my favorites, Charley Patton and Blind Willie McTell:



Blind Willie McTell, Your Southern Can is Mine:



Madame Pamita answers Blind Willie McTell:

What's the story behind that last video Pop? Did she do a whole album or just the one video? I'm guessing you two are friends and she simply asked you to be in it?

I like the rag influenced blues sound of all 3 songs btw. I grew up listening to my grandfather play lots of Scott Joplin and other ragtime on the piano. He was pretty good too!

Pamita is a friend, and just asked me to be a part of this video. It is part of a wonderful album recorded completely on Edison Wax cylinders called "Wax Works":

http://madamepamita.com/album/53780/mada......ax-works

Charlie Patton is often called the "Founder of the Delta Blues." I think his excited and lively playing just jumps off the record.

Rev. Gary Davis:

This is the amazing Peg Leg Sam. He was from South Carolina. I knew him back in the 1970's from several shows we both worked. He was an amazing story teller, comic, dancer and singer. He used to work the medicine shows.





Here's video of Sam dancing and playing:

The Wax Works story is fascinating. I think it's still amazing technology for being so "primitive."

Thanks for sharing Pop, Sam looks like he lived one hard life. I loved his dancing. He was very talented; it's too bad that many young people today either don't get to, or don't care to, see this stuff. He is a piece of American history.

Thought I'd dig this up today to brag on my daughter. She works at a thrift store and has been keeping an eye out for blues cds for me. She recently brought home Muddy Waters His Best 1947-1955 and John Lee Hooker The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954. I'm really digging the John Lee Hooker.

Here's a couple if you want to check it out.

For a bit of variety:

You read my mind, Arthur.

You want old blues? How about the Mississippi Sheiks?



The original version of Sitting on Top of the World (1930).


And if that's not old enough for you, here's W.C. Handy from 1914.

Totally love old Blues!!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIsbDzMRTf0

Cmm,
related to "Old Blues",
this Thread's theme;
but indirectly....
'true blues'.
"Old Blues" creates a drive, with its' repetetive verse
and 12 bar repetetive chords and rhythm,..
very moving.
Like a maschine,
it'll eventually pull you in(!).

What I call, "true" blues,
tears you a part,
with it's text.
A lot of 'true blue-sers'
studied the Old Bluesmen.

Townes van Zandt,
Blaze Foley....
both hung out with Lightnin' Hopkins,...
but sang a 'different' blues..

http://youtu.be/69YCXgVdyR4

,an example of Blaze Foley.
This type of music, is a bit harder to get hit from,..
because the feeling comes thru the text,..
then,
the tones, rhythm, lighting, and stage design.....
A bit like old theater,
...what they're saying,
how they're saying it,..
can be very moving.

hope you like it.
gallagher

I'm seeing Steve Martin in "The Jerk."

"Do we HAVE to listen to that music? It's so depressing!"

I notice most of the first links in this thread are covered on the CD, Best of The Blues Newport 59-68.
All from disc one: Delta Blues. It's the best disc of the set.

Also check out:
Disc: 2
1. Levee Camp Blues - Robert Pete Williams

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Blues-1959-19......tival+cd

Sexists!!

BB King gets a little funky.

Thanx to all contributors to this topic. Almost all of these older country blues guys (and gals) have passed. I was a blues lover starting in the late 60's and was fortunate to have met and known a few like Mance Lipscomb and Sam Chatmon (one of the Miss Sheiks). But one distinctive memory I can't shake was when I was street singing in New Orleans (imagine a white kid playing old country blues in 1969). An old guy came up and asked if he could play my guitar, and he nearly brought me to tears. I asked him his name and he said "Babe Stovall" (I actually had heard of him from an old 78 and never knew if he was alive). We sat on the fountain steps and played music with one another for hours. Almost all of the old guys loved sharing their music, and kept up correspondence til their deaths. I play more jazz nowadays; but it don't mean nothin' without the blues. Some tidbits here: Memphis Minnie was the lead guitarist in her group according to Big Bill Broonzy, and she developed numerous famous licks still played by guitarists today like in "Chauffeur Blues". Sam Chatmon played old time jazz as well as blues. Rev Gary Davis played Bob Dylan songs! And finally, I've always loved Dylan's song "No one could sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell". The blues is still alive and evolving, but I still miss these old guys (and gals). Memories are all I can share; so again thanx to all contributors. Lynn

Don't forget Blind Lemon Jefferson.