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Why aint they no blues thread?

Big Maybelle, she aint playin, eh!?

Couple posts back, I slapped up a Killa recordin that covered a ole blues toon. Memba dat? Anyways, this here time, Imma leaves da Killa outta it, even though he hadda big-*** hit with this here tune he stold from po ole Big Maybelle, ya know? Maybelle done it in '53. Da Killa--not til '55 or '56, as I recalls. That aint Maybelle in the vid (they didn't callz her "Big" cuz she was some tiny-*** Babe, know what I'm sayin?), but she's HOT! What mo could ya want, I ax ya?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp11vxr_pD4

Cake an pie onna plate...

Shakin, shakin, we shakin dat plate...

Big Maybelle, she ROCKS, eh!?
 
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Ya can takes Hank to da Bank, I tellya!

Lotta peoples seemz to thinks da great Hank Williams done "country music," ya know? My own damn self, I aint never seen it quite that way. In my book, Hank, he justa white boy, from da country, true dat, but, like, who aint, I ax ya, singin da blues. Aint no whistle more lonesum that this one here, I figure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIo5x-q1GNo
 
Gimme da CASH, eh!?

Johnny Cash is another white boy, supposedly singin "country music," who just done blues tunes sometimes, ya know? Like Elvis, Da Killa, and the great Carl Perkins, Johnny started his recordin career with Sun Records in Memphis back in the mid-50's. The kinda music they was blendin up (a mixture of blues, country, rock, religious spirituals, and traditional folk) at the time was often called "Rockabilly" (hillbillys doin rock and rock, ya know?). Johnny was born during the depths of the depression (1932) in Arkansas, and went to work in the cotton fields at age 5, singin "work hollers" and spirituals as he went. The boy knowed the blues.

Here's Johnny doin a couple of tunes recorded by Leadbelly in the '40's: First, the classic "Rock Island Line" and then a tune he called "I got stripes" (which Leadbelly, who knowed well what "stripes" was, done under the title "On a Monday").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50zlJX0B3gQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jsU96tGlQw
 
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Sittin here, thinkin.....(Nuther white boy singin da blues)

Like Johnny Cash, who he would later tour with for about 8 years in the late '60's and early '70s, Carl Perkins was born in 1932 (in west Tennessee) and, like Johnny, he was pickin cotton at age 6. His folks was the onliest white family on a share-croppin plantation, and he worked with the black boys in the field, singin as they went, as Carl put it "from can to can't" (14 hours a day for fifty cents). Carl had a 60 year old blues-playin black man, named John Westbrook, who help learn him how to play guitar as a chile (he hadda home-made contraption--a cigar box on a broomstick, with some strings to start).

Carl wrote most of his own songs and had his own style, which he said was just blues, speeded up a little, influencing a lot of other artists as he went. After Elvis heard his (own) studio version of Blue Moon of Kentucky, he excitedly said: "That sounds like Carl Perkins!" Presley later had a big hit coverin the Perkins' tune "Blue Suede Shoes," which was basically a 12 bar blues tune with "rockabilly" overtones. He had to wait until after Perkins' own version (which was the first Sun record to sell over one million copies) had cooled down, though. Paul McCartney, said "If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles," and the Beatles covered several of his early tunes, such as Honey Don't, Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, and Matchbox, all rockabilly classics. He also wrote such classics as Boppin the Blues, True Love, All Mama's Children (wanna rock), and a lotta others.

This here tune, Matchbox, recorded at Sun studios with Jerry Lee, da Killa, playin the piano (where he gits outta key for a short spell) in 1956, was first recorded by the great early bluesman, Blind Lemon Jefferson, in 1927. Carl's version is a little different, of course, but throws in some recurrent blues lines which appear in various older blues toons (the big-dog, little-dog, stanza, for example). Goes without no kinda sayin, of course, but it ROCKS, eh!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPQwtalHNNk
 
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Sam, he aint no scam, eh!?

Long bout time to throws in a classic (just one of many he done done, such as Wonderful World, Chain Gang, Only Sixteen, Twistin the Night Away, Change is Gunna Come, Let the Good Times Roll, and plenty more) tune from the one and onliest Sam Cooke, eh!? This here tune was cut in 1962, and has since by covered by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (separately), Eric Burdon and the Animals, Brownie and Sonny, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Bon Jovi, Lou Rawls, Van Morrison, and a whole crapload of other pervs, ya know?

Sam was a homeboy of Muhammad Ali, and a good ole boy from Clarksdale, Mississippi, just like good ole John Lee Hooka. A damn shame he got smoked in a LA motel, all on account of some damn ho stealin his wallet outta his pants when he wuz done with her, then runnin off, when he was only 33 years old, ya know? I means a DAMN SHAME. He's a legend, either way, but we all done got cheated outta a lotta fine-*** tunes, I figure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAQE-tHjPAc
 
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Cheat yo *** fair

Maxwell Street in Chicago used to have open air market where ya could buys anythang ya wanted, mostly stold, legal, illegal, or female, ya know? The Bluesmen would play on the streets and sidewalks all day for tips and soon learned they had to go electric and amp up they music if the they wanted to be heard as the crowd rambled and rummaged through the offerins set out on cardboards tables. Cheat You Fair is (was) a kinda junk shop on the famous corner of Halstead and Maxwell on Chicago's South (and West) side and ya can see it as it was in the mid 80's in this clip from the Blues Brothers. Best thang here in John Lee, with Big Walter (Shaky) Horton on harp, Pinetop Perkins on keyboards, and Luther Johnson on guitar, playin Boom Boom, of course!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRqBhy8T8Vs


Whole movies have been made about Maxwell street and the blues, such as the critically acclaimed 90 minute documentary discussed by wiki HERE. Below is a short clip from the late 40's/early 50's which kinda gives ya the ole-timey flavor. Needless to say, they got Robert Johnson's Sweet Home, Chicago (what else, ya know?) playin in the background (kinda choppy, but, still...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RZkWYpxPU


Hubert Sumlin, Howlin Wolf's great guitar player, remembers Maxwell Street here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udlmOhMQiU4&feature=related[/url]
 
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The Pappy of Rock and Roll.

What do Son House, Bob Dylan, B. B. King, Keith Richards, Honeyboy Edwards, Eric Clapton, Johnny Shines, and Led Zeppelin all have in common? Well, for one thang, they all show up in this here vid, that's what. It aint about them, though, it's about da one and onliest Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues, and the Father of Rock and Roll. It ROCKS, eh?

Clapton: "I think he's the greatest blues guitar player who ever lived, and the greatest singer, the greatest writer. It's still the most powerful cry that I think you can find in music or the human voice."

Richards: "You think you're getting a handle on how to play the blues, and then you hear Johnson and you say: Whoa, there a long way to go, Man."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4p432u8Ls&feature=related
 
Don't mess wit Chess

If ya aint done seen it, ya should autta haul *** down to the vid store and check out a flick called "Cadillac Records," eh? True story about Chess records and some of the blues greats who recorded there, such as Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Little Walter, Willie Dixon, and Chuck Berry (they left Bo Diddley clean out of it, though, the fools!). Good tale, good actin, and, best of all, great music, ya know? Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfI1q8TbY2E

And here's a short clip from the flick, featurin Little Walter's classic tune, "My Babe." Willie Dixon is narratin, and Muddy Waters is in the scene. Just a little taste, ya know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmxTbcnW6bY&NR=1

Finally, here's actual footage givin some of the history of Chess Records and the Delta/Chicago blues, goin back to slavery days. It features sound and music clips of Son House (sittin at the bar wearin a straw hat while Wolf is playin), Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Robert Nighthawk (playin on Maxwell Street), Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry, the Stones, Robert Cray, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, and Eric Clapton. It ROCKS, eh!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqOlGhDyjas
 
Jimi doin Muddy

Here's a tune where Jimi Hendrix don't try doin nuthin fancy; he just straight-up coverin Muddy Waters (doin a tune writ by Willie Dixon), eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_s4mI_FKnQ&feature=related



Know what, though? Damn good, but still aint as good as Muddy his own damn self, if ya ax me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BugvmSKwwWg&feature=related
 
Pig Meat Papa

Here's a fine lil tune from around 1929 done by Bo Carter, called "Pig Meat Papa." Bo played solo, and also with the great Mississippi Sheiks. Bo also managed the Shieks, which included his brother, Lonnie Chatmon, on fiddle and occasionally Sam Chatmon on bass. Carter and his brothers (including pianist Harry Chatmon, who also made recordings), first learned music from their father, ex-slave fiddler Henderson Chatmon, at their home on a plantation between Bolton and Edwards, Mississippi.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzjIeXeW5g

In 1928, Bo, frontin for the Sheiks, recorded the original version of "Corrine, Corrina", which later became a hit for Big Joe Turner and has become a standard in various musical genres. It's been covered by everybuddy and his brutha, includin the Stones, Muddy Waters, Clapton, Willie Nelson, Phish, Jerry Lee, and the Grateful Dead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbHs1EgFN5c

So, there ya have it then, eh? Bo, he ROCKS!
 
Great thread you started here Hopper.

I know R.L. has been posted, but his voice has so much soul I had to post another. I wore this album out...as they say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_5eSkQudw&feature=related

Without the blues, one of my favorite bands never would have happened - Pink Floyd. Throughout their 30 years - they were a blues band more than anything else: "Shine on You Crazy Diamond", "Breathe", "Echo's" , "Atom Heart Mother", the list goes on. This is from their final album and it's great to see David Gilmour keeping the blues alive in his own way...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W6hBI1SAL4
 
Thanks for the input, eh, Blue? Good tunes, them! Anybuddy else wanna slap in some tunes, just go right on ahead wit yo bad self and does it, ya know? Don't nobuddy never say nuthin in this here thread, sept fo my sorry ***. They probably aint but 8-10 peoples who pay it any mind, anywaze, I knowz, but dat don't mean ya caint say nuthin. Any comments, any blues pervs ya wanna talks bout, anything at all, long as it aint some damn punk music, eh?
 
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