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Thanks to whoever it was from Logan, Utah, who done sent the cash, overnight mail, even, eh!? As a little reward, Imma slap up a fine-*** Big Bill Broonzy tune, "When I been drinkin." Kinda goes without no sayin, but, it ROCKS, eh!?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB4fIhbRCA8

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Blues Trivia: There is spoken line (repeated once) in the Robert Johnson tune from above. It kinda hard to understand in that video, but he is sayin "Can't you hear the wind howl?," while using his guitar to simulate the sound of a strong wind whistlin through trees, open windows, and such.

A biographic flim, narrated by Danny Glover and starrin Keb Mo, as Robert Johnson, was made a while back, usin that line for it's title ("Can't You Hear the Wind Howl?"). I aint never seen it, cause I aint never come across it and aint never gone huntin for it, but I spect it's very good. Anyone seen it?
 
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Lil mo trivia: "Eric Clapton pays tribute to Robert Johnson on his new CD "Me And Mr. Johnson," on Duck/Reprise Records, released March 30th, 2004. "It is a remarkable thing to have been driven and influenced all of my life by the work of one man," Clapton says. "And even though I accept that it has always been the keystone of my musical foundation, I still would not regard it as an obsession; instead, I prefer to think of it as a landmark that I navigate by, whenever I feel myself going adrift. I am talking, of course, about the work of Robert Johnson.
Now, after all these years, his music is like my oldest friend, always in the back of my head, and on the horizon. It is the finest music I have ever heard. I have always trusted its purity, and I always will."
 
A lil Hound Dawg Taylor, anybuddy? Hound Dawg is best knowwed for his smokin slide guitar playin, a lotta of it stold from the style of the great Elmore James. Lil trivia fo Hound Dawg: He wuz borned with 6 fingers on each hand (well, actually 5 fingers and one thumb, but....) but he chopped them off with a butcher knife one night, when he wuz drunk, so, not no mo, see? In this vid, ya will seez the excellent Brewer Phillips on bass. Hound Dawg had ta bust a cap in Brewer's *** one night fo dissin his wimminz so bad. He wuz drunk, of course, and he kinda feltz sorry bout it later. Goes without no kinda sayin, I spoze, but he's drunk in this here vid, too, as he always wuz onstage....well, or offstage, for that matter. So, then, to kinda sum it all up, and all, Hound Dawg, he ROCKS, eh!?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX9UG8rqRRQ
 
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More bout Hound Dawg, writ mo betta than I can do:

"...when he was only 9 years old, his step father supposedly packed up all of his things in a brown paper bag, stood in the doorway with a shotgun, and told Hound Dog to “cut out”. In 1942, Taylor, always the ladies man, was chased out of Mississippi one day by the Klan after having an affair with a white woman. He spent the first day hiding in drainage ditches and then the next day he headed for Chicago. He never went back. He was in a club one night chasing a couple of women around when a friend called him a hound dog because he was always on the hunt for woman. The name stuck.

Freddie King became a star with the song “Hideaway”. A good portion of this song was copied from an instrumental King heard Taylor cranking out in a nightclub. Hound Dog never did receive composer’s credit for the song, but didn’t seemed to be bothered by it either, as King was only one of several bluesman who borrowed from him.

During any given show, Hound Dog would first drink a straight shot of whiskey, chasing it with a mixed drink. He then would down a whole glass of beer. All three drinks were drank rapidly, one after the other. After that he was ready to play! Hound Dog would start off a show usually saying something like “Hey, let’s have some fun!”, and did they ever!

It seemed Phillips said something insulting about Hound Dog’s wife Fredda, so Hound Dog left the room, and then returned with a .22 rifle. Aiming for the couch, he hit Phillips twice, once in the forearm and once in the leg....On his deathbed, his last wish was granted when Phillips visited him in the hospital and forgave him for the shooting. Hound Dog Taylor passed away the very next day, December 17, 1975."

I guess Hound Dawg never chopped off but one of his extry fingers: "...one night, drunk out of his mind, Hound Dog took a straight razor and cut off the small extra finger on his right hand. The extra finger on his left hand remained there until his death." There's a picture of his left hand, and more of the story, richeea: https://www.tdblues.com/?p=556 If ya goes there, ya should autta check out the link there to another tune Hound Dawg done at that same Ann Arbor Blues festival---they havvin theysef some fun, sho nuff!
 
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And now, ladies and gennomenz, for the next true-fine blues classic here on the Jazzfanz blues channel, comes Brownie (McGhee) and Sonny (Terry), the all-time great guitar/harp duo.

Sonny, the harp playa, went blind when he wuzza chile. It was unpreventable, even though the best available methods were used to try and prevent it. His Pappy even used to put sandpaper gloves on his mitts at night, but still...

Anyways, even though he couldn't see nuthin, Sonny knowwed how to take care of his self. One day him and Brownie wuz walkin down da street in Harlem and three gangstaz jumped they ***. In a flash, Sonny had hauled out his revolver and squeezed off 6 rounds, goin in most every direction. He didn't hit nobuddy, but them thugs left--and they didn't never come back, neither.

Brownie, he wuz kinda a cripple his own damn self, had a bum leg on accounta polio when he wuzza chile, but he could sit and strum a guitar like nobuddy's bidnizz. He could also act (his leg got fixed in 1937), and starred in "The Jerk," a Steve Martin flick, and, of course, played Toots Sweet in the classic flick (with Mickey Rourke, Bobby De Niro and that HOT little Lisa Bonet), Angel Heart.

Anyways, this here vid, it ROCKS, needless to say:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKvn6WRwQM
 
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