What a great recording! Thanks for posting it.
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Well, I ain't got no voice, but I'll give you the words of an old Memphis song.' William Brown began to sing in his sweet true country voice, poking in delicate passages at every pause, like the guitar was a second voice commenting with feeling on the ironic words of the blues... This was the real blues... The blues in print give you the skeleton only. If you've never heard the blues, get yourself a record and listen and then come back and join us... William Brown's song can last until the morning... - Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Glad you enjoyed that, Mark. I really dig Sam Chatmon, such a great singer.
Fun fact; His birth name was Vivian Chatmon but he changed it to Sam 'cause he thought it sounded too much like woman. I don't believe his claim that he was the half brother of Charley Patton. I gotta keep listening to that 7nd verse. Re-Listening, I really hear "town" and "swear"
Well, now I ain’t gon’ holler, town’s too small, if you don't catch me, woman, swear that's all I hear "swear" now too, Harry, and I do think it sounds more like "town's" than "time's". Good work!
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