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Offline uncle bud

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2015, 08:45:07 PM »
Nice job, Harriet. I hadn't heard a number of those. Is the Burnside version with the harmonica another George Mitchell recording? The one I have is solo.

Rollin' and Tumblin' is surely one of the few songs where you can say, "I've got another one-string version." Sadly not on youtube, but Moses Williams does a cool one string version that can be found on Drop On Down in Florida.

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2015, 05:09:58 AM »
Thanks Uncle Bud, Stefan Wirz attributed to a Mitchell according via a reference of according to : Fancourt & McGrath 2012, p. 96, and with the note "this recording first published on and taken from Revival LP RVS 1009 (UK 1971) "Hard Time Mississippi" --- never re-released on CD". There's a screen of the referred to LP label during the presentation.

I will see if I can find the Mose Williams version. I would like to hear it. I found a clip of a video of him on youtube which I like alot.

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2015, 05:33:57 AM »
I've attached the Williams version here. If I may make a pitch - Drop On Down in Florida is a very interesting set with some unusual and fine music and little known players. I'm a happy customer.

Mike Seeger also does a slide banjo version of this song. And there's a Napoleon Strickland fife and drum version that I'd have to listen to harder to pick out the tune.


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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2015, 06:07:32 AM »
Whoa thanks so much for the clip and the referral to both the album and the Dust-to-Digital site - I would be interested in the Florida compilation so thanks for that as well.

 

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #19 on: August 25, 2015, 05:41:55 PM »
Hi all,
I thought I'd do my own version of "Rolled and Tumbled".  It's attached below.
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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #20 on: August 25, 2015, 05:43:15 PM »
Hi all,
I thought of another "Song Family" version of "Rolled and Tumbled", and a particularly strong one:  Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues".
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Johnm

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #21 on: August 25, 2015, 07:33:36 PM »
Nice version, John. Funky! Baritone again?

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #22 on: August 25, 2015, 10:19:11 PM »
Thanks, uncle bud!  Yes, that was on the baritone guitar.
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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #23 on: August 25, 2015, 10:26:51 PM »
Great version,  John! Loved it!

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2015, 04:57:35 AM »
John - I love the chord you're using on the opening lines - really opens things up...  lots of ingredients in here!

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2015, 06:30:23 AM »
Nice one Johnm, sounds like you were really getting... and digging into it!

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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2015, 03:57:58 PM »
Well done, John! It certainly merits inclusion in the next volume of the "Bellingham Field Recordings!"
 
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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2015, 04:54:43 PM »
Thanks, Zohar, Frank, John D., and Stuart.  I'm glad you guys like it.  Re the opening phrase, I realized, Frank, that nobody sings to the IV chord there--they sing to the I chord right through that phrase, so I decided to play to the I chord, too, only acknowledging that IV chord with its root in the bass, sort of like Robert Pete Williams does sometimes.  Anyhow, . . . .
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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #28 on: August 28, 2015, 06:12:54 PM »
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Re: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble
« Reply #29 on: August 28, 2015, 07:41:19 PM »
Here's me doing it in my younger days (1994). I think it's one of the first slide tunes I tried to learn back in the '60s when I used to play with a kitchen knife on a Harmony F hole guitar with a severely warped neck. I always just kind of 'beat it out' as primitively as I could.

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