Topic: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips

[lindy]

Yes yes yes, my oh my ...

[Wildeman]

Black Ace in 1941 movie clip. Dunno if anybody's posted this already but i thought it was really cool so, here it is.

[eric]

Intense, but cool.  The part where Satan drives away in flatbed truck with the jazz band is wonderful.

[Stuart]

"The Blood of Jesus" and "Go Down Death," along with their director, Spencer Williams,  have been discussed here previously. In the interest of redundancy, here are links:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_Jesus



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Down,_Death!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Williams_(actor)

Spencer Williams

[eric]

Not sure if this is a repost, but here's a Lightning Hopkins documentary I had not seen before.
https://av.lib.uh.edu/media_objects/ng451h485

[Rivers]

Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it before either. Despite my unusually short attention span I watched the whole thing and learned a lot. It deepened my respect for Sam as a person and uniquely gifted musician.

[eric]

Agreed.  I could listen to him talk and play all day.

It deepened my respect for Sam as a person and uniquely gifted musician.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I found this performance by John "Short Stuff" Macon of "Rock Road Bad Treatin'" on youtube recently.  It apparently comes from an album he did with Big Joe Williams on Folkways of which I was unaware.  We're somewhat accustomed to a monotonic bass--a monotonic treble is much less common.  I love the ruminative quality of the song.  Here it is:



All best,
Johnm

[Blues Vintage]

Rare Sam Chatmon footage

[Rivers]

This one gave me the shivers.

[harriet]

Mike Russo ...

[waxwing]

Russo is using a non-opposing right hand technique for much of his playing on this piece, as Leadbelly did, on this and many other songs.

Wax

[harriet]

Here's some more of Mike Russo's 12 string playing, apologies if this has been posted before.

[David Kaatz]

Here's some more of Mike Russo's 12 string playing, apologies if this has been posted before.

I’ve never heard of Russo before the post by Wax.  This one is really great, it’s pretty much an instructional video what with the closeups of both hands. Great energy. I especially liked Gallus Pole.


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[Stuart]

Dave: Here's a thread at mudcat that might be of interest:

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=35043&threadid=35043#475939

Also: http://www.krabarchive.com/krab-from-bluegrass-to-krabgrass-american-traditional-music.html

He accompanied Lightnin' Hopkins at Washington Hall:

https://pauldorpat.com/2012/07/11/john-ullman-on-the-lightning-hopkins-concert-of-sat-oct-21-1967-at-washington-hall-interview-by-paul-dorpat-on-mon-july-9-2012-at-johns-home-in-fremont-or-wallingford-aka-freford-or-wallmon/

Some secret NW musical history that seems to have fallen through the cracks of time.