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

[harriet]

For those interested this youtube channel has been posting recording, some of which are not on cd as noted in the comment section on the clip below, some are from his collection. There may be, but I did not see footage with the audio on any I looked at.

There's currently 9 by Fred Mcdowell, including Highway61 on a resonator,. There are recordings from alot more artists including Furry Lewis, Mance Lipsccomb, Peg Leg Sam, Baby Tate,Lightning Hopkins, Sonny Terry and Brownie MCGhee, Cecil Barfield, Henry Rule Johnson, Pink Anderson, Bukka White among others.

[eric]

Great version of Ella Speed!

[Stuart]

Thanks for posting this, Harriet. There's a treasure trove of great music there.

[eric]

Inspired by the discussion of You Got to Keep Things Clean in which dj digresses into a discussion of Armstrong Linoleum Flooring, I got to thinking about product placement in country blues*.  I remember the first time I heard this tune on Chris Strachwiz's radio program and I thought, man, I gotta find that service station at 1668 Frank Road.



*Maybe there was a thread on this?

[waxwing]

16 pages worth.

https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4160.0

Wax

[eric]

Thanks, Waxwing.

[Parlor Picker]

That picture of Fred McDowell above is interesting in that there appears to be no sign of a bottleneck and he's playing a flat-top acoustic rather than the usual arch-top or electric. Whatever he's playing, the man could do no wrong in my book and I am pleased and honoured to have seen him play live in London in the late 60s. I travelled over 200 miles specially to see him and it sure was worth it.

[harriet]

That picture of Fred McDowell above is interesting in that there appears to be no sign of a bottleneck and he's playing a flat-top acoustic rather than the usual arch-top or electric. Whatever he's playing, the man could do no wrong in my book and I am pleased and honoured to have seen him play live in London in the late 60s. I travelled over 200 miles specially to see him and it sure was worth it.

I'm pretty sure the photo is from the Philadelphia Folk Festival, August 28, 1970 - there's another online with Bonnie Raitt with him wearing the same clothes. I've seen him in several photos where he was playing a flat top off stage at festivals. 

The resonator was identified as Bob West's who interviewed him in 1969 for KRAB-fm and the link is here to the page: http://www.krabarchive.com/programs/krab-has-the-blues-king-biscuit-time.html.  The interview itself is over an hour and he plays about 13 songs and converses with West and others - West accompanies him on the resonator at one point.  I found it very interesting.  The interview is entitled " Mississippi Fred McDowell - Rec at KRAB Aug 9, 1969; KRAB Sep 13, 1969".  He's playing the new Electric which might have been the Trini Lopez model and IMHO is in top form.

[Lyndvs]

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I've seen him in several photos where he was playing a flat top off stage at festivals. 
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Indeed.There`s rather a nice photo of him playing a J200.Also,anyone familiar with Fred`s repertoire
would know that he played many,many non-slide songs.

[Prof Scratchy]

Hadn’t come across Gene Campbell till today, via a tip from a friend. What a great performer he was. Does anyone know anything about him?

[Johnm]

Hi Prof,
Apart from the fact that I think most, if not all of his sessions were recorded in Texas, I think pretty much nothing is known about Gene Campbell in a biographical sense, or even if he only sang on his records or was self-accompanied. You can listen to all of his recorded numbers now in the "Gene Campbell Lyrics" thread, at: https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4700.msg34673#msg34673 .  I sure like his singing, and he had a lot of interesting and original lyrics, too.
All best,
Johnm

[Prof Scratchy]

Don't know how I missed him before! Will certainly listen to all the tracks now. Thanks for the link!

[harriet]

Here's a page on Gene Campbell with little bit of the biography that was found on him by researchers...
http://oldtimeblues.net/tag/gene-campbell/

[Prof Scratchy]

Thanks Harriet!

[Forgetful Jones]

Hello-
I don't have anything to add about Gene Campbell. I've come across him a couple times on this site, but I hadn't heard that particular track before. I like those runs between vocal lines a lot. JohnM- I agree about his singing. Fantastic. Thank you for posting, Prof.
Take care