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

[Gumbo]

Not enough folks do ...  That last go round'll get you every time ...

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Ernest V. Stoneman's version of the Titanic was alluded to early in the thread devoted to the Titanic.  The late Mike Seeger was the only person I can recall having seen play autoharp and harmonica on a rack simultaneously the way Stoneman does here.  Stoneman's time-keeping on the autoharp is really interesting and unusual--a perfectly straight-up-and-down boom-chang with absolutely no syncopation and his picking thumb operating almost like a bass drum.  This version is early, from 1924, and was a big seller evidently.  I think its lyrics, especially, greatly influenced a lot of later versions of the song.
All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I just saw this video on facebook and thought to post it here.  It is Mississippian Mike Compton, and boy, does he know what he's doing!  It was evidently filmed on March 17, 2012, so it is right current.
all best,
Johnm

[Rivers]

Wow. You can tell that many hours have been invested in practicing. He's so free with the instrument that the licks happen at the speed of thought. Amazing.

[JohnLeePimp]

Not youtube - footage of Whistlin Alex Moore

http://www.folkstreams.net/film,162

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Prof. Scratchy posted this on facebook the other day.  I know nothing about the player, Andrew Dunham, but he is REALLY country.  That is some lonesome playing.
All best,
Johnm

[dj]

I know nothing about the player, Andrew Dunham...

Neither do I.  But from the Fancourt/McGrath Blues Discography, I can tell you that Sweet Lucy was one of 19 songs Dunham recorded in Detroit in 1949, probably all at the same session (the matrix numbers are consecutive).

I love it that I've spent a lifetime listening to music, and stuff I've never heard that's as good as this keeps popping up!

[Johnm]

Thank you for this information, dj.  I did a search for Andrew Dunham at YouTube and there were three videos, all very recently posted, each with less than 20 hits.  Of the two other than "Sweet Lucy", one was essentially musically identical to it, and similarly played out of A position in standard tuning, and the other was backed out of D position in standard tuning with almost a Henry Thomas-type approach (though on an electric guitar).  I agree with you that it is really neat to hear someone so interesting-sounding whom I had never heard of before.
All best,
Johnm 

[Annette]

Here's an interesting one!



Not seen any Leon Redbone on here yet so here's one:

Leon Redbone

Here is my mate Giles Hedley playing a tune he'd never heard until I plaued him the original - his guitar is a 1930's Grimshaw and is a pig to play.



And another one of him doing unspeakable things with a harmonica:



And an interesting John Lee Hooker item I've not seen here yet - Groundhogs backing - and I love all the cool looking people in the audience:



And here is my channel (be gentle with me):

http://www.youtube.com/user/clelmore?feature=mhee

I no longer own the !970's Dobro Model 30 as it had to go to allow me to live!

Oh and let's say me and Frankie Jaxon have something in common....

Here is my b/f Chris's channel too he is much more an old time banjo and mandolin player:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrChrislawrance

Annette

[jaycee]

whats there to be gentle about really enjoyed your playing annette.

[Annette]

And here is a nice one by Paul Oscher:

[Bunker Hill]

Hi all,
Prof. Scratchy posted this on facebook the other day.  I know nothing about the player, Andrew Dunham, but he is REALLY country.  That is some lonesome playing.
All best,
Johnm

Dunham's entry in Robert Ford's Blues Bibliography is thus:

ANDREW DUNHAM
BD1138.   Smith, Chris. Andrew Dunham and Friends. Detroit Blues. Vol. 2. UK: Krazy Kat KK 7423, 1984.

BD1139.   Smith, Chris. Sylvester Cotton & Andrew Dunham: Blues Sensation. UK: Ace CDCHD 869, 2003.

I have the Krazy Kat LP which Chris Smith, in the absence of anything known about the singer, does an interesting job of discussing the songs and their lyrics. The LP received very good reviews at the time but sales were disappointing.

Shortly I'll post a scan under Books & Articles section Weenie.

[evan]

[evan]

I'm sure you guys can appreciate ol' clark kessinger

[evan]