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

[Pan]

Here's some live footage of "Whistlin'" Alex Moore. Does anyone know where or when this might have been done?



Cheers

Pan

[Bunker Hill]

Here's some live footage of "Whistlin'" Alex Moore. Does anyone know where or when this might have been done?
Pan

A pure stab in the dark but I'm guessing maybe the October/November 1969 continental leg of that year's AFBF. At the Royal Albert Hall he was wearing the same head gear!

http://www.wirz.de/music/moorafrm.htm - scroll down to the live Arhoolie LP recorded on that tour.

[Pan]

Here's some live footage of "Whistlin'" Alex Moore. Does anyone know where or when this might have been done?
Pan

A pure stab in the dark but I'm guessing maybe the October/November 1969 continental leg of that year's AFBF. At the Royal Albert Hall he was wearing the same head gear!

http://www.wirz.de/music/moorafrm.htm - scroll down to the live Arhoolie LP recorded on that tour.

Thanks, Bunker Hill!

Cheers

Pan

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Not exactly Country Blues, but related, sure.  Dinah Washington--whew, what utter authority!  You think her band members gave her any back talk?  I don't think so.

[Gumbo]

Wow! amazing the way she drops into character for the first line. Thank you for posting this one up!

[uncle bud]

yeah! I like her restraint too. Imagine one of today's "divas" doing this. 

[Slack]

love the 'plenty of time' phrasing too.  Send me to the electric.......... chair.

[Johnm]

Dinah Washington was just so cool.  I greatly admire and appreciate the happy absence of melismata, or what I think of as "Gospel Gravy" poured over everything.
All best,
Johnm

[Slack]

what I think of as "Gospel Gravy" poured over everything.

   Funny.

[Pan]

Wow!

Cheers

Pan

[Bunker Hill]

Among blues fans in Britain during the mid 60s there was a "cult" bootleg 45 by Guitar Nubbit of which only 99 copies were pressed. The 'A' side was "Georgia Chain Gang".



I note that Nubbit's death in 1995 is listed in today's Eric's Blues Dates so a good time to revive it.

His discography, such as it is, can be viewed here and a lyric transcription/feature articles can be found at the bottom.

http://www.wirz.de/music/nubbifrm.htm

[Parlor Picker]

Nice choice BH. I have the Guitar Nubbit record on Matchbox, but probably don't play it as often as I should, because it runs at 45 rpm and it's a bit of a performance changing my deck over from 33 rpm.

[dj]

Thanks for finding and posting that one, Bunker Hill.  Georgia Chain Gang was a favorite among the writers/editors of Rolling Stone magazine in its first few years, being reviewed there and, if my memory is accurate, being mentioned as a notable 45 of the year or something like that.  I've known about the song since 1968 or 69, but never heard it until today.

[Gumbo]

First time hearing that for me too, Bunker Hill. Thank you there are some great lyrics in there!

[Rivers]

I wish my country blues name was "Guitar Nubbit"