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

[eric]

The Skip and John piece is fascinating! 

[Pan]

The Skip and John piece is fascinating!

I thought so too! The Robert Pete Williams concert was pretty darn good too!

Now off to bed!

Cheers

Pan

[Parlor Picker]

Pan - it's easy to see how you are spending your time in Berlin! I'd be hard pressed to get through that lot.

[lindy]

For all of us who have looked at one short video on YouTube and then looked up and noticed that a whole hour has gone by, here's a statistic that I've seen in several places during the coverage of protests in the Middle East:

"YouTube is now so popular that 72 hours of new video is uploaded to the site each minute, making it impossible for the company, or anyone else, to review the content before it becomes available across the globe."

1 minute = 72 hours of new video content.

[lindy]

I was reading "Chasin' That Devil Music" and came across a name I hadn't heard before--Moses Mason. He recorded sermons under that name, and a couple of secular sides under the name Red Hot Old Man Moses. I see that his name has popped up a couple of times on Weenie, but to my knowledge, no one has posted this or any other vids of his songs. Let me know if that's not the case:



Actually, I'm really interested in hearing his song about tamales--if I understand the text correctly, the recording is of him hawking his hot tamales, accompanied by a guitar. But I did a very brief search and didn't come up with anything.

The cut is from an Austrian album called "Alabama Country Blues." However, this seems to be another one of those situations where Alabama covers everything between the Georgia and Texas borders--Mason apparently was from Lake Providence, Louisiana. Also, according to the youtube poster, all of his sides were recorded in Chicago in 1928. According to "Chasin'", it sounds like he was a discovery of H.C. Speir, who sent a demo up north with a recommendation to record him.

L

[Johnm]

Hi Lindy,
Look for "Molly Man", which is the phonetic mis-reading of the song title the record company came up with.
All best,
Johnm

[lindy]

Thanks, John. Just as I was drifting off to sleep last night, the thought entered my head "American Primitive -- Pre-War Revenants," and sure enough, there it was on a disc I already own.

"2 for a nickle, 4 for a dime, 'male man!" . . . another thing I miss about not living in the Deep South anymore, hot tamales.

L

[Slack]

 

another thing I miss about not living in the Deep South anymore, hot tamales.

Really?  I didn't care for them much, they reminded me too much of Wolf Brand Chili. Of course a real tamale to me is a red Mexican pork tamale or a green chili cheese tamale.   

[lindy]

Really?  I didn't care for them much, they reminded me too much of Wolf Brand Chili. Of course a real tamale to me is a red Mexican pork tamale or a green chili cheese tamale.   

Was your experience with Deep South tamales in Acadiana? Cajuns do a lot of things right with food, but for tamales you're better off in Mississippi or New Orleans. Many times during the first two years I lived in NO, I walked the mile from my apartment to the Rock 'n Bowl, right past Manuel's Hot Tamales, a little take-out joint at street level beneath the owner's home on South Carrollton. Those tamales did their part to add 20 pounds to my frame while I was living down there. There were several places I found in Mississippi that sold tamales that were as good as Manuel's. Whether or not you like 'em, they're a whole lot different from the Mexican version.

I was told that Manuel's was one of the last hold-outs from a time when you could buy tamales most any night of the week from street vendors. Its street-level location was its downfall, Katrina washed away another mini-institution. As New Orleanians say about these things, "It ain't dere no more."

[Slack]

Not Acadiana, but in the delta.  Here is where we ate:

http://www.doeseatplace.com/menu.html

Grease was every where  , food was very good, place was packed.

[lindy]

Broiled shrimp, garlic bread, and a ribeye at Doe's! Then go sit on the levee and watch the sun set over the Mississippi. Yes!!

[Pan]

A Sonny Boy Nelson (Eugene Powell) video shot by Alan Lomax in 1978:

[Pan]

The Foddrell brothers!

[daddystovepipe]

fine bluesman

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I think I've listened to this about five times in the past two days--John Dee Holman (NOT Holeman) and Fris Holloway getting down on their own bad selves.  This is from Eleanor Ellis's "Blues Houseparty" film.  John Dee is so funky, and for those of you who may be wondering, he is every bit as fun to hang out with as this clip would make him appear to be--a great player and singer and just as great a person.  He should be famous.





All best,
Johnm