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

[frankie]

it also looks like the same (?) Harmony Sovereign is being used by Big Joe in the video that John posted...  you get a good peek at the headstock from just the right angle at about 4:30.

Incidentally, Joe's using a Gibson (ANY guitar could be improved using Joe's method) in that french video...  and there's a KILLER "44 Blues" in it.

[uncle bud]

aside: what a wild stringing scenario! No idea if that's how he regularly strung his guitars (relationship of the added tuners to the added strings), but that would probably keep ME from messing with Joe's guitar. Not to mention that  he'd probably kick my ass!

He'd have to catch you first.

That French film is great. Too bad about the voice over. I like how Big Joe seems pretty damn entertained by .44 Blues himself. And the tune he plays alone after it that starts with the "blues jumped a rabbit" verse is very cool too.

[Pan]

Alan Lomax's complete 1942 recordings of Sid Hemphill and his band.

Songlist:

0:00.
Lomax introduction (AFS 6670 A1)

0:53.
The Eighth of January (6670A2)
Hemphill, Sid (vocal and fiddle); Smith, Lucius (banjo); Askew, Alec (guitar)

3:43.
Interview with Sid Hemphill about his father, repertoire, instruments, and the Carrier Line. (6670A3)

7:51.
The Carrier Line (6670 B1)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

13:37.
The Roguish Man (part 1) (6670 B2)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

18:57.
The Roguish Man (part 2) (6670 A4) [sic]
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

19:56.
Interview with Sid Hemphill about his composition "The Roguish Man" and Jack Castle. (6670 A5)

21:22.
Interview with Sid Hemphill about his composition "The Strayhorn Mob." (6671 A1)

22:30.
The Strayhorn Mob (6671 A2)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar); unidentified (kazoo)

27:25.
Boll Weevil (6671 A3)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

32:46.
Arkansas Traveler (6671 B1)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

38:27.
Tunings and demo (guitar, banjo, kazoo) (6671 B2)

40:08.
Come On, Boys, Let's Go to the Ball (6672 A1)
Askew, Alec (vocal and quills); Lucius Smith or Will Head (bass drum)

41:55.
Come On, Boys, Let's Go to the Ball (6672 A2)
Askew (vocal and quills)

43:35.
Emmaline, Take Your Time (6672 A3)
Hemphill (vocal and quills)

46:08.
The Devil's Dream (6672 A4)
Hemphill (vocal and quills); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

49:20.
Leather Britches (6672 B1)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

50:30.
Rye Straw (6672 B2)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar); Head (bass drum)

52:38.
So Soon I'll Be At Home (6672 B3)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

54:13.
Jesse James (6673 A1)
Artists: Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

55:57.
After the Ball Is Over (6673 A2)
Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

57:54.
The Sidewalks of New York (6673 A3)
Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

1:00:00.
The Death March (6673 A4)
Hemphill (fife); Smith (bass or snare drum); Head (bass or snare drum)

1:01:56.
John Henry (6673 A5)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

1:05:26.
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (6673 B1)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

1:09:00.
Hog Hunt (6673 B2)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo); Askew (guitar)

1:13:38.
Soon In the Morning (6673 B3)
Hemphill (fiddle and vocal); Smith (banjo)



Cheers

Pan

[Pan]

Hi all.

Some recent founds on YT.

Roosevelt Antrim (whose singing I really like):



Mose Andrews:






Ed Andrews:





Cheers

Pan

[Johnm]

You are finding some great stuff, Pan!

Here is Clyde Davenport fiddling "All Night Long", backed by Bobby Fulcher on guitar and vocal.  Bobby has often acted as Clyde's accompanist and assistant at festivals.  When I saw Clyde play this tune at Port Townsend Fiddle Tunes in the mid-90s, I was amazed, for I never thought I would hear it played so close to how Leonard Rutherford fiddled it.  Clyde is a wonderful banjo player, too.

All best,
Johnm

[Mr.OMuck]

Smokey Babe with intro by a Brit broadcaster

[Laura]

Smokey Babe with intro by a Brit broadcaster

The broadcaster has to be the late John Peel. A very cool guy.

[Mr.OMuck]

Yes it is John Peel even says so on the Video, DOH! In other Smokey Babe News it has been rumored that 17 as yet unreleased cuts of his will be released on Arhoolie this summer.

[Parlor Picker]

Peel was so important to so many people. He was like a mate who played records just for you.

I was introduced to that wonderful Smoky Babe album by the late Simon Napier on one of my then regular visits to Flyright Records. It was remaindered and probably cost 99p or thereabouts. Every blues fan I played it to subsequently was blown away by it and rightly so.

[JohnLeePimp]

[frankie]

Robert Pete Williams - I'm So Glad My Mother Teached Me How To Pray



just....

[frankie]

And for the last couple months, I've not been able to get this out of my peripheral hearing:



briefly mentioned in this thread:

http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4500.msg56111#msg56111

[harriet]

[BlueInGreen]

Thought some you might enjoy this recording of guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, the son of Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, playing an instrumental African blues tune in his backyard:



There are more great songs in this playlist.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I moved the link to Vieux Farka Toure over to this thread, from the Main Forum.
All best,
Johnm