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

[One-Eyed Ross]

Well, Prof, it is Jimmy Strange...

[daddystovepipe]

Newport Folk Festival footage with short clips of Mc Dowell and John Hurt
Would love to know the origin and if there's more

[Lastfirstface]

Maybe it is extra footage from the Murray Lerner documentary "Festival"?

[alyoung]

Ha! My trainspotting award must surely be in the mail ... in the John Hurt excerpt, at 2.54 there is a quick close-up of his left hand -- wearing a finger slide, which he most assuredly did not use on Candy Man.

[bnemerov]

yep, Al. Well spotted.
It's not John's hands or guitar is it? No Truth in Editing here.
Hurt braced his right hand ring and pinky fingers and arched his wrist; not flailing around like in this shot.
Looks more like Son House's right hand which accounts for the slide.
Hurt's right hand position always reminds me of Earl Scruggs'...anybody else notice the similarity?
best,
bruce

[harriet]

The guitar looks like it's a national in that...sheesh!

I wish there were more footage of McDowell publicly available in the Folk Festival clips, in the one that features Dylan there's even less.

[David Kaatz]

David Lindley playing a fretless oud.

[uncle bud]

[Blues Vintage]

That's pretty good. Buddy Guy also does a good version of this song on the "Blues Singer" album.

[CF]

Ha ha, I was just about to post the above video of 19 yr old Jontavious Willis from Greenville, GA. Check it out gang, the kid is great.

[David Kaatz]

Just heard this on KEXP while streaming the Roadhouse show from Sept 9, 2015. A great show full of mostly obscure soul, but the DJ Greg Vandy also played this.


Also Vandy's online magazine looks interesting:
http://www.americanstandardtime.com/

Video links are no longer showing up, even without the 's' in the address. 
Dave

[Slack]

Video links are no longer showing up, even without the 's' in the address.

We just switched our video embed mod to try and correct the 's' problem.  Not sure what you mean Dave re: not showing up, as I see all the videos on this page..?

[David Kaatz]

Video links are no longer showing up, even without the 's' in the address.

We just switched our video embed mod to try and correct the 's' problem.  Not sure what you mean Dave re: not showing up, as I see all the videos on this page..?

Thanks, Slack,
I meant that when I hit the preview button, I can't see the videos, or previous commenter's videos. I used to be able to. No problem, the video shows up in the actual post when I look at it.
Dave

[Bald Melon Jefferson]

For anyone out there who has ever had to play to a tough and/or indifferent crowd...I give you the amazing Samuel James.
Mr. James was an inspired and welcome addition to the teaching staff at this year's Centrum's Port Townsend Acoustic Blues week. A tremendous performer, a kind and generous teacher and brilliant songwriter with a wicked and subversive sense of humor.

Enjoy.
Gary

[banjochris]

Just audio on this one, but what audio! (Apologies if this has been posted before.)