"[We played in] restaurants, taverns, and gangster hangouts. Played... Italian music, German music, we played polka music... we'd play blues, too... we played wherever the dancers was." - Roosevelt Scott, on the life of a "bluesman" in Chicago in the 1940s. From an interview with Jim O'Neal, quoted in the notes to Document CD 5413.That's awfully familiar. It's Jim O'Neal in his superb sleevenotes to the double LP Okeh Chicago Blues, Epic EG37318, 1982, from an unpublished interview. Bob Eagle also interviewed Scott and that was published in Blues World 43, (Summer 1972 p.9 & 12) as "Roosvelt [sic] Scott Remembers ?.". If it's interesting enough I might scan and post as new topic.
I played all through Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and around in Kentucky and places, but I never played in Texas, but I played all over the cotton belt countriesDon't know the context in which this was found but originally said in "I Sing For The People: An Interview with Howlin? Wolf" (Down Beat, 14 Dec 1967, p.20-23) which two years later was serialised over four issues of Blues Unlimited.
Howlin' Wolf - Interview with Pete Welding, Chicago, ca. 1967
Don't know the context in which this was found but originally said in "I Sing For The People: An Interview with Howlin? Wolf" (Down Beat, 14 Dec 1967, p.20-23) which two years later was serialised over four issues of Blues Unlimited.
He no longer had a guitar and he hadn't played much in twenty years, but when I asked him if he could still sing and play he straightened and said, 'I'm better now than I ever was.' - Sam Charters tracks down Furry Lewis in 1959, from Walking a Blues RoadThought this sounded familiar, it's in the booklet accompanying the 1960 Folkways LP. I like the way Charters ends his introductory notes:
"Haven't you heard, the older the buck the stiffer the horn." - Yank Rachell, during one of his later hospitalizations, amourously cornering a nurse. As quoted in "Blues Mandolin Man".
Sorry CS, the Quote Oracle is omnipotent and we have no idea where these quotes come from.
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She said "look'a here daddy, don't you raise no sand. I don't ask you 'bout no woman, don't ask me 'bout my man" - Mance Lipscombe, Meet Me In The Bottom, Arhoolie Texas Songster #4, Live at The Cabale