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Now Bill, over here on bass--I'm sure you've heard of people who don't know nothing--he don't even suspect nothing - Lester Flatt, introducing the members of the Nashville Grass

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #1590 on: April 24, 2020, 08:08:56 AM »
Hi all,
I just found that somebody posted this tune from my first record.



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« Reply #1591 on: April 24, 2020, 10:49:16 AM »
Nice one, John!  It kind of reminds me of Big Bill's Saturday Night Rub
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« Reply #1592 on: April 24, 2020, 10:57:15 AM »
He posted the whole record. I never heard it. But love this song already.

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« Reply #1593 on: April 25, 2020, 08:16:30 PM »
The Arhoolie Foundation has a couple more videos up including this documentary from 1963 with footage of Mance Lipscomb, Black Ace, Lightnin' Hopkins, Eureka Brass Band, New Orleans second line, string bands, Red Sovine and a lot of other cool stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=nnJD5VgC7p4&feature=emb_logo
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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #1594 on: April 27, 2020, 07:16:22 PM »
This documentary about Sacred Steel players is pretty great:

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #1595 on: May 14, 2020, 10:48:20 AM »
Hi all,
Anybody heard or heard of Byther Smith before?  He's a new name to me, and this was just posted on youtube today.  Boy, he's great!  What tone, both on the guitar and vocally.



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« Reply #1596 on: May 14, 2020, 12:28:56 PM »
Never heard of him John, but completely agree he's great! 

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« Reply #1597 on: May 15, 2020, 07:41:13 AM »
Yes I know him. He must be in his late 80s now. I got a couple of his records and even a DVD called "Blues On The Moon" produced by Delmark Records.

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #1598 on: May 15, 2020, 09:35:28 AM »
Here it is:



No talking heads, no interviews, no fancy cross-fades or editing tricks, just 70 minutes of Byther Smith and his band playing in some tiny tiny blues joint, the Natural Rhythm Social Club, somewhere on planet earth.

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« Reply #1599 on: May 19, 2020, 04:00:20 PM »
Dump That Trump - Rick Estrin & The Nightcats



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« Reply #1600 on: May 26, 2020, 07:43:41 AM »
One I hadn't heard from Nathan Beauregard...


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« Reply #1601 on: May 26, 2020, 10:49:53 AM »
Hi all,
For the benefit of those who are interested in such things, here is how the phrasing works out for "Little Mamie" by the Kentucky Ramblers.  The phrasing in the instrumental intro is slightly different from that of the verses.  The intro is phrased like so, with the first measure in each of the first three lines in 3/2 (boom-chang, boom-chang, boom-chang) followed by two measures in 2/2 (boom-chang, boom-chang).  In the last line of the intro, all four measures are in 2/2.

In the sung verses, the last line is phrased like the three other lines, with an opening measure in 3/2 and two measures in cut time, 2/2.  So it is that the song begins each line with a measure in 3, followed by two measures in 2.  As Mel Allen used to say, "How about that!"
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That reminds me of this tune (and I can't remember who did the original) by the NLCR, which to me has always seemed to be simultaneously in 3/4 and 4/4:



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« Reply #1602 on: May 26, 2020, 12:11:52 PM »
Hi Chris,
Yes, you're right, it alternates between single measures of 3/2 followed by two measures of 2/2.  The way the vocal is phrased, though, almost makes it more like two measures of 3/2, with the second measure adding on 1/2 to accommodate the vocal pick-ups to the next line, all of those lyric lines that begin with two one-syllable words, "See that", or "Oh, I" before they hit the downbeat. 
It's really great returning to those New Lost City Ramblers records after not having listened to them for years.  They were really good, and versatile, too!
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« Reply #1603 on: May 26, 2020, 02:01:23 PM »
I agree, a fantastic band, and too often given short shrift by today's generation of old-time musicians. Thanks for that analysis, John – that is the damnedest tune, but a great one!
Chris

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Re: YouTube.com - Interesting Country Blues related video clips
« Reply #1604 on: May 26, 2020, 02:47:02 PM »
I agree, a fantastic band, and too often given short shrift by today's generation of old-time musicians. Thanks for that analysis, John – that is the damnedest tune, but a great one!
Chris

I agree, Chris. Sometimes people forget whose shoulders they stand on.

 


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