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

[Mike Brosnan]

Very guitar-centric of me to only mention Ashley.  The washboard kept me as enthralled as the guitar.  Just great music all around.

Now for something completely different:



While working on a bottleneck version of this tune I stumbled across this version.  Boyd Rivers.  AMAZING VOCALS!!

[Mr.OMuck]

  Boyd Rivers.  AMAZING VOCALS!!

WOW! Thats the stuff alright!  Never heard of him either. Thanks for the intro.

[Mr.OMuck]

Here's some more Sam Chatmon footage I came up on another forum:


Cheers

Pan

Just Fucking amazing! That's a treasure, and what an unusual right hand position he used. Thanks for this.

[billdraper]

I really like this one by Sister Rosetta Tharpe

[Mr.OMuck]

Jimi Hendrix accoustic guitar..Is that a KG-11

I'm guessing that's a big ol' Kay. First I thought it might be a J200 but the upper bout shape is different as is the bridge and inlay design. Makes Jimi sound positively down home!

[lindy]

Warning: Political content, but with a good dance beat, Louisiana style.

ZydecObama:

http://thewhirlybird.com/links.html

I can't tell for sure, but it looks like they might be cooking up some pork in the gumbo pot . . .

Please make the effort to vote!

Lindy

[Mr.OMuck]

I like that Zydo-Cajun Obama video.

Made me start thinkin' 'bout my favorite Zydeco guy. Listen to how he attacks a phrase sideways. Extraordinary!

http://www.youtube.com/v/j3bvnRV-Zek&hl=en&fs=1

Don't know why this is coming in twice. Apologies.

[Mr.OMuck]

Boozoo Chavis btw.

[Slack]

O'Muck -- the forum will embed the video automatically, all you need is the following:

Code: [Select]

http://www.youtube.com/v/j3bvnRV-Zek&hl=en&fs=1
Cheers,

[Mike Brosnan]

Elijah Wald just turned me on to Karen Dalton at PT this summer.  And I just finally thought about youtubing her name! Absolutely beautiful stuff!!





[Edit]: While I'm thinkin' 'bout bluesy female vocalists that should be WAY more famous than they are/were...  Just found some ol' Barbara Dane (via Hitchcock):

[Pan]

Here's a 14 minute film of Fred Mc Dowell from 1969 called "Blues Maker".

http://www.archive.org/details/blues_maker_1969

You can download the film too, if you want to.

Also from the same site, a 16 minute film from 1947 of the the origins of banjo and development of southern folk music, featuring a young Pete Seeger.

http://www.archive.org/details/to_hear_your_banjo_play

[uncle bud]

That Sweet Emma Barrett is fabulous. It also led to this Gus Cannon bit:

[Mr.OMuck]

Ain't she something though! I'll tell ya, that youtube is dangerous! You can fall in and never come out.
Hours go by!

[waxwing]

There's one for the quote generator:

You don't know whether to cut their throat or to cry again. That's the blues! (spells) B L U S E ! - Son House

Killer clip. Bloomfield is too much, like when he outs himself for being a rich kid? And the young Butterfield. I'd never seen any of Son's interview, either. The whole thing really gives a feeling of that era. Seeing footage of the early Canned Heat, with Wilson, also makes that connection for me.

All for now.
John C.

[Mr.OMuck]

Where'd it all go? I think this is from the movie "Festival" which I've never seen, and I think it documents Newport 65? The same year of Bob's electrical metamorphosis.  The truth is that to a large degree his commercial success really did signal the death of that scene, and except for him, what replaced it was mostly less interesting imo.