Topic: Name That...CB Artist

[Rivers]

Was listenin' to Lightnin' Hopkins today, Country Blues. This is a truly great session.

Mack McCormick and Luke "Long Gone" Miles were present. On Gonna Pull a Party Lightnin' namechecks both Mack and Long Gone.

The lyric goes "I told you to come on in, ain't nuh' but us three here, me and Long Gone, Mack and myself, and there ain't nobody else..". That's four!

So we have a new case, #5, where a performer mentions a blues researcher.

Lightnin' mentions himself twice in the same sentence, albeit with personal pronouns "me" and "myself".

On "Prison Blues" "Long Gone" has an improvised dialog with Lightnin' where Long Gone calls Lightnin's name in the first exchange.

[MTJ3]

Low hanging fruit for Case 4:

My apologies, but I neglected to include Bumble Bee Slim's "My Old Pal Blues (Dedicated To The Memory Of Leroy Carr)" and "Last Respects (Dedicated To The Memory Of Leroy Carr)."  If memory serves, in the latter title, BBS never refers to Leroy by name.

[dj]

The Juke just played two back-to-back.

Case 3:  Dr. Clayton, "Black Snake Blues":  The Dr. calls out to "John" (Blind John Davis) to take a piano solo.

Case 4:  John Byrd and Walter Taylor, "Wasn't It Sad About Lemon"
 

[GhostRider]

Hey:

Thanks folks, for all these references. I'm continously updating "the List", on the first page. Keep 'um comin'

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Alex

[GhostRider]

Howdy:

Found another one. In Bunker Hill Blues (with nice blues fiddle) Frank Stokes sings "..that Papa Frank Stokes, he sure can burn it on."

Alex

[Bunker Hill]

Thanks folks, for all these references. I'm continously updating "the List", on the first page. Keep 'um comin'

Glad you mentioned that, this dozy so-and-so hadn't thought to look!

[MTJ3]

...and didn't Memphis Minnie do a song about Ma Rainey?

Yes, "Ma Rainey," by Memphis Minnie, recorded in 1940.

[Bunker Hill]

Does "Death Of Big Bill Broonzy" recorded by Champion Jack Dupree, London Nov. 1959 fit the matrix?

There's another one but can't bring singer, song nor title to mind at present.

[frankie]

In Bunker Hill Blues (with nice blues fiddle) Frank Stokes sings "..that Papa Frank Stokes, he sure can burn it on."

Going from memory, I think FS sings "he sure can put it on."

Another one:  Robert (Tim) Wilkins in "I Do Blues" sings "...tell poor Timmy what you please."

[dj]

Case 1:  Troy Ferguson, College Blues:  The song begins and ends with a dialogue between an unidentified white man and Troy Ferguson.  The start:

Knock is heard
White man: " Who's that knockin' at that door?"
Ferguson: "This here's Troy, Cap'n, Troy Ferguson."

The song is on the Juke.

[Chezztone]

Of course Bo Carter has a whole self-referential song, Bo Carter's Advice. He also names himself a lot in the one about broadcasting.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
This is a great topic, Alex.  I've been out of town, but after scanning the thread it looks like the following two have not been mentioned yet:
   * In category 2, Frank Stokes speaks to "Sane" in "Jazzin' the Blues"
   * In category 1, in "New Highway 51 Blues", Tommy McClennan says,
"Come to little Tommy's cabin, it's down on Highway 51."
All best,
Johnm
 

[banjochris]

In the songs about other artists category, there's a great song called "Red's Dream" on one of the Library of Congress bicentennial albums -- I think the artist is called "Louisiana Red". It's in a Chicago blues style but suggests, amongst other things,  that Big Maybelle and Lightnin' Hopkins and other "soul brothers" be made members of the Senate, which sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I'll post the words when I get home.
Chris

[Bunker Hill]

In the songs about other artists category, there's a great song called "Red's Dream" on one of the Library of Congress bicentennial albums -- I think the artist is called "Louisiana Red". It's in a Chicago blues style but suggests, amongst other things,  that Big Maybelle and Lightnin' Hopkins and other "soul brothers" be made members of the Senate, which sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I'll post the words when I get home.

Recorded for Roulette in 1962. It was an big favourite in London R&B clubs when released in the UK in 1964. I think it was on WC I posted a contemporary review of the album, Lowdown Back Porch Blues, on which it appeared.

[daddystovepipe]

Hi, here's another case 2
Ed Bell (or Barefoot Bill or Sluefoot Joe - take your pick) telling Clifford Gibson : "play that thing Mister Clifford"