Topic: SOTM 14 August 2015: Roll and Tumble

[uncle bud]

Nice job, Harriet. I hadn't heard a number of those. Is the Burnside version with the harmonica another George Mitchell recording? The one I have is solo.

Rollin' and Tumblin' is surely one of the few songs where you can say, "I've got another one-string version." Sadly not on youtube, but Moses Williams does a cool one string version that can be found on Drop On Down in Florida.

[harriet]

Thanks Uncle Bud, Stefan Wirz attributed to a Mitchell according via a reference of according to : Fancourt & McGrath 2012, p. 96, and with the note "this recording first published on and taken from Revival LP RVS 1009 (UK 1971) "Hard Time Mississippi" --- never re-released on CD". There's a screen of the referred to LP label during the presentation.

I will see if I can find the Mose Williams version. I would like to hear it. I found a clip of a video of him on youtube which I like alot.

Harriet

[uncle bud]

I've attached the Williams version here. If I may make a pitch - Drop On Down in Florida is a very interesting set with some unusual and fine music and little known players. I'm a happy customer.

Mike Seeger also does a slide banjo version of this song. And there's a Napoleon Strickland fife and drum version that I'd have to listen to harder to pick out the tune.

[harriet]

Whoa thanks so much for the clip and the referral to both the album and the Dust-to-Digital site - I would be interested in the Florida compilation so thanks for that as well.

 

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I thought I'd do my own version of "Rolled and Tumbled".  It's attached below.
All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I thought of another "Song Family" version of "Rolled and Tumbled", and a particularly strong one:  Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues".
All best,
Johnm

[uncle bud]

Nice version, John. Funky! Baritone again?

[Johnm]

Thanks, uncle bud!  Yes, that was on the baritone guitar.
All best,
Johnm

[Zoharbareket]

Great version,  John! Loved it!

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[frankie]

John - I love the chord you're using on the opening lines - really opens things up...  lots of ingredients in here!

[Slack]

Nice one Johnm, sounds like you were really getting... and digging into it!

[Stuart]

Well done, John! It certainly merits inclusion in the next volume of the "Bellingham Field Recordings!"
 

[Johnm]

Thanks, Zohar, Frank, John D., and Stuart.  I'm glad you guys like it.  Re the opening phrase, I realized, Frank, that nobody sings to the IV chord there--they sing to the I chord right through that phrase, so I decided to play to the I chord, too, only acknowledging that IV chord with its root in the bass, sort of like Robert Pete Williams does sometimes.  Anyhow, . . . .
All best,
Johnm

[Mr.OMuck]

https://soundcloud.com/mr-omuck/rt-1

My whack at it.


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[Lignite]

Here's me doing it in my younger days (1994). I think it's one of the first slide tunes I tried to learn back in the '60s when I used to play with a kitchen knife on a Harmony F hole guitar with a severely warped neck. I always just kind of 'beat it out' as primitively as I could.

http://picosong.com/JFzr