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

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here's a cool one from the same song family as Peg Leg Howell's "Rolling Mill Blues", Charley Lincoln's "Chain Gang Trouble" and Bill Monroe's "In The Pines".
All best,
Johnm

[bnemerov]

John,
Thanks for this. I've never run in to it, and, boy, is it peculiar.
Do you hear the same rhythm tussle I do? I'm hearing the lead in 6/8 yet the guitar is emphasizing the 1 & 5
(as if the song alternates a bar of 4 and a bar of 2!!!?)
signed,
Perplexed in Tennessee

[Johnm]

Hi Bruce,
It is one for the books, isn't it?  The way I hear it, for the sung parts of the rendition, it is 6 bars of 3/2, which would be backed boom-chang, boom-chang, boom-chang, but with the bass alternating as though  the player was playing in cut time, so that the bass flips on itself, 2 phrased in three, and then two bars of regular cut time, 2/2, which is backed boom-chang, boom-chang per measure.  With the lyrics, it works out like so, with chords indicated above each phrase.  Each number in the count represents a "boom", and is followed by a "chang" that is not indicated. 
              I             I            IV            I
   The long--est  train  I   e----ver   saw was the
         | 1 2   3  | 1  2  3 |1  2   3  |1  2  3         |
              I            V7          I             I
         day     I    left  my  home           The
         | 1  2  3  |1  2  3  | 1   2   |  1     2   |

When Mainer solos on the fiddle to play the outro, he starts early, but apart from that, they hold to the form consistently.  It's hard to say what the motivation for doing it this way would be, but the whole band bought it!  Perhaps the guitar player couldn't catch a standard 3/4 boom-chang-chang feel, and had a hard time with the idea of one downbeat and two upbeats.  His way, at least, each downbeat has only one upbeat.  I don't imagine we'll ever find out the impetus for the unusual version at this point.
All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Hi all,
It's great to find a Frank Hovington cut on YouTube.  Enjoy!
All best,
Johnm

[Rivers]

Superlatives fail me!

[uncle bud]

Great picture of Guitar Frank too.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Whew, talk about some rockin' time, oof!  Like Booker White, she sounds to be playing slide out of cross-note on this track, but unlike Booker, she keeps it minor, she doesn't keep that first fret of the third string fretted.  Go, Sister O.M.
All best,
Johnm

[Rivers]

Sister Ola Mae can do no wrong by me. I hadn't heard that one before, I guess it's not available on CD

Any more out there? She's definitely in the 'people we should have heard more from' category.

[eric]

Damn!

[Johnm]

Here's one from a musician I never expected to find on YouTube.
All best,
Johnm

[JohnLeePimp]

Tarheel Slim and... anybody know the name of the other fellow(s) on here?

[JohnLeePimp]

[Johnm]

Hi John Lee,
The musicians shown on the Tarheel Slim video, which is really nice by the way, thanks!, are Gabriel Brown on the left and his playing partner, Rochelle French, on the right.
All best,
Johnm

[Pan]

I'll second the thanks on the Tarheel Slim video, I just had to share it on Facebook as well! 

Here's Peetie Wheatstraw in 1936, backing himself on the piano, and with Kokomo Arnold on guitar:

http://qmarketing.posterous.com/the-first-shall-be-the-last-and-the-last-shal

Cheers

Pan

[JohnLeePimp]

Hi John Lee,
The musicians shown on the Tarheel Slim video, which is really nice by the way, thanks!, are Gabriel Brown on the left and his playing partner, Rochelle French, on the right.
All best,
Johnm

Thanks John - I actually meant the other(s) that appear on the recordings as opposed to the vid - since there are two voices and two guitars, and neither sounds like Dan Pickett (who's songs are grouped with these on the document album).