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

[Prof Scratchy]

Apparently there is more of the closing footage. Just a thought,  but why not leave a comment on the source youtube video requesting that any further footage be released?

[Pan]

The king biscuit footage is Fantastic! Anyone know its history? Thanks for posting Prof. I'm sure someone somewhere has a shoebox in an attic somewhere with footage of Blind Willie McTell...got to be!

Following the Early Wright lecture, two archivists from the University of Georgia, Margaret Compton and Renna Tuten, will show two silent home movies shot on 8mm Kodachrome film stock dating to c. 1942 and 1952 from the family of Rayburn Moore, son of Max Moore, founder of Interstate Grocery and creator King Biscuit Flour. The earlier film (4 minutes long) depicts Robert Junior Lockwood and Sonny Boy Williamson performing together on the porch of a country grocery store in Arkansas, and the later film (12 minutes long) shows segments from a 1952 bus tour through Arkansas with Williamson and various King Biscuit Time band members performing.

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/EarlyWright.html

Cheers

Pan

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I had never heard this very pretty version of "Railroad Bill" before, and didn't know that Riley Puckett played the banjo.  He sure was a nice singer.
All best,
Johnm

[Gumbo]

thanks John - I've been listening to a lot of Skillet Lickers and Riley Puckett recently but hadn't heard this one either.

[Lastfirstface]

There wasn't too many recordings with Puckett on banjo from what I can tell. I've got some other early recordings of him and Gid Tanner with Puckett on banjo: Whoa Mule Whoa, Bile Them Cabbage Down, Sourwood Mountain, and Georgia Railroad. There's also recording of Oh Susanna without Gid's fiddle behind him.

[Johnm]

Here's one from Curtis Jones.  I know he's one of your favorites, Bunker Hill, and thought you'd get a kick out of this.
All best,
Johnm

[Bunker Hill]

Here's one from Curtis Jones.  I know he's one of your favorites, Bunker Hill, and thought you'd get a kick out of this.
All best,
Johnm

Thanks. He's an acquired taste as I discovered after pontificating about him at great length in a magazine. Some mad fool has been threatening to publish this on the internet but I've been spared so far.

I think Curtis fans can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

[Gumbo]

I think Curtis fans can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Now I HAVE to listen!

[Gumbo]

lovely stuff!
What's that interjection about 1972? 

[Johnm]

My guess, Gumbo, is that when Curtis added that vocal aside, 1972 seemed unimaginably far in the future.  Just what I needed to feel really old!
All best,
Johnm

[dj]

1972 was 31 years in the future when Curtis Jones recorded that song in 1941.  Now it's 40 years in the past.  Time flies!

[Gumbo]

Excellent - thanks for that stark perspective , dj!
Hopefully we've been having fun.

[Slack]

The late, great Jesse Fuller.

[bnemerov]

yes

1972 was 31 years in the future when Curtis Jones recorded that song in 1941.  Now it's 40 years in the past.  Time flies!

indeed, time flies like an arrow
and fruit flies like a banana.

sorry, couldn't resist...groundhog day and near 70 degrees here; everyone feelin' good.
bruce

[eric]

Hey that's cool!