Topic: Favorite Treatments of Musical Time

[Prof Scratchy]

Morris Pejoe - a thomas8 favour8….

[harvey]

I could have picked a number of Bo carter songs particularly his intro's and breaks. However one that I learned from John I think is clever  .....

[harriet]

Here's a North Hill selection:

[Johnm]

Hi Prof,
What is the title on the Morris Pejoe cut? It won't play in the U.S., and if I know the title I can look for a video that will play here? Thanks!
All best,
Johnm

[Stuart]

Is this the one?

Morris Pejoe and His Band - Tired of Crying Over You

[Prof Scratchy]

Yes, that’s the one, Stuart!

[Stuart]

A workaround I use is to get the URL from the blocked YT video on WC, go to one of the proxy sites for watching blocked YT videos and plugging in the URL. That should yield enough info to find the YT video in your region if it's available. It worked for this one.

[Thomas8]

What a Tune!

[dj]

One of my favorite treatments of musical time is Floyd Jones's Chess version of Dark Road.  Jones had recorded a version of the song in March of 1951 for J.O.B., but Sunnyland Slim's ornate piano fills tended to obscure the rhythm.  On the Chess version, recorded in December of the same year, Slim is replaced by Little Walter, whose harmonica follows the main contour of Jones's guitar, and they end up doing a hypnotic imitation of the sound of a slow steam engined train.  And I love the way they switch to a sort of walk rhythm when Jones sings "I started walking" in the last verse: the accent goes from beats 2 and 4 to every beat, with a little pickup note before each beat giving the whole thing a hopping feel, like Jones's feet hurt from walking.  And over it all is Jone's melismatic vocal, sounding almost like a field holler contrasting with the chugging rhythm.  I find the whole performance irresistible.



And then there's Beans Hambone.  Who needs any other instrument when you can swing with just a cigar box guitar?  Once Beans gets to the "Beans, beans, beans" section a minute into the song, I can never keep my head from nodding and my foot from tapping.

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I just keep thinking of performances that knock me out in this category. From Dennis McMillon, "Woke Up One Morning". I don't think I can think of a tune in Vestapol that I would take over this one. Beautiful heavy time and a really deep backbeat--nothing skimmy about Dennis McMillon!



Form Cat Iron, "Jimmy Bell". I love the way this keeps turning over on itself. I realized recently that Tony Joe White sort of re-purposed this groove for "Polk Salad Annie".



All best,
Johnm

[eric]

This is pretty cool

[Stuart]

They're all winners. You can't play it if you don't feel it.

[MarkC]

J.B. Hutto - That’s the Truth:

[lindy]

Believe me, I'm not *only* listening to R.L. Burnside these days, but this song entered my mind as a great example of unusual timing: 8 beats beneath the singing, 7 in the main lick:

[David Kaatz]

So much great stuff here, that I have never heard of. I don't have any particular tunes to offer on the subject - Snooks came to mind, also Blind Boy Fuller with Bull City Red is a favorite.
Oh, I thought of one - Ticket Agent by Curly Weaver.