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

[bnemerov]

Hi John & Lightnin',
Sally Jo was written by Doug (and brother Rusty, I believe). They were stars on the Louisiana Hayride and had joined the Opry in 1957. Doug was kicking around Nashville playing odd jobs and the Opry while waiting to go into military service in early '58. Monroe was aware of the Kershaws and their popularity and hired Doug for a session at the end of 1957. The three tracks he played guitar on, Sally Jo, Breaking In a Brand New Pair of Shoes, and A Lonesome Road to Travel filled out the Knee Deep album. Sally Jo and Brand New Shoes were released on a single as well. Brand New Shoes has a heavy beat too.
Kershaw's rhythm reminds me of Monroe's guitar rhythm on the original recording of Muleskinner Blues from 1939--very much pre-R&R
best,
bruce

[Johnm]

Thanks, Lightnin' and Bruce, for the additional information and insight as to how Bill Monroe came to record "Sally Jo" and employ the unusual personnel in his band (Doug Kershaw on guitar). It's nice to get the context filled out a bit.
All best,
Johnm

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here is a wonderful in-performance version of "Rocks And Gravel" by John Jackson. The filming of his picking hand is really instructive. Note how he opens the song doing down-up brush strokes with his index finger of the Lemon Jefferson A lick up the neck. Lots of fantastic thumb lead playing, too. Boy, was he under-rated, he's doing precisely what he's trying to do and just killing it.



All best,
Johnm

[Parlor Picker]

This is well worth a watch and listen:

[blueshome]

i demand a finger count!

[eric]

Nice!

[Pan]

A sporting right hand! Excellent singing too.

Cheers,

Pan

[Blues Vintage]

Hayes McMullan - Hurry Sundown

[Johnm]

Wow, Blues Vintage, I had no idea there was film footage of Hayes McMullan--that's fantastic! Thanks so much for posting that. Do you know anything about the circumstances around the filming?
All best,
Johnm

[Slack]

What a treat to have a video with a good recording of Hayes McMullan.  He sounds great at age 76.

[Blues Vintage]

Wow, Blues Vintage, I had no idea there was film footage of Hayes McMullan--that's fantastic! Thanks so much for posting that. Do you know anything about the circumstances around the filming?
All best,
Johnm

It's from the documentary "Good Morning Blues, Deconstructing The Dockery Myth" (1978) hosted by B.B. King

Here's the complete documentary (Published by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund) although in inferior quality then the single McMullan footage.
I don't know if it's the same person who's active at this site (Mt. Zion Memorial Fund).
I haven't seen the entire film yet but has Sam Chatmon footage too (one of my favorite bluesmen).

[Slack]

It' got some great footage, I'm watching now.  Narrated by BB King.

[harriet]

Thanks for the Hayes McMullen clip, I'd seen it before  am glad to be reminded of and to see them again.
Harriet

[eric]

Thanks for the Hayes McMullen clip.  I don't know if his CD is still available, but it's really good.

[David Kaatz]

Just wow. Roscoe Holcomb on Pete Seeger's TV show. This may have been posted before, but heck, even if so, it's worth repeating.