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

[lindy]

Stefan posted this vid from Wilbert Atwater, a new name to me. As far as I can tell, the only other mention of him on Weenie is on a thread entitled "Banjo on Guitar." Looks like he's a North Carolina guy, so naturally I want to ask Lightnin' what he knows about Wilbert.

[Prof Scratchy]

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[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here is Bishop Perry Tillis doing "Nobody's Fault But Mine".  I know nothing about him in the biographical sense, but I sure love this.



All best,
Johnm

[alyoung]

This track is one of several recorded by or for Swedish researcher Bengt Olsson in 1971 and 1972 and issued in 2006 on Birdman CD BMR-093. Eight of the tracks were issued on the English label Flyright; the Birdman CD has many of these, plus four previously unissued tracks; one of these is Nobody's Fault. The Birdman notes say that in his younger days, Tillis was a traveling blues player who met and played with Blind Willie Johnson in Alabama in the 1940s. Some years later, he turned from blues to preaching and playing the gospel, and in the late 1970s started a church in a building next to his house in Samson, Alabama. He died in November, 2005, aged 85.   
The Birdman CD is titled "Too Close" and it's a real nice set (thanks, John, for prompting me to haul it out again). Here's another one off  it ...

[Johnm]

Thanks, Al, for the information on Bishop Perry Tillis and the other song by him.  Man, that's what I call heavy time!
All best,
Johnm

[Norfolk Slim]

Wow.  That just grinds.  In a very fine way.

[Rivers]

[eric]

Yep.

[blueshome]

While we are at it with Nobody?s Fault:

[Parlor Picker]

Thanks blueshome. In my book, Johnny Shines is up there with the best of them and could do virtually no wrong. Both voice and guitar always stunning.

[harriet]

Good Morning Blues - Narrated by B.B.King (1978)
(footage of Sam Chatmon, Hayes McMullan, Houston Stackhouse, Gus Cannon, Big Joe Williams,Furry Lewis, Johnny Shines among others...)

[Johnm]

Hi all,
I found this on youtube yesterday.  I had no idea Tony Joe White was such a kid when he recorded this.  What a voice!



All best,
Johnm

[eric]

Great tune, great artist.  Also wrote Rainy Night in Georgia.

[Johnm]

That's interesting, Eric, I didn't know he had written that song as well.  I've been listening to Brook Benton sing "A Rainy Night In Georgia" a lot lately.
all best,
Johnm

[alyoung]

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