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

[Johnm]

Thanks for finding that clip, Scratchy.  Boy, it's a good one for seeing Joe's left hand and seeing where he did a lot of his moves in Spanish.
All best,
Johnm

[lindy]

Don't know why I suddenly got an urge to watch/listen to old T-Bone Walker recordings this morning, these whims are common in the age of YouTube.

Briefly skimming through a couple of bio pages on the Web--a doubly dangerous practice for finding "facts," I know--I read that T-Bone's family had Blind Lemon Jefferson over for dinner occasionally, that T-Bone was Lemon's "lead boy" for a while, and that T-Bone and Charlie Christian did a guitar/bass/dance street act, I'd definitely pay a dollar to see that.

Probably common knowledge for many of you. Here's T-Bone's first two recorded sides:

[lindy]

[Norfolk Slim]

"Lovely stuff" as Alan Partridge might say.

Two fine players having fun:-)

[Prof Scratchy]

What is this musician doing? Inventive lead guitar from Little Son Joe!


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[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here is the very great Frankie Lee Sims.  How could he sing like that?



All best,
Johnm

[Rivers]

Our friend Annie Raines demoing the current Hohner harp line, fine-tuned sense of humor and natural talent:

[lindy]

Brother Theotis Taylor with a special approach to gospel piano:

[alyoung]

Bro Taylor was/is from Fitzgerald, Ga. (he was still alive, in his 90s a year ago). This tracks is from a no-label-name, no-issue-number LP titled "Georgia Grassroots Music Festival", recorded in 1976 or 1977. Bro Taylor did quite a bit of recording through the mid-to-late 1970s, and was musically active at least into the 1990s when he was part of a gospel program at Carnegie Hall. He made several singles on the Pitch label, from Savannah, Ga, plus a privately-issued LP that was picked up and reissued by Fat Possum. Fat Possum also a few years ago did a three-CD reissue set of Pitch gospel (the label didn't issue anything else) recordings on its Big Legal Mess subsidiary. Modesty prevents me mentioning who wrote the notes to this set, but if you have any questions about Pitch...

[daddystovepipe]

This YouTube channel has some very rare live recordings of Mance Lipscomb (some with Lightnin' Hopkins on piano!?), Sam Chatmon, Mississippi John Hurt, a TV appearance of Furry Lewis, some live recodings of Henry Rufe Johnson, unreleased material of Pink Anderson, interviews with MJ Hurt, Pink Anderson, Peg Leg Sam....
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUO-BmUomHGeJQigbGEKVag/playlists

[Johnm]

Hi all,
Here's a great one from Bill Monroe, "Get Up John".  He has the mandolin cross-tuned so that not all of the pairs are in unisons.  What a sound!



All best,
Johnm

[alyoung]

AF#-DD-AA-AD. Charlie Cline's fiddle is also in altered tuning, with the E string down to D. For more on this tune see "The Music of Bill Monroe", by Neil Rosenberg and Charles Wolfe (University of Illinois; 2007), p93.

[harriet]

Roosevelt Sykes documentary - apologies if this has been posted before'

[lindy]

Pink Anderson ... don't think this has been posted, but if it's a repeat, let me know ...

[eric]

I was listening to the Big Road Blues link posted by jharris in the Blues Come to Texas thread, and heard this great Texas piano piece by Andy Boy: