Topic: You can Say That Again - Quote Drive 2009

[unezrider]

"if these worried blues ? they don't kill me, that'll be the worst i ever had." yank rachell, 'worried blues'.

[uncle bud]

Up 'til then, the blues were only inside me. Blind Lemon was the first to 'let out' the blues. - Roscoe Holcomb

It was along about that time that Blind Lemon Jefferson came through, and he stayed around there about a month. He stayed with the other colored fellows and they worked on the railroad there; he'd just sing and play to entertain the men in the work camp. I think that right about there I started on the guitar. - Hobart Smith recalls Lemon in Virginia, c. WWI.

[dj]

Uncle Bud, what's the source of those two quotes?

[uncle bud]

Right, sorry, it's Tony Russell's Blacks, Whites and Blues, out of print in the separate edition I have, but available as a section of Yonder Come the Blues, which reprints the Russell book, Paul Oliver's Savannah Syncopators and Dixon and Godrich's...uh...can't remember the title.  

edited to add: it's right there on the back cover of my book: Recording the Blues.

[unezrider]

hello friend,

"some people like religion ? some like to rob & steal. but i like to play with my yellow women, & my whiskey right from a still."   Clifford Gibson, "Society Blues"

[unezrider]

"One Fourth of July, they were having a festival in downtown Memphis, with five or six stages and Charlie (Feathers) was playing on the rockabilly stage. I'm sitting there watching him and I turn around and there's this guy sitting behind me, all dressed up, smoking a cigar. Do you know who it was? It was Roosevelt Sykes, the Honeydripper! Just sittin' there, diggin' Charlie!" - Kim Wood


  how cool is that?   

chris

[Stuart]

"What if it's a pig's world and we just happen to live in it?"

From "The Pig Bomb" on The Discovery Channel

(Moderators: Please move to "Giant Hog" thread if appropriate.)

[uncle bud]

* * * Updated * * *

Since Rivers is layin' down on the job again,  I've updated the Quote Oracle. This 2009 thread is done, though I'll leave it open for now, in case anyone wants to discuss any of the quotes in the future.

New quotes should be add to the Tell It To Me - Quote Drive 2010 thread