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re: Old Timey -- a thread for pre-rock country, folk, and blues
Posted on 5/23/13 at 9:09 pm to Kafka
Posted on 5/23/13 at 9:09 pm to Kafka
I posted this link in the Tommy Emmanuel thread, but it fits here:
Desperate Man Blues (watch online)
Desperate Man Blues is a documentary about the legendary record collector Joe Bussard, who has been collecting old blues and hillbilly 78s since he was a teenager in the early 1950s. Bussard is quite an irascible character -- he openly despises rock and roll, and time essentially stopped for him in 1937.
Bussard was also the discoverer of the great guitarist John Fahey, who I wrote about here
In the film Bussard show off his rarest record, only one copy of which is known to exist:
Long Cleeve Reed & Little Harvey Hull-Down Home Boys -- "Original Stack O'Lee Blues" (1927)
As it happens it's a great record.
You can read more about the legend of Stagger Lee, as well as other versions of the song, in DrunkenTigah's post here
Desperate Man Blues (watch online)
Desperate Man Blues is a documentary about the legendary record collector Joe Bussard, who has been collecting old blues and hillbilly 78s since he was a teenager in the early 1950s. Bussard is quite an irascible character -- he openly despises rock and roll, and time essentially stopped for him in 1937.
Bussard was also the discoverer of the great guitarist John Fahey, who I wrote about here
In the film Bussard show off his rarest record, only one copy of which is known to exist:
Long Cleeve Reed & Little Harvey Hull-Down Home Boys -- "Original Stack O'Lee Blues" (1927)
As it happens it's a great record.
You can read more about the legend of Stagger Lee, as well as other versions of the song, in DrunkenTigah's post here
This post was edited on 5/23/13 at 9:30 pm
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Posted on 6/9/13 at 4:34 pm to Kafka
Sonny Boy Williamson (II) - "Eyesight To The Blind" (1951)
Original release on Trumpet records of Jackson, MS:
The Larks - "Eyesight To The Blind" (1951)
Original release on Trumpet records of Jackson, MS:
The Larks - "Eyesight To The Blind" (1951)
Posted on 6/9/13 at 5:37 pm to Kafka
Posted on 8/11/13 at 12:26 am to Kafka
Posted on 8/17/13 at 2:25 am to Kafka
Never realized Elvis and RJ both died on Aug 16
Robert Johnson Blues Foundation
Robert Johnson Blues Foundation
quote:
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the passing of Robert Johnson. In honor of the world's most influential blues artist, here is one of only three identified photographs of him. This image was later used to create an official Robert Johnson postage stamp, issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 1994.
Posted on 8/17/13 at 12:14 pm to Kafka
to RJ Posted on 8/18/13 at 2:30 am to Kafka
Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys - "Hot Rod Race" (1950)
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Jesse Lee "Arkie" Shibley (born Jesse Lee Shibley, 21 September 1914, Van Buren, Arkansas - d. September 1975, Van Buren, Arkansas) was a country singer who recorded the original version of "Hot Rod Race" in 1950. The record was important because "it introduced automobile racing into popular music and underscored the car's relevance to American culture, particularly youth culture."
quote:
"Hot Rod Race" prompted the even more successful answer song "Hot Rod Lincoln", a hit for Charlie Ryan (recorded 1955 and 1959, charted 1960, #33 pop), Johnny Bond (1960, #26 pop) and Commander Cody (1972, #9 pop). Shibley's record also directly influenced Chuck Berry's "Maybellene", Gene Vincent's "Race With The Devil", and the succession of hot rod records by the Beach Boys and others in the early 1960s.
Posted on 9/3/13 at 10:29 pm to Kafka
Just finished reading this:
A MUST read for anyone interested in roots music. Charlie Louvin pulls no punches; interestingly, the book's style has not been edited to death. So we get some very salty language and unconventional grammar.
Charlie on modern country music:
"I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby"
"The Christian Life"
A MUST read for anyone interested in roots music. Charlie Louvin pulls no punches; interestingly, the book's style has not been edited to death. So we get some very salty language and unconventional grammar.
Charlie on modern country music:
quote:
The change in country music was beginning to take effect, and my days were numbered. Chet Atkins always used to say that he carried country music uptown, and he did. But in the same sentence, he’d continue, “And maybe we carried it too far.”
Beginning in the 1980s, most country artists were crossover artists. It was a complete top-to-
bottom turnover in the kind of music you hear on
country radio stations, and we still haven’t
recovered. Country music ain’t country music now.
The so-called country artists now get it as close to pop and rock as they can and still call it country. I got tired of playing their game, so I didn’t record anything, except for one tribute album to Jim and Jesse McReynolds, for two decades.
The Opry hasn’t fared any better. The longer you’ve been at the Opry, the worse they treat you. That’s the truth of it. They treat you ten times worse than they treat the people who come onstage with one song out. But they’re the boss and it’s their Opry, and they’ll tell you in a New York minute, “If you don’t like it, go somewhere where they run a show you like.” They’d be happy if every one of us old-timers dropped dead tomorrow . But I’m gonna be just like a bad tooth. I’m gonna hang in there so’s I can annoy as many of them as I can.
"I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby"
"The Christian Life"
Posted on 9/3/13 at 10:58 pm to Kafka
I don't have the knowledge of the this type of music to contribute, but I've enjoyed a lot of the songs you've posted. 
Posted on 9/3/13 at 11:00 pm to 15sammy34
nice to get some feedback every year or so
Posted on 9/20/13 at 7:02 pm to Kafka
Jimmie Davis - "She's A Hum Dum Dinger From Dingersville" (1930)
Buddy Woods:
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She's A Hum Dum Dinger From Dingersville - Jimmie Davis, 2 time Louisiana Governor cut some amazing Blues influenced Country music in the 1930s before he got into politics. This great tune is one of his first & features Black Slide Guitarist Oscar Buddy Woods. Unheard of then to have black & white musicians integrated - & recorded in Memphis!
Buddy Woods:
Posted on 9/20/13 at 7:12 pm to Kafka
quote:
nice to get some feedback every year or so
Posted on 9/24/13 at 10:10 am to Kafka
quote:
nice to get some feedback every year or so
I've been meaning to post here, but seem to get sided tracked. This is the best thread on this board cept for the one that keeps me updated on phish.
Posted on 9/24/13 at 10:15 am to Kafka
i have seen this and its a damn good documentary
Posted on 9/24/13 at 11:29 pm to hawkeye007
Posted on 9/24/13 at 11:31 pm to Kafka
Posted on 9/24/13 at 11:33 pm to Kafka
Posted on 9/24/13 at 11:35 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
This post was edited on 10/18/13 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 10/18/13 at 7:10 pm to Kafka
"Nine Pound Hammer"
Merle Travis (1951)
Merle from later in the '50s - From the Ranch Party TV show
And a rockabilly version:
Sanford Clark
Merle Travis (1951)
Merle from later in the '50s - From the Ranch Party TV show
And a rockabilly version:
Sanford Clark
Posted on 11/16/13 at 1:46 pm to Kafka
Hey Kafka, I'm doing you a solid!
Legends of Old Time Music
Roscoe Holcomb Clarence Ashley Tommy Jarrell Sam McGee Jean Ritchie Clint Howard & Fred Price
Legends of Old Time Music
Roscoe Holcomb Clarence Ashley Tommy Jarrell Sam McGee Jean Ritchie Clint Howard & Fred Price
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