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Nov
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stuff of legends - an episode of French and Saunders with dave Gilmour, Lemmy, Gary Moore etc
Blind Willie McTell Blues Legend 1 Track: Searching The Desert For The Blues
..born William Samuel McTell, was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Nov
21
"Don't make this out a battle hymn or a song for victory. It's just a way to try to say what England means to me. And our accents and our colours change From the city to the farmland From the moorland to the mountain, From the river to the sea."
The Blue Riders: Ben Andrews guitars Tim Jarvis drums and percussion Hugh Feeley harmonicas The 71 other session youtube clips are at... http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tymjar&search=Search or just say hi, at: http://www.myspace.com/timothyjarvis "For over 20 years Ben has been playing the clubs & festivals along the Eastern seaboard of the USA. His picking on a variety of guitars ~ 12 string, Dobro, 6 string ~ is awesome!! He always gives a passionate display of virtuoso playing, whether it is the ragtime styles of Blind Blake or Willie McTell, the powerful driving rhythms of Huddie Ledbetter or the delicate slide of Mississippi John Hurt he just oozes authenticity. His rich voice perfectly compliments his playing. It is rare to get a combination of superb guitar, stunning vocals & natural swing but with Ben Andrews you get just that Ben also provides music scores for film, TV & radio. He has appeared at major festivals throughout the USA & Europe & has performed with many of the legends of blues including: - Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Brownie McGhee, John Hammond Jnr. and Robert Lockwood Jnr." From: www.bluefrontbluesroom.org/Artist%20biogs% I guess that in the early 1970s there was no Blind Willie McTell estate for the Allman Brothers to have payed copyrights to anyway...somebody was singin' the blues. This song swung hard; bouncing along, playing the drums with the brushsticks was a ball. If you like this, check out Ben Andrews Blue Rider Trio doing some Robert Johnson / Kokomo Arnold, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Howlin' Wolf , Thomas A. Dorsey, Rev. Gary Davis, etc. If you like any of the harmonica or greats of country / folk blues artists, whether Mississippi Delta , Ragtime or Piedmont fingerstyle acoustic guitar: Henry "Mule" Townsend, Dr. Ross, Ramblin' Thomas, Sam Chatmon , Tampa Red, Scrapper Blackwell, Willie Doss, Doc Reese, Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red, Earl Hooker, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotten, Jesse Fuller, Son House. If you like any of the country folk blues artists, whether Mississippi delta , or just fingerstyle acoustic guitar ... please give this a listen: Mr. McTell´s music encompasses ¨Eastern Seaboard/Piedmont, with lighter, bouncier rhythms and a ragtime influence; and Deep South, with its greater emphasis on intense rhythms and short, repeated music phrases¨ A little history of the Virginia, Piedmont style: "In the mid-1920s, a form of guitar music evolved from African-American culture that echoed the soul and personality of African-American life. The style evolved from "rags," played with banjos, fiddles and percussion. As the guitar replaced the banjo as the lead instrument and songs were picked from the strings rather than strummed, an energetic voice emerged that began to sweep through the Southeast, and it was called Carolina blues, or Piedmont blues. Piedmont blues differed from the tradition blues that lulled a sad, longing story and picked up the pace, peppy enough for people to dance to it. The sound, because it was played with guitar and After World War II, the electric guitar began to replace the acoustic guitar, and the blues picked up an influence from the 1950 rock 'n roll." Alan Lomax , George Higgs and more at http://www.unctv.org/webcast/music/fw_piedmont_blues.html A world of thanks to a MAJOR inspiration of mine...David "Panama" Francis. I think Phish/Greatful Dead, Taj Mahal and Keb Mo listener might give this clip a listen. Cheers to THE 100 CLUB, London. Thanks to Thomson, Georgia for the Annual Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival and Bob Dylan, who memorialized him in a song. Blue Riders acoustic blues trio recorded in 1995 Here´s a doff of the hat to Warner Williams and Jay Summerour The Blue Riders recorded in Virginia, U.S.A., in 1995 - tymjar
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Aufnahme: New York, September 14, 1933 Blind Willie McTell (g)(vcl) Curley Weaver (g)(vcl) William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1898 (sometimes reported as 1901) -- August 19, 1959), was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956. Born William Samuel McTier in Thomson, Georgia, blind in one eye, McTell had lost his remaining vision by late childhood, but became an adept reader of Braille. He showed an inherent proficiency in music from an early age and learned to play the six-string guitar as soon as he could. His father left the family when McTell was still young, so when his mother died in the 1920s, he left his hometown and became a wandering busker. He began his recording career in 1927 for Victor Records in Atlanta[1]. In the years before World War II, he traveled and performed widely, recording for a number of labels under a different name for each one, including Blind Willie McTell (Victor and Decca), Blind Sammie (Columbia), Georgia Bill (Okeh), Hot Shot Willie (Victor), Blind Willie (Vocalion), Red Hot Willie Glaze (Bluebird), Barrelhouse Sammie (Atlantic) and Pig & Whistle Red (Regal). His style was singular: a form of country blues, bridging the gap between the raw blues of the early part of the 20th Century and the more refined East Coast "Piedmont" sound. He took on the less common and more unwieldy 12-string guitar because of its volume. The style is well documented on John Lomax's 1940 recordings of McTell for the Library of Congress, for which McTell earned ten dollars[2]. In 1934, he married Ruthy Kate Williams[3] (now better known as Kate McTell).[4] She accompanied him on stage and on several recordings, before becoming a nurse in 1939. Most of their marriage from 1942 until his death was spent apart, with her living in Fort Gordon near Augusta, and him working around Atlanta. Post-war, he recorded for Atlantic Records and Regal Records in 1949, but these recordings met with less commercial success than his previous works. He continued to perform around Atlanta, but his career was cut short by ill health, predominantly diabetes and alcoholism. In 1956, an Atlanta record store manager, Edward Rhodes, discovered McTell playing in the street for quarters and enticed him into his store with a bottle of corn liquor, where he captured a few final performances on a tape recorder. These were released posthumously on Prestige/Bluesville Records as Blind Willie McTell's Last Session.[5] McTell died in Milledgeville, Georgia of a stroke in 1959.
McTell was a great blues singer and guitarist. He played the east cost blues ,from piedmont.
Nov
21
„My Baby Is Gone" (Mc Tell) Aufnahme: New York, September 18, 1933 Blind Willie McTell (g)(vcl), Curley Weaver (g) (vcl) William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1898 (sometimes reported as 1901) -- August 19, 1959), was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956. Born William Samuel McTier in Thomson, Georgia, blind in one eye, McTell had lost his remaining vision by late childhood, but became an adept reader of Braille. He showed an inherent proficiency in music from an early age and learned to play the six-string guitar as soon as he could. His father left the family when McTell was still young, so when his mother died in the 1920s, he left his hometown and became a wandering busker. He began his recording career in 1927 for Victor Records in Atlanta. In the years before World War II, he traveled and performed widely, recording for a number of labels under a different name for each one, including Blind Willie McTell (Victor and Decca), Blind Sammie (Columbia), Georgia Bill (Okeh), Hot Shot Willie (Victor), Blind Willie (Vocalion), Red Hot Willie Glaze (Bluebird), Barrelhouse Sammie (Atlantic) and Pig & Whistle Red (Regal). His style was singular: a form of country blues, bridging the gap between the raw blues of the early part of the 20th Century and the more refined East Coast "Piedmont" sound. He took on the less common and more unwieldy 12-string guitar because of its volume. The style is well documented on John Lomax's 1940 recordings of McTell for the Library of Congress, for which McTell earned ten dollars. In 1934, he married Ruthy Kate Williams (now better known as Kate McTell). She accompanied him on stage and on several recordings, before becoming a nurse in 1939. Most of their marriage from 1942 until his death was spent apart, with her living in Fort Gordon near Augusta, and him working around Atlanta. Post-war, he recorded for Atlantic Records and Regal Records in 1949, but these recordings met with less commercial success than his previous works. He continued to perform around Atlanta, but his career was cut short by ill health, predominantly diabetes and alcoholism. In 1956, an Atlanta record store manager, Edward Rhodes, discovered McTell playing in the street for quarters and enticed him into his store with a bottle of corn liquor, where he captured a few final performances on a tape recorder. These were released posthumously on Prestige/Bluesville Records as Blind Willie McTell's Last Session. McTell died in Milledgeville, Georgia of a stroke in 1959.
London, England Brixton Academy November 25, 2003
Nov
21
Poor old Ralph Mctell. He seems to have got stuck with a one song only reputation according to Big Train
Blind Willie McTell - Bob Dylan live at Mesker Park, Evansville, IN 8/24/08
Nov
21
Bob Dylan cover by Jens Stage www.jensstage.dk
Seen the arrow on the doorpost Saying, "This land is condemned All the way from New Orleans To Jerusalem." I traveled through East Texas Where many martyrs fell And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Well, I heard the hoot owl singing As they were taking down the tents The stars above the barren trees Were his only audience Them charcoal gypsy maidens Can strut their feathers well But nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell See them big plantations burning Hear the cracking of the whips Smell that sweet magnolia blooming (And) see the ghosts of slavery ships I can hear them tribes a-moaning (I can) hear the undertaker's bell (Yeah), nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell There's a woman by the river With some fine young handsome man He's dressed up like a squire Bootlegged whiskey in his hand There's a chain gang on the highway I can hear them rebels yell And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Well, God is in heaven And we all want what's his But power and greed and corruptible seed Seem to be all that there is I'm gazing out the window Of the St. James Hotel And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Copyright © 1983 Special Rider Music Infidels outtakes
„It's A Good Little Thing" (Mc Tell) Aufnahme: New York, September 14, 1933 Blind Willie McTell (g)(vcl), Curley Weaver (g) (vcl) William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell (May 5, 1898 (sometimes reported as 1901) -- August 19, 1959), was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a twelve-string finger picking Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956. Born William Samuel McTier in Thomson, Georgia, blind in one eye, McTell had lost his remaining vision by late childhood, but became an adept reader of Braille. He showed an inherent proficiency in music from an early age and learned to play the six-string guitar as soon as he could. His father left the family when McTell was still young, so when his mother died in the 1920s, he left his hometown and became a wandering busker. He began his recording career in 1927 for Victor Records in Atlanta. In the years before World War II, he traveled and performed widely, recording for a number of labels under a different name for each one, including Blind Willie McTell (Victor and Decca), Blind Sammie (Columbia), Georgia Bill (Okeh), Hot Shot Willie (Victor), Blind Willie (Vocalion), Red Hot Willie Glaze (Bluebird), Barrelhouse Sammie (Atlantic) and Pig & Whistle Red (Regal). His style was singular: a form of country blues, bridging the gap between the raw blues of the early part of the 20th Century and the more refined East Coast "Piedmont" sound. He took on the less common and more unwieldy 12-string guitar because of its volume. The style is well documented on John Lomax's 1940 recordings of McTell for the Library of Congress, for which McTell earned ten dollars. In 1934, he married Ruthy Kate Williams (now better known as Kate McTell). She accompanied him on stage and on several recordings, before becoming a nurse in 1939. Most of their marriage from 1942 until his death was spent apart, with her living in Fort Gordon near Augusta, and him working around Atlanta. Post-war, he recorded for Atlantic Records and Regal Records in 1949, but these recordings met with less commercial success than his previous works. He continued to perform around Atlanta, but his career was cut short by ill health, predominantly diabetes and alcoholism. In 1956, an Atlanta record store manager, Edward Rhodes, discovered McTell playing in the street for quarters and enticed him into his store with a bottle of corn liquor, where he captured a few final performances on a tape recorder. These were released posthumously on Prestige/Bluesville Records as Blind Willie McTell's Last Session. McTell died in Milledgeville, Georgia of a stroke in 1959.
Jim Murray performing a Blind Willie McTell song (on his beautiful Ralph Bown 12 String) at Dundee Blues Bonanza 2007. This song can be found on Jim's solo CD "My Time To Be Alone" see www.freewebs.com/jmblues/ or try and catch Jim with Peter Mason as the wonderful Hokum Hotshots.
1920s Stella 12 string demo of how this classic song general goes along and passed along in our home town of Atlanta and surrounding areas. We don't all play it exactly this way live though. McTell, Moss, Weaver, Hicks and the whole legacy of Atlanta blues lives on in this area. Support your local blues musicians. Chords used and lyrics: Dminor, Long A and A7, E7. Then breaks are F, C, F back into Dm. Then end of song has another sequence of chords but they are harder to explain. I'll try. Play G, C, F then walk bass note into Dminor, repeat that again. There's a blend of all these chords getting through the ending and honestly it's really messed up and you have to figure it out by your ear. One of the versions of lyrics I have but I sing based on what I hear on multiple versions. Little Jesse was a gambler, night and day He used crooked cards and dice. Sinful guy, good hearted but had no soul Heart was hard and cold like ice Jesse was a wild reckless gambler Won a gang of change Altho' a many gambler's heart he led in pain Began to spend a-loose his money Began to be blue, sad and all alone His heart had even turned to stone. What broke Jesse's heart while he was blue and all alone Sweet Lorena packed up and gone Police walked up and shot my friend Jesse down Boys i got to die today He had a gang of crapshooters and gamblers at his bedside Here are the words he had to say: Guess I ought to know Exactly how I wants to go (How you wanna go, Jesse?) Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers Let 'em be veiled down in black I want nine men going to the graveyard, bubba And eight men comin back I want a gang of gamblers gathered 'round my coffin-side Crooked card printed on my hearse Don't say the crapshooters'll never grieve over me My life been a doggone curse Send poker players to the graveyard Dig my grave with the ace of spades I want twelve polices in my funeral march High sheriff playin' blackjack, lead the parade I want the judge and solic'ter who jailed me 14 times Put a pair of dice in my shoes (then what?) Let a deck of cards be my tombstone I got the dyin' crapshooter's blues Sixteen real good crapshooters Sixteen bootleggers to sing a song Sixteen racket men gamblin' Couple tend bar while i'm rollin' along He wanted 22 womens outta the Hampton Hotel 26 off-a South Bell 29 women outta North Atlanta Know little Jesse didn't pass out so swell His head was achin', heart was thumpin' Little Jesse went to hell bouncin' and jumpin' Folks, don't be standin' around ole Jesse cryin' He wants everybody to do the charleston whilst he dyin' One foot up, a toenail dragging Throw my buddy Jesse in the hoodoo wagon Come here mama with that can of booze The dyin crapshooter's - leavin' the world The dyin' crapshooter's - goin' down slow With the dyin' crapshooter's blues.