Daily Blues

[christopher3393]

On 5/6/2021 at 5:55 PM, sphinxsix said:

Evolution of the blues.

Catfish Blues to be exact.

Which dates back to 1920s Mississippi.

 

 

 

Yeah, this is based on 'Catfish Blues':

 

 

There is neither Hendrix 'CB' version from his 'Blues' album nor 15 min long 'Vodoo Chile' on mighty Youtube.. I'm very surprised..

..hence 5 live versions of the former song:

 

 

..and this (both songs based on 'CB'):

 

 

2010's

 

 

 

On 5/7/2021 at 8:10 AM, sphinxsix said:

Apologies for obsessive posting  two more CB.

 

 

 

 

On 5/7/2021 at 8:19 AM, christopher3393 said:

 

No worries. Much appreciated.

 

A little more Gary Clarke Jr. paying tribute to the tradition

 

 

 

 

On 5/7/2021 at 9:53 AM, sphinxsix said:

In such case one more VC by the guy who sooner or later has to appear on this thread.

 

 

 

well, lookie here:  Catfish Blues Part 2

 

Catfish Blues”/”Rollin’ Stone” “ ... seems to have originated with a group of players based in and around Bentonia, in the southern part of the state”.  This group would have included Skip James who was born in Bentonia, Miss. 1902. “Catfish Blues” was evidently “already traditional when Petway recorded it. Skip James having performed the same song in the 1920s.”

 

 

 

 and at the other end of the narrative:

 

 

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Hard Time Killing Floor Blues · Skip James.

 

First recorded in "31, this is from the Vanguard sessions from the "60s

 

 

 

 

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From the movie O' Brother Where Art Thou: Hard Time Killing Floor Blues, Chris Thomas King 2000

 

 

 

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From "The Soul of a Man" the 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, the second instalment of the documentary film series "The Blues", produced by Martin Scorsese. 

 

Hard Times Killing Floor Blues - Lucinda Williams

 

 

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Hard Time Killing Floor · Buddy Guy, '03

 

 

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CIGAR BOX GUITARS!!!

 

 

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too bad Seasick Steve was such a fraud. Sometimes his sound was really raw in a good way, sometimes an empty shell. He fooled a lot of people, including me ( and maybe JPJ).

 

So, this post was spot on, no problem.  Cigar box variations.  Thanks.

 

Does it matter that he was a fraud?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/sep/29/seasick-steve-session-musician-ramblin-man-book

 

something about subjectivity and its significance is involved. I can barely listen to this. What does that mean? I don't care, **** him.

 

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but he's just a musician trying to get on. Nobody wants to suffer. Everyone wants to be happy. The guy got lost in some kind of unhealthy ambition, maybe.

 

 

 

 

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Another classic: "Killing Floor (1964 Single)" - Howlin' Wolf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Louise · John Lee Hooker, '51

 

 

 

Louise (Live @ Marquee Club) · Eric Clapton And The Yardbirds, '64

 

 

 

The Black Keys - Louise, '21

 

 

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11 hours ago, Iving said:

Tracing over the years "Going Down" [Don Nix] informative to my brain and ears.

 

Great post, thanks. Will take time to digest. Just finished sampling around 50 recordings of Hard Times Killing Floor. Skip James Vanguard performance may still be my favorite, but the exploration is a learning process.  Freddie King's Going Down hasn't lost anything over time.  Jeff Beck plays the hell out of it as well. But still am curious about  some of the others.

 

Masters Of Reality "Ants In The Kitchen" "Goin' Down" (Live At The Viper Room)

 

 

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Key To The Highway · Big Bill Broonzy, 1941

 

 

Key To The Highway · Little Walter, 1958

 

 

Key To The Highway · Derek & The Dominos, 1970

 

 

Eric Clapton & Keith Richards - Key To The Highway (LIVE) Madison Square Garden New York 2013

 

 

‘Key To The Highway’: Unlocking Bill Broonzy’s Classic Blues Song

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Louise Johnson - "All Night Long Blues", 1930 (Son House, Willie Brown and Charley Patton singing in the background)

 

 

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Evolution of "Leavin' Trunk"!

 

Sleepy John Estes-"Milk Cow Blues", 1930...(not kidding. His version does not mention cows or milk)

 

 

This serves as the basis for:

 

"Leaving Trunk" · Taj Mahal, 1967 (which is off the hook, btw 😊) from his eponymous debut album of mostly blues covers, featuring Ry Cooder and Jesse Ed Davis among others.

 

 

"Leavin' Trunk" · Keef Hartley Band, 1969, from the band's debut album, Halfbreed. Drummer Hartley was a long-time John Mayall band member.

 

 

"Leaving Trunk" · Johnny Jenkins, 1970, from debut solo album  Ton-Ton Macoute!

 

"Ton-Ton Macoute! was originally intended as a Duane Allman solo album, before Allman departed to form The Allman Brothers.[citation needed] Most of the guitar tracks were played by Allman, with Jenkins later supplying the vocal tracks. In addition to Duane Allman, the album also features three other founding members of the Allman Brothers: Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, and Butch Trucks."

 

(Not Duane on this track, but Pete Carr of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section)

 

 

"Ax Sweet Mama" · Ry Cooder, 1972, from Boomer's Story. Just a slight title and lyric change. Gotta love Ry.

 

 

"Leavin' Trunk" · The Black Keys, 2002, from debut album The Big Come Up

 

 

Finally, a BIG one:  "Leavin' Trunk" (Live) · Tedeschi Trucks Band, 2017, from Live from the Fox Oakland

 

 

 

 

 

[christopher3393]

9 hours ago, fas42 said:

A minor contribution, of how songs evolve ...

 

The original form,

 

 

Name change, the music changes a bit; but the lyrics are still there ...

 

 

 

 

Thanks! Don't recall ever hearing the original. really like it. The Aussie band is new to me as well.

 

Just want to add a few influential versions:

 

"Rock Me" · Muddy Waters, 1956

 

 

"Rock Me Baby" - B.B. King - 1964

 

 

Jimi Hendrix "Rock Me Baby", 1967 Monterey Pop Festival 

 

 

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Leadbelly, "See See Rider", 1940

 

"One day, around 1958, I remember hearing something that was unlike anything I'd ever heard before ... The music was demanding, "Listen to me!" ... The song was called "See See Rider," which I already knew from the Chuck Willis cover version. The name of the singer was Lead Belly ... I found an old Folkways record by Lead Belly ... And I listened to it obsessively. Lead Belly's music opened something up for me. If I could have played guitar, really played it, I never would have become a filmmaker."     --- Martin Scorsese

 

 

 

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1929:

 

 

1932, Bing Crosby vocal:

 

 

1959, Duke Ellington · Johnny Hodges

 

 

A Short History of the St. Louis Blues

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Guitar Rag · Sylvester Weaver, 1927

 

 

adapted as Steel Guitar Rag · Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, 1936

 

 

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Joe Pullum - Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard?  1934

 

 

"It sold in large quantities and was covered by Leroy Carr, Skip James, Mary Johnson, Josh White, Bumble Bee Slim, the Harlem Hamfats, Smokey Hogg, Jimmie Gordon, Speckled Red, James Crutchfield and Robert Shaw." 

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Devil Got My Woman - Skip James, 1931

 

 

 

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16 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

Devil Got My Woman - Skip James, 1931

 

 

 

same song from his final album, recorded 34 years later ( video has the wrong title )

 

 

 

 

 

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Just keepin' it daily.

 

A brief interlude before returning to the devil.

 

Peetie Wheatstraw, who called himself "The Devil's Son in Law", is considered an important influence on Robert Johnson's lyrics and vocal style. His "Police Station Blues" from 1931 provided a musical basis for Johnson's "Terraplane Blues' (according to Gayle Dean Wardlow, one of the high mucky-mucks of blues history - he's bonafide 😏).

 

"Most distinctive of all was his strangled semi-falsetto cry 'Ooh, well, well' (with variations) interjected in the break of the third line of a blues verse. According to Teddy Darby, one woman listener exclaimed, 'Good God, why doesn't that man yodel ( 🐮  ) and be done with it?' "

 

 

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Speak of the devil, here's Robert Johnson, "Hellhound on My Trail", 1937

 

 

The rest are covers.

 

"Hellhound on My Trail" · Fleetwood Mac · Peter Green, 1968

 

 

Peter Green Splinter Group w/ Nigel Watson, 2000, from Hot Foot Powder album:

 

"Hot Foot Powder is Peter Green's second album made up entirely of covers of the music by the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. In fact, with this album and its predecessor, The Robert Johnson Songbook, Green has recorded every song that Robert Johnson is known to have composed and recorded."

 

 

Hellhound On My Trail · Roy Rogers ( not the cowboy 🐮), from the album Blind Pig Presents: Slide, 1989

 

 

Chris Whitley - 'Hellhound on My Trail" (live) from 'Hellhounds on my Trail - The Afterlife of Robert Johnson' (recorded 1998, documentary released 2000)

 

 

"Hellhound Blues (Hellhound On My Trail)" · John Hammond Jr. from the album At The Crossroads: The Blues Of Robert Johnson, 2003

 

 

"Hell Hound On My Trail" · Eric Clapton, from Me and Mr. Johnson, 2004

 

 

 

 "Hell Hound on my Trail"- Eric Clapton and Doyle Bramhall ll, from Sessions for Robert J. performance/documentary, 2004

 

 

"Hellhound On My Trail",  Larkin Poe, 2020

 

 

 

[christopher3393]

On 5/6/2021 at 5:55 PM, sphinxsix said:

Evolution of the blues.

Catfish Blues to be exact.

Which dates back to 1920s Mississippi.

 

 

 

Yeah, this is based on 'Catfish Blues':

 

 

There is neither Hendrix 'CB' version from his 'Blues' album nor 15 min long 'Vodoo Chile' on mighty Youtube.. I'm very surprised..

..hence 5 live versions of the former song:

 

 

..and this (both songs based on 'CB'):

 

 

2010's

 

 

 

On 5/6/2021 at 6:54 PM, sphinxsix said:

One more CB.

 

 

 

On 5/7/2021 at 8:10 AM, sphinxsix said:

Apologies for obsessive posting  two more CB.

 

 

 

 

On 5/7/2021 at 8:19 AM, christopher3393 said:

 

No worries. Much appreciated.

 

A little more Gary Clarke Jr. paying tribute to the tradition

 

 

 

 

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - Catfish Blues/Hey Joe