Jimmy Johnson (I Need Some Easy Money); Harvey Hill Jr. (She Fool Me); Eddie Hope and The Mannish Boys (A Fool No More); Kirsten Thien (Please Drive); Hubert Sumlin (Iodine In My Coffee); Leroy Carr (Big Four Blues); Scrapper Blackwell (No Good Woman Blues); Buddy Guy (Thank Me Someday); Beale Street Sheiks (Stomp That Thing); Mississippi Sheiks (Please Don't Wake It Up); Joanne Shaw Taylor (Jump That Train); Andres Roots and Black River Bluesman (Watcha Do); L.R. Phoenix and Mr. Mo'Hell (Jumper On The Line); Solomon Burke (None Of Us Are Free); Luther Allison (You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now).
Nothing But The Blues
Nothing But The Blues #111
(upbeat music) ♪ It's two o'clock in the morning ♪ ♪ And it's starting to rain ♪ ♪ If my city hadn't died ♪ ♪ I wouldn't be waiting on this train ♪ ♪ Now ladies, you don't make me hard-calls ♪ ♪ Stay at home and watch TV ♪ ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ Keep on next to me ♪ ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ Keep on next to me ♪ ♪ They tell me I don't need a woman ♪ ♪ Who wants your dirty clothes ♪ ♪ But you got to have cash money ♪ ♪ Everybody knows ♪ ♪ She might not work the streets ♪ ♪ But I love don't come for free ♪ ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ Keep on next to me ♪ ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ Keep on next to me ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) ♪ I went into the context lane ♪ ♪ Could try and catch my tick ♪ ♪ The man said my face was good ♪ ♪ Didn't know about my neck ♪ ♪ A house went through the food bill too ♪ ♪ People came you see ♪ ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ Keep on next to me ♪ ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ To keep on next to me ♪ ♪ Seemed like the street ain't coming ♪ ♪ And I'm going back and long ♪ ♪ I'd help out a lot more ♪ ♪ Than it's transfer ♪ ♪ And keep it all at home ♪ ♪ Where we need they ♪ ♪ But the things that wait ♪ ♪ That pass no loyalty ♪ ♪ Needs some ease of money ♪ ♪ Keep on next to me ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ Keep on next to me ♪ ♪ I need some ease of money ♪ ♪ I don't wanna work no job ♪ ♪ But I really need some ease of money ♪ ♪ I might have to go out and roll ♪ ♪ I gotta help out a lot more ♪ (upbeat music) - Welcome to Nothing But the Blues at Maycliffe. That was Jimmy Johnson with I Need Some Easy Money. Don't we all? Recorded in Chicago in February 1979. And it received what was then a WC Hand Award for the best blues 45 of the year. Now she's in my ashtray, was on the other side. A couple of songs from the 1950s now. (upbeat music) ♪ I went out walking for a market gin ♪ ♪ A lady was in the doorway ♪ ♪ She asked me in ♪ ♪ She said if I was free for kitchen ♪ ♪ And move upon us around ♪ ♪ I could pick up on what she would ♪ ♪ Put down what she'd prove me ♪ ♪ Yes she'd prove me ♪ ♪ We're glad while she'd prove me ♪ ♪ To help me all the time ♪ ♪ I clouded up kitchen ♪ ♪ I could start every crying ♪ ♪ I moved that woman's line from me ♪ ♪ Front to the back ♪ ♪ She promised me a kiss and then she promised me a hug ♪ ♪ And if I was clean or kissing in me ♪ ♪ I'd have a room like when she'd prove me ♪ ♪ Yes she'd prove me ♪ ♪ We're glad while she'd prove me ♪ ♪ To help me all the time ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ I asked that woman for to let me be her kid ♪ ♪ When she say you make that bone learn ♪ ♪ You may not give it here ♪ ♪ She looked at me and then she saw ♪ ♪ When she saw her leave I'd tell you ♪ ♪ But I can't man a while ♪ ♪ But she'd prove me ♪ ♪ Yes she'd prove me ♪ ♪ We're glad while she'd prove me ♪ ♪ To help me all the time ♪ ♪ The next time I saw that lady she invited me to her home ♪ ♪ She told me she didn't have no husband ♪ ♪ She was living alone ♪ ♪ I asked about her to love it ♪ ♪ She told me it was strictly fine ♪ ♪ And she said you gotta have the money, daddy ♪ ♪ I've got the time ♪ ♪ I gave up $45 and take it her to be my friend ♪ ♪ Before I could get on the way ♪ ♪ Her funny walking then she'd prove me ♪ ♪ Yes she'd prove me ♪ ♪ We're glad while my she'd prove me ♪ ♪ To help me all the time ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Well you've been a lot of my money ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Stayin' all that you want ♪ ♪ Watch my brother either ♪ ♪ Fix my play, bet on baby ♪ ♪ You just got to go ♪ ♪ Well I still love you baby ♪ ♪ But I won't be your fool no more ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Well you're messing with my love like a ♪ ♪ Silent game and the way that your treatment is ♪ ♪ So try your shame at all baby ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ You just got to go ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Well I still love you baby ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Won't be your fool no more ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Yeah ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Yeah ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Yeah ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Yeah ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ Well I still love you baby ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ Well you told me you were gone too ♪ ♪ Moving short ♪ ♪ And you're laughing on a street with ♪ ♪ Yeah man you're over all baby ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ You just got to go ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Well I still love you baby ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Won't be your fool no more ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Roy's Fool No More. Eddie was the drummer who sometimes sang but on that track the vocal and harmonica was Johnny Tucker with Roosevelt Parker and Louis Major on guitars recorded in Miami in 1956 and before that Harvey Hill Jr. she fooled me. Harvey on vocal and guitar, all the other players are known I'm afraid, recorded in Detroit in 1952. Well I got a great reaction when I played Kirsten Thee in a couple of weeks ago so here's another from her. My fingers don't work the way they should. If I could take you you know I would but I've been drinking so I hand you the keys. My mama taught me to always say, please, please dry. Please dry. I know I can't control this thing. I got hold of please dry. I was 16 going on 21. I wasn't looking for love. I was looking for fun. You guaranteed I'd be satisfied. So I agreed. I said let's go for a ride but you tried. Please dry. I know I can't control this thing. I got hold of please dry. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. Last night I was thinking after we made love. How deep you move me and push comes to show. The rest since I gave you the keys to my heart. Watching you handle it has been the best part. So please dry. Please dry. Please dry. Please dry. I know I can't control this thing. I can't control this thing. I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. Please dry. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. I know I can't control this thing. I never will forget. When you and I were young I used to break my heart every night when I come home. Hold me little girl. She's kneeled down on your knees and grave. I don't want you to pray for me to love you. Just pray to drive your friend away. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I don't want you to pray to love me. [Music] Well two songs featuring here at Sumlin the first up we heard the fabulous Kirsten Theon with Please Drive. It's from our new album Delicious and featuring here with song guitar and I played that for Simon in Australia and then we heard Aya Dine in My Coffee the muddy water song from Hubert's 2004 album About Them Shoes. Great stuff. Well from Hubert Sumlin to Scrap a Black Well. First up with Leroy Carr and then in his own right. Big 4 Big 4. Why would you be so mean? Big 4 Big 4. Why would you be so mean? Why you the mean is so strange that I ever see. You're taking my baby away and love me standing here. Now you're taking my baby away and love me standing here. Well I ain't got no wonderin' long and that's where I can't go nowhere. Did you name it I heard you when you blowed your whistle? Simon I heard you when you're wrong your bill. Did you name it I heard you when you blowed your whistle? Simon I heard you when you're wrong your bill. Well I hate it if you're not my baby. My baby fair you were. [Music] Now that's Big 4 Big 4. Bring my baby home someday. Now that's Big 4 Big 4. Bring my baby home someday. Where do you want to be? Simon that you're treating me this way. [Music] I got a no good one. Aren't you sure don't mean me no good? I got a no good one. Aren't you sure don't mean me no good? I opened another woman like him in nobody's neighborhood. She leaves every morning come back at the break of day. She leaves every morning come back at the break of day. [Music] I'm when she comes in the morning she ain't got ever to say. [Music] Every time I look at that woman she's got a frown on her face. [Music] Every time I look at that woman she's got a frown on her face. [Music] I've been that woman don't let my best friend take my place. [Music] Every man he used to stop by my dog. [Music] Every man he used to stop by my dog. [Music] But since he's got my woman he don't stop there no more. [Music] She's just a no good woman and I took her to be my friend. [Music] She's just a no good woman and I took her to be my friend. [Music] But she's taught me a lesson about no good women and men. [Music] Well first up though we heard Leroy Carr with big four blues from his last recording session in Chicago in February 1935 with Scrapper Blackwell on guitar. Leroy Carr died in April that year and then we heard Scrapper Blackwell as the front man on no good woman blues recorded in Chicago in July 1935 and with Dot Rice on piano. Well buddy guys got a brand new album out called Living Proof. It's a great album this is a track from it. [Music] Down in Louisiana on a cotton plantation. [Music] Little ten rule shack and a third grade education. [Music] Two string and wood guitar. [Music] A ton of myself how to play. [Music] Yes it is. [Music] Kept a whole family up all night. [Music] And I told them that you'll make me one day. [Music] Yes I do. [Music] My sister would scream. [Music] But you just got to stop. [Music] You're waking up the whole family. [Music] Everybody's going to be hot. [Music] Two string and wood guitar. [Music] And I showed her a ton of myself how to play. [Music] She said turn it down buddy. I say shout out. You're gonna make me someday. [Music] You're gonna make me one day. [Music] Did you hear what I say? [Music] That's so awesome to me. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Buddy Guy reinventing the wall of sound there. That thanked me someday. From his brand new album Living Proof. As I say, it's a great album. BB King guests on one track. Carlos Santana on another. And what I noticed is that all the songs were written or co-written by the drummer. Tom Hambridge, which has got to be a slightly unusual thing. Well, I think I have to change the style after that now. This is the Bill Street Sheikst. [Music] Now, the songs got changed. It won't treat me right. Trying to keep good drinking with God on my side. Still like it's all that same. [Music] I mean the same thing. [Music] I'm gonna try to tell you my ending. [Music] Now, don't be shy. Fall into brown. I think about the times as I live down. Give me a storm then. I mean the same thing. [Music] Bring around the bottom, start with let's bottle some beer. The time done got to dry around him for me to start. [Music] I mean the same thing. And I'm getting tired, tell you my ending. [Music] Now, I'm stomping into summer time. You're needing a way to fall. Don't stomp me right. You need a storm at a tall hill. Don't be tall then. I mean the same thing. And I'm getting tired, tell you my ending. [Music] Now, mama said one thing. My father said he said he was stomping at the thing. He's about to change my name. Now, he'll be stomping. I mean the same thing. And I'm getting sick and tired. He ain't no thing. [Music] [Music] [Music] I think I've got something. I don't know what it's to. There it's time to move it a lot. I can't be still. I don't wake it up. I don't wake it up. After you do. It will be until a black day. [Music] I may be right. I may be wrong. Can't get the sun black house for all those thrills. I don't wake it up. I don't wake it up. After you do. It will be until a black day. They may help but help. They may love me. But when you take off that shoe you can smell the stanky feet. I don't wake it up. [Music] I don't wake it up. After you do. It will be until a black day. I don't wake it up. [Music] It'll be until a black day. [Music] Now some of them first. They'll call you honey. But when you go to the house it will smell mighty honey. Oh don't wake it up. Oh don't wake it up. After you do. It will be until a black day. I'm going to tell you something baby. You know it's just right. Get your bar of PNC and take my bath tonight. Oh don't wake it up. Oh don't wake it up. After you do. It will be until a black day. She got a pet morning. She's looking like a queen. And then I'll tell you something that they eat. Oh don't wake it up. Oh don't wake it up. After you do. It will be until a black day. Some days of worrying. Some days of don't. Baby you got something that I sure love won't. Oh don't wake it up. Oh don't wake it up. After you do. It will be until a black day. You may look sorry. You may look mad. You ain't got nothing that I wish I had. Oh don't wake it up. Oh don't wake it up. If you do, it will be until a black day. The Mississippi Sheeks with Please Don't Wake It Up. Walter Vincent on guitar and vocal Lonnie Chapman on violin. I recorded in Atlanta Georgia in October 1931. And before that the Bill Street Sheeks would stomp that thing. And the Bill Street Sheeks were Frank Stokes and Dan Sain. That was recorded in Memphis in August 1928. Well Johanna Shaw Taylor's got a great new album out. This is a track from it. [Music] Burned sky, did not die. Look up on the old water fly. Well it's all alright. We got our weapons rushing. No amount of chains can hold us still. And I just want you a guy. And the Mississippi. And don't lose me. But I'm not going back again. We were right in front of that friend. Oh I wish I hope I can. All the times he had to be with me. Maybe I'm so so old. All the clearness is I go. What's the secret, what's the point? It's the destiny of the soul. That just lies with the end. And don't you lose me. But I'm not going back again. We were right in front of that friend. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] And don't you lose me. But I'm not going back again. We were right in front of that friend. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Johan Shor Taylor will jump that train. It's from the brand new album Diamonds and the Durs. The eagerly awaited follow-up to White Sugar. And she was voted female vocalist of the year at this year's British Blues Awards. If you like White Sugar, you'll love this album. It's great stuff. I'll be coming back to it. Well, Andru's Roots is working on a new album. I know that. But in the meantime, he seems to be quite prolific, putting out several CD singles. This is the latest one. What you do? [Music] When you got a job and you don't want it, really hate to guess I've been the morning. When you've got a life but you don't know, the meaning of the life when you're not home. What you do, what you do, what you do, what you do. And what you do, what you do. What you do, what you do. When you got it good, I got it bad. Midnight's at the fridge, just like a rut. When you just step on your neighbor's cat, will you just run, or will you stop me chatting? And what you do, what you do. What you do, what you do. And what you do, what you do. [Music] When you got the money but you used to save. You jump looking in her day body. When you got the school but you're up for. What do you expect that it will do. And what you do, what you do. What you do, what you do. And what you do, what you do. What you do, what you do. [Music] [Music] See my jump ahead and I'll fly. See my jump ahead and I'll fly. There's something going on in my mind. [Music] [Music] What I'm feeling, what I'm feeling, what I'm feeling, what I'm feeling, what I'm feeling. I'm feeling, what I'm feeling, what I'm feeling, what I'm feeling, what I'm feeling. [Music] That's L.R. Phoenix and Mr. Moell with Jumper on the Line. It's the title track of their latest album. And before that, Andra's Roots and Black River Blues Man with What You Do. Andra's is from Estonia and Black River Blues Man is from Finland. And also from Finland on drums was Badmood Hudson. Well, I had to say Solomon Burke died earlier this month. His plane had just landed at Amsterdam Airport. And I'm going to play something from him now. From his 2002 album, Don't Give Up On Me with the Blind Boys of Alabama backing him. This is him reminding us that none of us are free. Well, you better listen to my sisters and brothers because if you do, you can hear the their voices still calling across the years. And they're all crying across the ocean and they're crying across the land and they will to be all called upon the stand. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. And they're people stealing darkness and they just can't see the light. If you don't say it's wrong, then that says it's right. We've got to try to feel each other, let our brothers know that we can. We've got to get the message, send it out loud and clear. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. One of us are free. None of us are free. It's a single truth we all need, just to hear and to see. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free. 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One of us is changed. One of us are free. ♪ None of us are free. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Solomon Berg, who sadly died earlier this month. Well, this has been nothing but the Blues of Me, Cliff. And the website is 3w's.nothingbuttheblues.co.uk. There you find the playlist. Links to the artists. Instructions on how to get to the podcast via iTunes. It's all free. And you can email me, Cliff@nothingbuttheblues.co.uk. And I'm going to leave you this week with some classic Luther Allison. It's from his very first album, Love Me Mama, recorded in 1969. The track is, "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now." Thanks for listening. Hope you're doing me again next week for another hour of Nothing But the Blues. ♪ Well, baby, you don't lost your good thing now ♪ ♪ Well, baby, you don't lost your good thing now ♪ ♪ Well, baby, you don't lost your good thing now ♪ ♪ Well, baby, baby, you don't lost your good thing now ♪ ♪ Yes to why you still love you, baby ♪ ♪ Baby, that's the way I hate you now ♪ ♪ Yeah, you just said that you love me ♪ ♪ But I know you'll change your mind ♪ ♪ Why can't you tell me no idea ♪ ♪ That I know I'm just wasting my time ♪ ♪ Yeah, you don't ♪ ♪ I can't have it, baby ♪ ♪ Everything I do is gotta be fine ♪ ♪ Yeah, let me love you one more time, baby ♪ ♪ Let me love you one more time anyway ♪ ♪ Oh, you know, you know I can't lose, you know ♪ ♪ But I know you didn't mean me no good anyway ♪ ♪ Cause I got you by my side ♪ ♪ Oh, you can't have it, no, you can't have it, man ♪ [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]