The J. Derrickson Project (You're Gonna Miss Me); Lightnin' Hopkins (Miss Me Blues (You're Gonna Miss Me)); Richard Ray Farrell and Marco Pandolfi (Phonograph Blues); Robert Johnson (Terraplane Blues); Rich Harper (Bound To Pay); King Solomon Hill (Whoopee Blues (alternate take)); John Oscar (Whoopee Mama Blues); Bob Corritore with Koko Taylor (What Kind Of Man Is This); Shaun Murphy (Come To Mama); James Cotton (Blues For Koko); Oscar Woods (Sometimes I Get To Thinkin' (Take 1)); Henry Thomas (Texas Worried Blues); Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm (Don't Just Sing About The Blues); R.L. Burnside (Miss Maybelle); Sean Costello (Simple Twist Of Fate).
Nothing But The Blues
Nothing But The Blues #108
I hope late last night, she said I can't take no more, told me to take what belongs to me and then head on out that door, I said, "Girl, we don't need to play this game." Because you know you're gonna miss me. She said, "Not if I take real good at it." I said, "What?" I was just hanging with my boys. She said, "Don't you lie to me." I told her she was crazy. That's where she kicked me in my belly. I said, "Baby, you're gonna miss your old flame. Gonna miss me." She looked mistreated in my eye and said, "Not if I take care of a flame." I think it might be time to go. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ It's from his new album, The Blues in Me. And James wrote all the songs, plays most of the instruments. It's a nice album. Are they coming back to it? Well, the same title, different song now. This is like in Hopkins. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪♪ ♪♪♪♪ Well, let's have a couple of Robert Johnson songs now. ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ He just got a phonograph, but it won't say a lonesome word. ♪♪♪ He just got a phonograph, won't say a lonesome word. ♪♪♪ But he will have a gun, but he will have that young gun. ♪♪♪ I love my phonograph, but you broke my, you broke my wine and change. ♪♪♪ I love my phonograph, but you broke my wine and change. ♪♪♪ Now you're taking my love and giving it to your other man. ♪♪♪ We played it on a sofa. ♪♪♪ And beside the wall. ♪♪♪ My new gun got roasted and won. ♪♪♪ Play it all. ♪♪♪ Play it on a sofa. ♪♪♪ And we played it by the wall. ♪♪♪ ♪ Yeah, but my new dung got rusted ♪ ♪ Just won't play at all ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Please just bother to try me crazy ♪ ♪ You know you're about to make me lose my mind ♪ ♪ About to make me crazy ♪ ♪ Just about to make me lose my mind ♪ ♪ Now won't you bring your clothes back on ♪ ♪ Try not loving one more time ♪ ♪ Beatrice got a photograph ♪ ♪ But it won't say a lot somewhere ♪ ♪ Beatrice got a photograph ♪ ♪ Won't say a lot somewhere ♪ ♪ Now won't you ever have a gun ♪ ♪ Won't you ever have that young girl ♪ ♪ And I feel so long since ♪ ♪ He'll have me when I'm on ♪ ♪ And I feel so long since ♪ ♪ He'll have me when I'm on ♪ ♪ We've been driving my surplus ♪ ♪ For you since I've been gone ♪ ♪ I said I'd blast your lights on ♪ ♪ Your home won't even blow ♪ ♪ I'm better than I'm better than you ♪ ♪ I even blast my lights on ♪ ♪ Just home won't even blow ♪ ♪ At a short and disconnected home ♪ ♪ That bass way down below ♪ ♪ I won't have to do it long ♪ ♪ I'm bound to check your home ♪ ♪ I'm going to hide your hood, mama ♪ ♪ I'm bound to check your home ♪ ♪ I've got a woman that I'm loving ♪ ♪ We're down in Arkansas ♪ ♪ Now you know the cause ain't even burden ♪ ♪ Their generator won't get too far ♪ ♪ Or a little bass condition you gotta have ♪ ♪ If you're better sure I'm crying ♪ ♪ Don't do me wrong ♪ ♪ I've been dying like Terry Plantoper ♪ ♪ Since I've been gone ♪ ♪ That's the highway man ♪ ♪ Don't block your road ♪ ♪ Don't block your road ♪ ♪ 'Cause she raised a cold 102 ♪ ♪ And I'm booked and I've got to go ♪ ♪ Mmm ♪ ♪ Mmm ♪ ♪ Mmm ♪ ♪ Yeah, me, me, me, me ♪ ♪ I've been driving my Terry Plantoper ♪ ♪ So I've been gone ♪ ♪ I'ma get deep down in this connection ♪ ♪ Deep on the sides of a tube ♪ ♪ I'ma get deep down in this connection ♪ ♪ And I'll keep on standing with you while ♪ ♪ And I'm mad down on your start ♪ ♪ And your father will kill me far ♪ Robert Johnson with Terror Plane Blues recorded in San Antonio in November 1936. Before that, Richard Ray Farrell and Marco Pandolfi with Phonograph Blues. Marco is an Italian harmonica player. That tracks from the album stuck on the blues, recorded initially in 2007. Well, Rich Harper's got a new live album out. And from that, this is Bound to Pay. We're this next tune's off of our second CD. It's one of them tear-jerker love songs, Gina Blue songs. It's talking about love. And of course, whenever you're in love, someone's bound to pay. ♪ Mmm ♪ (guitar music) ♪ There's no prescription ♪ ♪ Whoa, it's pain ♪ ♪ Only darkness ♪ ♪ That clouds rain ♪ ♪ The flame is gone ♪ ♪ This torch is passed ♪ ♪ This year of misery ♪ ♪ It's over it last ♪ ♪ 'Cause when you play this game ♪ ♪ Y'all love someone find a way ♪ ♪ Someone just has to pay ♪ ♪ You mediate it ♪ ♪ Dominated time ♪ ♪ Nowhere to run to ♪ ♪ No place to hide ♪ ♪ There's nobody here ♪ ♪ And there's nobody there ♪ ♪ No one to talk to ♪ ♪ 'Cause nobody is ♪ ♪ 'Cause when you play this game ♪ ♪ Y'all love someone find a way ♪ ♪ Someone just has to pay ♪ (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) ♪ I've had to regret ♪ ♪ Anything I'll come with you ♪ ♪ So why not regret ♪ ♪ Everything will only be you without you ♪ ♪ No more double trouble ♪ ♪ It's time to move on ♪ ♪ Not time to worry ♪ ♪ 'Cause y'all is wrong ♪ ♪ 'Cause when you play this game ♪ ♪ Y'all love someone find a way ♪ ♪ Someone just has to pay ♪ ♪ When you play this game ♪ ♪ Y'all love somebody just got paid ♪ ♪ Someone just has to pay ♪ (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) Rich Harper bound to pay. It's from his new album Live in Scandinavia. Some great playing on it, I'm sure we'll be hearing more from that in coming weeks. Well, we're gonna go back in time now then. This is King Solomon Hill. (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) Tell me, mama, tell me how can it be? (guitar music) Tell me, mama, tell me how can it be? (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) (guitar music) John Oscar with Whoopi Mama Blues, recorded in Chicago in October 1930, and he played piano himself, but he's accompanied here by Eddie Miller. And before that, King Solomon Hill, real man Joe Holmes, with Whoopi Blues, Alternative. Recorded in Grafton, Wisconsin in January 1932. The first take, he plays much the same, but sings it in a very strange falsetto voice, so I thought I'd play the alternative take. We're going to have a bit of a cocoa tale of sequence now. 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