Memphis Slim (Cold Blooded Woman); Grady Champion (You Got Some Explaining To Do); Hounds Tooth (Blues Is Truth); Charley Patton (Heart Like Railroad Steel); Lonnie Johnson (Heart Of Iron); Albert Collins (Honey Hush); Eric Bibb (Nobody's Fault But Mine); Blind Willie Johnson (Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning); Will Scott (Gnawbone); Luther Allison (What Have I Done Wrong); Lillian Miller (Dead Drunk Blues); Nellie Florence (Jacksonville Blues); Frank Frost (Ride With Your Daddy Tonight); Good Rockin' Sam (Don't Let Your Daddy Slow Walk You Down); Andy Cohen (Cairo Blues); The Kinsey Report (Time Is Running Out).
Nothing But The Blues
Nothing But The Blues #95
[music] ♪ I wagged out there to steal milk ♪ ♪ I wagged just like a slave ♪ ♪ I climb home on a Friday ♪ ♪ I give my baby all my pain ♪ ♪ Cold, cold, cold-blooded woman ♪ ♪ She's nothing but a cold-blooded child ♪ ♪ But she's a man, little lover ♪ ♪ Woman, you know, you know you better drive me wild ♪ ♪ I bought you $500 ring ♪ ♪ You know you still got me dead ♪ ♪ Hundred dollar dresses ♪ ♪ Child, I ain't mean for you, you just go cold-blooded woman ♪ ♪ Oh, you're nothing but a cold-blooded child ♪ ♪ Ah, ha-ha-ha, but she's a man, little lover ♪ ♪ Woman, woman, you know you're gonna drive me wild ♪ ♪ Now that my body's your time, baby ♪ ♪ You're nothing but a cold-blooded woman ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ You know I bought her, I bought her, I bought her spanked on shoes ♪ ♪ The guy she went out my car ♪ ♪ She keepin' all my money ♪ ♪ And she's in every bar, she's in every car, a cold-blooded woman ♪ ♪ My woman's death, a cold-blooded child ♪ ♪ Ah, ha-ha, but she's a man, a man, little lover ♪ ♪ Woman, you're gonna drive me wild ♪ ♪ Ah, ha-ha, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ You know, I'm tellin' 'em about it, guitar Murphy, wonderful stuff. Memphis slim, Matt guitar Murphy, and cold-blooded woman, recorded in Chicago in 1961. Welcome to "Nothing but the Blues" with me, Cliff, and this is Grady Champion. You've got some explaining to do. ♪ Gorseshin' all my business ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ Too much of your story just don't bring truth ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You say you went to take care of your mom ♪ ♪ Well, I caught her on the phone ♪ ♪ She said she ain't been sick since life's too long ♪ ♪ And know you haven't been my home ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ Too much of your story just don't bring truth ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You say you made it home like they break ♪ ♪ But you're calling out again ♪ ♪ The same thing happened last Wednesday night ♪ ♪ Now what are the odds of that ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ Too much of your story just don't bring truth ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ You guys are explaining to do ♪ ♪ Ladies and gentlemen ♪ ♪ 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♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ Right, that's enough of the modern stuff for now. This is Charlie Patton. ♪ And you're all out ♪ ♪ He's only roting ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ I'm here, all out ♪ ♪ He's only roting ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ 'Cause I need you this morning, I'm good ♪ ♪ 'Cause I need you here ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ I was the only one that'd come down ♪ ♪ When I'd say goodbye ♪ [audience applauding] [audience applauding] ♪ I was the only one that'd come down ♪ ♪ When I'd say goodbye ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ He'd blow up the water ♪ ♪ Then he'd try to fly ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ ♪ I've got a bit more ♪ ♪ I've got a bit more ♪ ♪ ♪ I've got a bit more ♪ ♪ Than a bit more ♪ ♪ And a more ♪ ♪ Than a ♪ ♪ One more to do ♪ ♪ ♪ I was cut down with money ♪ [audience applauding] [audience applauding] [audience applauding] [audience applauding] [audience applauding] [audience applauding] ♪ I was cut down with money ♪ ♪ And I was cut down with money ♪ ♪ And I was cut down with money ♪ ♪ And I was cut down with money ♪ ♪ And I was cut down with money ♪ ♪ And I was cut down with money ♪ ♪ I didn't find it over now ♪ ♪ And I had a bit of money ♪ [audience applauding] [audience applauding] [audience applauding] [audience applauding] [audience applauding] ♪ You run away with that man ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ And what did he do to you ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ You run away with that man ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ And what did he do to you ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ Now your money's all gone ♪ ♪ And it's got no more use for you ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ Oh, little me ♪ ♪ I'll wait for you just like a slave ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ Oh, little me ♪ ♪ I'll wait for you just like a slave ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ You couldn't find nothing to quit me far ♪ ♪ And you try to put me in my lonesome grave ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ I give you my money to waste ♪ ♪ When I needed shoes on my feet ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ I give you money to waste ♪ ♪ When I needed shoes on my feet ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ Tell me I'm in a world ♪ ♪ Could you do those rotten things you do to me ♪ [audience applauding] ♪ Baby, I'll give you my love ♪ ♪ Even give you my silver gold ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I give you my love ♪ ♪ Even give you my silver gold ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ How could you have the heart ♪ ♪ Don't destroy my soul ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Baby, I love you ♪ ♪ But you've got a heart of mine ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Baby, I love you ♪ ♪ But your heart is like a piece of mine ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I believe if your mother was dying ♪ ♪ I'd be laughing instead of crying ♪ ♪ ♪ Lonnie Johnson, wonderful Heart of Iron, recorded in Chicago in February 1942, with Blind John Davis on piano. And before that, Charlie Patton, with Heart Like Railroad Steel, recorded in Grafton, Wisconsin in October 1929. Well, let's come forward a few years now from 1978. This is "Hodmecolens." [MUSIC - "Hodmecolens"] [MUSIC - "Hodmecolens"] Oh honey, hush. You know you're talkin' too much. I don't want it, guys. You know you're talkin' too much. Yes, listen to your conversation just about your summer later. You start talkin' in the morning. You talk all day long. I'm figurein' out what y'all did wrong but you talk so much. Yes, you talk so much. Yes, listen to your conversation just about your summer later. I stay on lead, but I can't take a come on. Everything I do, baby, seem to be wrong, 'cause you talk so much. Yes, you talk so much. Yes, listen to your conversation just about your summer later. I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't rest in peace. I be belt off, walkin' the street, want some talk so much, what's the matter with you? Yeah, you talk so much. Yes, listen to your conversation just about your summer later. I don't know what's the matter with you, girl. Keep on running your mouth all day. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hey. Keep on livin'. [MUSIC PLAYING] Look, I like your daddy. I do it all the time. There's a little woman to drive me out of my mind, 'cause you talk so much. Yeah, you talk so much. Yes, listen to your conversation just about your summer later. Now, I got to talk to you, little girl. Run your lip all the time. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Hey. [MUSIC PLAYING] All the colons and honey hush from his 1978 album, Ice Picking. Well, too blind willy Johnson songs now. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Nobody's fault but mine. Nobody's fault but mine. I won't be my soul beat alone. Mother, she taught me how to read. I won't be my soul beat alone. Nobody's fault but mine. Nobody's fault but mine. Nobody's fault but mine. I won't be my soul beat alone. Nobody's fault but mine. Nobody's fault but mine. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. Maybe your life. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. Nobody's fault but mine. I won't be my soul beat alone. Nobody's fault but mine. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. Nobody's fault but mine. I won't be my soul beat alone. Nobody's fault but mine. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. I won't be my soul beat alone. Well, Scott and Norbone. It's the title track of his last album, released last year. Apparently Norbone is a town in Indiana, but I never got further than Bloomington on my visitor. Well, it's going to be touring in the UK later in July, but I don't think I'm going to be able to get to one of his gigs. They mostly seem to be down south. 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