Nothing But The Blues
Nothing But The Blues #26
Tommy Castro Band (Take Me Off The Road); Sonny Landreth (Howlin' Moon); Cephas and Wiggins (Mamie); Hop Wilson and His Buddies (My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone (Take 2)); Big Joe Williams and J.D. Short (Going Back To Crawford, Miss.); Guy Davis (Goin' Back To Silver Spring); Kokomo Arnold (Milk Cow Blues); Clifford Gibson (Tired of Being Mistreated Pt. 1); Son Seals (I Can't Hear Nothing But The Blues); Lightnin' Hopkins (That Mean Old Twister); Baby Boy Warren (Sanafee (Not Welcome Anymore)); Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Strange Things Happening Every Day); Fred McDowell (When I Lay My Burden Down); Roxy Perry (In My Sweet Time); Eddy 'The Chief' Clearwater (A Good Leavin' Alone).
(upbeat rock music) ♪ The world that's a murder ♪ ♪ A coast to coast ♪ ♪ A million miles of motels ♪ ♪ You know I slept the most ♪ ♪ Another truck just missed me ♪ ♪ I was almost history ♪ ♪ Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here ♪ ♪ You could take me off the road ♪ ♪ Try to save my soul ♪ ♪ Take my hotel key ♪ ♪ You could take me on the road ♪ ♪ But you can't do the road I'm being ♪ (gasping) ♪ There's so much ♪ ♪ I do regret ♪ ♪ All the time at home ♪ ♪ I never spent ♪ ♪ The best years of my life ♪ ♪ This room's like another wife ♪ ♪ Deep down I know ♪ ♪ That's what I was gonna do ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ You could take me on the road ♪ ♪ Try to save my soul ♪ ♪ Take my hotel key ♪ ♪ Take me off the road ♪ ♪ But you can't do the road I'm being ♪ (gasping) (gasping) ♪ I am ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ On the run ♪ ♪ Everyone thinks I'm out here just having fun ♪ ♪ It's a real hard way to go ♪ ♪ But it's the only one I know ♪ ♪ No time to wonder what I'm doing here ♪ ♪ You can take me on the road ♪ ♪ Try to save my soul ♪ ♪ Take my hotel key ♪ ♪ You can take me on the road ♪ ♪ But you can't do the road I'm being ♪ ♪ Set on the road but you can't do the road I'm being ♪ ♪ I am my way, baby ♪ ♪ I'm the golden king ♪ ♪ This is your face ♪ ♪ You can take it off ♪ ♪ In the grass ♪ ♪ That's past ♪ ♪ It's the smallest big king ♪ ♪ From the south ♪ ♪ You went there with the army ♪ ♪ In the inside ♪ ♪ You won't be a real king ♪ ♪ That's the only one I know ♪ ♪ This is your face ♪ [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome to "Nothing but the Blues" with me, Cliff. And Tommy Castro there with a storm are getting us off. Take me off the road from his 2005 album, "Soul Shaker," brilliant stuff. Great to drive to pedal to the metal stuff. Well, I don't think I've ever played any Jimmy Buffet on any of my shows, but he's on this next track along with Dr. John. This is Sonny Landreth from his latest album "From the Reach." This is "Howling Moon." [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Make you spark your hand right down this back. Make you drag your hands a real slow bill of time. Make you feel like you're on a spell or two. And wonder what you're coming over to you. [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] [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] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Yeah, anybody's ♪ ♪ Illuminate ♪ ♪ Feel the pull ♪ ♪ You grab a change ♪ ♪ Making it a summertime ♪ ♪ Like a drop of a hat ♪ ♪ Making me think of the names that confound me by ♪ ♪ How I'm more ♪ ♪ How I'm more ♪ ♪ How I'm more ♪ ♪ Than how I'm more ♪ ♪ Than the time that died ♪ ♪ From the wall on the beach ♪ ♪ To the wild side ♪ ♪ How I'm more ♪ ♪ Than the moon ♪ ♪ How I'm more ♪ ♪ Than the moon ♪ ♪ Than how I'm more ♪ ♪ Than the time that died ♪ ♪ From the wall on the beach ♪ ♪ To the wild side ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Sonny Landruth with Harlan Moon. The album's received mixed reviews, but I quite like it. If you're looking for the pyrotechnics of something like his Grand Street album, then this probably isn't the one for you. He wrote the tracks for the various guests, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robin Ford, Eric Johnson, Vince Gill and Nadira Shakur. So you can see it's a mix of stuff anyway, but I quite like the album. Sonny Landruth and the album is from The Reach. Well, sadly too for the obituary column this week. Guitarist and vocalist John Seifers died on March the 4th of Natural Causes. He was 79. He and harmonica player Phil Wiggins got together in 1984. So they were together for 25 years. This is a track by a 1999 album home mode. This is Mamie. [Music] Early one more, just by the break of day. [Music] Lord, it was early one more, by the break of day. [Music] Long come a dirty man, try to take my Mamie a stray. [Music] Kerbstone is my pillow, cold, she's in my bed. [Music] Cold, she's in my bed. [Music] I ain't got my little name for a home, my worry to get her. [Music] [Music] I woke up this morning, wet clothes, wet with tears. [Music] Lord, I woke up this morning, wet clothes, wet with tears. [Music] Give a thousand dollars, if I could find out where my Mamie is. [Music] Oh, Mamie, oh, Mamie, oh, Mamie, oh, Mamie. Oh, I wonder where, wonder where my Mamie is. [Music] Give a thousand dollars, if I could find out where my Mamie is. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I thought that I heard Mamie call my name, Lord, I thought I heard, I thought I heard Mamie call my name. [Music] She didn't call loud, call it home, so nice and clean. [Music] See for some Wiggins, John, see for us no longer with us, sadly. The other guy who died didn't record anything, but Ray Topping was the guy responsible for compiling many of the Ace Records reissues. He did a fantastic job with Ace, and sadly he died recently. So what I'm going to do is play a track from one of the many albums he compiled. This is the steel guitar flash album of Hot Wheels on his Buddies, and it's take two of my woman has a black cat bone. [Music] I do believe I won't got a black cat bone. [Music] I do believe I won't got a black cat bone. [Music] Well, everything I got to do seems like I do this wrong. [Music] Yes, I've tried so hard to get along with that woman of mine. [Music] Yes, I've tried so hard to get along with that woman of mine. [Music] Yes, but the more I try, won't she go around to the line? [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Yes, I walked from Dallas, walked to Wichita Falls. Got the thing that bounced on baby. [Music] [Music] I won't got a black cat bone. [Music] Well, everything I got to do feels like I do this wrong. [Music] Lovely. Hop Wilson and his Buddies with my woman has a black cat bone. Take two. If you listen to Tae Gorn, he actually gets the phrasing slightly wrong. It's a perfectly good Tae Gorn. But playing that to commemorate the life of Ray Topping of Ace Records. Right, somebody I don't think I've played for a while now. Picture Williams and JD Short. This is going back to Crawford, Mississippi. [Music] Yes, I walked up this morning. [Music] Mine run in five different ways. [Music] I'm going back to Crawford, Mississippi Falls. [Music] I'm going back to Crawford, Mississippi Falls. [Music] Well, I'll call you Ray Gorn backstage. [Music] I ain't gonna do the same good boy. [Music] I ain't gonna do the same good boy. People just drive me from the door to the door. Now I wake up there and I'm on a bus, and I don't have no place in it. Yeah, I never want to wake up. People drive me from the door to the door. [Music] Yeah, man, we'll get back to Crawford, Mississippi Falls. I ain't gonna be a bad boy in a number. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Well, I ain't got no place in it. 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