Nothing But The Blues
Nothing But The Blues #6
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band (Who Your Real Friends Are); Oli Brown (Open Road); Bjorn Berge (Heartbreaker); Stacy Mitchhart (Black Dog); Blind Blake (Black Dog Blues); Sam Chatmon (Chatmon Family Rag); Reverend Gary Davis (The Sun Is Going Down); Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry (Walk On); Paul Reddick (Morning Bell); Root Doctor (It's Too Late To Try To Do Right); Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (That's Your Red Wagon); Bessie Smith (You've Been A Good Ole Wagon); Tommy McClennan (Travelin' Highway Man); Mississippi Fred McDowell (61 Highway); B.B. King (How Blue Can You Get).
(upbeat music) Ladies and gentlemen, y'all ready for the blue? (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Hey, my grandfather told me y'all (upbeat music) Time's your turn, stuff gets going (upbeat music) Hey, on the other hand, he also says (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) It's a lot of the other day, y'all (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Hey, in times like these (upbeat music) Whoa, hard times indeed (upbeat music) You finally hear your friends are (upbeat music) Hey! (upbeat music) Well, hopefully you answered yes to that opening question. I hope you are ready for some blues because this is me Cliff with Nothing But the Blues this week's episode. And that was the homemade jams blues band getting us off with who your real friends are. From their CD, Pay Me No Mind, which came out on Northern Blues earlier this year. The sleeve notes list dry on the lead players 15, Kyle the bass player is 13, and their sister Tyre on drums is nine. Makes this next guy look positively old. This is Ollie Brown, he's 18, and this is the title track from his latest album. This is Open Road. (upbeat music) I've been held down tight down (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Don't care where I am going, but don't care where I live. Don't care about the loading ride, I don't care where I've seen. It doesn't matter about the problems I had, but don't mean a thing. I don't care where I am going, but I know it's where I wanna be. There's nothing left from behind. Open my eyes and leave it open. Leave it all behind. (upbeat music) This place is draining my soul. I wanna be back on the open road. (upbeat music) There's nothing left from behind. Open my eyes and leave it all behind. (upbeat music) This place is draining my soul. I wanna be back on the open road. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Ollie Brown, an open road has, I say, the title track from his new album, On Roof Records, and it's staggering to think that at 18, he's twice the age of the drummer in the homemade jams blues band. Well, when the next album came in, I thought it was gonna be heavy metal from the artwork. It's all blacks and reds, dark reds and things. And there's tracks like Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker, Black Sabbath's NIB. But when I actually listen to it, the guy actually plays acoustic 12-string guitar. Not like Blind Willy Mactell, my 12-string hero. But the album is "I'm the Antipop" by Bjorn Burge from Norway, and this is his take on Heartbreaker. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Hey, fans, have you heard a new band, at least back in town? It won't take me long, just watch it see hard, it's been sleeping money down, the style of new band is facing the same, and it was so long ago, from a rise to different spots, like the one who knows. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) The band 10 years old may be more than the person I don't use. The band stands on my lap and by, and I'm alone in blue. Some people cry, some people die on the weekend, waste some love. I just keep on running a lot of way, and it rains on the bottom of the crowd. (upbeat music) People are talking all around, but the way you let me flash, I don't care what a people say, I know what a time is at. One thing I have on my mind, clear a body piece do, do what you call me, and not a guess name, but a try to make love to you. (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, mama. I said the way you move. Gonna make you sweat. Gonna make you groove. ♪ Oh, oh, child. When you shake that thing. Gonna make you burn. Gonna make you stain. ♪ Hey, hey, baby. When you walk that way. Watch your honey drip. Can't keep away. ♪ I gotta roll. Can't stand still. Gotta flame it hot. Can't get my feel. ♪ ♪ I said shine. Bone and red. Dream soft. You off through my head. ♪ Hey, hey, baby. Baby, baby. Show me what you're doin' now. Hey, baby, baby. Baby, baby. Tell me what you doin'. Did you stay long? Well, I found out what people mean by down and out. ♪ Spent my money. Took my car. Started tellin' all the friends. She gon' be a star. ♪ I don't know what I've been told. Let's say big legged woman ain't got no soul. Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Hey, something ain't right. Wait, let me look at this. I don't know. This is what it says now. I don't know. But I've been told that big legged woman, big legged, not bird legged, not bold legged. But big legged woman ain't got no soul. Come on, man. Now you know. I said you know. That ain't right. ♪ Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Show me what you doin' now. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, move me. How you doin' now? Oh. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, show me what you doin' now. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, move me. Why you doin' now? Yeah. Nothing but the blue is me, Cliff. And I do believe I had a little ed Zeppelin moment there. But that was Stacy Mitchell with Black Dog from his 2007 album, got to get the feeling back again. I couldn't resist following the Beyond Burge. I would break a track with that. But I think what I'll do now, nothing but the blues is always a mixture of old and new. And I think I'll play a rather older version of Black Dog Blues. This is Blind Play. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Let me tell you, mama, put my flag goes on, on, on. ♪ Let me tell you, mama, put my flag goes on, on, on. ♪ It's easily from my regular, as long as after my usual. ♪ ♪ You could need to be poor. ♪ You could need to be poor. ♪ You could need to be poor. You could need to be poor. You could need to be poor. You could need to be poor. You could need to be poor. ♪ ♪ Let go, thank you, you forever on my mind. ♪ If you only let me see my baby one more time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Well, that delightful little piece was some chat mom with the chat mom family rag from the album, "Sump Chat Mom" in 1970 to 1974. And before that, "Blind Blake" with "Black Dog Blues" recorded in Chicago in March 1927. This CD, ragtime guitars, former finger picker on "Yazoo". Actually, it's a good description of him, but this next guy is another contender for the title as well. This is Reverend Gary Davis. "Come up, sanitary area." [applause] [applause] [applause] "Now, come up here looking at me now, Colin." [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] But I want you to quit those things, Gary. Thank y'all, man. [music] Whoo! Where we going? Oh! [unintelligible] All right. One, two, three, best four. [unintelligible] Well, that's how it's going down. Well, that's how it's going down. Well, that's how it's going down. Whoo! [unintelligible] You better make your business shake. You better make your business shake. You better make your business shake. [unintelligible] You better get some winpray. You better get some winpray. You better get some winpray. Whoo! [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] You better get rid of your sin. You better get rid of your sin. You better get rid of your sin. Whoo! [unintelligible] [unintelligible] Whoo! Don't you know you got to die. Don't you know you got to die? Don't you know you got to die? Don't you know you got to die? Whoo! [applause] People, if you want to go somewhere and you don't have railroad fair, plane fair, train fair, boat fair, don't have no fair period, that's one way of getting there. I've been using a method for 25 years or more, being old Sonny, and it seemed to have paid off. It's a higher debt, man. Just walk home. Well, let's go. [music] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] I see so many people happen. I can't get used to happiness. Maybe it is true. Happiness is not for me, I guess. I love them. [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] [unintelligible] One more time, man. [unintelligible] Let's walk together, man. [unintelligible] Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry with walk-on, recorded in Los Angeles in 1960, and before that, Reverend Gary Davis and Sonny Terry with the sun is going down, live from the free trade hall in Manchester in U2K. At the beginning, Gary Davis says, "Come up, Sonny Terry," and then says, "Don't come up here looking at me," which is pretty funny since both of them were completely blind. I'm not quite sure what was going on. The audience didn't even seem to pick up on it either. Let's come to a slightly more modern guitar harmonica combo now. This is from Paul Redick's new CD, Sugarbird. This is Morning Bell. [music] Common goal, the day is new. Roll the morning across the dood. These are dreams, into debris, sweetly riling, the body creams. Lime the sun around and around. Wake the dust up upon the ground, the sky beyond is just as blue. There's half of me and half of you. Early in the morning, found the great good day. What will I call you when you're gone anyway? [music] Pretty ribbons and pretty bows. All the darling, nobody knows. Who's been told in that early bell? It's hard to tell, it's hard to tell. Common goal, the day is new. Roll the morning across the dood. These are dreams, into debris, sweetly riling, the body creams. Early in the morning, found the great good day. What will I call you when you're gone anyway? [music] Early in the morning, found the great good day. What will I call you when you're gone anyway? [music] Early in the morning, found the great good day. [music] Early in the morning bell from Paul Redick, from his brand new CD, Sugarbird on Northern Blues, released a fortnight ago. Colin Linden was on guitar, Paul Redick playing harmonica, but you might have heard another instrument in the couple of the tracks feature, Garth Hudson from the band, and he was on that one on accordion. Well, there's another new album from a band called Root Doctor, and it's a live one, live from the, what is it, live at the Cadillac club. This is Root Doctor, and I'm going to get this all wrong. It's too late to try to do right. Here we go. [music] [music] It's too late to try to do right now, baby. [music] You know you've done me wrong for the last time. [music] It's too late to try to do right now, baby. [music] It's too late to try to do right now, baby. [music] It's too late to try to do right now, baby. [music] It's too late to try to do right now, baby. [music] It's too late to try to do right now, baby. [music] I even do it by myself sometimes. [music] It's too late to try to do right now. I take it care of you, baby. [music] It's the pretty Cunningham, y'all. Thank y'all. 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