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¤ Blues jam ⇓ 1966
1. Muddy Waters + 2. James Cotton + 3. Sonny Terry +
4. Brownie McGhee + 5. Mable Hillery +
6. Sunnyland Slim + 7. Otis Spann + 8. Willie Dixon
♦ Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee ↓ ‘Hootin’ Blues’
♦ Lonnie Johnson ↓ ‘Another Night to cry‘ ⇐
♦ Walter ‘Shakey’ Horton ⇒ Shakey’s Blues ⇐
♦ Mississippi Fred McDowell ↓ ‘Going Down to the River‘ ⇐
∗→ T-Bone Walker: ‘Don’t Throw Your Love on Me So Strong’ ⇐
Hey baby, Don’t throw your love on me so strong . . .
Yeah, your love is like a faucet,
You can turn it off and on.
Hey baby, I like what you been puttin’ down . . .
Oh, but you can search the whole world over
And no love like yours can be found
Someday baby, Mama when you change your mind . . .
You can search the whole world over
For me and I’ll be hard to find.
∞ Hound Dog Taylor & Little Walter ↓ «Wild About You» (1967)
Yes I’m wild about you woman but you don’t treat me right . . .
[…?]
Well I’m leaving in the morning and I really don’t want to go . . .
Well you got another man and you don’t want me no more
Well now goodbye baby – I got no more to say . . .
[…?]
∞ Koko Taylor & Little Walter ⇒ «Wand Dang Doodle» ⇐ (1967)
Tell Automatic Slim, tell Razor Totin’ Jim
Tell Butcher Knife Totin’ Annie, tell Fast Talking Fanny
A we gonna pitch a ball, a down to that union hall
We gonna romp and tromp till midnight
We gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long . . . All night long
Tell Kudu-Crawlin’ Red, tell Abyssinian Ned
Tell ol’ Pistol Pete, everybody gonna meet
Tonight we need no rest, we really gonna throw a mess
We gonna to break out all of the windows,
we gonna kick down all the doors
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long . . . All night long
Tell Fats and Washboard Sam, that everybody gonna to jam
Tell Shaky and Boxcar Joe, we got sawdust on the floor
Tell Peg and Caroline Dye, we gonna have a time
When the fish scent fill the air, there’ll be snuff juice everywhere
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long . . . All night long
• Vol. 4 ↓
There are 14 tracks on this DVD and a further 4 bonus tracks – Two of these are of Sister Rosetta Tharpe ← («Didn’t it Rain» and «Trouble in Mind») with her amazing white 3-pickup Gibson SG guitar and the other two from Muddy Waters («You can’t lose what you ain’t never had» and «Blow wind blow»): the performances take place at a mock railway station. The footage is crystal clear and shot on a number of movie cameras. This is part two of the Blues and Gospel train programme.
Sonny Boy Williamson appears 3 times – «Keep it to yourself» (Otis Spann: Piano, Matt «Guitar» Murphy: Guitar, Willie Dixon: Stand-up Bass, Bill Stephney: Drums) «Bye Bye Bird» (unaccompanied) and «Getting out of town» (Sunnyland Slim: Piano, Hubert Sumlin: Guitar, Willie Dixon: Stand-up Bass and Clifton James: Drums)
Muddy gets his «Mojo Working» (Otis Spann: Piano, Matt «Guitar» Murphy: Guitar, Willie Dixon: Stand-up Bass, Bill Stephney: Drums)
Lonnie Johnson ←plays «Too late to cry» (unaccompanied) and «Baby please don’t go» on his customised 9-string guitar.
Lightnin’ Hopkins – «Come go with me» and «Lightin’s Blues»
Sugar Pie DeSanto «Baby What You Want me To Do» and «Rock me Baby»
Howlin’ Wolf ↔ «Smokestack Lightning» and «Don’t Laugh at Me»
Big Joe Turner ↔ «Oh Well oh Well»
♦ Sister Rosetta Tharpe ↓ ‘Trouble In Mind’
«Oh, I love you so, my English friends, for ever and ever until I leave this world. But I kinda feel trouble. The train is gone but I’m gonna catch the next one…»Trouble in mind, I’m blue, but I won’t be blue always,
Because that sun is gonna shine in my back door someday
Trouble in mind, I’m blue … I must have lost my mind [. . .]
I’m gonna lay… lay my head on some lonesome railroad line
And let the 2:19 train ease my troubled mind
I’m going down to New Orleans […] I’m gonna give him a piece of my mind […]
Trouble in mind [ . . . ] but that sun’s gonna shine in my back door someday
[Otis Spann] Well, the blues ain’t nothin’ but a botheration on your mind … Yeah, when you think she’s doin’ right, Lord, she’s doin’ wrong all the time
∞ Masters of Country Blues ⇓
• Son House [01:40] • Bukka White [23:58]
Two legendary, primal figures of the Mississippi delta blues are captured on film in this home video release, with Taj Mahal as host.
← «Death Letter Blues» (1967)
I got a letter this mornin’, how do you reckon it read?
It said, «Hurry, hurry, yeah, your love is dead.»
I got a letter this mornin’, I say how do you reckon it read?
You know, it said, «Hurry, hurry, the gal you love is dead?»
So, I grabbed up my suitcase, and took off down the road.
When I got there she was layin on a coolin board.
I grabbed up my suitcase, and I said and I took off down the road.
I said, but when I got there she was already layin on a coolin board.
Well, I walked up right close, looked down in her face.
Said, the good ole gal got to lay here til the Judgement Day.
I walked up right close, and I said I looked down in her face.
I said the good ole gal, she got to lay here til the Judgement Day.
Looked like there was 10,000 people standin round the buryin ground.
I didn’t know I loved her til they laid her down.
Looked like 10,000 were standin round the buryin ground.
You know I didn’t know I loved her til they damn laid her down.
Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul.
I wouldn’t mistreat you baby, for my weight in gold.
I said, Lord, have mercy on my wicked soul.
You know I wouldn’t mistreat nobody, baby, not for my weight in gold.
Well, I folded up my arms and I slowly walked away.
I said, «Farewell honey, I’ll see you on Judgement Day.»
Ah, yeah, oh, yes, I slowly walked away.
I said, «Farewell, farewell, I’ll see you on the Judgement Day.»
You know I went in my room, I bowed down to pray.
The blues came along and drove my spirit away.
I went in my room, I said I bowed down to pray.
I said the blues came along and drove my spirit away.
You know I didn’t feel so bad, til the good ole sun went down.
I didn’t have a soul to throw my arms around.
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