@lovagode4ta - U love god? You want anyone who doesn't like boring ass songs to be buried millions of feet underground???? Just admit religion is a fuckin crock of shit.
@renspwn ----canned heats version is great! they turn it into a boogie-type rocker, but blind owls slide work.........the great tone, a little greasy.........wow..........haunting..........
its always cool to hear the original tho. blind lemon could pick, obviously.
@maxwall7755 Lemon made a lot of money but only late in his life when his recordings sold. He at least had enough to have a chauffeur. Compared to the earnings of Clapton Jefferson made pennies.
@maxwall7755 Well its not Erics fault that so many people bought and liked his music and it isnt his fault that he is white and was born in 1945 and not black and blind and born long ago. If you like this more than Eric Clapton thats okay but dont say anything about him. He has a good life, wheres the problem? If you just like poor mens music then you are a very cruel man because your musicians have to suffer before you like them...
You can sure hear the Charley Patton influence in this song. Boy these men are History's voice singing from the back of the antechambers of its death rooms' motel.
@Yellowsubmaurine yes, short brutish and nasty life, to quote a english fellow from centuries ago. seems things was same for them men workin the plantation an sharecroppin down south. they aint changed a whole lot today. got plenty circuses. bread kinda scarce. teevee an movies is yalls circuses now. they be pretty brutish and nasty sometime, hehehe. cant blame technolgy tho. we can lissen this great music them great men give us. gentlemen please be restin in peace an comfort. an much thanks.
@texannix67 That would be Thomas Hobbes from a few hunnert years back, in his magnum opus, Leviathan. The complete phrase is "(A)nd the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Mr. Hobbes was talkin bout the condition of man when there aint no central government with authority to protect rights of property and person. Them feudal barons did a pretty lousy job o keepin their serfs protected from the downside it seems. Mr. Hobbes had a pretty big influence on modern anglo-thinkin.
I feel like 90% of the pop music of 2011 is still derived from this basic blues form. This is the foundation of so much American music, and probably always will be.
@fossilfuelmusic the only difference was that those cats (blues) could actually play their instruments, sing (without autotune), and keep the beat all at the same time. They were also dirt poor, worked their asses off and hardly get any credit (even today!). Today's Muzac has fallen very mightily...
what was he talking about when he asked for this favour?did he really mean posthumous respect,a good reputation following his name even after death?I always believed that we are making our own deathbeds.Now I am starting to reconsider this notion.Maybe those we leave behind can do something for us as well.
Mr Jefferson is long overdue for some props... he sold many more records than Robert Johnson, (to both black and whites) and you can here how many white country singers copied his vocal style. He has been overlooked by people who prefer to focus on the MIssissipi bluesmen, but there were a ton of great ones from Texas, & Lemon was the King.
@lordkoos I agree and his guitar playing with it's combination of ragtime syncopation and single string runs (unusual in the blues) is very much the forefather of the whole Chet Atkins/Tommy Emmanuel thing that is so hugely popular today.
thats why i said it is a lost art. unless you can remanufacture the shitty recording equipment to the specs used by guys like blind lemon, John Hurt, and the like, and then reinstate jim crow laws and segregate schools and conjour another dust bowl you will never never ever have this music again. it is a time capsule
@eduartito001 The Jim Crow laws were enacted from 1876 to 1965, Little Rock Central High was the site of a forced desegragation in 1957, and the Dust Bowl was from 1930 to 1936(1940 in some places). B.B. King was born in 1925, and is now the King of the Blues, and lived through every single one of these things you named. And he's the King of Blues because he IS the best, grant it Blind Lemon Jefferson is good, but he's not the king of blues.? And B.B. King is pretty dog gone rich. Moot Point.Thx
@TrusVruntros true. i never said this guy was the best, all i said was that this type of music. Delta blues. is dead. BB is awesome and it was never in question. i just think his blues is a little different than this. but yes. a moot point lol
This type of blues is a lost art. It will never be reproduced because it came from times these artists were not musicians but hard working near death disenfranchised African Americans trying to get food an water not stardom. the blues comes from despair.
@eduartito001 i got news for you, none of the blues musicians that we know today, even the black ones, are poor. i bet you BB is rolling in bitches and bills.
@eduartito001 Nearly all blues musicians had a much wider repertoire than they were allowed to record. Blues is what sold so that's what the record companies wanted from them. And nearly all of them had aspirations to commercial success as did their white "hillbilly" counterparts.
I read that Mr jefferson played a 12 string guitar too carry more clout too his gigs. I'm pretty sure those weathered hands may have been his. All in All its pretty moving music. Seems like being a bluesman brings on bad luck, Robert Johnson poisoned and Jefferson abandoned in a snow storm.
whosenext1234567 is right. Blind Willie Johnson was blinded by a lye jar his mom threw at his dad that hit Willie in the face. Lemon Jefferson was born blind.
The blues, I believe, started with King David in the Bible. He wrote and sang songs based on the events he went through and the conditions of his heart. The Book of Psalms is basically the blues.
wherever the blues came from, its the soul and heart. music from the depths of humanity is the sound. its much more than a state of mind. its timeless. the blues is truly a celebration of the soul.
If the man were to lose his voice and was never able to speak again, we wouldnt miss a thing. That hand alone tells the story just as well or better than the songs he sings..
lezgon - do you mean 16-bar-blues? Cos I'm no musician but am interested about these things - as a pleb I've sort of progressed from Led Zep(via John Paul Jones) to Big Bill Broonzy to hearing this BLJ track. I really like this 20s/30s blues (and with Big Bill) blues/ragtime stuff. I'm too old to learn but my son's keen so what are these variations on blues bars?
"do you mean 16-bar-blues?" Many people tend to call all songs by "black" guitarists of this era blues songs, but this folk song had pre-blues roots and is pretty much on the margin of being an actual blues song.
I wasn't aware that the Blues had a definitive "beginning" and therefore things could be called "pre-Blues". Much of what you call "folk" and "blues" were melodies and rhythms existing in Africa before slavery and even the first instruments built by "Blacks", such as the Banjo were based on African instruments as well as their playing techniques.
I find it troubling that in the west the compulsion to classify everything is applied even to an art that has sought to defy classification.
"I wasn't aware that the Blues had a definitive 'beginning' and therefore things could be called 'pre-Blues'[...]" There's no plausible evidence that blues songs existed before 1900, so 1800s folk songs such as "The Bully" can reasonably be called pre-blues.
"I find it troubling that in the west the compulsion to classify everything is applied even to an art that has sought to defy classification." Give us some examples of blues musicians who said they sought to defy classification.
The Blues was born from dealing with the most inhumane situation human beings have ever been witnessed to endure. Every one of those Blues musicians sought to be men and women, not boys, girls, slaves, animals, or niggers. The Blues defied this and other definitions, with every note they said to the world I am human.
Furthermore, there's no plausible evidence that Africans in America created the first Banjo or even the Blues, does that mean it didn't happen?
"[...] born from dealing with the most inhumane situation human beings have ever been witnessed to endure. [...] sought to be men and women [...]defied this [...] said to the world I am human."
Can you give us any examples of blues musicians who said they sought to defy classification, or said their music was trying to say "I am human"? Do you know of any blues musicians who were ex-slaves?
"there's no plausible evidence that Africans in America created[...] the Blues"
I noticed your profile says that you're 89. I've assumed that's your age and have acted with the respect I have for my elders. But I have to ask, "Are a Black elder?" Because if you're a Black person of 89 years I'm puzzled why you're asking these questions.
I grew up the in the Blues, in a family that preserved the history of our people. The whole point of the Blues was dealing with tragedy, not base entertainment. To put a date on the Blues is like trying to say how blue the sky is.
Also, when you say "16 bar Blues" do you realize that's far older than America? These playing techniques and the pentatonic music structure didn't just come out of thin air.
We brought that with us from Africa and since none of these people were citizens they were indeed "Africans in America".
Do you realize that 16 is a sacred number in all African religions and used as a number base; therefore, it's the foundation for all of the music. Just like the quarter-tones called "blues notes".
You may disagree but if by "plausible evidence" you mean written record then you are wrong.
Leadbetter was an ex-slave, worked the chain gang most of his life. "I'm a man" is uttered by numerous blues men more times than I can count. Blues artists employed metaphor to express dissent; the most common being, "my woman". When Blues artists sang about how mean their woman treats them they're really talking about the bossman or white society as a whole. You could be lynch for saying this outright.
"Leadbetter was an ex-slave." No, he was born in the 1880s. There are recordings of ex-slaves singing, but none of those songs are blues songs. Blues songs came in about 1905. Some "black" musicians born about 1885 disliked blues, which to them was rowdy young people's music. I honestly think we'd have a hard time having a meeting of the minds about a lot of this other stuff. Best wishes to you.
I you say he wasn't a slave then you've never read his thoughts on the matter and if you think those slave songs aren't the Blues then I'd be interesting to know your definition of what makes a song a "Blues song".
You're right we are looking from two perspectives, yours seems to be purely academic and distant, while I prefer a view from within the reality of their circumstances and the esoteric nature of the music.
"definition of[...] a 'Blues song'." Within "black" folk music, there was a fad for songs about having the "blues" that started about '05 and was big by about '12. In the '10s those songs usually had repetitive lyrics within each stanza and were 12 bars with a chord progression similar to I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-V-I-I, or 16 bars with the IV-IV-I-I in there twice. Much "black" folk music was not blues.
Don't kid yourself that you have a view from "within" the reality of anyone born around 1890.
This statement alone proves my point. Your view of the art doesn't extend beyond the recorded music. But the words of the elders, the land where it came from, the memories of its development before white people took an interest in recording what you call a "fad".
Old African beliefs were echoed in that the "Blues" was often a personification of the "adversary"; Bessy Mae Smith did this. Or the significance of the cross-roads and how far back that goes.
"Your view of the art doesn't extend beyond the recorded music." Untrue.
"the 'Blues' was often a personification of the 'adversary'" How often? Give us some examples of blues musicians who said that's what they were doing.
"before white people took an interest in recording what you call a 'fad'." It was a fad. For your reference, "white" people had taken an interest in blues as of 1908, and in other "black" folk music long before that, and the first recording of blues by a "white" person was in 1914 -- unless you count the strain from a tune that's sometimes called &qu
i wonder what rappers, katy perry, kesha, britney, and Mylie and Beiber think of real music?
DavelovesRealMusic 8 hours ago
@DavelovesRealMusic They don't know what that is. They never heard of coffin' sound or church bells toll.
emmthreejonny 6 hours ago
music aint the same anymore...i miss the old stuff
rockerbitch18 12 hours ago
wow...just heard this the first time. amazing.
YodaBannon 3 weeks ago
all I say to all u dumb ass critics is maybe u think u can do it better, I doubt it pal
buzzzzz69yyy 1 month ago
this is the original
evilthesaurus 2 months ago
let´s build a railroad
THEsyntheticFresh 3 months ago 8
I find BLJ's music so fascinating. Compared to other blues artists of his era he is totally unique. Like he came from another planet
dbldee22 3 months ago
8 stupid's need to be 10000000 feet underground
lovagode4ta 3 months ago 3
@lovagode4ta - U love god? You want anyone who doesn't like boring ass songs to be buried millions of feet underground???? Just admit religion is a fuckin crock of shit.
virtuosityclone 2 months ago
@virtuosityclone why are you gonna attack someone for no reason? :/
soulseeker300 2 months ago
@virtuosityclone
good job, real good job, you've got a smart brain there kid.
keep it up -
matttttt84 2 months ago
@Joe145631 This Mr.Age sounds like a nice person.
Konartwist 3 months ago
@Joe145631
Neither does grammar apparently.
LaGoonch 3 months ago
This man has the Most Epic Name in the History of Anything.
Iamnotanumber1072 3 months ago
Looooove his pickin' style!!
luvBHIC 4 months ago
if there is aother kid who is 14 i would be surprised but delighted to see that i am not the only one
sk8rasta39 4 months ago
@sk8rasta39 im 16 does that count
MasterWyatt013 4 months ago in playlist Music
@sk8rasta39 i'm 15 but this is THE shit :)
peaceloveandrockism 4 months ago
Ironic,and sad, that no-one knows for certain where Blind Lemon is buried
MrSmiley1964 4 months ago
HA!!! I LIKE THE POST...."5 PEOPLE HAVE TO HAVE THEIR GRAVES FORGOTTEN" HA HA HA THATS FRICKIN GREAT
bluegrass570 5 months ago
Listen to One Kind Favor by Canned Heat and then to this! This guy had a big influence on Canned Heat!
renspwn 5 months ago
@renspwn ----canned heats version is great! they turn it into a boogie-type rocker, but blind owls slide work.........the great tone, a little greasy.........wow..........haunting..........
its always cool to hear the original tho. blind lemon could pick, obviously.
majorhoop 4 months ago
Great fingerpicking style...
mahoganycolour 5 months ago
5 people need to have their graves forgotten.
slatedumpmusic 6 months ago 4
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the black man speaks from the soul I RESPECT THAT
IPiMpiNI 7 months ago
oh man this makes my balls tingle
its that good
misanthropicagenda1 7 months ago 2
Yankee Rhoad LIKES
YankeeRhoad 7 months ago
The author of my Formal Logic book was a major BLJ fan, and I can see why.
genericfighter 7 months ago
@genericfighter everyone loves Paul Tomassi
ThePaul676 6 months ago
keiji haino's favorite blues musician, according to wp
happyhessian 8 months ago
@zionchild83 :Cheeky bastard! I'm proud to say that I have NEVER bought any Eric Clapton material,I hate him.
maxwall7755 8 months ago 2
Eric Clapton can fuck right off. This IS the blues. Brilliant stuff and he didn't make hardly a penny.
maxwall7755 8 months ago
@maxwall7755 the only reason Clapton made a Penny is Cuz you bought all his shit
zionchild83 8 months ago
@maxwall7755 Lemon made a lot of money but only late in his life when his recordings sold. He at least had enough to have a chauffeur. Compared to the earnings of Clapton Jefferson made pennies.
pianiplunker 7 months ago
@maxwall7755 Well its not Erics fault that so many people bought and liked his music and it isnt his fault that he is white and was born in 1945 and not black and blind and born long ago. If you like this more than Eric Clapton thats okay but dont say anything about him. He has a good life, wheres the problem? If you just like poor mens music then you are a very cruel man because your musicians have to suffer before you like them...
GoodbyeBieber2 4 weeks ago
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I'd see that your grave was kept clean Jefferson, if i new where it was!
BillyJamesTalbot 8 months ago
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BillyJamesTalbot 8 months ago
You can sure hear the Charley Patton influence in this song. Boy these men are History's voice singing from the back of the antechambers of its death rooms' motel.
Yellowsubmaurine 9 months ago
@Yellowsubmaurine yes, short brutish and nasty life, to quote a english fellow from centuries ago. seems things was same for them men workin the plantation an sharecroppin down south. they aint changed a whole lot today. got plenty circuses. bread kinda scarce. teevee an movies is yalls circuses now. they be pretty brutish and nasty sometime, hehehe. cant blame technolgy tho. we can lissen this great music them great men give us. gentlemen please be restin in peace an comfort. an much thanks.
billyjoedopesmoker 7 months ago 3
@billyjoedopesmoker ...and just what english fellow are you quoting?
texannix67 5 months ago
@texannix67 That would be Thomas Hobbes from a few hunnert years back, in his magnum opus, Leviathan. The complete phrase is "(A)nd the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Mr. Hobbes was talkin bout the condition of man when there aint no central government with authority to protect rights of property and person. Them feudal barons did a pretty lousy job o keepin their serfs protected from the downside it seems. Mr. Hobbes had a pretty big influence on modern anglo-thinkin.
billyjoedopesmoker 5 months ago
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rest In Peace!
d123w5 9 months ago
Blind Lemon Jefferson - RIP!
d123w5 9 months ago
I feel like 90% of the pop music of 2011 is still derived from this basic blues form. This is the foundation of so much American music, and probably always will be.
fossilfuelmusic 10 months ago 4
@fossilfuelmusic the only difference was that those cats (blues) could actually play their instruments, sing (without autotune), and keep the beat all at the same time. They were also dirt poor, worked their asses off and hardly get any credit (even today!). Today's Muzac has fallen very mightily...
bluesgurugod 9 months ago 2
I'll comment instead of "like", because "444" likes against 4 "dislikes" looks so good ("dislike" is a disgrace!).
Pirajapteri 10 months ago 3
SUPERB!!
trumpetchump 10 months ago
whoever doesnt like this music has no soul.
strongxandir1 10 months ago 27
@strongxandir1 so.. 6 people have no soul.
impascetic 4 months ago
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NathanSnyder13 3 months ago
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siddi1231 11 months ago
was this man really blind?
he has a amazing voice. it does sound a bit supernatural . i enjoyed this jam =)
wager420 11 months ago
@wager420 yeah he was blind amazing isn't it.
jlhyz2 10 months ago
...such withered fingers
Gymnophoria1 11 months ago
what tuning is this song in?
artcorebass 1 year ago
@artcorebass It is in Open G
6stringdaveyM 11 months ago
blue
safe g
MultiBlast1 1 year ago
Great - wanted to hear this for years!
dfarmbrough 1 year ago
His grave was eventualy maintained.RIP.
Duudeabides 1 year ago
with such power and deperation
JJustFreedom 1 year ago
Is this where Robert Johnson got the melody for "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" from?
brianpage100 1 year ago
yeah this track sounds really clear and beautiful..so soothing
AshlessandAnt 1 year ago
Classic !! What a great blues track, thanks for the post.
robbie69612 1 year ago
Some great music there, keep it up thanks
scx493x 1 year ago
It's weird his fingers aren't moving.
bluepez57 1 year ago 84
@bluepez57 He's THAT good.
theSoundOfChess 1 year ago 2
@bluepez57 Yes, he play the no movement finger....
16catire 1 year ago
@bluepez57 Dang, he is imitating today's musicians !!
Svm777 7 months ago 4
@bluepez57 HA !! FUCKIN BRILLIANT
dokkholiday 6 months ago 3
@bluepez57 It's because he was blind, DUH! ;)
peliccanfly 6 months ago
@bluepez57 yes its live :D
HermerTV 4 months ago
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@bluepez57 it's also weird they look like elephant noses.
NathanSnyder13 3 months ago
@bluepez57 Ah, but what fingers!
mcfahk 2 months ago
@bluepez57 He is dead. He has a message for us, if we listen.
billo321 2 months ago
My Soul is Crying
palteonato 1 year ago 3
what was he talking about when he asked for this favour?did he really mean posthumous respect,a good reputation following his name even after death?I always believed that we are making our own deathbeds.Now I am starting to reconsider this notion.Maybe those we leave behind can do something for us as well.
november191968 1 year ago
gotta love the blues, to use the term an influencial game has popularized recently, gotta love the Forerunners
soldier0fortune 1 year ago
does anyone know where i can get the tab for this?
TheOreoGuru 1 year ago
i'm glad i was born on this planet, in this universe
where blues was born...extra-terrestials shoud be jealous...
i think that's why we sent that Voyager Golden Record into space with "Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson
PhillipThunderGrunge 1 year ago 5
@PhillipThunderGrunge I'm proud too!
bostonteabagger71739 1 year ago
He wrote this song in 1928.
88mpny 1 year ago
Great !
bobbyelvis12 1 year ago
ironically, his grave went unmarked for almost 40 years after his death. great musician. really mysterious guy.
Ziplock74 1 year ago 5
Mr Jefferson is long overdue for some props... he sold many more records than Robert Johnson, (to both black and whites) and you can here how many white country singers copied his vocal style. He has been overlooked by people who prefer to focus on the MIssissipi bluesmen, but there were a ton of great ones from Texas, & Lemon was the King.
lordkoos 1 year ago 2
@lordkoos I agree and his guitar playing with it's combination of ragtime syncopation and single string runs (unusual in the blues) is very much the forefather of the whole Chet Atkins/Tommy Emmanuel thing that is so hugely popular today.
stephenyatesacoustic 1 year ago 2
Lord one kind favoyur i'll ask you : please see that my grave is kept clean mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
frankpintoneblues 1 year ago
This is the real deal!
Brutal!
robonez 1 year ago 4
was that 1 or 2 guitars?
blackkeychucktown 1 year ago
@blackkeychucktown 1
myboytheharp 1 year ago
love blues for a reason.
SilverburstPerez 1 year ago
thats why i said it is a lost art. unless you can remanufacture the shitty recording equipment to the specs used by guys like blind lemon, John Hurt, and the like, and then reinstate jim crow laws and segregate schools and conjour another dust bowl you will never never ever have this music again. it is a time capsule
eduartito001 1 year ago
@eduartito001 The Jim Crow laws were enacted from 1876 to 1965, Little Rock Central High was the site of a forced desegragation in 1957, and the Dust Bowl was from 1930 to 1936(1940 in some places). B.B. King was born in 1925, and is now the King of the Blues, and lived through every single one of these things you named. And he's the King of Blues because he IS the best, grant it Blind Lemon Jefferson is good, but he's not the king of blues.? And B.B. King is pretty dog gone rich. Moot Point.Thx
TrusVruntros 1 year ago
@TrusVruntros true. i never said this guy was the best, all i said was that this type of music. Delta blues. is dead. BB is awesome and it was never in question. i just think his blues is a little different than this. but yes. a moot point lol
eduartito001 1 year ago
@eduartito001 - er, strictly speaking, this isn't Delta blues. BLJ was a Texan.
Perhaps 'early country blues' is what you mean?
But I get your point and agree with you.
HowlinWilf13 1 year ago 2
@eduartito001 Good News BP ! Came to Delta & Greatest Depression Grab your Guitar its Blues time
louis12346 1 year ago
I love this shit!!!!!!
TheBoiboi85 1 year ago
This type of blues is a lost art. It will never be reproduced because it came from times these artists were not musicians but hard working near death disenfranchised African Americans trying to get food an water not stardom. the blues comes from despair.
eduartito001 1 year ago
@eduartito001 so you are saying that you have to be a poor nig to play blues?
kweerb8 1 year ago
@kweerb8 to have it sound like this, yes. white man blues is too polished.
eduartito001 1 year ago
@eduartito001 i got news for you, none of the blues musicians that we know today, even the black ones, are poor. i bet you BB is rolling in bitches and bills.
kweerb8 1 year ago
@eduartito001 Nearly all blues musicians had a much wider repertoire than they were allowed to record. Blues is what sold so that's what the record companies wanted from them. And nearly all of them had aspirations to commercial success as did their white "hillbilly" counterparts.
ElComadreja777 1 year ago
@ElComadreja777 A pointless argument i guess, the only truth is that this is REALY good music.
eduartito001 1 year ago 4
maybe by keeping his grave clean he means he just wants someone to remember him
ljupcoajdinski 1 year ago
When Im dead which wont be far off..I dont give a damn if my grave is kept clean.....but this is one of the greatest songs ever written in America
DavelovesRealMusic 1 year ago 2
The original music video!
This kind of music really is the grandpa of so many styles of popular music developed in the last 80 years.
TheVillainOfTheYear 1 year ago
getting to see one of his guitars was a thrill of a lifetime...
spooninspoon 1 year ago
good song. Thanks for posting this. I'd always wondered what Blind Lemon Jefferson sounded like.
666slink 1 year ago
@celebxoxcouture
Howlin' Wolf did pretty well for himself
TheKittu 1 year ago
That shit makes me feel like wanting to pick cotton, and that's not meant as an insult to the music, but just the opposite.
benthemiester 1 year ago
I feel you bro. =')
deathborn2000 1 year ago
Scrapper Blackwell also died in an unfortunate event.
beckner4200 2 years ago
cool
and informative stuff
XavierOnitova 2 years ago
I read that Mr jefferson played a 12 string guitar too carry more clout too his gigs. I'm pretty sure those weathered hands may have been his. All in All its pretty moving music. Seems like being a bluesman brings on bad luck, Robert Johnson poisoned and Jefferson abandoned in a snow storm.
airan22 2 years ago
Charley Patton stabbed..
HieronymousLex 2 years ago
Just gives 'em more material to write about. ;)
But in all seriousness, I have also noticed that pattern in blues musicians. They can't catch a break!
celebxoxcouture 2 years ago
@airan22 sonny boy williamson stabbed with an icepick i believe, over 50 cents
fonsy85 1 year ago
@airan22 No. Those hands are not Blind Lemon's. There is only one known photo pf him - and his tie is painted on...
beeroosterm 1 year ago
@beeroosterm of
beeroosterm 1 year ago
@beeroosterm it's a still of lightnin hopkins hand... i can tell cause i've seen the video not because i memorise people's hands or anythin
busessuck1 1 year ago
@beeroosterm lol painted tie= best creative and proffesional solution ever.
Gymnophoria1 11 months ago 3
Blind Lemon and Charlie Patton have a very similar sounding voice. No one sings with this kind of soul anymore.
dioisfreakinamazing6 2 years ago 2
I find Lemons voice a lot smoother sounding then Pattons,
but you are right, no one sings with this passion and soul anymore
lostintheblues 2 years ago 2
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gross fingers eww
dayid361 2 years ago
pretty damn good music
dayid361 2 years ago
This is the shit. Can you feel it
svetadvipa22 2 years ago 11
I recognize the same basic tune used by Son House for his "County Farm Blues."
Of course, I am pretty sure that Lemon came up with it first, considering that he was born quite a bit earlier.
PinkOld 2 years ago
Never heard this song before.
Just made my top 3 favorite songs. Rare if you know what I mean when comparing to current "music".
thestrugglewithin 2 years ago 7
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Sergiussssssssssssss 2 years ago
gose to show it all comes from the blues, and if not for artist like this so long ago, we would have nothing
MrROCKNBLUES79 2 years ago 3
Very true!
RushYesCrimson 2 years ago
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you fucking stupid, one way of another art would manifest itself, regardless if this is in our reality or not, try using some logic dumbass.
iLoveOlivaMunn 2 years ago
His voice is haunting....
ladyraven30 2 years ago 42
@ladyraven30 Beautifully-haunting
1978BABY 1 year ago
who wrote this song it has incredible meaning
80penglish 2 years ago 3
Blind Lemon Jefferson
thackernc 2 years ago
everybody has covered it but Blind Lemon Jefferson wrote it.
subterranean47 2 years ago
blind lemon jefferson.
parallelblood2246 2 years ago
nice video!!!
livndream4u2 2 years ago
i heard that was blind wille johnson
vv
whosnext1234567 2 years ago
Blinded deliberately by his Mom, I heard....
SteffanLlwyd 2 years ago
whosenext1234567 is right. Blind Willie Johnson was blinded by a lye jar his mom threw at his dad that hit Willie in the face. Lemon Jefferson was born blind.
bobbied3 2 years ago
Lemon Jefferson did some wrestling back in the day. He may have been born able sighted.
HieronymousLex 2 years ago
love my wrinkly grand parents
almost as much as you
just as much as you
true
is true!
thank you!
backwoodsgps 2 years ago
i love this song<3
davvakj95 2 years ago
The blues, I believe, started with King David in the Bible. He wrote and sang songs based on the events he went through and the conditions of his heart. The Book of Psalms is basically the blues.
arkansoul 2 years ago
hmmm... NO
wakold 2 years ago
wherever the blues came from, its the soul and heart. music from the depths of humanity is the sound. its much more than a state of mind. its timeless. the blues is truly a celebration of the soul.
POINT137 2 years ago 3
The blues has no origin. It is the rebbellion against the devil takin the soul.
acidcasual07 2 years ago 3
it came ffrom cotton-field gospel
CONNOOORRLAAAA 2 years ago
thanks for putting this up.. this is great
planchik 2 years ago
Very very classic and one of the greatest songs -that continues on. thanks!
TREYOLDHIPPIE 2 years ago
I think Willie "June Bug" Wilson did a variation entitled "Please ensure my pecker's kept up on"
Needless to say, it wasn't a hit.
zedrein18 2 years ago 2
did you know they actually do keep his real grave clean? true story.
Hendrixking14 2 years ago 4
Blind Lemon Jefferson was a proud and independent man.Check out Roger Mosley's Ledbelly,where he encounters Blind Lemon
dixoin56 2 years ago
If the man were to lose his voice and was never able to speak again, we wouldnt miss a thing. That hand alone tells the story just as well or better than the songs he sings..
AstralPlane1951 2 years ago
Hey we are all slaves, we work for 50 and take 2 to ourselves, the conditions got a little better but we are all still in the same boat
LesbianstotheRescue 3 years ago 4
More or less. :)
GULRUDJ 2 years ago
stop arguing.....just enjoy.
ArthurCaseyVinegar 3 years ago 6
lol! another back-and-forth youtube argument, bound to lead nowhere.
ianaj89 3 years ago 4
The hands say it all!
ramblinshoes 3 years ago
Love blind lemon jefferson!
masteretienne 3 years ago 2
lezgon - do you mean 16-bar-blues? Cos I'm no musician but am interested about these things - as a pleb I've sort of progressed from Led Zep(via John Paul Jones) to Big Bill Broonzy to hearing this BLJ track. I really like this 20s/30s blues (and with Big Bill) blues/ragtime stuff. I'm too old to learn but my son's keen so what are these variations on blues bars?
natrocheese 3 years ago
"do you mean 16-bar-blues?" Many people tend to call all songs by "black" guitarists of this era blues songs, but this folk song had pre-blues roots and is pretty much on the margin of being an actual blues song.
JosephNScott 3 years ago
I wasn't aware that the Blues had a definitive "beginning" and therefore things could be called "pre-Blues". Much of what you call "folk" and "blues" were melodies and rhythms existing in Africa before slavery and even the first instruments built by "Blacks", such as the Banjo were based on African instruments as well as their playing techniques.
I find it troubling that in the west the compulsion to classify everything is applied even to an art that has sought to defy classification.
iArsalan 3 years ago
"I wasn't aware that the Blues had a definitive 'beginning' and therefore things could be called 'pre-Blues'[...]" There's no plausible evidence that blues songs existed before 1900, so 1800s folk songs such as "The Bully" can reasonably be called pre-blues.
"I find it troubling that in the west the compulsion to classify everything is applied even to an art that has sought to defy classification." Give us some examples of blues musicians who said they sought to defy classification.
JosephNScott 3 years ago
The Blues was born from dealing with the most inhumane situation human beings have ever been witnessed to endure. Every one of those Blues musicians sought to be men and women, not boys, girls, slaves, animals, or niggers. The Blues defied this and other definitions, with every note they said to the world I am human.
Furthermore, there's no plausible evidence that Africans in America created the first Banjo or even the Blues, does that mean it didn't happen?
iArsalan 3 years ago
"[...] born from dealing with the most inhumane situation human beings have ever been witnessed to endure. [...] sought to be men and women [...]defied this [...] said to the world I am human."
Can you give us any examples of blues musicians who said they sought to defy classification, or said their music was trying to say "I am human"? Do you know of any blues musicians who were ex-slaves?
"there's no plausible evidence that Africans in America created[...] the Blues"
I disagree, there's tons.
JosephNScott 3 years ago
"[...]plausible evidence that Africans in America created[...] the Blues"
Of course, this should read "African-Americans," not "Africans in America."
JosephNScott 3 years ago
I noticed your profile says that you're 89. I've assumed that's your age and have acted with the respect I have for my elders. But I have to ask, "Are a Black elder?" Because if you're a Black person of 89 years I'm puzzled why you're asking these questions.
I grew up the in the Blues, in a family that preserved the history of our people. The whole point of the Blues was dealing with tragedy, not base entertainment. To put a date on the Blues is like trying to say how blue the sky is.
iArsalan 3 years ago 2
Also, when you say "16 bar Blues" do you realize that's far older than America? These playing techniques and the pentatonic music structure didn't just come out of thin air.
We brought that with us from Africa and since none of these people were citizens they were indeed "Africans in America".
Do you realize that 16 is a sacred number in all African religions and used as a number base; therefore, it's the foundation for all of the music. Just like the quarter-tones called "blues notes".
iArsalan 3 years ago
You may disagree but if by "plausible evidence" you mean written record then you are wrong.
Leadbetter was an ex-slave, worked the chain gang most of his life. "I'm a man" is uttered by numerous blues men more times than I can count. Blues artists employed metaphor to express dissent; the most common being, "my woman". When Blues artists sang about how mean their woman treats them they're really talking about the bossman or white society as a whole. You could be lynch for saying this outright.
iArsalan 3 years ago
"Leadbetter was an ex-slave." No, he was born in the 1880s. There are recordings of ex-slaves singing, but none of those songs are blues songs. Blues songs came in about 1905. Some "black" musicians born about 1885 disliked blues, which to them was rowdy young people's music. I honestly think we'd have a hard time having a meeting of the minds about a lot of this other stuff. Best wishes to you.
JosephNScott 3 years ago
I you say he wasn't a slave then you've never read his thoughts on the matter and if you think those slave songs aren't the Blues then I'd be interesting to know your definition of what makes a song a "Blues song".
You're right we are looking from two perspectives, yours seems to be purely academic and distant, while I prefer a view from within the reality of their circumstances and the esoteric nature of the music.
iArsalan 3 years ago
"definition of[...] a 'Blues song'." Within "black" folk music, there was a fad for songs about having the "blues" that started about '05 and was big by about '12. In the '10s those songs usually had repetitive lyrics within each stanza and were 12 bars with a chord progression similar to I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-V-I-I, or 16 bars with the IV-IV-I-I in there twice. Much "black" folk music was not blues.
Don't kid yourself that you have a view from "within" the reality of anyone born around 1890.
JosephNScott 3 years ago
This statement alone proves my point. Your view of the art doesn't extend beyond the recorded music. But the words of the elders, the land where it came from, the memories of its development before white people took an interest in recording what you call a "fad".
Old African beliefs were echoed in that the "Blues" was often a personification of the "adversary"; Bessy Mae Smith did this. Or the significance of the cross-roads and how far back that goes.
These are the things of my perspective.
iArsalan 3 years ago
"Your view of the art doesn't extend beyond the recorded music." Untrue.
"the 'Blues' was often a personification of the 'adversary'" How often? Give us some examples of blues musicians who said that's what they were doing.
JosephNScott 3 years ago
"before white people took an interest in recording what you call a 'fad'." It was a fad. For your reference, "white" people had taken an interest in blues as of 1908, and in other "black" folk music long before that, and the first recording of blues by a "white" person was in 1914 -- unless you count the strain from a tune that's sometimes called &qu