Charley Patton - Magnolia blues

[Vrabacm]

Prava stvar

[nestorian9]

I love the original blues and you can't get much more original than Patton. But I just finished a new book on Son House and these guys played together regularly in real bands--often playing their guitars off each other--much like Keith Richards likes to do. We're incredibly lucky people had enough money to record some of these guys, but since the book I realize we're not hearing what people in the bar would have heard: the real band and interaction. Thanks for posting. It's incredible to hear.

[dalmirunb]

O mais antigo Blues gravado.

[mikel45674]

He's still a great musician and made blues into what music is today, phenomenal.

[mikel45674]

Well Charlie Patton's influence was Henry Sloan. Sloan was born in 1870, so atleast 20 years older than Patton. Sloan moved to the dockery plantation in the late 1890 and met Patton. Patton found that Sloan had an odd way of playing and took interest in his style (also known as very early delta blues). According to Son House and Tommy Johnson, Patton ripped off Sloan's style and if there was known recordings by Sloan, Patton wouldn't be as credited as he is

[nestorian9]

@mikel45674 very true and good point, but Son House also said Patton was a terrific showman on stage. Made him sound like a James Brown. He was supposedly mesmerizing to actually see perform with a band. I was saying above that even though it's a treasure to have these recordings and we're so lucky, I would love to go back to one of those bars and really hear Patton or Son House play with a band live.

[oker59]

You can hear the influence on Robert Johnson in this song; this song is not Charley best!

[cachepo007]

@oker59 Robert Johnson was born in 1911 and Charley Patton in 1887 i think the influence was Charley Patton

[FrenchTAN]

@cachepo007 patton was born in 1891 but good point anyway sir

[CrazyMen38]

Charley Is the Best Songer of the Blues! Rest in peace Charley.

[Dave40522]

Just wonderful. Rest in peace Charley.

[oreoswirl7]

Despite his often conflicted and difficult life, Charley Patton was simply phenominal and a true musical prodigy and genius of his craft. (Completely irrelevent, but was he or was he not a little creepy-looking in his photos?)

Also, Charley was tri-racial. He was of Black, Irish and Cherokee Indian descent. His paternal grandmother was full blooded Cherokee Indian and his maternal grandmother was a bi-racial mix of White (Irish) and African-blood, hence his light appearance.

[matttttt84]

@oreoswirl7

re the irrelevance: most accounts note charley's ability to have girls of all races running after him left and right; he was married atleast 6-7+ times, and after a show in 1929, his throat was slit by the jealous boyfriend of a girl that had a infatuation for the on-stage charley

You should seek the text to the bio from Screamin and Hollerin the Blues, a complete boxset of his recordings and complete transcriptions of his tunes, put out by Revenant Records.

[matttttt84]

@matttttt84

that box set is damn good presentation in a 'piece of art' sense and in a musical sense, so great -

the bio also talks about charley trying to live an ambiguous life to where he wouldn't be pigeonholed into a single race - but sort of tread this line of the 'unknown'

things weren't difficult in the same sense as other farmer/blues musicians, deciding to avoid hard labor, he led a great life full of more wealth than any other blues musician had experienced at the time

[aurora0215]

Encantador!!!

[bakedsushi]

According to BB King and HOwling Wolf he was a mix of Cherokee and Black with a hint of white cause of his grandmother. Look up a guy named Sam Chatmon, it was charlie patton's brother as was Bo carter from their group the Mississippi Sheiks. Their cousin was Memphis slim. Also true fact. Pops Staples from the Staples singers won a head cutting contest with Charlie, pops was not proud of it cause Charlie was often drunk.

[jessemoynahan]

@bakedsushi Irish... he was mixed Irish. I don't know about the white part

[bakedsushi]

@jessemoynahan No argument I just got it from the videos I have seen....folkstreamdotnet used to have a good docu about this entire family. I am still not sure about how white and irish are not considered the same in late 1800s but hey, they are all dead most loving the aspect people are so interested. Peace, just trying to share what I saw ....oh and his daughter was on folkstream for a 22min revealing interview.

[mastermultitasker]

Is he black?

[bakedsushi]

@mastermultitasker

[bakedsushi]

Respond to this video... Native american and black from a white grandmother

[bakedsushi]

Respond to this video... BB Kings cousin...Bukka White was a very close friend of Charlie Patton and lived close to him before his death.

[dwenollin]

Love this - WOW!!

[jpw8583]

amazing voice and i like his guitar playing. interesting that he's dressed to the 9's in his photo.

[Damez76]

I don't believe I will ever get the opportunity to visit the Dockery plantation in this lifetime, so thank you for providing the images of that particular place. I've read of certain elements of the Dockery plantation in Robert Palmer's book "Deep Blues". Now you have given me the imagery to go with the descriptions from the book. Thanks!

[Damez76]

I don't believe I will ever get the opportunity to visit the Dockery plantation in this lifetime, so thank you for providing the images of that particular place. I've read of certain elements of the Dockery plantation in Robert Palmer's book "Deep Blues". Now you have given me the imagery to go with the descriptions from the book. Thanks!

[juicystunts]

omg this is great

[satinhooks]

'slide' show 

[kinglear2009]

The best of the best!

[raw1335]

I second that, THANKS for posting this!

[graveyrobot]

he broke even on the cashing in, April to April aint to bad. R.I.P. brother

[olderbluesfan]

Thank for posting this !!!!!!!

[Joannawysiwyg]

Beautiful slideshow--thanks for collecting these images.

[TheIsraDave]

one that I love, not on YouTube I think--"She's Runnin' Wild."

[TheIsraDave]

Great, amazing.

[mattythumbs]

where can i find the lyrics?