'I Shall Not Be Moved' CHARLEY PATTON, 1929 Delta Blues Guitar Legend

[monkeytown1000]

Best version of this song I've heard, I love Charley. A blues man doing a gospel song too, religious African-Americans who sang gospel didn't approve of the secular blues at all considering it "the devil's music". Maybe Charley was covering his back.

Here in England when I was young we used to sing a version of this song at football matches with altered lyrics, but that's a whole other story.

[blueflame2]

This song is still a staple for a prayer service at any rural Black church. It might have been used during the Civil Rights Movement but the sentiment and emotions created by sining numerous rounds of this song were long embedded in African Americans. Now days there are alot of people that know alot of facts, yet still know nothing. They know nothing about the hearts of men and women. They know nothing about overcoming, nothing by fighting a thing till its finished.

[PatrickWall12]

Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley did more or less the same arrangement nearly 30 years later. Gospel + Blues = Rock 'n' Roll in 1929 or 1956

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@PatrickWall12 Yeah - the Million Dollar Quartet rocked the hell out of this number - I like when Jerry corrects Elvis' lyric in the first verse.

[roussos87]

seems to me like a national anthem of a better world.

[SuperPantelis1]

Thank you very much !!! the oldest the best !!!

[glorianocanta]

Thanks for this wonderful, fantastic song. This is History. One more time: ¡Thank you!

[TheDeltabluesboy]

beautiful music

[TedMichaelMorgan]

This is a terrific version. Thank you!

[CONSENT44]

this was the anthym of the civil rights movement. i think Mississippi John Hurt did the best version

[treemonisha2006]

AMEN!!!!!

[FoFumFilms]

what a unique and fantastic voice. heartbreaking but he sounds like he perhaps has a good sense of humour. i don't know why. his voice has an elasticity to it. a rubberiness. a soul there. i can hear it. recorded at the perfect time and in the perfect ear for that kind of music. wonderful, wouldn't you all say?

[Krinisty]

This has moved me this morning I'll tell you that! Awesome! Thanks for posting!! :)

[TubeofDestiny]

wonderful recording, thx for the upload :')

[panbread89]

I remember my mother singing this to me, when I couldn't go to sleep. Wonderful song.

[JACKASSFREAKMAN]

i tought he was gonna move to alabamma :P

[benirras03]

increible! acabo de descubrir k la cancion de Chankete en Verano Azul 'No nos moveran' es una version de Patton!! k fuerte...........

[AngiWinters]

Amazing!!! Thank God.... for this Wow recored from 1929....

This song has stod test of time.......:)

[irenevr]

it almost sounds like the tape accidently sped up 1/3 of the way through.....Patton ususally doesn't sound like this when he sings fast....

[NBTX4041]

@irenevr If the tape had been sped up, the pitch of the voice would have changed. He just started playing double-time.

[PinkOld]

@irenevr

It's not a tape trick.

Patton really accelerated to add punch to this powerful song.

It always grabs me at the heart with its strength.

We are all quite fortunate that so many Patton recordings survive, especially this one.

[boxingin]

@PinkOld Yes, lucky we are indeed. Charlie Patton is one of those rare talents that only comes along every so often. Atleast we have him in recordings as you stated.

[SuperXavier30]

This really is the Heart of the song!!..Thanks!

[PinkOld]

I still consider this the definitive version of this great song.

Patton was on a completely different level from anyone who has ever followed.

Listening to this truly lifts my heart and spirit, all the more because Patton lives on, over seventy years after his untimely death.

[rescueuchief]

I have been working this song on my guitar off of Johnny Cash's rendition...until I heard Charley. Just wonderful! Thank you for posting!

[NoRosesForMe]

He was great with gospel. Few probably know that. Beautiful. 5***** thank you!

[RETRO714]

I never heard this song before. This could have been an "anthem" of the civil rights movement. It's alittle fast for my taste, but great anyway.

[canekzapata]

@RETRO714 this was an anthem for the civil rights movement from the rosa park incident

[michael64543]

@RETRO714 It was!!! This song used to ALWAYS be sung en mass at all civil rights, union & anti war.protests. It refers to the practice of using "passive resistance" via the sit-in to effect change. You just refused to move. When the cops tried to arrest you, you went limp offering no resistance even to (as there inevitably always was) non provoked police violence. It worked. It took balls to just sit there, not flee or defend yourself as serious police violence often was employed. .