'Rattlesnake Blues' CHARLEY PATTON (1929) Classic Delta Blues Guitar

[TheMK95MK]

Mother of god... Fucking cool!

[djAbrasive]

GooseBumps.. Goddamn

[Lanakikuta]

OMG What a voice :D

[Sco22]

Hard not to consider race with blues music. The history of the music is intertwined with the history of the U.S. So looking back on it, realistically it was developed primarily by blacks. I don't know what there is to be sensitive about over that fact. These days, most black musicians don't know much about their American cultural heritage. What does that mean? I don't know. That's just the way it is.

[franktyrell]

Blues is the music of people. Forget pop.

[FoFumFilms]

i don't think it's an issue of race, personally. i hear something in black blues singers when compared with the whites. tom waits wishes he sounded this good. most singers do when they hear him. a wonderful vocalist. captain beefheart was one of the few white guys who could sing the blues this well.

[shiambles]

Babe got a heart like a piece of railroad steel,

And if I leave you this morning, never say,"Dad how do you feel?"

[JJI6881]

Blues is not white or black music--It's American music enjoyed by all!!! Lets try to keep the race card out of the blues

[zack31191]

@JJI6881 To ignore race in blues music is to ignore history, to ignore origins, to ignore meaning. It's an insult. The scales and rhythms of blues music were brought from West Africa. The subjects of blues songs are poor sharecropping blacks in the South.

The fact that any suburbanite or yuppie can enjoy and understand this music speaks the commonality of the human experience, but to ignore the displacement, slavery, and repression that spawned blues music is wrong.

[JJI6881]

@zack31191 I have no intention of ever ignoring the reality of its origins--when i met Honeyboy Edwards 3 years ago I addressed him as "Mr. Edwards" because it was compulsory of me; a 27(at the time) year old white male to do so to a 94 year old MAN who had been forced to address males(often deserving of no real respect) of my race the same. I just hate the race issue being drudged up at every (in)opportunity. Especially music

[jacksondemarre]

Best musician that ever lived!

[Pentagonshark666]

this is probably the purest blues music ever.

[GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep]

That fiddle always sounds the same in every song lol I love this its interesting to think about this is who Howlin Wolf emulated

[stevom31]

sounds like hes singin from the other side

[impala327]

What the f*ck is he saying??? Seriously, who decided this was commercial enough to sell? Cheers to whoever that was.

[inNOLa4life]

Patton was America's Musical Shakespeare, as important as Gershwin or Cohan. He was the inspiration for a young Robert Johnson, the direct progenitor for Hendrix and so many to follow. When found Patton's grave was at the edge of a plantation garbage dump. See Mt. Zion Memorial Fund on Wikipedia. Thanks so much for posting this and for all who serve to preserve Patton's memory and legacy to our country's true cultural wealth.

[boxingin]

@inNOLa4life Let's thank John Fogerty for being one of the ones who preserved Charlie's grave...

[upnthemorninway2soon]

@boxingin god bless there reallly are good people out there

[boxingin]

@upnthemorninway2soon Not perfect but good.. Yes sir!

[upnthemorninway2soon]

@boxingin hey now that ive stuck up a conversation ive recently got into the delta blues music and love it...ive familiaized myself with most African-American artists but wonder is they were any white artists..i havent been able to find myself one but maybe you could help.. id love to learn more about the music

[boxingin]

@upnthemorninway2soon Way back then there were no White Blues performers for the simple fact that The Blues was a ghetto thing. Whites didn't like that type of music just like they didn't care for Rap when Rap was developing. Same thing! Whites became interested when the Brits became infactuated with The Blues in the 60's and brought it back here and sold it to us with such acts as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Anyway. The Blues comes from an oppressed people by white people. LOL!

[murdabitches]

@boxingin

What are you talking about? White people in the US were listening to Blues way before any Europeans ever heard of it. Sorry but you need to get your facts straight.

[NixonDixon]

It's not true to say that there were no no White Blues performers back then. On top of a pile of CDs on my desk here, I've got one titled White Country Blues 1926–1938.

Delta and country blues may not not have had much impact on the white population in the northern US at that time, but white and black musicians influenced each other a lot in the South.

And the music of people like Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams is steeped in Blues.

[boxingin]

@NixonDixon Show me where there were any whites blues players way back then when Ol Charlie and the likes where around? Please do...

[NixonDixon]

@boxingin

I'm listening to Frank Hutchison playing a kind of raggy bluesy piece on slide guitar called K.C. Blues and also a song called Cannon Balls Blues right now. I've also got guys like Clarence 'Tom' Ashley and Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers doing songs with very strong blues elements and influences in the 1920s. And Larry Hensley doing Match Box Blues (1934). This stuff isn't that hard to find.

[popeye8814]

@boxingin Charlie was half white... 1/4 Cherokee and 1/4 black. Jimmie Rodgers was white. Dont forget Roscoe Holcomb & Dock Boggs....

[boxingin]

@inNOLa4life Well said....

[roussos87]

so powerfull voice and he was a tiny man..... legend

[ijoan]

This is THE ultimate blues. Hits the 6th and it pulls your guts out.

[OfficialArmonist]

Listen to that voice!

[FreeVonHelton]

@OfficialArmonist Terrible!