Roots of Blues -- Ma Rainey „Booze And Blues"

[hairnsap]

She's puttin' a hurt on me that feels so good !

[raywest53]

Everything was always in the mix. African musicians used European instruments and notation to recreate African music and rhythms. Their musical forms were imitated by white musicians, and mixed with their own forms, then again imitated by black musicians. The railroad tracks were not a sound barrier. The result is one of our greatest cultural inheritances--vastly different from either European or African precedecessors

And Janis, BTW, built a monument to Big Mama Thornton.

[dmhoude]

So Janis has no credibility based on the fact she was white? Racism is always ugly. No matter who it comes from.

[rhondabenin56]

Janis Joplin was not carrying any tradition she was copying. Let's keep it real! She had no regard for black people or their musical history.

[astroblak82]

Makes me want a double shot of whiskey on the rocks in a dimly lit, little hole in the wall bar somewhere in the south.

[gina8594inga]

shes from my home town columbus ga one classy lady

[nusdorfer]

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhh

[treygustafson]

Yay, now I don't have to buy the album.

[mdinka]

Slavery had put once proud Africans which were often higher educated than their slave owners into misery and left them uprooted and emotionally destroyed. I really don't enjoy the blues very much b/c of this. If you look at it and see how really beautiful and noble the origins of the music are maybe you'll find an analogy for the blues: it would be like re-drawing Picasso in pure blood or embodying Auschwitz into music. At least that's how I feel.

[westendatl]

@mdinka You are totally incorrect.1)Any slave that could read and was discovered could be punish by death.It was forbidden by law.2)The Blues height was the beginning origins of ALL American music which has evolved into different forms around the world today.Before there was Jazz,Country,Rock or Pop,there was the Blues.The Blues gave the newly freed blacks the power to communicate the miserable conditions that blacks lived in the South after slavery.They could not be so frank around the whites.

[oshawaxpress]

@westendatl - for the sake of argument, country music has roots in English and Celtic folk music. Classical European musical structures and techniques are evident in many American music genres like metal and shred guitar. Everything can be in the mix these days. A lot of early rock came straight from 12 bar blues but it's extremely simplistic and inaccurate to say that the blues has led to everything else. That said, I love listening to Ma Rainey. It's honest and beautiful music.

[jackointhebox4]

@mdinka - wtf are you talking about?lol!. You dont like blues music because they tried to create something for themselves due to them being persecuted? They tried to see a brighter life for themselves through music. It's beautiful because you have to think about what they are saying. It's beautiful because it's so sad that people can do that to other people. To have them sing about it, and really not get the message (til now, though obviously you STILL dont understand..)

[lizzyvance]

I grew up on this kind of musc becuase my mom loves it. I do to of course.

[busessuck1]

Lol Charlie Patton used this arrangement in Tom Rushen Blues... I always thought it sounded strange for a country-blues song

[santinorxk]

I love the people that appreciates this kind of music, you make me feel that i´m not alone. Is so difficult to be 24 years old and share this music with somebody. People thinks that I´m crazy

[ChrissieBana]

@santinorxk i know what you mean! i am 20 and people around me think there's something wrong with ME, just cause I listen to the music that was happening before my time. or, just cause I listen to better music then the music those idiots listen to! I tell ya, today's mainstream sucks big time...

[DreadyZeppelin]

If you like this you might like, Jelly Roll Morton aswell?

I think that you need to be listerning to the blues for years before you come to find blues like thisI mean It's not aswell avalible as say Son House or say

Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon, Hooker,etc.

But the gems are there if you keep looking and what a great treasures, Ma Rainy, Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie bring to the Blues.

Thanks for the Music

DeadyZeppelin

[annayoakum]

This would be amazing on vinyl.

Actually this probably only exists on vinyl.

I'm really getting into jazz as of late.

[obeymf]

Damm i love the true blues! (:

[gomusic45693]

Wow! I love this stuff!

[jacqueslerocques]

12 bar blues , sound like that "dont nobody love me" dreariness....... its sad but sounds like she'll get over it when she sobers up ....lmao!!!!

[zybotsu001]

1st time i'm hearing this, and I love it!

[MultiMeli123]

Amazing music!!!!!!!!!!! Love it! Darn talented woman!!!! Love Ma Rainey! SHE ROCKS THE BLUES! I was born in the wrong era!!!

[sirjuandabicho]

maravilloso, muchas gracias.

[mona1341]

slowtubbi can you clear up what instruments are used in this recording? because i looked up all the member of the fletcher henderson orchestra and the musicians do not match up with their instrument. For example Howard Scott plays the trumpet but you put (cn) i think that mean clarinet?? Really confused.

[Girlyduke]

I believe that (cn) refers to the cornet and (cl) the clarinet.

[cousiwa09]

oh i am so into ma rainey and her band! great stuff....somethin different, so dam fine! thanks for the upload, cheers mate! xx

[ZAGGLETON]

Did you ever hear the Buddy Holly recording "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues"? Sounds like the same tune!

[Pin33]

Well, it's obvious where Charley Patton got the phrasing (and some of the lyrics) for "Tom Rushen Blues" and "High Sheriff Blues", isn't it? Fantastic song! Thanks for posting.

[NekoLGirl]

although it's academic, she was Bessie Smith's big mama

[killershrooms]

i really feel this song, it's great

[maxten]

this sounds way more sadder than the other. maybe because its the oldest and purest form of blues. it really sounds way more sadder than BB king, or the other guys. maybe its her vocals, its really got that feeling like a mourning or wailing.

[littlemonster333]

information taken directly from Wikipedia , I was wondering why it sounded familiar! lol. Brilliant music. C

[plattform5163]

Love blues, thanks for blues-history lesson and for sharing

[pauletaloca]

I love her. Janis Joplin was carrying on the tradition of Bessie Smith who was carrying on the tradition of Ma Rainey. I love all of them, they were amazing women, they were strong women with strong message.

[eemoore80]

truth be told to that.

[Julcisko]

@pauletaloca: you´re right...I listen to this fantastic song and I hear Janis Joplin in it. I love ´em all, too!

[jt123egypte]

GREAT TO HEAR THIS LEGEND

[herrwilhelm]

Adding to my previous comment, I refer to the pianist in the photo, not the recording.

[herrwilhelm]

This pianist, Thomas A Dorsey, became the foremost gospel music composer.

[MaireEilishinOz]

LOVE this song Ma Rainey rules

[NathanielChristopher]

Ma Rainey is absolutely sublime. Thank you for sharing this gem. She's from my father's hometown of Columbus, Georiga. I visited her grave last summer - people still put piles of flowers and cards there almost 70 years after her death. She's timeless.

[kathleenirish]

Someone want to tell me why there are only 19 views of this video????

[Slowtubbi]

Because it is only 36 Hours online . . . wait and see, it's just great music that kept ist power for so long, i am sure it will go on . .

[apmqapmq9]

@Slowtubbi Still going on, and on... Sheer quality never dies.

[donmagicjuan1000]

@kathleenirish People have pathetic taste in music that is why!!

[TheRandomChicken1]

@kathleenirish 55 000 now. :D

[codb0y11]

@kathleenirish Unfortunately, most people are YouTubing Katy Perry, Black-Eyed Peas, eminem etc.

[drawlbag]

@kathleenirish See?, it''s 78,115 now. If it were a video, it'd be more.

[CodxMasterxJoey]

@kathleenirish 81k now :D