The 12 dislikes are most definately people dressed up as gay transvestite muppets that listen to each others opera and country music while taking it right up the sewer pipe as they moan and groan about how pitiful their existance is! How about you dislikers "F" off and stand on the next street corner thank you very much!
i'm going to chalk up the 12 dislikes to a button pushing error until some one with the cajones comes out and says such in the comments, so they can be better communicated with.
John Fahey did a lovely, less intense version of this song on his great album The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death. He helped "discover" Bukka White and was true to the older man's vision.
This is the second vid of this guy I've checked out - never heard him before - and man, he's awesome! Really percussive guitar style, and a voice like Howlin' Wolf, but gentler in a way. Fans of raw slide guitar blues might like "Rosetta West - Underground."
why is there 12 dislikes? it must be from the people that dislike just because they dislike something in themselves and like to show it by putting it onto simply great things.
it would take two hundred dollar bills--to come and get us off that farm**my little darlin one night lay--she crawled up out of bed--I could hear her cryin--said lord will you send my good man home**my little darlin she got over to the telephone--and she knew I was on the other phone--I asked the sergent could I talk to her.............
Three poor boys we was travelin--three brothers travelin,poor boys--Three poor boys we got bulldogged--and they put us poor boys in the county farm**And then mother she got nervous--?? lets call up on that phone--I decided not to telephone--to let her know ?? the county farm**And then mother she got worried--She started doing somthing wrong--after the sun done gone down--and my little sonny aint made it back home--well the sargent told my mother--it would take two hundred dollar bills-----
This is amazing!!!!! One man, one guitar, one amazing song. So much passion and soul in two instruments his guitar and his voice. New music doesn't even come close to touching this.
Goddam amazing music!..blues is defiantly universal my friends, we'll all struggle no matter what...and as long as we struggle..there will be music like this..although maybe not quite so great...
If you fancy seeing some music inspired by Bukka White this March, Alabama 3 are performing acoustic and unplugged!
They are performing in this stripped down acoustic way to show the songs in a format reminiscent of the people that have been their inspiration, chiefly the old Delta Blues players like Fred MacDowell and Bukka White.
can someone explain me what he does with his right hand? yes , i know , fingerpicking, but i'm interested in knowing how he gets this primitive sounding style. i know how to play jitterbug swing but his other songs sound different.
@crackattack85 yes i've heard one before, i own one :p. i just want to know "the pattern" he plays with his fingers, would be usefull if someone made a lesson
apparently booker used some slightly odd custom open tuning i can't remember cos i'm drunk, but it's not so much the tuning as about thirty odd years of pactice and being one of the true greats. so it's more his touch, like his right hand technique and his confidence to beat the shit out the guitar and still sound good.
Gosh, this brings back the summer of 2006. I was a teenager, and worked on the expansion of a cemetery near my home town - half a hectare of open field, and it was hot as Hell. I worked alone and listened to the blues I had recorded on cassettes from CD:s in the library, including Bukka White, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Son House and all the legends. Days were spent burning my skin and listening to the blues in the cemetery, and evenings learning to play slide guitar at home. Nostalgic.
This chap used to be called Bukka. I hate it when they change their name like Myanmar and Burma or Mumbai and Bombaby. I mean it's hard enough learning it the first time.
@muirhouseterrace HIs full name is Booker T. Washington White, he is/was still known to many as 'Bukka' - kind of a nickname. to my knowledge he never actually 'changed' his name.
@pfflyers1 this guitar has just been used by eric bibb to make an album called bukka's guitar or booker's guitar . he used it just for the album..check it out. it still had a set list stuck tothe side of the guitar.
To me, this is pure beauty. What's beautiful about any type of music is that an infinite number of folks can share the love for it at the same time. It's not a possesion you hold in your hand, you hold it in your heart and soul. That is true freedom and I give thanks to those greats who have gone before and poured their souls out in song to make the world a better place.
black/white..negative/positive..sadness/beauty..music is music..i live in america, been playin blues for 13 years, im 26, white, and color is just a color, shade is just a shade and music is speaking music is life, the diffrence between eroupe and america is context, not understanding
@747t. I know, bad spelling - didn't have time to check but I just saw your first(I think) post where you wanted to 'list' European & African musics. Here's a few. Reels; Fred McDowell said "The blues come from a reel" (album,'I Do Not Play No Rock n Roll) reels are Celtic. But I knew exactly what he meant. It's a simple rotation of 2-3-Chords usually with an 8 or 10 bar phrase and a backbeat. A Hornpipe is similar. Sea Shanties(chants) are call and response and were work songs...............
I really don't recall seeing Bukka play lap-style - this is the only one,i'm sure. And I'm still wondering what that slide is. A piece of an aerial?, screwdriver? knitting needle? Maybe it's a legit Lap-Slide - I've never seen one before. And it almost looks flexible, maybe it's just the way he holds it. Whatever - it's raunchy as hell. And no fret-work. It's my favorite version of "Poor Boy". And I love his singin
I just looked at what I've been typing and realized that I have been completely wrong in my tone, and I am sorry.
However, if you would like to have an honest conversation about African American music I would be more than willing to provide you with the the resources and insight that have led me to my conclusions.
@747t. I appreciate your graciousness in mellowing out a little. Regardless of what may appear to you from what I wrote, I'm just a musician which means I've spent my life playing with other musicians. A couple of points; I played in NYC from 1980 to 1993. I played with Top, Influential Bluesmen. If you want a VERY SHORT list of them there are some listed on my site (fly jugband - bio). That was electric mainly, tho' not exclusively. I then spent 5 years in New Orleans.......
However, still in my eyes, my music connects my people to our homeland. It is what has kept our souls free and culture intact since our bodies were taken into bondage. The pentatonic scale we sing in and the licks we play on the guitar are the same that we sang back in Africa and played on the Banjo, and before that on the Akonting, the Xalam, Banjar, Kora, Bolon, Ngoni...
@747t. I have the deepest respect for the cultural bonds that keep you connected to your ancestry - there's no substitute for Knowing who we are - and your knowledge of traditional african music(s) is clearly apperent. Regarding African rhythms being difficult, I've never found any rhythms difficult. Prob'ly why I took up Bass. Difficult to write on a graffitti wall but I've heard many more African styles than American/African. Finish this sect. in answere to a query from you; J.B.= James Brown!
I love BW along with most all the other Southern bluesmen. It's Southern music that was ignored by black people outside of the South. It was only after white people had it pushed at them by Chess etc. and realised they Loved It To Bits, that black people who didn't care about it decided that it was 'their' music. It's well known that Northern blacks didn't wanna know. The blues evolved in fits and starts into what whites know as rock n roll. Hip-hop didn't come from the blues! It came from J.B.
And you really DONT know what youre talking about. Have you ever been to a Black church in the north? We play the same music as down south, except we sing less spirituals now and do more R&B. Back in the 50's when my dad came to Seattle from Louisiana, we sang more spirituals, the root of blues.
Black people have been in migration ever since "leaving" the South, and there is no way to escape the influence of the south on our language, food, religion, and music.
I have a real nice dvd of 'The Howlin' Wolf Story' which features Bukka with Wolf at a concert and on his own. Son House is on it too. Check it out, not difficult to find as far as I know. Also has Wolf's daughters talking about (amongst other things) the warm friendship he had with The Stones and Clapton.
@edslides. Why do I reckon that is? You know why . 'Cos keith's white, and a fantastic player.And Chuck's a bigot. It's not hard to sound like Chuck, His gift was in his lyrics. And he got all those riffs and licks from Johnny Johnson - the piano player whose band he STOLE. But no-one sounds like Keith. Name one, go on. And what do you mean, citing the Verve (hardly believe I'm even discussing them, are we on the same page?) Keith has written 10 times more Original songs than Chuck.
Love just about everything I've ever heard by B.W. Unfortunately, if you go down the list of comments you find it quickly deteriorates into another forum for black college kids, who've just discovered this music, and decided to take collective credit for the work of a Great Artist. None of these kids are even Southerners and know nothing of it's culture. Bukka ain't a great artist 'cos he's black, he's a great artist 'cos he's a Great Artist. Are you a great artist, 747t? or just black?
I'm going to respond to your (Love just about everything) comment slideharp1.
I did not "just discover" this music, nor can I take credit for what someone in the past has done. This is, however my culture, not yours, Mr. U.K. I learned the guitar from my uncle, and do not read music to this day. I have known this music since birth, and it is not foreign to me, as it is TO YOU.
Love it! Almost made me cry I admit...traditional blues like this really gets to me...ever since I started with Lead Belly. Then it went on to Blind Willie McTell ("Your Southern Can is Mine"), Son House ("Death Letter"), Sonny Terry ("Ham and Eggs") and now this cat!
The tendency toward individualism is the same as colorblindness, and leads people to miss that art is a collective construct which expresses a people as much as a person.
I do not say this to degrade interracial communication, but to enhance it. As long as white people continue to ignore their advantages there will be tension, and outright hostility in some cases. The playing field is not even.
Telling a white person they have privilege is like telling a fish it's in water - they can't wrap their heads around it, because they've never known life without it.
Meritocracy is great in theory, but it is far from the reality around us.
undoubtfully true, about whites having an advantage. even here in brazil, where there are people "all shades in between" (not so much because of gradual mingling, but of different colonization procesess- but thats another matter alltogether) whites tend to have better jobs, better salary and better education. the poorest are, indeed, the direct descendand of african slaves or amerindian tribes. so yah, you're right.
however, i think influences in art (or music if you prefer) cannot be limited or explained by these facts. true, a white musician will be more sucessful and make more money- but what about his music? is it dimished because of the money that comes attached to it? perhaps so, perhaps not. i dont know.
i just dont think we can use monetary success to judge the artistic proficiency of a musician.
All im saying is that when you can't go anywhere without seeing white people's influence, it's nice to have something to call your own and express your collective viewpoint.
A white man can play the blues, but his reasons are different from a black man's.
@redlizzardpoker ...I agree with that statement alone, but some suffer less and have better chances than others, specifically due to ethnicity and privelege. Theres a fantastic article entitled "My Race Din't Trump My Class" by Robin DiAngelo. It's hard to get a hold of without paying or using a college database, but it's well worth the effort to find.
@redlizzardpoker I hear that! I've been poor, i've lived on a council estate without a telephone or electricity! you don't have to be black to have soul or get the blues. The blues is universal, it affects people of every colour & nationality :)
@TryingIsGood poor ppl are actually the best ppl on earth. they are more hospitable. more giving, kind, and down to earth. keeping their eye simple living on as much as they need and thats about it. poorer ppl tend to be more happier as well. living within someones little means is more important than trying to be stressed to the max makin alot of money,worrying about the tittle "look at me" "look what i can do".
spank it, bukka.
edslides1 5 days ago
The 12 dislikes are most definately people dressed up as gay transvestite muppets that listen to each others opera and country music while taking it right up the sewer pipe as they moan and groan about how pitiful their existance is! How about you dislikers "F" off and stand on the next street corner thank you very much!
DEENVEE1420 1 month ago
Upeeta,mahtavaa,loistavaa!!!....GREAT!!
arghhhstar 1 month ago
Bigger than life
applepie80 1 month ago
i'm going to chalk up the 12 dislikes to a button pushing error until some one with the cajones comes out and says such in the comments, so they can be better communicated with.
abzreo 1 month ago
John Fahey did a lovely, less intense version of this song on his great album The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death. He helped "discover" Bukka White and was true to the older man's vision.
heinrichvon 1 month ago
man, how cool! ... he's 1st older cousin of BB King & couldn't teach BB slide :) - I visited Booker White's grave in Memphis
Sheindie 2 months ago
This is one of the greatest things I have ever heard in my life, period.
nickvaduz1 2 months ago
Goddamn! I still can't believe how heavy this sounds.
HumanBornFree 2 months ago
kicks everything's ass.
heartyblack 2 months ago
This is the second vid of this guy I've checked out - never heard him before - and man, he's awesome! Really percussive guitar style, and a voice like Howlin' Wolf, but gentler in a way. Fans of raw slide guitar blues might like "Rosetta West - Underground."
mielazul 2 months ago
I get chills every time I watch & hear this, even after repeated viewings. That slide and sound from his guitar is just magnificent.
lymang 2 months ago
does anyone know his tuning on this one?
edslides1 3 months ago
@edslides1 prolly open d
patobrun 2 months ago
@edslides1 prolly open d
patobrun 2 months ago
why is there 12 dislikes? it must be from the people that dislike just because they dislike something in themselves and like to show it by putting it onto simply great things.
abzreo 3 months ago
@abzreo - Because 12 people couldn't tell the difference between good music and a whole in the ground!
THEbchat 2 months ago
my fav ever, thanks for sharing this, excellent.
Frombonics 3 months ago
grundmeh gotda hundred dollar bill
RecordGuy3434 3 months ago
auheuhuahueh tiozinho firmeza mano hauhuehuh
CONDADOBRAVEHEART 4 months ago
this isnt the full song
:(
greggzmad 4 months ago
i see smoke rising from that resonater...
impala327 4 months ago
makes me want two cigs a warm beer and a easy women great
midtrain1981 4 months ago
@midtrain1981 That's what happened at the Canaan Valley Bluegrass Festival every year. Sure miss those.
jaslinc1 4 months ago
some are homo some are hetero but some are stratosexuals
Gool349 4 months ago
THIS IS real "BLUES"
tataso 5 months ago 3
He hated being called Bukka, his name was Booker....BTW he was BB Kings cousin.
jaysterdude 5 months ago 3
it would take two hundred dollar bills--to come and get us off that farm**my little darlin one night lay--she crawled up out of bed--I could hear her cryin--said lord will you send my good man home**my little darlin she got over to the telephone--and she knew I was on the other phone--I asked the sergent could I talk to her.............
abro777 6 months ago
Three poor boys we was travelin--three brothers travelin,poor boys--Three poor boys we got bulldogged--and they put us poor boys in the county farm**And then mother she got nervous--?? lets call up on that phone--I decided not to telephone--to let her know ?? the county farm**And then mother she got worried--She started doing somthing wrong--after the sun done gone down--and my little sonny aint made it back home--well the sargent told my mother--it would take two hundred dollar bills-----
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bbouch111 6 months ago
I think we are all glad Booker got a chance to get all his tools out. :)
bullss21 7 months ago 3
@bullss21 i think thats the best youtube comment ive ever read
drunkenpolish 5 months ago
I always thought his name was Bukka, not Booker. Oh well what 's as white boy know! He is still a damm fine player!
Caprock64 7 months ago 2
@Caprock64 it is Bukka
egdoh 6 months ago
@egdoh No, that's just how record companies misspelled his name because of his accent. His name is Booker.
Bigkahkistan 6 months ago
I wonder can santana do that loool true guitarists are unknown and the best 2 bad they are left behind !!! I admire him so much !
1mulc1 7 months ago
Where's the whole song? It fades out when he asks if he can talk to his little daughter on the telephone.
DOSphantom 7 months ago
Coś pięknego. Nie wiem jaki strój tej gitarki ale SUPER !!!!
hendrixfun96 7 months ago
Twelve people must be a long way from home. .. . . . .
mortensen1961 7 months ago
I wanna be poor this way, this music is absolutly not poor, but I understand really
the meaning off being poor!
TheD1763 8 months ago
How can anyone not love this?
RoyFive 8 months ago 7
@RoyFive some people can't just take that much a blues, they'll end up dizzy and puking, and wake up the next day with a headache
olifantgamer 1 month ago
This is amazing!!!!! One man, one guitar, one amazing song. So much passion and soul in two instruments his guitar and his voice. New music doesn't even come close to touching this.
deaded1221 8 months ago 25
Magnificent upon magnificence.
scotty 8 months ago 2
council estate blues,now THATS the way forward
okukwesay 8 months ago 2
I love this. This is the real deal. No frills. Rough slide playing. So basic, but so passionate.
rfw45 8 months ago 4
Goddam amazing music!..blues is defiantly universal my friends, we'll all struggle no matter what...and as long as we struggle..there will be music like this..although maybe not quite so great...
bleedingisbetter 9 months ago 2
Bukka White. B.B. Kings cousin. lol
rfw45 9 months ago
what are the the tabs for this? seriously, why are we listening to crap on the radio?
TakaAtom 9 months ago
One has to wonder how much Mr White's younger cousin, B.B. King, learned from him.
rmurbach1961 10 months ago
This is American MUsic!
voodoochild53 10 months ago
Oh man, no wonder they had to make up some good music over in America. All that gay white country music was to puke of! ; )
winterstellar 10 months ago
@winterstellar Uh, yeah, there's other music here now.
dantean 10 months ago
@dantean Yeah, but back then it was horrible! That's my point.: )
winterstellar 9 months ago
Yeah! iiiiiihaaaaa ! On en a plus de bonne musique comme cellà ! Bravo et merci pour cette vidéo
Auduss69 10 months ago
If you fancy seeing some music inspired by Bukka White this March, Alabama 3 are performing acoustic and unplugged!
They are performing in this stripped down acoustic way to show the songs in a format reminiscent of the people that have been their inspiration, chiefly the old Delta Blues players like Fred MacDowell and Bukka White.
See alabama3.co.uk for more details
jahja52 11 months ago
can someone explain me what he does with his right hand? yes , i know , fingerpicking, but i'm interested in knowing how he gets this primitive sounding style. i know how to play jitterbug swing but his other songs sound different.
dhaeze 1 year ago
@dhaeze You've never heard a Dobro before? Notice how he controls the plate with his ring and pinkie finger?
crackattack85 10 months ago
@crackattack85 yes i've heard one before, i own one :p. i just want to know "the pattern" he plays with his fingers, would be usefull if someone made a lesson
dhaeze 10 months ago
Damn this guy is GOOOOD!!
martinaxman 1 year ago
i can hear rock and heavy metal in this....
roussos87 1 year ago
@roussos87
You can trace virtually all modern music back to the Blues. It was the song of the Twentieth Century!
Davoravo86 1 year ago
@Davoravo86 | and you can trace the blues back to english folk and church song! blues is english medieval music with a black american accent!
dljc1979 11 months ago
@dljc1979
Holy shit you are dumb!
colbluvsmusic 11 months ago
@colbluvsmusic | HOLY SHIT YOU ARE IGNORANT!
dljc1979 11 months ago
i spent all night listening to blues, and this has to be the best song ive ever heard
sebsrandomchatter 1 year ago
you are absolutely right,my dear friend... just absolutely right
steinley1 1 year ago
Amazing
mjiolnir88 1 year ago
i cant hear a word hes saying but i love this!
zgp92 1 year ago
This brings tears to my eyes in the best way possible. Bukka you badass.
jweard 1 year ago
is that open g mixed? or something ? g augmented i dunno im high as hell FUCKING RIGHTOUS BUKKA!!!!!
idlew1llkill 1 year ago
apparently booker used some slightly odd custom open tuning i can't remember cos i'm drunk, but it's not so much the tuning as about thirty odd years of pactice and being one of the true greats. so it's more his touch, like his right hand technique and his confidence to beat the shit out the guitar and still sound good.
madFlam1 1 year ago
What kind of tuning on the strings to make it sound that way?
steinley1 1 year ago
Awesome musician. The guitar still lives have a look at Eric Bibb's song Bookers Guitar.
VolvoWagon77 1 year ago
du bon blues pur
90joxx 1 year ago
cool how this old fellow played the guitar !
steinley1 1 year ago
@steinley1 He is THE fellow. Hot wired right in to the heart of the soul and blues my friend
treetoptop 1 year ago
Sure looks a lot like Bukka White to me...
regorekrub 1 year ago
This is the best music I've ever heard in my life
californiaclaybo 1 year ago
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irchristo 1 year ago
is he using a spoon?
HOSHAM12345 1 year ago
@HOSHAM12345 I thin he mentions a screwdriver. But's kinda hard to hear.: )
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jenniferaction 1 year ago
Absolutely mind-blowing. I would sell my soul to the devil to be able to play like this!!
jenniferaction 1 year ago
whats he using for a slide???
trilobite3339 1 year ago
@trilobite3339 I think it's actually a screwdriver
winterstellar 1 year ago
This is the best music I have ever heard! It's totally awesome! : )
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JenngShjyj 1 year ago
Jaw droppingly awesome!
watchinshadows 1 year ago
amazing.
peacexisxfree 1 year ago
Absolutely outstanding.
duncanstpt 1 year ago
see: Os velhos da montanha
osvelhos 1 year ago
umm...what did he say at the start?
thesuperflyingman 1 year ago
See: Os Velhos da Montanha
osvelhos 1 year ago
Gosh, this brings back the summer of 2006. I was a teenager, and worked on the expansion of a cemetery near my home town - half a hectare of open field, and it was hot as Hell. I worked alone and listened to the blues I had recorded on cassettes from CD:s in the library, including Bukka White, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Son House and all the legends. Days were spent burning my skin and listening to the blues in the cemetery, and evenings learning to play slide guitar at home. Nostalgic.
lemmonleikko 1 year ago
is that a pencil he's using as a slide?
musician4 1 year ago
@musician4 not likely, would get sawn in half pretty quickly. Not to mention he is damn rough with his guitar. Love it.
DrewDubious 1 year ago
@musician4 he said at 0:02 secs, "screwdriver" ( with the end cut off maybe ) ?
and yes I would love to know the lyrics
RustyKnight 1 year ago
@RustyKnight Could well be, thanks man.
musician4 1 year ago
@RustyKnight "...bout to give me a chance, I'da get all of my tools out."
ChronicMetamorphosis 1 year ago
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@musician4 he said at 0:02 secs, "get out my screwdriver" ( with the end cut off maybe ) ?
and yes I would love to know the lyrics
RustyKnight 1 year ago
@dontdodrugzz1 you're a dolt.
burninnowhere 1 year ago
This chap used to be called Bukka. I hate it when they change their name like Myanmar and Burma or Mumbai and Bombaby. I mean it's hard enough learning it the first time.
muirhouseterrace 1 year ago
@muirhouseterrace HIs full name is Booker T. Washington White, he is/was still known to many as 'Bukka' - kind of a nickname. to my knowledge he never actually 'changed' his name.
lectrikdog 1 year ago
@lectrikdog Sorry dog. I guess I was just funnin' you 'coz I was bored. Won't do it again - promise.
muirhouseterrace 1 year ago
@lectrikdog
not so much a nickname as a southern prison guard accent pronunciation of "booker"
he hated it.
edslides 1 year ago
@edslides , I stand corrected. I didn't know he hated that moniker, too bad it's printed that way on some cds, 'Bottles, Knives and Steel' for one.
lectrikdog 1 year ago
@lectrikdog Booka was a mispronunciation/misspelling by one of his record companies. He never much cared for it.
kyleberkopes 1 year ago
is beautifull
pelingalca 1 year ago
This is Original Delta Blues...fantastic music!!!
rockarollo 1 year ago
yeah! seems so easy to do.but really no.
arito555 1 year ago
pure, crisp, heart, clean, good music - no pretense and frills. truly timeless, thanks for the post.
authenticalaskan76 1 year ago
Damn, never heard this one before. Thanks for posting.
Trapar137 1 year ago
this guy us good!
PeterTheMadCow 1 year ago
Where is that guitar now? I wouldnt mind owning it :)
pfflyers1 1 year ago
@pfflyers1 this guitar has just been used by eric bibb to make an album called bukka's guitar or booker's guitar . he used it just for the album..check it out. it still had a set list stuck tothe side of the guitar.
seanpdarcy 1 year ago
im 21 and i try the blues i suck but this is the best video i have ever seen
shawnyboie 1 year ago 2
To me, this is pure beauty. What's beautiful about any type of music is that an infinite number of folks can share the love for it at the same time. It's not a possesion you hold in your hand, you hold it in your heart and soul. That is true freedom and I give thanks to those greats who have gone before and poured their souls out in song to make the world a better place.
cowboyintune 1 year ago 25
@cowboyintune ...and yours are, my friend, the most truthful and beautiful words one could ever read while listening this powerful tune-
they make you my brother in soul
and we both are going to have a drink with Booker when we pass away- see you there!
cometetodalacarne 1 year ago
@cowboyintune That's the best thing I've read on youtube ever, I guess.
Crumbling 9 months ago
@cowboyintune
so beautifully put......so well said.....
chunter5100 8 months ago
hell yeah !
ducrida 1 year ago
That's how it's done.
anthrofinn 1 year ago 3
Very cool way to play slide!
SnakeboyBlues 1 year ago
ha ha ha....the real deal...play on bukka.
ingear75 1 year ago
this unbelievable!
TUBEMAN192 1 year ago
one of the coolest vids for ages, man these guys just knew how to do it, thanks.
cravenmoorrrrrrrrr 1 year ago
this is rad
hes also like fuckin beating his guitar lol, his fingers must have been like fuckin hammers lol
LTmattYT 1 year ago
electrifying, total beauty. i could cry.
whizkeytangofoxtrot 1 year ago
werd
splarsen 1 year ago
Awesome volume from
those type of guitars
BaronLoveburned 1 year ago
butterknife!!!
N3XU551X 1 year ago
a blues monster! looks like he's gonna eat the guitar
greaserleo 1 year ago 2
black/white..negative/positive..sadness/beauty..music is music..i live in america, been playin blues for 13 years, im 26, white, and color is just a color, shade is just a shade and music is speaking music is life, the diffrence between eroupe and america is context, not understanding
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slideharp1 1 year ago
@747t. I know, bad spelling - didn't have time to check but I just saw your first(I think) post where you wanted to 'list' European & African musics. Here's a few. Reels; Fred McDowell said "The blues come from a reel" (album,'I Do Not Play No Rock n Roll) reels are Celtic. But I knew exactly what he meant. It's a simple rotation of 2-3-Chords usually with an 8 or 10 bar phrase and a backbeat. A Hornpipe is similar. Sea Shanties(chants) are call and response and were work songs...............
slideharp1 1 year ago
I really don't recall seeing Bukka play lap-style - this is the only one,i'm sure. And I'm still wondering what that slide is. A piece of an aerial?, screwdriver? knitting needle? Maybe it's a legit Lap-Slide - I've never seen one before. And it almost looks flexible, maybe it's just the way he holds it. Whatever - it's raunchy as hell. And no fret-work. It's my favorite version of "Poor Boy". And I love his singin
slideharp1 1 year ago
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747t 1 year ago
I just looked at what I've been typing and realized that I have been completely wrong in my tone, and I am sorry.
However, if you would like to have an honest conversation about African American music I would be more than willing to provide you with the the resources and insight that have led me to my conclusions.
747t 1 year ago
@747t. I appreciate your graciousness in mellowing out a little. Regardless of what may appear to you from what I wrote, I'm just a musician which means I've spent my life playing with other musicians. A couple of points; I played in NYC from 1980 to 1993. I played with Top, Influential Bluesmen. If you want a VERY SHORT list of them there are some listed on my site (fly jugband - bio). That was electric mainly, tho' not exclusively. I then spent 5 years in New Orleans.......
slideharp1 1 year ago
Well I respect your opinion much more.
However, still in my eyes, my music connects my people to our homeland. It is what has kept our souls free and culture intact since our bodies were taken into bondage. The pentatonic scale we sing in and the licks we play on the guitar are the same that we sang back in Africa and played on the Banjo, and before that on the Akonting, the Xalam, Banjar, Kora, Bolon, Ngoni...
747t 1 year ago
Our rhythms are not European rhythms, though we play in meter now, which is European.
I am baffled at how people call African rhythms "difficult". They're not the same as mine, but they seem so familiar, and natural.
747t 1 year ago
@747t. I have the deepest respect for the cultural bonds that keep you connected to your ancestry - there's no substitute for Knowing who we are - and your knowledge of traditional african music(s) is clearly apperent. Regarding African rhythms being difficult, I've never found any rhythms difficult. Prob'ly why I took up Bass. Difficult to write on a graffitti wall but I've heard many more African styles than American/African. Finish this sect. in answere to a query from you; J.B.= James Brown!
slideharp1 1 year ago
I love BW along with most all the other Southern bluesmen. It's Southern music that was ignored by black people outside of the South. It was only after white people had it pushed at them by Chess etc. and realised they Loved It To Bits, that black people who didn't care about it decided that it was 'their' music. It's well known that Northern blacks didn't wanna know. The blues evolved in fits and starts into what whites know as rock n roll. Hip-hop didn't come from the blues! It came from J.B.
slideharp1 1 year ago
What the hell is J.B.?
And you really DONT know what youre talking about. Have you ever been to a Black church in the north? We play the same music as down south, except we sing less spirituals now and do more R&B. Back in the 50's when my dad came to Seattle from Louisiana, we sang more spirituals, the root of blues.
Black people have been in migration ever since "leaving" the South, and there is no way to escape the influence of the south on our language, food, religion, and music.
747t 1 year ago
Hey lettuceandkina... heh, I said "sometimes.: ;)
twalling 2 years ago
I have a real nice dvd of 'The Howlin' Wolf Story' which features Bukka with Wolf at a concert and on his own. Son House is on it too. Check it out, not difficult to find as far as I know. Also has Wolf's daughters talking about (amongst other things) the warm friendship he had with The Stones and Clapton.
slideharp1 2 years ago
Make it lonely now, 'cause I'm a hobo myself, sometimes.
twalling 2 years ago
@edslides. Why do I reckon that is? You know why . 'Cos keith's white, and a fantastic player.And Chuck's a bigot. It's not hard to sound like Chuck, His gift was in his lyrics. And he got all those riffs and licks from Johnny Johnson - the piano player whose band he STOLE. But no-one sounds like Keith. Name one, go on. And what do you mean, citing the Verve (hardly believe I'm even discussing them, are we on the same page?) Keith has written 10 times more Original songs than Chuck.
slideharp1 2 years ago
huzzah for being a hobo who uses youtube!
lettuceandkina 2 years ago 2
Love just about everything I've ever heard by B.W. Unfortunately, if you go down the list of comments you find it quickly deteriorates into another forum for black college kids, who've just discovered this music, and decided to take collective credit for the work of a Great Artist. None of these kids are even Southerners and know nothing of it's culture. Bukka ain't a great artist 'cos he's black, he's a great artist 'cos he's a Great Artist. Are you a great artist, 747t? or just black?
slideharp1 2 years ago
I'm going to respond to your (Love just about everything) comment slideharp1.
I did not "just discover" this music, nor can I take credit for what someone in the past has done. This is, however my culture, not yours, Mr. U.K. I learned the guitar from my uncle, and do not read music to this day. I have known this music since birth, and it is not foreign to me, as it is TO YOU.
747t 1 year ago
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slideharp1 1 year ago
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747t 1 year ago
Love it! Almost made me cry I admit...traditional blues like this really gets to me...ever since I started with Lead Belly. Then it went on to Blind Willie McTell ("Your Southern Can is Mine"), Son House ("Death Letter"), Sonny Terry ("Ham and Eggs") and now this cat!
steven8807 2 years ago 3
chooooooooooooww buka
redlizzardpoker 2 years ago
Wow, this is some high powered, down home, down right funky stuff!
treetoptop 2 years ago 15
One of Bukka's best.
RoyFive 2 years ago 2
The tendency toward individualism is the same as colorblindness, and leads people to miss that art is a collective construct which expresses a people as much as a person.
747t 2 years ago 4
well said
willwkrueger 2 years ago
I do not say this to degrade interracial communication, but to enhance it. As long as white people continue to ignore their advantages there will be tension, and outright hostility in some cases. The playing field is not even.
Telling a white person they have privilege is like telling a fish it's in water - they can't wrap their heads around it, because they've never known life without it.
Meritocracy is great in theory, but it is far from the reality around us.
747t 2 years ago
undoubtfully true, about whites having an advantage. even here in brazil, where there are people "all shades in between" (not so much because of gradual mingling, but of different colonization procesess- but thats another matter alltogether) whites tend to have better jobs, better salary and better education. the poorest are, indeed, the direct descendand of african slaves or amerindian tribes. so yah, you're right.
barba666ruiva 2 years ago
however, i think influences in art (or music if you prefer) cannot be limited or explained by these facts. true, a white musician will be more sucessful and make more money- but what about his music? is it dimished because of the money that comes attached to it? perhaps so, perhaps not. i dont know.
i just dont think we can use monetary success to judge the artistic proficiency of a musician.
barba666ruiva 2 years ago
All im saying is that when you can't go anywhere without seeing white people's influence, it's nice to have something to call your own and express your collective viewpoint.
A white man can play the blues, but his reasons are different from a black man's.
747t 2 years ago
no one suffers like the poor no matter what your ethnicity
redlizzardpoker 2 years ago 76
@redlizzardpoker ...I agree with that statement alone, but some suffer less and have better chances than others, specifically due to ethnicity and privelege. Theres a fantastic article entitled "My Race Din't Trump My Class" by Robin DiAngelo. It's hard to get a hold of without paying or using a college database, but it's well worth the effort to find.
747t 2 years ago
@747t Correction...
"My Class Didn't Trump My Race" is the title of the article.
Sorry about that. :)
747t 2 years ago
ill check it out rock on brotha
redlizzardpoker 2 years ago
@redlizzardpoker
Well,...that's one generalization that sounds simple and acceptable enough. It's nonsensical, naturally, but it's a great oneliner.
PollyX5 1 year ago
@redlizzardpoker
I have a lot of respect for someone who can say that honestly.
redhouse1091 1 year ago
@redlizzardpoker ru retarted???????????
dontdodrugzz1 1 year ago
@redlizzardpoker I hear that! I've been poor, i've lived on a council estate without a telephone or electricity! you don't have to be black to have soul or get the blues. The blues is universal, it affects people of every colour & nationality :)
TryingIsGood 1 year ago 61
@TryingIsGood poor ppl are actually the best ppl on earth. they are more hospitable. more giving, kind, and down to earth. keeping their eye simple living on as much as they need and thats about it. poorer ppl tend to be more happier as well. living within someones little means is more important than trying to be stressed to the max makin alot of money,worrying about the tittle "look at me" "look what i can do".
trailbikerharo 1 year ago
@trailbikerharo you're an idiot, poor people suck, they're greedy and stupid. Them and most of the middle class - which you probably belong to.
UsernameSuspended 11 months ago
@UsernameSuspended Ah, another spoiled little child who has yet to experience reality.
You amuse me :)
Tjorvz1 11 months ago
@UsernameSuspended
one thing to tell you kid- no matter how rich and spoiled you are, money can't buy the blues
shiokarashi 11 months ago