@widehero It's funny as ass. The way everyone takes offence and has to chime in. Someone said to me the other day, "When everyone has an axe to grind, objectivity is the first thing those axes chop". Anyway, we all the same colour on the inside, man
"You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Cause under the sky, under the heaven there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different." -Bruce Lee- And how true those words are!
they dont make musik like this no more. I only wish they did. I swear you can just feel tha soul he pours into this song. Good shit right here. forget modern musik, give me Skip James.
Yall for real? How bout listening to the song! This is the Hard Time Killin Floor Blues. Ain't got no time for that shit. (I'm white, southern, Irish, and raised among black people all my life and have seen racism hate and potential recruitmant by skins who thought I "looked" the part. all I have to say is aknowledge the past as the past and make a better future one present moment at a time.) LISTEN TO THE AWESOME BLUES SONG!!!!
Quit yo shit about race and who was the REAL nigga back in the day. Truth is, it aint back in the day no more. Listen to the music you bigots, and stop your bickering and arguing like you got something to prove.
@LoneTinaja Also, the indentured servants weren't treated like kings... more often than not, they moved from camp to camp (with all the attendant diseases, and no treatment), and there was *no* amnesty other than full payment as the debt was passed on to the wife/children. What I'm trying to say is that while blacks had it bad, they were growth investments. With debt slaves, all they had to worry about was writing off money already paid.
(Continuing) They started acquiring slaves & became more prosperous. Their sons were even more ambitious, acquired many more slaves & greatly expanded cotton & sugar production. They treated their slaves quite harshly. The slaves revolted. The brothers & their neighbors tracked down the fleeing slaves, killed the instigators & whipped all the others mercilessly. Of course it was legal for the Irish-American brothers to destroy their "property" as they saw fit. They simply bought more
@LoneTinaja I wasn't talking strictly the 19th century, I was referring to the century previous.. I was also referring to a class of citizens called indentured servants, otherwise known as debtor's prisoners. If you doubt how bad they had it, look up workhouse projects (esp in England) and realize they had to contend with the same situation, but in prisons. Sure, the door was open, but they owed the state and at state wage, they would never get out from under that. It's always about MONEY.
@LoneTinaja You're referring to bonded indenture... that's got a definite end date after which there is no longer a debt. Colonial farmers bought debts from the English crown as part of Poor Law consolidation and ferried workers (usually skilled labourers) to America. Non-skilled labour wasn't so lucky.
Indentured servitude is debt slavery. Payment for the work was usually interest payments, room and board, and if any other money was made it was applied to service the debt.
When you want to really relax, try this. Tune an acoustic guitar to open D minor like in this song. Sit in the dark alone & rest your chest & chin or cheek against the guitar. Lightly pat your fingers on the strings over the hole while your palm pats on the wood. You should start hearing & feeling some unusual sounds & vibrations. With the other hand fool around with the strings on the neck. You don't have to know how to play guitar to hear & feel some good "things" for relaxation
There are few people in this nation in this day and age who can really relate to the pain that produced this music (that's why music today generally kind of sucks). Imagine living in a world in which "reality" is hopeless yearning for respect as an equal human being, poverty and rejection is what you and your kind will always know, the door is shut to you and "that's just the way it is, boy." It's more than losing your girl, etcetera, it's the world being shut off because you were born nonwhite.
@inthebiscuits Imagine living in an age where in which 'Reality' is that you have little opportunity to rise above your station, and your fundamental rights are being trod upon not by society that sees you as someone in day to day life, but as a statistic/bank account/credit score.
We're living longer, but working harder for the same money.
Very few people are getting rich, and everything costs more.
"That's just the way it is, sir."
The only difference is class-ism instead of racism.
@kmikl Good point but there is a glaring difference you glazed over, while there may be LITTLE opportunity to rise above your station (in other words, your parents station), there was NO opportunity for Skip James to be anything but black. We earn our credit scores for good or ill, no one has any say in their ethnicity/race. In their schema, an apple can no more be an orange than a black man equal with a white. The effects linger: whites hold nearly 20 times more wealth (inherited) than blacks.
@inthebiscuits True enough, but Skip James had the ability to over come his station even if the odds were stacked against him. There are a few blacks that made it huge, but tbh the percentage is about the same if the numbers were skewed.
@kmikl Every one of them made it in a form of entertainment, consider that. What other ways can someone legally prohibited from learning to read achieve anything? And how rich do you think Skip James got off this? Look, I'm not into these "vicarious racial hardship pissing contests", past is past, but to move on there has to be honesty, not to belittle the struggles of any immigrant (my grandparents included), but you may need to learn more about slavery, read Frederick Douglass' autobiography.
@inthebiscuits Oh no, not a pissing contest at all... it's all ignoble history. I speak from the Irish perspective because that's what I know, I'm second generation Canadian. :) I figure Skip James got hoodwinked, because he had better aptitude for music than he did with contracts, and I don't blame him for that at all. The blues artists we know today are known mostly through fiat of sheer luck, with a few (BB King and Buddy Guy most notably) because of staying power and business sense.
@inthebiscuits And last thing: if you want to learn about indentured service: Servitude in Modern Times by M.L, Bush. White economic slavery isn't really 'talked about' because it was a dirty business.
Slave labour and Indentured labour are mostly the same... one imprisons by race and finance, and the other by class and finance. Either could buy freedom, but it was a heavy cost.
@PeculiarTactics That is a huge LIE perpetrated by white supremacists trying to misrepresent historical facts to bolster their agenda of preserving euro-american social, political, and economic privilege, also know as the "blame the poor" strategy. All immigrants endure hardship, none were forced here but blacks, sold as beasts. If it was worse why were blacks slaves trying to escape while Irish were lining up to come over? Must have been the damn liberals tricking them again?
@kmikl It's not talked about because it was far less common after the African slave trade opened up, and THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, stop with this denial. Some slave were able to buy their "freedom" (though their families remained slaves), they were still n*rs to society. When slavery ended they began making inroads into the economic mainstream, but white immigrants quickly preempted them, white natives simply preferred being served by whites, and blacks stayed cut off until the late 20th century.
@inthebiscuits I never said they were the same, and the African slave trade was just as accepted as it was to work Irish immigrants to death and not pay another thought to it. There were free blacks that owned black slaves: it wasn't strictly about being a nigger, it was about the money.
Few people of any colour 'made it' until the mid-40's when the middle class really took off, otherwise there were a lot of poor whites and blacks. But you're right that the truly rich were white till then.
whites cant play as good as the blacks blues its part of our history not just music.its funny to hear whites say race does'nt matter when america was built on slavery and segregation and the genocide of native peoples and they say race does'nt matter.when all they did was try thier best to kill off the black man and women in this countyr and africa.only an idiot would believe that lie.
If you think poverty is the exclusive domain of Negroes, Indians, Asians and Hispanics, I'll invite you to read up on who actually built most of the South: Here's a hint, they weren't black. The saying "Cheaper to work Irish to death, than chap the house-nigger's hands in the field" applies. America would be no where without the Irish, the Scots, and other poor white immigrants. Look up indentured servitude too.
@kmikl True, but let's not forget how quick those immigrants were to jump on the n*r-hating bandwagon. At first slavery was not based solely on race, the racial dimension was constructed by white elites to maintain a perpetual labor force, lower-class whites were led to side with elites in opposition to darker skinned people, thus an Irishman or a Pole could say, "yeah I'm low class but at least I'm not a n*r." And they had only to lose their accent to be accepted, not so for the rest of us.
@inthebiscuits It was the same thing Irish talking about Pols, or Italians, or Germans and vice-versa. Blacks weren't the low-men on the totem... it was basically native-born WASPs on top, and the rest of the rabble underfoot.
The whole thing of slavery held a lot of immigrants back because Slaves were investments. Even after abolition, it was hard for an immigrant to get honest work unless it was through a labour scam until about the 1940's, and even then.
@kmikl Ok, but I doubt any Irishman would have traded places with a black slave in the South at any point other than in the depths of the potato famine. If WASPs ever regarded white immigrants lower than blacks it was only in economic terms, like today, "Why not use poorly paid mexicans to do a job if it'll save wear and tear on my tractor? Hell I own that!' Doesn't mean the mexican envies the tractor, one is a man, another, property. Immigrants' kids were American, slaves' kids were slaves.
@inthebiscuits Many Irish left the south during the construction of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mobile etc. They were being worked to death... literally. The same with the trans-continental railway (well, them and Chinese 'guests'). And Irish were basically of no status if they entered the US as indentured. I'm not going to belabour the point, but a black slave was an investment... think of the prices the kids would fetch. Irish kids couldn't be held as chattle.
@inthebiscuits No you have obvisuly never seen the old time posters depciting an irishman on a scale next to a black slave and showing the scale equal. Or the signs that said "help wanted irish need not apply" They were prejudice against the irish altogether. It doesnt matter if they both were white they saw the irish as drunk violent fighting ignorant uneducated unintelligent trouble makers. Rap your small mind around the fact that life inst all about skin pigmentation lol.
@PeculiarTactics Have not seen the posters you speak of but you are nevertheless telling me nothing I didn't already know. I KNOW, what I've been saying is that what the Irish faced in AMERICA (not Britain) for a few decades, the "...need not apply" etcetera, still pales in comparison with the treatment of blacks for centuries up until 1965 and beyond, stop trying to whitewash slavery and stop bugging me with obvious and weak points. PS I'm not black, nothing to gain by lying.
@PeculiarTactics That was done by "native-americans" (WASPs) who feared the large numbers of Irish catholic immigrants, the most comparable phenomenon is Mexican immigration today. BUT, white immigrants generally had it relatively easy when it came to acceptance, given their features all they had to do was speak english like an American and they were basically in (class notwithstanding), not so for dark-skinned people, considered inferior by white immigrants too (Irish).
@inthebiscuits You have obviously never seen the posters depicting the irish man. Like i said. You are an ignorant man, but thats okay because you find security in your ignorance. A world where color doesnt matter to you is quite a scary one. Your mind is not strong enough to comprehend that. It was never about skin pigment, and it never will be. If you want a race war with the whites you will also lose that we outnumber massively.
@PeculiarTactics Whoa, hold up there guy, you are way off about me (and the world), I don't hate white people, and I certainly don't fear a world where equal opportunity is not just a catch phrase used to disguise a system still very much couched in power structures established in times when "race" was seen as determining ability and worth. I'm a little busy working two jobs and finishing my degree, don't be surprised if responding to your "arguments" is a very low priority.
@inthebiscuits "Race war"? You child! You are arguing against some abstract concept of a latino, not against me or any other REAL adult. What, am I to lop off half of my body, the European half? Get a clue! This isn't about "whiteness", it's about dismantling a regime of dominance based on atavistic misconceptions of humanity. And it was most definitely about skin as centuries of "entrepreneurs" claimed the right to slaughter and/or enslave nations based on their inhuman darkness.
@PeculiarTactics Also: holy shit how can you miss such a glaringly oxymoronic statement? 'Skin color doesn't matter but if you push it, WE (organized according to skin color) will crush you.' Getting it yet? And Aristotle? The same fellow who asserted that some races are fit for slavery? That was your great life-changing revelation? YOU ARE THE REASON PEOPLE LIKE ME BOTHER TALKING ABOUT 'RACE', see the irony that undergirds your belief system?
@inthebiscuits Find security in your ignorance, but when you become a brave man and you want to see the world for what it really is then feel free to message me. I was once also like you, i felt that if i made up my own rules and made up my own little world i would be safe from things that would deem me a useless man to society. But alas i read the works of Aristotle and my life changed. I hope you find the truth sometime in your life. My door will always be open to you.
@326Ka I guess you have never heard the saying " the Irish are the hands that built america" whites had to endure just as much as blacks. Educated your ignorant ass about REAL history and you may learn a thing or two.And also being or black has nothing to do with your ability to play a musical instrument. That is controlled in the brain. Not the skin pigment. And if whites wanted to kill off blacks they would have. They needed blacks for the slave trade dumb ass.
@PeculiarTactics How can you be so irresponsible? Were there whites who endured whippings and servitude, yes, criminals. Indentured servants? BIG DIFFERENCE: Their kids were not enslaved from birth for generations. Their kids were citizens with full rights and privileges. Consider the incredible importance of that distinction. By the way, it has never been about skin pigmentation, that's only ever been a convenient visible distinction that simplified categorization.
That today we are able to hear these sounds from such a long time ago means more to me than the petty squabbles of who can and can not have, know, play, and feel the blues. Music is the only hope we all can have.
Heard a version done by someone from nearly every ethnic group at this point. In each case, I get the chills. It appears the blues narrows things down a bit.
Well, I´m as white-assed as you can get, and I still love the blues. It´s got nothing to do with race: anyone with a soul and a heart can feel the blues, utterly irrespective of the color of his/her skin. After all, you don´t have to be Indian to enjoy raga-music (to take just one other example), do you?
While I agree that no white person should ever perform nor will ever better the blues, I think that a talented black artist has the right to pay homage to his/her history.
whitey cant sing the blues, cos like, you are not the direct sons and daughters of slaves, in fact, i think there is no point in anyone making blues records anymore, as they cannot be bettered
Music is a universal language. The blues is just a small part of it. No matter how you play it or sing it or hum it, music speaks to our hearts. Like many other kinds of music, the blues comes from the heart. Sometimes the blues is happy. Just listen to Mississippi John Hurt's music. It's very cheerful and upbeat. Whether you have a happy heart, or a sad one, the is what the blues does best. It conveys a feeling of hurt, or a feeling of joy. This music belongs to us all.
Why does every black artist's song have a discussion on racism and black vs white irrelevant bs? Do people click on the video hoping to discuss this shit? No, they click to listen to the god damn song... no one cares what your ignoramus stupid pathetic little mind thinks... you are not important enough to have your opinion heard, SHUT THE FUCK UP and listen to the god damn song!!!
if you want to think like that, brotha, maybe you shouldn't use anything made by whites. I mean, just to be fair... just enjoy the music,. damn! it's always about race.
ps.. i see alot more whites keepin "black blues" alive than blacks. don't believe me? do a youtube search for any blues covers.
Sh!t, I wish whites would take hip-hop. that f--kin' garbage. lol
Oh yeah (enter qualifier here) I am half black/ half white...just in case you thought that I was some mad white guy.
actually, the notes considered "blues notes" are created when a minor approaches a major, through a bend ect. this doesn't originate in blues but is actually transposed from older forms of music one being east indian. When what we consider traditional blues music was forming it was doing so along with another "original" form called country in the appalachian mountains ect. these two forms got called whtie and black music. out of these two forms comes "rock" not out of one alone but two.
@danfabbro what a sad misguided thing to say, you must be very young, the reason blues reached the heights of popularity are because white people such as the rolling stones, eric clapton ect. brought it to the popular consciousness, who then had an inherent deep rooted understanding of it as well falling in love with it as just another stream of suffering music such as traditional country, folk or for that matter irish music. we inherit a biological bloodline not past inherent soul.
@danfabbro .... Stevie Ray Vaughan, I rest my case. If you can feel pain you can feel the blues. Whether it's addiction, lost love, death... we all understand pain regardless of color. Check yourself, you sound like a racist.
If you do a little research you'll find that what we consider classic rock now, was influenced solely from Blues and with that comes every form of music that has derived from "rock." Minus some of this auto tuned crap we have to put up with now, regardless of race it depends on the musician, that "feels" the music. I agree that many people of all races do not interpret tone, rhythm, and timing as well as musicians.
this song is not about race, its about the dark struggle day to day life can be. its blues people, its bigger than race or what we make of it as a race.
dont be hatin; look it up: the people who go to blues shows nowadays are white... white people listening to black and white folks singin the blues... if you cant deal with that, go hate somehwere else.
@scooma1 i am a man of constant sorrow...i like the music to that song also. i also mountain roads and rocky top. i like howlin wolf,little richard,otis redding and young jeezy. many ,many others.
everyone needs to stop hatin on each other over colour, and who's allowed to enjoy certain types of music. Music and art is not about colour, its about culture, colour has nothing to do with what people enjoy and their ideals. Colour means nothing, we are all human, and can all enjoy the same things, if people lessen a colour or a culture they are just lessening the human race in general. Live and let live
As a white guy I admit I went through a phony suburban White kid blues phase in my early twenties. But now as a middle-aged man- after having my heart broken endlessly by many capricious women- I feel I really "feel" the Blues. Anyone of any color with enough life experience can feel the Blues.
the delta blues is black the same way flamenco is spanish gypsy. no one has a problem with flamenco being spanish, or classical being european because those people are allowed to have their own accomplishments. its only black accomplishments that some people feel the need to strip of their blackness. its another method of dehumanizing black people.
the white man can feel the blues...i'm BLACK and i like country & western, bluegrass, rap,r&b,rock & roll and blues. but i don't like jazz.. Sweet Home Alabama is one of my fav songs
@Diomedes22 you're an idiot. when i listen to music. i'm more into the beats and sounds. i rarely listen to the words. you are just a hater. ROLL TIDE.....SWEET HOME ALABAMA
The sad reality is that white and black alike are uninformed and have been educated by a system that has given them a "plain wrap" view of the world. This includes the Media.. they push whatever agenda is fitting to them to drive the cattle public in whatever direction they need them to go.. for instance.. did you know that a white folk singer wrote the Civil Rights Anthem WE SHALL OVERCOME? and sang it many times arm in arm with the folks both black and white who marched to end inequality?
@Nikkopapi The truth is that We Shall Over Come is an old union organizer song....So it was part of that movement before it became a standard in the Civil Rights movement....It's a good song
@blueflame2 yes, I have met the man personally who wrote the most recent arrangement., he and his wife were good friends with my late father... Guy Carawan and Pete Seger have told the story for millions.. its just The final arrangement was written by Guy.
@Nikkopapi i agree with you. entirely on the ideal uniform thought on what is socially expected from white or black. i think it's hog wash that comes from dominating characters, such as hitler or such on. i mean, why should we do what is expected of us, what cause our race, or our sex? i think that is ignorance.
It's amusing how you get these people who think that all white people somehow had slaves. I mean my ancestors DEFINITELY were rich slaveowners and not miners and millworkers who also spent time in the victorian workhouses and lost scary amounts of family members to cholera and typhoid.... oh wait a minute no I've got it the wrong way round haha
no matter where you are from or what skin color you are,people can and will express themselves someway or another.....nevermind the ignorant and narrow minded self centered dummies who have issues with southern heritage...people with pride and common sense know better....ooohhhh btw im white and from the south
FUCK everyone who says white people can't feel the blues.
i don't consider myself white. the blues is not racist. it can latch on to anyone.
and i can say, i am the blues. which is an uderstandment, considering.
the blues is about loss, hard times, strife. pain. anyone who has a soul can understand and feel that. in fact i believe i feel deeper than most people. got. i can't believe anyone would be slow enough to believe that. no matter what anyone comments back. they will never take that away.
@fishnetsNcigarettes I remember hearing someone say the sound of the blues is when a good man feels bad... Race doesn't mean a damned thing. We've all felt the blues in some way or another, no one can talk down another person's rock bottom, we all have different breaking points.
@kmikl Agreed. there are many shades of blue, and for good reason too. Life hits each and everyone of us in different ways and you never can tell whats on another mans heart. One thing for sure is that race most certainty does not play a role in felling "blue". that's just plain ignorant. blue is just a word. how it sounds or whose playing it is irrelevant. and through the hardest of times we will always have music to turn to to make life more bearable. cheers!
@fishnetsNcigarettes The only color I can see is blue. You tell the truth brother, I am black and hispanic, but I look like some kinda Hawaiian or Indian stuff or whatever, when people ask me what race am I, I reply "Human," =P
you can say you feel blues when you can play your own song. and this song must flows from your soul with all pain.
"Oh, great day. Sun shining bright. What I do today. O yes. I'll write blues song. Hmmm. The begining will be.... "I woke up this morning" yep. I'm so cool." - this is shit.
Yes. Everybody can understand blues. But not everyone can feel it.
GREAT SONG , I enjoy the friendly chat between music lovers, but the
trolls always seem to show up with their hate filled rants just to try to piss people off , yea pretty sick, but most of the time i can spot them. Jemini29944 is one of the best Trolls i've ever encountered , he almost makes you think he's for real, but for all those caught in his sticky troll slime, pay him no mind, in fact pity him for the poor fellow may be wacko or at best just a hate filled anti-social reject.
@DIXIEJEFF Wow, I didn't realize how much you've been dick-riding my comments, @DIXIEJEFF, lol. By the sound of your screen name I'd say we can pretty much guess what flag you wave: Confederate. Perhaps a dirt poor cracker such as yourself would like to explain to African Americans just how TOUGH and BLUE your life is compared to them, huh?..........What?.......Feeling 'blue' about not winning the civil war? Hahaha.
Bob Dylan could sing a mean blues... so @Jemini29944, before you go touting the fact that one race is better than another at anything examine that the same laws passed to give blacks equal rights are the laws that state that we're all human and thats that. everyone is capable of achieving anything anyone else has. and thats because above the color of our skin, we're human.
@dogatemymathhomework I respect your comments, but you are wrong. I'm white, I can never say that I truly understand what it's like to feel 'BLUE' let alone act as if I can truly feel the emotion undertones of 'Blues Music'. As white people, we take advantage of so many things in our lives that we sometimes gravitate towards Black Culture as a way of atonement and understanding, but we don't see life from THERE PERSPECTIVE. We can never truly FEEL the Blues, even though we can play it.
@Jemini29944 Man you dont know shit about the blues do you? The blues dont mean your a black man whos ancesters was oppressed by whites. The blues goes past races and skin colour and religion. Boy i felt the blues like you would not believe. And Son House said it once that the blues consists ofa male and female thats in love and one decieves the other thru their love. You aint gotta be black to be in love now do you? and theres other reasons to feel the blues. I tell you one thing i bet why you
@Jemini29944 aint never felt the blues is cuz you aint never fell on hard times like some ppl have. But when you got the blues youll KNOW you got em. It aint just a feeling, its more than bein a little sad. Its a sadness feeling that goes thru your whole damn body and soul. I have felt the blues and i use it to play the blues. Eric Burdon said he got two words to beat the blues: Sing Em! So i do and its the best release for the blues.
Oh and on a postscript, an old black bluesman once said about Hank Williams that country aint nothin but the white mans blues. Now you go listen to Long Gone Lonesome Blues, Alone and Forsaken, and Cold Cold Heart (and just about any other dang Hank Williams Sr song) and tell me he aint a blues singer. Hes got emotion soul and feelin in his lyrics and voice, and hes got heartache. All them songs about dyin and shit, you gotta FEEL the blues to write like that.
WHENVER PEOPLE WRITE IN CAPS LOCK IT MAKES ME YELL, IN MY HEAD, THE STATEMENTS THAT THEY SAY. THIS SONG IS THE BEST AND I DONT THINK RACE HAS MUCH TO DO WITH IT EVEN WHEN ITS ABOUT WHO REALLY FEELS "BLUE".
@mrmakrnagy i believe you might be thinking of martin scorcese presents the blues. fantastic documentary that was on pbs. another, and much smaller docu is called deep blues. yet to see that one but i've heard it's really good.
Does anyone remember that special that PBS did on the blues? It may have been another broadcasting channel, I'm not sure. It was really sweet, but I don't recall the name of the special, so if anyone could let me know what it's called that'd be cool. Thanks.
@griszabella I don't think so, my husband asked me to stop playing this song because he found it so depressing. It is the only song I know in open dm so not a lot reason not to oblige him, except for that life insurance policy...
watching people argue on the internet is always amusing
widehero 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
@widehero It's funny as ass. The way everyone takes offence and has to chime in. Someone said to me the other day, "When everyone has an axe to grind, objectivity is the first thing those axes chop". Anyway, we all the same colour on the inside, man
thebeardeddread 1 week ago
"You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Cause under the sky, under the heaven there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different." -Bruce Lee- And how true those words are!
Explorer4Truth 3 weeks ago
@Explorer4Truth It aint about race or colour,theres a war coming but it`ll be the 99% against the 1%.Issues of Race etc can be resolved later
rwnfrd 3 days ago
Skip james one of the greatest.
xTheWarlordx 1 month ago
they dont make musik like this no more. I only wish they did. I swear you can just feel tha soul he pours into this song. Good shit right here. forget modern musik, give me Skip James.
32fitnessfreak 1 month ago
so wirds auch bald in unserer BRD ausehen ;)
Terraner67 1 month ago
thiz song was on werewolf canyon at cga
melafbaby 1 month ago
Yall for real? How bout listening to the song! This is the Hard Time Killin Floor Blues. Ain't got no time for that shit. (I'm white, southern, Irish, and raised among black people all my life and have seen racism hate and potential recruitmant by skins who thought I "looked" the part. all I have to say is aknowledge the past as the past and make a better future one present moment at a time.) LISTEN TO THE AWESOME BLUES SONG!!!!
nmlsfacls 1 month ago 5
fuck black or white, the only colour anyone should be talking about is BLUES my people.
OGKush2010 1 month ago 20
@OGKush2010 And pink!! :)
MeYouView 2 days ago
To PeculiarTactics- I'm White, 60, lifelong Southerner & all
my life I've seen the same old White supremacist filth you're
spewing here. To 1 of my comments you replied "It was worse
being an irish man than a black slave." Anytime anyone like
you speaks in such broad generalities no one thinking seriously
about the issue will take you seriously. You're trying to persuade
young White folks to hate like you do. You have sunk to the
depths of dishonor.
LoneTinaja 1 month ago 7
who gives about the picture, listen to the song dumbass
EdLOSE77 1 month ago
what idiot photoshopped this??
shivamobed6869 2 months ago
One of the best blues ever written
fabianocorso 2 months ago 2
Quit yo shit about race and who was the REAL nigga back in the day. Truth is, it aint back in the day no more. Listen to the music you bigots, and stop your bickering and arguing like you got something to prove.
themigtyboosh 2 months ago 9
@themigtyboosh who the fuck are you calling a bigot bitch? I just want to hear some old timey shit without someone pretending to care about racism.
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Tobiasisgay 2 months ago
11 dislikes. Hmmmm...must be deaf.
fuxgood 2 months ago 4
good god so lonesome
windydoughnut1 2 months ago
@windydoughnut1 buck up :P
Adjamo 2 months ago
(Continuing) And of course freedom for slaves was solely up to the
slaveowner. If you're talking about an 18th century situation that was
especially harsh for indentured servants, where was this?
LoneTinaja 2 months ago
@LoneTinaja Also, the indentured servants weren't treated like kings... more often than not, they moved from camp to camp (with all the attendant diseases, and no treatment), and there was *no* amnesty other than full payment as the debt was passed on to the wife/children. What I'm trying to say is that while blacks had it bad, they were growth investments. With debt slaves, all they had to worry about was writing off money already paid.
There's no real good way in either.
kmikl 2 months ago
(Continuing) Ignore the last 2 words "servants typically". I forgot to
delete them. In an earlier comment to @inthebiscuits you stated
"Slave labour and indentured labour are mostly the same" & "Either
could buy freedom,but it was a heavy cost." In the American South,
where almost all my 17th century indentured servant ancestors were,
that certainly was not the case. Indentured servants, being Whites, were
given a measure of respect that Black slaves were not. (Cont.)
LoneTinaja 2 months ago
(Continuing) In the case of my ancestors they fulfilled their contractual
obligations, then almost all of them became small farmers. You said
you were referring to 18th century indentured servants who had been
in debtor's prisons. Are you referring to those who remained in England
and/or were sent to the American colonies? I'm aware that English
debtor's prisons were very harsh, but I don't know the severity of
conditions for those sent to America. (Cont)
servants typically
LoneTinaja 2 months ago
LoneTinaja 2 months ago
@LoneTinaja I wasn't talking strictly the 19th century, I was referring to the century previous.. I was also referring to a class of citizens called indentured servants, otherwise known as debtor's prisoners. If you doubt how bad they had it, look up workhouse projects (esp in England) and realize they had to contend with the same situation, but in prisons. Sure, the door was open, but they owed the state and at state wage, they would never get out from under that. It's always about MONEY.
kmikl 2 months ago
@kmiki In the 17th century most English colonists to the American colonies were
teenagers whereby they, or their parents, had agreed the young folks would be
indentured servants for several years in exchange for passage & basic living
expenses. From fairly early in the 17th century to mid-century several of my
ancestors came that way. The colonial farmers & merchants needed workers
badly & the system was not noted for great exploitation because it would have
damaged its reputation. (Cont)
LoneTinaja 2 months ago
@LoneTinaja You're referring to bonded indenture... that's got a definite end date after which there is no longer a debt. Colonial farmers bought debts from the English crown as part of Poor Law consolidation and ferried workers (usually skilled labourers) to America. Non-skilled labour wasn't so lucky.
Indentured servitude is debt slavery. Payment for the work was usually interest payments, room and board, and if any other money was made it was applied to service the debt.
kmikl 2 months ago
how can you dislike this?
SLACKNESS3000 2 months ago
LoneTinaja 2 months ago
There are few people in this nation in this day and age who can really relate to the pain that produced this music (that's why music today generally kind of sucks). Imagine living in a world in which "reality" is hopeless yearning for respect as an equal human being, poverty and rejection is what you and your kind will always know, the door is shut to you and "that's just the way it is, boy." It's more than losing your girl, etcetera, it's the world being shut off because you were born nonwhite.
inthebiscuits 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits Imagine living in an age where in which 'Reality' is that you have little opportunity to rise above your station, and your fundamental rights are being trod upon not by society that sees you as someone in day to day life, but as a statistic/bank account/credit score.
We're living longer, but working harder for the same money.
Very few people are getting rich, and everything costs more.
"That's just the way it is, sir."
The only difference is class-ism instead of racism.
kmikl 2 months ago
@kmikl Good point but there is a glaring difference you glazed over, while there may be LITTLE opportunity to rise above your station (in other words, your parents station), there was NO opportunity for Skip James to be anything but black. We earn our credit scores for good or ill, no one has any say in their ethnicity/race. In their schema, an apple can no more be an orange than a black man equal with a white. The effects linger: whites hold nearly 20 times more wealth (inherited) than blacks.
inthebiscuits 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits True enough, but Skip James had the ability to over come his station even if the odds were stacked against him. There are a few blacks that made it huge, but tbh the percentage is about the same if the numbers were skewed.
kmikl 2 months ago
@kmikl Every one of them made it in a form of entertainment, consider that. What other ways can someone legally prohibited from learning to read achieve anything? And how rich do you think Skip James got off this? Look, I'm not into these "vicarious racial hardship pissing contests", past is past, but to move on there has to be honesty, not to belittle the struggles of any immigrant (my grandparents included), but you may need to learn more about slavery, read Frederick Douglass' autobiography.
inthebiscuits 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits Oh no, not a pissing contest at all... it's all ignoble history. I speak from the Irish perspective because that's what I know, I'm second generation Canadian. :) I figure Skip James got hoodwinked, because he had better aptitude for music than he did with contracts, and I don't blame him for that at all. The blues artists we know today are known mostly through fiat of sheer luck, with a few (BB King and Buddy Guy most notably) because of staying power and business sense.
kmikl 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits And last thing: if you want to learn about indentured service: Servitude in Modern Times by M.L, Bush. White economic slavery isn't really 'talked about' because it was a dirty business.
Slave labour and Indentured labour are mostly the same... one imprisons by race and finance, and the other by class and finance. Either could buy freedom, but it was a heavy cost.
kmikl 2 months ago
@kmikl I came here to listen to the song & noticed
the long posts between you & @inthebiscuits. I'm not
going to read all of them but if you're trying to say that
the condition of 19th century Irish immigrants to America
was about as bad as being a Black slave, that's 1 of the
most preposterous things I've read. As just 1 example,
in my home county a family of Irish immigrants were able
to scrape up enough money to buy some land & start
cotton farming. (Continued)
LoneTinaja 2 months ago
@LoneTinaja Actually its true. It was worse being an irish man than a black slave.
PeculiarTactics 1 month ago
@PeculiarTactics That is a huge LIE perpetrated by white supremacists trying to misrepresent historical facts to bolster their agenda of preserving euro-american social, political, and economic privilege, also know as the "blame the poor" strategy. All immigrants endure hardship, none were forced here but blacks, sold as beasts. If it was worse why were blacks slaves trying to escape while Irish were lining up to come over? Must have been the damn liberals tricking them again?
inthebiscuits 1 month ago
@kmikl It's not talked about because it was far less common after the African slave trade opened up, and THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, stop with this denial. Some slave were able to buy their "freedom" (though their families remained slaves), they were still n*rs to society. When slavery ended they began making inroads into the economic mainstream, but white immigrants quickly preempted them, white natives simply preferred being served by whites, and blacks stayed cut off until the late 20th century.
inthebiscuits 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits I never said they were the same, and the African slave trade was just as accepted as it was to work Irish immigrants to death and not pay another thought to it. There were free blacks that owned black slaves: it wasn't strictly about being a nigger, it was about the money.
Few people of any colour 'made it' until the mid-40's when the middle class really took off, otherwise there were a lot of poor whites and blacks. But you're right that the truly rich were white till then.
kmikl 2 months ago
whites cant play as good as the blacks blues its part of our history not just music.its funny to hear whites say race does'nt matter when america was built on slavery and segregation and the genocide of native peoples and they say race does'nt matter.when all they did was try thier best to kill off the black man and women in this countyr and africa.only an idiot would believe that lie.
326Ka 2 months ago
@326Ka See my post above.
If you think poverty is the exclusive domain of Negroes, Indians, Asians and Hispanics, I'll invite you to read up on who actually built most of the South: Here's a hint, they weren't black. The saying "Cheaper to work Irish to death, than chap the house-nigger's hands in the field" applies. America would be no where without the Irish, the Scots, and other poor white immigrants. Look up indentured servitude too.
It was never just about race, ALWAYS the money.
kmikl 2 months ago 3
@kmikl True, but let's not forget how quick those immigrants were to jump on the n*r-hating bandwagon. At first slavery was not based solely on race, the racial dimension was constructed by white elites to maintain a perpetual labor force, lower-class whites were led to side with elites in opposition to darker skinned people, thus an Irishman or a Pole could say, "yeah I'm low class but at least I'm not a n*r." And they had only to lose their accent to be accepted, not so for the rest of us.
inthebiscuits 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits It was the same thing Irish talking about Pols, or Italians, or Germans and vice-versa. Blacks weren't the low-men on the totem... it was basically native-born WASPs on top, and the rest of the rabble underfoot.
The whole thing of slavery held a lot of immigrants back because Slaves were investments. Even after abolition, it was hard for an immigrant to get honest work unless it was through a labour scam until about the 1940's, and even then.
kmikl 2 months ago
@kmikl Ok, but I doubt any Irishman would have traded places with a black slave in the South at any point other than in the depths of the potato famine. If WASPs ever regarded white immigrants lower than blacks it was only in economic terms, like today, "Why not use poorly paid mexicans to do a job if it'll save wear and tear on my tractor? Hell I own that!' Doesn't mean the mexican envies the tractor, one is a man, another, property. Immigrants' kids were American, slaves' kids were slaves.
inthebiscuits 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits Many Irish left the south during the construction of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mobile etc. They were being worked to death... literally. The same with the trans-continental railway (well, them and Chinese 'guests'). And Irish were basically of no status if they entered the US as indentured. I'm not going to belabour the point, but a black slave was an investment... think of the prices the kids would fetch. Irish kids couldn't be held as chattle.
kmikl 2 months ago
@inthebiscuits No you have obvisuly never seen the old time posters depciting an irishman on a scale next to a black slave and showing the scale equal. Or the signs that said "help wanted irish need not apply" They were prejudice against the irish altogether. It doesnt matter if they both were white they saw the irish as drunk violent fighting ignorant uneducated unintelligent trouble makers. Rap your small mind around the fact that life inst all about skin pigmentation lol.
PeculiarTactics 1 month ago
@PeculiarTactics Have not seen the posters you speak of but you are nevertheless telling me nothing I didn't already know. I KNOW, what I've been saying is that what the Irish faced in AMERICA (not Britain) for a few decades, the "...need not apply" etcetera, still pales in comparison with the treatment of blacks for centuries up until 1965 and beyond, stop trying to whitewash slavery and stop bugging me with obvious and weak points. PS I'm not black, nothing to gain by lying.
inthebiscuits 1 month ago
@PeculiarTactics That was done by "native-americans" (WASPs) who feared the large numbers of Irish catholic immigrants, the most comparable phenomenon is Mexican immigration today. BUT, white immigrants generally had it relatively easy when it came to acceptance, given their features all they had to do was speak english like an American and they were basically in (class notwithstanding), not so for dark-skinned people, considered inferior by white immigrants too (Irish).
inthebiscuits 1 month ago
@inthebiscuits You have obviously never seen the posters depicting the irish man. Like i said. You are an ignorant man, but thats okay because you find security in your ignorance. A world where color doesnt matter to you is quite a scary one. Your mind is not strong enough to comprehend that. It was never about skin pigment, and it never will be. If you want a race war with the whites you will also lose that we outnumber massively.
PeculiarTactics 1 month ago
@PeculiarTactics Whoa, hold up there guy, you are way off about me (and the world), I don't hate white people, and I certainly don't fear a world where equal opportunity is not just a catch phrase used to disguise a system still very much couched in power structures established in times when "race" was seen as determining ability and worth. I'm a little busy working two jobs and finishing my degree, don't be surprised if responding to your "arguments" is a very low priority.
inthebiscuits 1 week ago
@inthebiscuits "Race war"? You child! You are arguing against some abstract concept of a latino, not against me or any other REAL adult. What, am I to lop off half of my body, the European half? Get a clue! This isn't about "whiteness", it's about dismantling a regime of dominance based on atavistic misconceptions of humanity. And it was most definitely about skin as centuries of "entrepreneurs" claimed the right to slaughter and/or enslave nations based on their inhuman darkness.
inthebiscuits 1 week ago
@PeculiarTactics Also: holy shit how can you miss such a glaringly oxymoronic statement? 'Skin color doesn't matter but if you push it, WE (organized according to skin color) will crush you.' Getting it yet? And Aristotle? The same fellow who asserted that some races are fit for slavery? That was your great life-changing revelation? YOU ARE THE REASON PEOPLE LIKE ME BOTHER TALKING ABOUT 'RACE', see the irony that undergirds your belief system?
inthebiscuits 1 week ago
@inthebiscuits Find security in your ignorance, but when you become a brave man and you want to see the world for what it really is then feel free to message me. I was once also like you, i felt that if i made up my own rules and made up my own little world i would be safe from things that would deem me a useless man to society. But alas i read the works of Aristotle and my life changed. I hope you find the truth sometime in your life. My door will always be open to you.
PeculiarTactics 1 month ago
@kmikl Bullshit artist...
ReesBaal 2 months ago
@326Ka I guess you have never heard the saying " the Irish are the hands that built america" whites had to endure just as much as blacks. Educated your ignorant ass about REAL history and you may learn a thing or two.And also being or black has nothing to do with your ability to play a musical instrument. That is controlled in the brain. Not the skin pigment. And if whites wanted to kill off blacks they would have. They needed blacks for the slave trade dumb ass.
PeculiarTactics 1 month ago
@PeculiarTactics How can you be so irresponsible? Were there whites who endured whippings and servitude, yes, criminals. Indentured servants? BIG DIFFERENCE: Their kids were not enslaved from birth for generations. Their kids were citizens with full rights and privileges. Consider the incredible importance of that distinction. By the way, it has never been about skin pigmentation, that's only ever been a convenient visible distinction that simplified categorization.
inthebiscuits 1 month ago
I've got this song from the DVD/CD o brother, where art thou. I love this song
BartMesmanguitar 2 months ago
"Now more then ever before" is all I can say to this song.
SlideQtar 3 months ago
this was the soundtrack of great americas soundtrack for there Werewolf Canyon Maze.!
1TwinkyLeft 3 months ago
Sad. But I Love It.
olskooldannib030 3 months ago
OK.If you want to avoid having a transcendental mushroom trip, do not listen to this song!
Georgio64folk 3 months ago
Do you guys have any idea about the guitar he played?
jenniferoconnell1985 3 months ago
I really like how the verse progresses and bleeds into the chorus which sits at the bottom of the song. It's a bottomless pit of a song.
Jordan6315 3 months ago
That today we are able to hear these sounds from such a long time ago means more to me than the petty squabbles of who can and can not have, know, play, and feel the blues. Music is the only hope we all can have.
SoundOfAnodyne 3 months ago
i didnt mean you cant love the blues and be white, or even play the blues. but you will never better it or come close, it's been done
hildathenoo 3 months ago
Heard a version done by someone from nearly every ethnic group at this point. In each case, I get the chills. It appears the blues narrows things down a bit.
TheWinterShadow 3 months ago
Well, I´m as white-assed as you can get, and I still love the blues. It´s got nothing to do with race: anyone with a soul and a heart can feel the blues, utterly irrespective of the color of his/her skin. After all, you don´t have to be Indian to enjoy raga-music (to take just one other example), do you?
kariaudar 3 months ago
While I agree that no white person should ever perform nor will ever better the blues, I think that a talented black artist has the right to pay homage to his/her history.
mansonlicker 3 months ago
whitey cant sing the blues, cos like, you are not the direct sons and daughters of slaves, in fact, i think there is no point in anyone making blues records anymore, as they cannot be bettered
hildathenoo 3 months ago
It's chaos with an emotional intent, like all music.
GurtMcDirt 3 months ago
Music is a universal language. The blues is just a small part of it. No matter how you play it or sing it or hum it, music speaks to our hearts. Like many other kinds of music, the blues comes from the heart. Sometimes the blues is happy. Just listen to Mississippi John Hurt's music. It's very cheerful and upbeat. Whether you have a happy heart, or a sad one, the is what the blues does best. It conveys a feeling of hurt, or a feeling of joy. This music belongs to us all.
DudeWheresMyDeLorean 3 months ago
Why does every black artist's song have a discussion on racism and black vs white irrelevant bs? Do people click on the video hoping to discuss this shit? No, they click to listen to the god damn song... no one cares what your ignoramus stupid pathetic little mind thinks... you are not important enough to have your opinion heard, SHUT THE FUCK UP and listen to the god damn song!!!
OriginalAtomicSheep 3 months ago 2
This song it still relevant to current times.
sangolt88 3 months ago
if you want to think like that, brotha, maybe you shouldn't use anything made by whites. I mean, just to be fair... just enjoy the music,. damn! it's always about race.
ps.. i see alot more whites keepin "black blues" alive than blacks. don't believe me? do a youtube search for any blues covers.
Sh!t, I wish whites would take hip-hop. that f--kin' garbage. lol
Oh yeah (enter qualifier here) I am half black/ half white...just in case you thought that I was some mad white guy.
redds81 3 months ago
Stop debating and enjoy the fucking song you wankers.
LongPig 3 months ago
actually, the notes considered "blues notes" are created when a minor approaches a major, through a bend ect. this doesn't originate in blues but is actually transposed from older forms of music one being east indian. When what we consider traditional blues music was forming it was doing so along with another "original" form called country in the appalachian mountains ect. these two forms got called whtie and black music. out of these two forms comes "rock" not out of one alone but two.
Thibideau1 3 months ago
white people cant unbderstand the pain of the blues.... its not in yourv blood, sorry...
danfabbro 3 months ago
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thecheshiire 3 months ago
@danfabbro what a sad misguided thing to say, you must be very young, the reason blues reached the heights of popularity are because white people such as the rolling stones, eric clapton ect. brought it to the popular consciousness, who then had an inherent deep rooted understanding of it as well falling in love with it as just another stream of suffering music such as traditional country, folk or for that matter irish music. we inherit a biological bloodline not past inherent soul.
Thibideau1 3 months ago
@Thibideau1 thats not true, only as a black guy can i really appreciate the blue note..... go back to your white music, each to his own....
danfabbro 3 months ago
@danfabbro tell that to mr. jack white
NicotineSomething 3 months ago
@danfabbro .... Stevie Ray Vaughan, I rest my case. If you can feel pain you can feel the blues. Whether it's addiction, lost love, death... we all understand pain regardless of color. Check yourself, you sound like a racist.
FenderM2 3 months ago
Just a thank you to Hemlok88 for the clip thought it needs to be said thanks again love you took the time to post..........
sz3rd 3 months ago
If you do a little research you'll find that what we consider classic rock now, was influenced solely from Blues and with that comes every form of music that has derived from "rock." Minus some of this auto tuned crap we have to put up with now, regardless of race it depends on the musician, that "feels" the music. I agree that many people of all races do not interpret tone, rhythm, and timing as well as musicians.
Chadwick71386 4 months ago
this song is not about race, its about the dark struggle day to day life can be. its blues people, its bigger than race or what we make of it as a race.
foxfingers 4 months ago
dont be hatin; look it up: the people who go to blues shows nowadays are white... white people listening to black and white folks singin the blues... if you cant deal with that, go hate somehwere else.
TheMrGebler 4 months ago
im white n 19 n i know i got that soul i feel in the pit of my belly n to the depth of my bones to tell me any different is lies
treetrunkss940 4 months ago
If you don't know the Blues...The Shut the fuck up about Rock N Roll...You're Clueless...
1957crowley 4 months ago
@scooma1 i am a man of constant sorrow...i like the music to that song also. i also mountain roads and rocky top. i like howlin wolf,little richard,otis redding and young jeezy. many ,many others.
MrSkeegeedawg 4 months ago
this is the best music there is! if you love raw blues you might like Rat Stomp :)
youtube.com/user/ratstompmusic
Our song Reckless Woman and Searching the Forest have a Delta blues style with slide guitar and fingerpicking
ratstompmusic 4 months ago
everyone needs to stop hatin on each other over colour, and who's allowed to enjoy certain types of music. Music and art is not about colour, its about culture, colour has nothing to do with what people enjoy and their ideals. Colour means nothing, we are all human, and can all enjoy the same things, if people lessen a colour or a culture they are just lessening the human race in general. Live and let live
lolzerness 4 months ago
As a white guy I admit I went through a phony suburban White kid blues phase in my early twenties. But now as a middle-aged man- after having my heart broken endlessly by many capricious women- I feel I really "feel" the Blues. Anyone of any color with enough life experience can feel the Blues.
sbadges 4 months ago
goddamnit I just run out of reefer.......
fascismanarchy 4 months ago
the delta blues is black the same way flamenco is spanish gypsy. no one has a problem with flamenco being spanish, or classical being european because those people are allowed to have their own accomplishments. its only black accomplishments that some people feel the need to strip of their blackness. its another method of dehumanizing black people.
Diomedes22 4 months ago
the white man can feel the blues...i'm BLACK and i like country & western, bluegrass, rap,r&b,rock & roll and blues. but i don't like jazz.. Sweet Home Alabama is one of my fav songs
MrSkeegeedawg 4 months ago
@MrSkeegeedawg sweet home alabama is a racist song written to mock another progressive song and you're an idiot!
Diomedes22 4 months ago
@Diomedes22 you're an idiot. when i listen to music. i'm more into the beats and sounds. i rarely listen to the words. you are just a hater. ROLL TIDE.....SWEET HOME ALABAMA
MrSkeegeedawg 4 months ago
skip james is one of the best. That Dm open tuning works so well with his melodies.
MrDumass223 4 months ago
The sad reality is that white and black alike are uninformed and have been educated by a system that has given them a "plain wrap" view of the world. This includes the Media.. they push whatever agenda is fitting to them to drive the cattle public in whatever direction they need them to go.. for instance.. did you know that a white folk singer wrote the Civil Rights Anthem WE SHALL OVERCOME? and sang it many times arm in arm with the folks both black and white who marched to end inequality?
Nikkopapi 5 months ago 2
@Nikkopapi The truth is that We Shall Over Come is an old union organizer song....So it was part of that movement before it became a standard in the Civil Rights movement....It's a good song
blueflame2 5 months ago
@blueflame2 yes, I have met the man personally who wrote the most recent arrangement., he and his wife were good friends with my late father... Guy Carawan and Pete Seger have told the story for millions.. its just The final arrangement was written by Guy.
Nikkopapi 4 months ago
@Nikkopapi i agree with you. entirely on the ideal uniform thought on what is socially expected from white or black. i think it's hog wash that comes from dominating characters, such as hitler or such on. i mean, why should we do what is expected of us, what cause our race, or our sex? i think that is ignorance.
fishnetsNcigarettes 3 months ago
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tell us again how hard it is to be a white boy who likes the blues.
jasonbrann 5 months ago
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tell us again how hard it is to be a white guy who likes the blues.
jasonbrann 5 months ago
tell us again how hard it is to be a white guy who likes the blues.
jasonbrann 5 months ago
this is probably the best song ever
jedimindtricks87 6 months ago 7
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MrFabiodagostino 3 months ago
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ratstompmusic 6 months ago
The only color that should matter IS the blues. That's it. That's all of it.
TheMfleming 6 months ago 4
Oh, and to whoever commented about blacks being the only race to suffer adversity and persecution - you really need to do some research.
Chinese, native Americans, Irish, Jews... and that's only a few out of many.
BaggedGnome 6 months ago
Anyone could have black in their bloodline and not know it anyway, so who cares.
BaggedGnome 6 months ago
@BaggedGnome - good comment, my friend. We're all basically black anyway. Maybe just different shades is all. : )
henley65 6 months ago
@henley65 Yep!
BaggedGnome 6 months ago
@BaggedGnome Everyone does. Its fact.
HVLewis123 6 months ago
It's amusing how you get these people who think that all white people somehow had slaves. I mean my ancestors DEFINITELY were rich slaveowners and not miners and millworkers who also spent time in the victorian workhouses and lost scary amounts of family members to cholera and typhoid.... oh wait a minute no I've got it the wrong way round haha
jimmyhayers 6 months ago
no matter where you are from or what skin color you are,people can and will express themselves someway or another.....nevermind the ignorant and narrow minded self centered dummies who have issues with southern heritage...people with pride and common sense know better....ooohhhh btw im white and from the south
MONKEY15178 6 months ago
Man that low E dropped to D sounds awesome!
UAL320 6 months ago
we love skip james! if you're a delta blues fan, check out our band Rat Stomp :)
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ratstompmusic 6 months ago
Damn. I'm going to pull out my Skip James Greatest Hits tonight.
comvoice 6 months ago
Anyone feelin' blue can sing the blues
dudeifailed 7 months ago
FUCK everyone who says white people can't feel the blues.
i don't consider myself white. the blues is not racist. it can latch on to anyone.
and i can say, i am the blues. which is an uderstandment, considering.
the blues is about loss, hard times, strife. pain. anyone who has a soul can understand and feel that. in fact i believe i feel deeper than most people. got. i can't believe anyone would be slow enough to believe that. no matter what anyone comments back. they will never take that away.
fishnetsNcigarettes 7 months ago 70
@fishnetsNcigarettes snap
davewhittno1 6 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes What about Robert Johnson, he sold his sold to devil. Nah, you're damn right!
thommytaranto 6 months ago
@thommytaranto :)
fishnetsNcigarettes 6 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes Awkward, I wrote 'sold' twice.
thommytaranto 6 months ago
@thommytaranto it's more than okay. i knew what you meant. :)
fishnetsNcigarettes 6 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes Thank god sold and soul sound very similar
thommytaranto 6 months ago
@thommytaranto haha!! totally... xP
fishnetsNcigarettes 6 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes I remember hearing someone say the sound of the blues is when a good man feels bad... Race doesn't mean a damned thing. We've all felt the blues in some way or another, no one can talk down another person's rock bottom, we all have different breaking points.
kmikl 5 months ago 35
@kmikl Agreed. there are many shades of blue, and for good reason too. Life hits each and everyone of us in different ways and you never can tell whats on another mans heart. One thing for sure is that race most certainty does not play a role in felling "blue". that's just plain ignorant. blue is just a word. how it sounds or whose playing it is irrelevant. and through the hardest of times we will always have music to turn to to make life more bearable. cheers!
AllKindsaGirls 4 months ago
@kmikl amen to that, amen
drmirandaxiv 2 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes true. just listen to Joe Bonamassa
njbfr 5 months ago
@njbfr
Bonamassa is a very good guitarist but definitely not a bluesman. He just do covers. And he's great at it. But that's it.
paulminiwaits 5 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes Amen. By that yardstick death is the only white man in the room. We all die. It don't get any blacker & bluer than that.
johnnyspin 5 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes insecure much?
papataka 4 months ago in playlist Blues
@papataka go ahead and ask yourself that question.
fishnetsNcigarettes 4 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes Stop bitching. If you can feel the blues its good for you, dont panic.
PPShization 4 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes Son you can't help it if you lack Soul, very few white folks have it.
mrstanbmw 4 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes The only color I can see is blue. You tell the truth brother, I am black and hispanic, but I look like some kinda Hawaiian or Indian stuff or whatever, when people ask me what race am I, I reply "Human," =P
GuitarMaster6567 4 months ago
@fishnetsNcigarettes
you can say you feel blues when you can play your own song. and this song must flows from your soul with all pain.
"Oh, great day. Sun shining bright. What I do today. O yes. I'll write blues song. Hmmm. The begining will be.... "I woke up this morning" yep. I'm so cool." - this is shit.
Yes. Everybody can understand blues. But not everyone can feel it.
InanancuxI 3 months ago
GREAT SONG , I enjoy the friendly chat between music lovers, but the
trolls always seem to show up with their hate filled rants just to try to piss people off , yea pretty sick, but most of the time i can spot them. Jemini29944 is one of the best Trolls i've ever encountered , he almost makes you think he's for real, but for all those caught in his sticky troll slime, pay him no mind, in fact pity him for the poor fellow may be wacko or at best just a hate filled anti-social reject.
DIXIEJEFF 7 months ago
@DIXIEJEFF Wow, I didn't realize how much you've been dick-riding my comments, @DIXIEJEFF, lol. By the sound of your screen name I'd say we can pretty much guess what flag you wave: Confederate. Perhaps a dirt poor cracker such as yourself would like to explain to African Americans just how TOUGH and BLUE your life is compared to them, huh?..........What?.......Feeling 'blue' about not winning the civil war? Hahaha.
Jemini29944 6 months ago
Bob Dylan could sing a mean blues... so @Jemini29944, before you go touting the fact that one race is better than another at anything examine that the same laws passed to give blacks equal rights are the laws that state that we're all human and thats that. everyone is capable of achieving anything anyone else has. and thats because above the color of our skin, we're human.
dogatemymathhomework 6 months ago
@dogatemymathhomework I respect your comments, but you are wrong. I'm white, I can never say that I truly understand what it's like to feel 'BLUE' let alone act as if I can truly feel the emotion undertones of 'Blues Music'. As white people, we take advantage of so many things in our lives that we sometimes gravitate towards Black Culture as a way of atonement and understanding, but we don't see life from THERE PERSPECTIVE. We can never truly FEEL the Blues, even though we can play it.
Jemini29944 6 months ago
@Jemini29944 Man you dont know shit about the blues do you? The blues dont mean your a black man whos ancesters was oppressed by whites. The blues goes past races and skin colour and religion. Boy i felt the blues like you would not believe. And Son House said it once that the blues consists ofa male and female thats in love and one decieves the other thru their love. You aint gotta be black to be in love now do you? and theres other reasons to feel the blues. I tell you one thing i bet why you
BluesBurner 6 months ago
@Jemini29944 aint never felt the blues is cuz you aint never fell on hard times like some ppl have. But when you got the blues youll KNOW you got em. It aint just a feeling, its more than bein a little sad. Its a sadness feeling that goes thru your whole damn body and soul. I have felt the blues and i use it to play the blues. Eric Burdon said he got two words to beat the blues: Sing Em! So i do and its the best release for the blues.
BluesBurner 6 months ago 2
Oh and on a postscript, an old black bluesman once said about Hank Williams that country aint nothin but the white mans blues. Now you go listen to Long Gone Lonesome Blues, Alone and Forsaken, and Cold Cold Heart (and just about any other dang Hank Williams Sr song) and tell me he aint a blues singer. Hes got emotion soul and feelin in his lyrics and voice, and hes got heartache. All them songs about dyin and shit, you gotta FEEL the blues to write like that.
BluesBurner 6 months ago
WHENVER PEOPLE WRITE IN CAPS LOCK IT MAKES ME YELL, IN MY HEAD, THE STATEMENTS THAT THEY SAY. THIS SONG IS THE BEST AND I DONT THINK RACE HAS MUCH TO DO WITH IT EVEN WHEN ITS ABOUT WHO REALLY FEELS "BLUE".
KoRnSlipFold 7 months ago
I love the blues, it will never die <3
MrsWizard42 7 months ago 2
One of my favourite acoustic blues songs. Thanks for posting !
Davesax1965 7 months ago
@mrmakrnagy i believe you might be thinking of martin scorcese presents the blues. fantastic documentary that was on pbs. another, and much smaller docu is called deep blues. yet to see that one but i've heard it's really good.
daddymouse1975 8 months ago
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I love this song!!!
Jay1300ify 8 months ago
Does anyone remember that special that PBS did on the blues? It may have been another broadcasting channel, I'm not sure. It was really sweet, but I don't recall the name of the special, so if anyone could let me know what it's called that'd be cool. Thanks.
MrMarkNagy 8 months ago
when was this recorded?
ramsey34bdr 8 months ago
@ramsey34bdr 1931
jacksondemarre 7 months ago
@ramsey34bdr 1931, according to wim wenders's movie "the soul of a man"
raboulk 7 months ago
@griszabella I don't think so, my husband asked me to stop playing this song because he found it so depressing. It is the only song I know in open dm so not a lot reason not to oblige him, except for that life insurance policy...
GriseldaGeist 8 months ago
@GriseldaGeist haha, don't play Crow Jane for him!
griszabella1 8 months ago
what a beautiful song
209116032 8 months ago
@209116032 I've never heard anything like this before... I can barely tell what he's saying, but I know he means it!
andyp234 8 months ago 2
High Contrast brought me here
DnBintervention 8 months ago
this song gives me the creeps...a little.
beinmytrailer 8 months ago
@beinmytrailer its the voice of a dead man what do you expect
cheeseshoes 8 months ago
high contrast :)
Teutonic1250 8 months ago 2
It's a great song... blues is best. I have been enjoying the pre-war blues more and more.
elswano1 8 months ago
is the tuning DADGBE?
babbersabber 8 months ago
@babbersabber
I believe it is DADFAD - A minor key version of the more common DADF#AD tuning.
wobblyom 8 months ago
@babbersabber yes
Chris180Z 8 months ago