Key To The Highway

[MrSoulman26]

@Kickingmule no problem...thanks for the upload

[kickingmule]

@MrSoulman26 Ya, Stay Cool !

[MrSoulman26]

@101MattSki Charles Segar and Big Bill Broonzy wrote the song...

[kickingmule]

@MrSoulman26 Thanks for ther information !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[kickingmule]

@101MattSki Yes, it's difficult to say who wrote the song, cause many have done it ! That's the problem when you listen to the old Blues, You can't tell for sure who made the song originally ?

But, I know one thing for sure. Its a good song and they never die !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

PEACE !

Urban

[steamrollinstan]

Love this, i play the harp and man its hard to get close to this, thanks for the upload, brought the album from itunes.

[kickingmule]

@steamrollinstan Thanks for the comment and listening !

I use to play "with" my harp too, but as you say Jazz Gillum is good !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[juniormcfadden]

Charlie Segar sang and recorded this first. It was written by him in collaboration with Big Bill Broonzy who had a hit with it a few years later.

[clevblue]

Fabulous version, never heard it before, thanks!

[kickingmule]

@clevblue Ya, you know there are many version of this song, but I think this one is one of the best. Don't ask me who made it up or recorded it first, cause, I don't know.

BUT, I know, one thing for sure : Good Songs Never Die !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[elli0tte]

I guess Little Walter did the original of this song.:)

[kickingmule]

@elli0tte Well, its hard to say who did the first recording or who composed the song, but as long as its a good song, I don't care !

Thanks for a good comment and listening !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[elli0tte]

@kickingmule well I was wrong. Broonzy came before Little Walter.:p Peace man.

[kickingmule]

@elli0tte Its OK ! The Blues is a simple thing, but its hard to say something about it, I think, cause its a feeling ! That matters !

Peace Bro !

[qwikfish1]

Thanks for posting this tune. Jazz Gillum is one of my favorites. Have close to 25 of his 78's.

[kickingmule]

@qwikfish1 Lucky You ! My friend collector. I have a few.

Thanks for the comment and listening.

Peace

Urban

[georgiebest99]

A wonderful early version--such a good song!

[kickingmule]

Originals are always the best and my concern is ealy Blues & Gospel, 1902-1943, from my old collection.

Thanks for the comment and listening.

By the way are you the famous soccer-player George Best ???

Peace !

[cravenmoorrrrrrrrr]

thank you very much.

[kickingmule]

Please, don't thank me !

Thanks to Jazz Gillum who gave us this good recording !

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace !

Urban

[steamrollinstan]

@cravenmoorrrrrrrrr yo!!!

[kickingmule]

@steamrollinstan ´Thanks !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[easyfriend71]

I have this one on 78, sounds great, my favorite version of this song. Peace from Chicago.

[kickingmule]

Ya, this one is from my 78 and let me tell you, You have good taste in Music ! *smile*

Thanks for the comment and listening !

Peace Bro !

Urban in Gothenburg Sweden

[Vernuft]

The song was written by Big Bill Broonzy

[pixielf]

According to Michael Bloomfield, who sought out those old blues players, Jazz wrote this tune but never received publishing money for it.

[kickingmule]

Thanks Peg !

In the old days it was rather common, artists "borrowed" songs and claimed they were their own. I think as you say, Jazz wrote it, but another got credit for it. Sorry, but true !

Peace Brother !

Urban

[quinoacat]

Charlie Segar's original "Key to the Highway" was done in the form of a mid-tempo twelve-bar blues. When Jazz Gillum recorded it later that year, the song became an eight-bar blues, as it is usually known (May 9, 1940 Bluebird B 8529). A year later, Big Bill Broonzy recorded "Key to the Highway," creating the best known of the early versions of the song (May 2, 1941 OKeh 6242).

[quinoacat]

"Key to the Highway" is usually credited to Charles 'Chas' Segar and William 'Big Bill' Broonzy.[2] As Broonzy explains: "Some of the verses he [Charlie Segar] was singing it in the South the same time as I sung it in the South. And practically all of blues is just a little change from the way that they was sung when I was a kid . . . You take one song and make fifty out of it . . . just change it a little bit."

[kickingmule]

Thanks very much for the info !

It aint easy to keep track of all the recordings, but its new to me that Charles 'Chas' Segar and W Big Bill Broonzy, did the original sound recordings.

I have often wonder who made this song up and why this chord-progression in the Blues !

Well, Music is good and to have a good friend, like you, is even better !

Peace Brother !

[Mazblues]

awesome! this piece is kinda bridging the gap between oldtime-harmonica & the "modern" blues progression that sonny terry & most succeeding artists established from then on...

thanks for posting, mr. mule! ;)

[kickingmule]

Mattias, my pleasure to present The Key To The Highway. A wellknown song, and with a somewhat different blues chord progression. If you compare to the earlier recordings.

Thanks for your comment and listening.

Peace.

Urban

[Fretkillr]

I'm glad you have this one posted. This inspired the other versions that followed.

[kickingmule]

I think originals are the best !

But, A Good Song never die !!!

Thanks for your comment and listening.

Peace.

Urban

[hooverhasit]

this is now my fav of this tune...above the furry lewis/brownie mcghee version even. know very little about this guy but he is in my book now......

[kickingmule]

Bill "Jazz" Gillum did a lot of recordings, by himself as well as acc others. I think he's a very good blues- and harmonica-man.

Thanks for the comment and listening.

Peace Brother.

Urban

[ronaldo970]

I hardly find original Jazz Gillum performance in the Youtube.

[kickingmule]

When it comes to old Blues You have come to the right place. As a colllector of old Blues and Gospel, I upload this kind of music.

Thanks for the comment and listening.

Peace.

Urban

[kickingmule]

Thank You, let me tell you, I feel the same !!!

Ok, perhaps I'm addicted to it, but it's much better than other "drugs" !!! *smile*

Peace Bro !

Urban