BIG JOE WILLIAMS - Low Down Dirty Shame

[rmurbach1961]

This is the Blues, raw and soulful, the way it was meant to be.

[davidkahan]

@1:01 impressive : "9th" string blocked behind the pickup - so this, in fact, makes it sound like a 5 string/tone open tuned guitar - i guess

[JandritoBlues]

@davidkahan That's not the bass string. It is a rod mounted to the strings be behind the bridge. That kind of pickup was adjustable so you could move it back and forth -- either closer to the neck or closer to the bridge. This design was for arch top guitars with no central sound hole.

[awfulguitarplucker]

at those times,Blues guitar still had some remnants ofthe feeling of an actually "ethnic" instruments,bearing that sense of "tribally crafted instrument" or "traditional ,local instrument" who,nowadays,only instruments like Koto or Shamisen,or Oud,or Sitar barely seem to mantain....i know i dont eplained myself out quite correctly, but this is the feel THAT blues playin give me...

[panbread89]

. Who said you need a fancy guitar to play music, all you need is a working guitar and some heart and soul.

[Bluesshoes2]

@panbread89 Coz even the blues got a soul. .

[mickyhikes]

Son House does a similar "Low Down Dirty Shame" on Youtube, but it's a personal love song, not political like this one. Still wondering when it was recorded.

[mickyhikes]

Listen to the words! This is actually a song about the killing of Martin Luther King. Does anybody know when it was recorded, and are there other versions? Did BJW write it?

[busessuck1]

@mickyhikes I know this question is a year old but yeah Big Joe recorded songs bout the death of presidents and general political events - quite a few musicians like him did so

there's a whole album about the death of JFK recorded in the week he died (it's called Can't Keep From Crying)

[foathkent]

pretty fkn sexy guitar it would prolli be worth a pretty penny

[designermite]

Sweet...

[faunoram]

the tone of the guitar is so raw!!!!

this is harder than most rock music this days

thanks!!

[frenzexperiment]

if one plays a nine strings guitar has to be a special one

[paris1952]

always though he was doubling the three upper strings, not the D instead of the G!

Thanks for the post,

[brennonjohn]

Great...nothin' short of great.

[synapsecracklepop]

I don't know where you got these but thank you for putting them up just for me. I'm having a great time here.