Taj, lends something to a song that tickles my backbone--keep singing Taj don't ever stop--my world needs your songs especially this one, Statesboro Blues. ;)
Koncert Taj Mahal w Polsce na festiwalu "Ku Przestrodze" w Tychach był jednym z najlepszych wydarzeń muzycznych, jakie odwiedziłem. Najlepiej się wtedy czułem.
The first Taj album was perfect, like the movie Casablanca: the chemistry was cosmically right. I was to UMass Amherst a couple of years after Taj left. He would come play free concerts by the pond during the summer when I was a young hipster. That band was such fun, my friends and I grooved our brains out! Of course that was 1969, too. The loss of Jesse Davis was a sad tragedy; that Indian boy could sure play. I think his performance in "Checkin' Up On My Baby" was one of his best.
This is an awesome version. I was familiar with the Allman Brothers' version and I thought that since Duane Allman had Taj Mahal's first album received as a gift along with the bottle of pills which he used as a slide, I'd listen to this version.
@moon1973drummer The song is in E and the guitar is tuned to an open E chord.(or D capoed up 2, less strings broken IMHO) . I bought this record not sure exactly when but the date on the jacket says 1967. I still own it. I got big into the Allman Bros shortly after. Always loved the slide. Johnny ,Mick Taylor other favorites.
If you are a novice gittar picker like me, Utube is great tp practice with. just click on Taj Mahal , practice up on chords E,A,B then jam away withTaj. I can almost smell the smoke and sweat in the beer joint.
Ry Cooder & Taj were in a band that broke up. TM worked with a bunch of blues guys then Columbia released TM's 1st - Taj Mahal in '68, The Natch'l Blues in '69 & Giant Step/De Old Folks at Home also in '69. During this time he & Cooder worked with the Stones. Also.Jamming with Edward - Cooder, Jagger, Charile Watts, Bill Wyman & Nicky Hopkins. Best guitar lesson ever: Cooder taught Keith Richards open-G blues tuning - check it out on Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St.
JED was a Kiowa OK. He broke out touring with Conway Twitty then went to CA & did session work for damn near everybody. Read the liner notes!. He played on Taj Mahal's first 3 albums - guitar & piano - the bottleneck riffs on Statesboro are his. He played whatever - lead, rhythm, slide, county, jazz..Look for him on stuff by Levon Helm, Leon Russell, Jackson Brown, Albert King, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons, Keith Moon, Nilsson, Van Dyke Parks.
It was one of those hazy, orangish afternoons in LA back in '65. I was 16 and hanging out at the Ashgrove on Melrose. Up pulls an old Studebaker and out steps a virtually unknown Taj Mahal. He had driven to LA from Boston where he had played at the famed Club 47. That night he made his LA debut to a small crowd on Thursday night. The first song was a duet with a blonde gal and they did "Black-eyed Susan". I recall it perfectly. He played a Guild Frontiersman ax and I became his 1st official fan
It was one of those hazy, orangish afternoons in LA back in '65. I was 16 and hanging out at the Ashgrove on Melrose. Up pulls an old Studebaker and out steps a virtually unknown Taj Mahal. He had driven to LA from Boston where he had played at the famed Club 47. That night he made his LA debut to a small crowd on Thursday night. The first song was a duet with a blonde gal and they did "Black-eyed Susan". I recall it perfectly. He played a Guild Frontiersman ax and I became his 1rst official fan
go to wiki pedia sez there gregg [allman] gave him a taj mahal album w\statesboro blues on it and a bottle of coricidan for what ails ya. duane poured out the pills .used it for a slide to learn the part.
I remember buying the album and seeing Taj and the band around Cambridge when they broke out of Umass in the late 60's early 70"s and it is definitely Jesse playing slide on the entire album and specifically this song. By the way, Taj still has it these days...
'Giant Step/ De Ole Folks At Home' is one of the most influential albums of my childhood. When I was 18 years old I bought a steel dobro just because of Taj.
fuck that - this a McTell number. Sure, Taj does a good version but McTell wrote it and played it to such a sublime level...McTell was horrendously overlooked in his time and by those that followed - give the man the credit he deserves - this is a McTell tune, end of!
Actually, Blind Willie McTell. While Ralph was a very fine folkie, he was never a bluesman and likely never even knew about the place called Statesboro.
Nice to see some love here for the great Jesse Ed Davis. He was brilliant. Check out his guitar solo on "Bacon Fat" from the Taj Mahal album "Giant Step/Ole Folks at Home" Now that was a blues groove! Wish I could find it on Youtube.
Very nice, heard this is what Duane Allman picked up on and started slide with. ABB really electrified this song, but still like TM's version. Even Taj Mahal couldn't save that "Rock and Roll Circus," it's awful. Only video I've ever seen where every act came off poorly, and most were top-notch artists.
The composer, William Samuel McTier - better known as Blind Willie McTell, named the song after Statesboro, GA... He was born in Thomson, GA around 1899 and first recorded Statesboro Blues around 1928.
kevcl747, when did you see JED? Am trying to track down the Silver Wilburys boot which was the Palomino Club performance with Taj, JED, Dylan, Harrison and John Fogarty in 1987.... Motard, agree re his style being very similar to George's. The VG article I refers to says JED often practised Harrison solos - he later played on GH's album Extra Texture (as well as HEAPS for other great artists who knew great guitar playing when they heard it)
I saw JED play in the early 70´s. Santa Monica, near the beach in some warehouse. Unreal! Virtuoso guitar player in every sense. No need to imitate GH. He had total mastery of the guitar. Also, the original liner notes on ¨Taj Mahal¨lists JED on lead, Ry Cooder on Rythm and Taj on harp, plus the drummer and bass player, thats it! JED played electric slide on Statesboro Blues ,guaranteed!
Thanks kevcl747 - I'm more than happy to agree it was JED. BTW can you tell me who is listed for bass and drums - AMG in Credits lists Chuck Blackwell (drums) and Gary Gilmore (bass) who certainly played on Natch'l Blues but also credits Bill Boatman with rhythm guitar & Sandy Konikoff (drums) - mentions RC on review but not in credits! Have just got myself a copy of the Palomino Club gig with Taj, JED, Dylan, Harrison and Fogarty from 1987 - boy am I happy. RIP JED.... forever missed
thanks for this post. Can anyone confirm that it WAS Jesse Ed Davis who played the slide on Statesboro blues - I've read elsewhere that it was Taj and/or Ry Cooder?
Thanks for that...There was an excellent article in Vintage Guitar mag a couple of years back that credited him with the slide which was why I asked. Also had read the fact that he played slide on Eric Clapton's Hello Old Friend on No Reason to Cry (EC asked him to). Also don't know if you are a fan of JED but on the Concert for Bagladesh he does a beautifully subtle slide intro - very short - to Billy Preston's great performance of That's The Way God Planned It... Anyway thanks for the info
thats funny cause ive read the same thing in two guitar mags, he credited jesse for playing slide on statesboro blues, he said he was one of the few people, him and muddy waters that could play slide in standard tuning
@AnnieMcNeill I just got turned on to this jesse Ed Davis, and know nothing about him, can you direct me as to what to listen to, to get some more of him. I've played guitar for 40yrs and feel like I've missed out on someone I should get hip to. THANKS
It was Jesse Edwin Davis!!!!! Nobody played electric like him, not Ry Cooder, not Taj, not even Duane Allman. Saw Jesse with his own band in Santa Monica, CA and he blew me away!!!!
Ok, we've got to solve this problem.... BTW Rock and Roll Circus is worth the money alone just for Taj and the band. But back to Statesboro blues and the slide... Motard, presume you have the CD/album and that is where you are quoting from? Coz in the All Music Guide, they cite JED as playing lead guitar in the Review section but then don't even include JED as playing guitar in the the Credits section. The review and Credits both cite Taj as playing slide.... I've written to AMG re this
@ you & Annie: - I don't know nothin' except that "Bacon Fat" features JED and rates in my all-time top 10 lay back and groove at the end of a phonograph needle.
@flamencoprof i believe statesboro blues is on his self titled album, taj mahal... i bought this record for my mom for xmas, but i dont know if she will be getting it after listening to it :P
I loved how Taj would call out "MISTER Davis !!" when it came time for one of Jesse's solos. I spent a very uncomfortable half hour crammed behind the cigarette machine,lying on fake rocks with my face jammed into my friend Spooly's massive Afro while we hid for the second audience change at the show at Ronnie Hawkins's Rockpile on lower Yonge St. in Toronto. Taj was SO PISSED that management had sprung an extra show on him, without extra pay no doubt ! Jesse Edwin Davis ruled !
Just saw this post. Can't say who played on the record, but I sat 5 ft in front of Taj & the band (Black Dome, Cinti, 1969) for two shows. They played all the songs that became the "Natural Blues" album. Taj looked just like this pic & sat if playing his National, usually stood to play harp. Jessie Davis did all the slide guitar on a Telecaster. Gary Gilmore was in back & played awesome bass. I think I've seen 'em all, & these were magic performances that words can't describe.
Just saw this post. Can't say who played on the record, but I sat 5 ft in front of Taj & the band (Black Dome, Cinti, 1969) for two shows. They played all the songs that became the "Natural Blues" album. Taj looked just like this pic & sat if playing his National, usually stood to play harp. Jessie Davis did all the slide guitar on a Telecaster. Gary Gilmore was in back & played awesome bass. I think I've seen 'em all, & these were magic performances that words can't describe.
@AnnieMcNeill Ry and Taj formed the Rising Sons-band back in '65 and recorded a session with Columbia in '66, feat a version of Statesboro Blues w Ry on slideguitar. The sesson was canned (released on cd in '92) but got Taj a contract with Columbia, rerecording the song for the first album and with JED on slideguitar. Hence the slideguitar confusion?
I WOKE UP WITH THE CROSSROADS ON MY MIND
niggaT42000 1 week ago
bluuuues baby bluesssss!!!
Sarrabica1 2 weeks ago
This music is sexy
schclum 3 weeks ago
Autocowrecks.
MatheusBond 3 weeks ago
Wow wow wow so pleased I searched for Taj Mahal Blues! :D
liof16 3 weeks ago
going to the concert, baby don't you want to go? If you can't make it, your sister Lucille says she wants to go!!!
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 4 weeks ago
@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO ... i believe that's ... "goin to the country, baby don't you want to go" rock on ...
sonneeday 3 weeks ago
@sonneeday actually it is concert, i had always thought it was country too
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 2 weeks ago
Let the bluesman take it away
ZBone12 1 month ago
Parece música do filme Porky's kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
beefcarioca 1 month ago
ohhhhh,,,takes me away
deeryker 1 month ago
This version powerfully influenced the Allman Brothers.
funkydrumr51 1 month ago
I love this song, but I always think it sounds like he's saying "I love that watermelon, better than anyway woman I've ever seen"
mollers92 1 month ago
Brilliant!
farje1 2 months ago
Taj, lends something to a song that tickles my backbone--keep singing Taj don't ever stop--my world needs your songs especially this one, Statesboro Blues. ;)
o0sunsi0o 2 months ago
Great Blues! Amazing! Mr Taj Mahal!
evelynagudo 3 months ago
Great song, but still, Duane Allman's version is the best.
WhatWentWrong22441 3 months ago
great music
pinkwontons 3 months ago
fabulous version - what a blues talent - out of this world
chazncharm 3 months ago
8 dislikes - hmmm..... did you think this was a travel log or something??
clucaspik 3 months ago in playlist clucaspik's favorites 8
Please see the Blues Boy Kings version of this song on jasenorthblues channel!
jasenorthblues 5 months ago
I really like The Allman Brothers and could never decide whose version of this I liked better. Thankfully I grew up to the point that I didn't care.
Also from this same LP Jesse Ed Davis's work on "Baconfat." Very nice.
COLDB33R 5 months ago
@COLDB33R
Choosing between this version and the Allmans' is a pretty nice problem to have. Great call, love the song, RIP Skydog
brucefan1027 3 months ago
i LOVE this song thanks for uploading :)
lunchbox9889 5 months ago
Sounds like Jesse Ed Davis to me....
DocGeorge4U 6 months ago
Koncert Taj Mahal w Polsce na festiwalu "Ku Przestrodze" w Tychach był jednym z najlepszych wydarzeń muzycznych, jakie odwiedziłem. Najlepiej się wtedy czułem.
misza812 6 months ago
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whotaughtyou 6 months ago
:-)
subjectg 6 months ago
The first Taj album was perfect, like the movie Casablanca: the chemistry was cosmically right. I was to UMass Amherst a couple of years after Taj left. He would come play free concerts by the pond during the summer when I was a young hipster. That band was such fun, my friends and I grooved our brains out! Of course that was 1969, too. The loss of Jesse Davis was a sad tragedy; that Indian boy could sure play. I think his performance in "Checkin' Up On My Baby" was one of his best.
themwuzthedaze 7 months ago
This is the ultimate version of this great classic. Taj always puts energy and groove into a tune. His playing and vocals are peerless.
Retromantra 7 months ago
This is an awesome version. I was familiar with the Allman Brothers' version and I thought that since Duane Allman had Taj Mahal's first album received as a gift along with the bottle of pills which he used as a slide, I'd listen to this version.
ledzeppelinfreak 7 months ago
in what key is this?
moon1973drummer 8 months ago
@moon1973drummer The song is in E and the guitar is tuned to an open E chord.(or D capoed up 2, less strings broken IMHO) . I bought this record not sure exactly when but the date on the jacket says 1967. I still own it. I got big into the Allman Bros shortly after. Always loved the slide. Johnny ,Mick Taylor other favorites.
dukeandchloe 7 months ago
@dukeandchloe thanks man!
moon1973drummer 7 months ago
*****
sirronald69 8 months ago
Taj! This is the man who's carried "counrty blues" for the past 40 years. Nothing more need be said.
richardmbowman 8 months ago
who the heck could dislike this?
TimGuitar59 1 year ago
If you are a novice gittar picker like me, Utube is great tp practice with. just click on Taj Mahal , practice up on chords E,A,B then jam away withTaj. I can almost smell the smoke and sweat in the beer joint.
jerrykessler 1 year ago
JED was found dead in a laundry room in '88 - heroin OD at 44.
threekitty 1 year ago
Ry Cooder & Taj were in a band that broke up. TM worked with a bunch of blues guys then Columbia released TM's 1st - Taj Mahal in '68, The Natch'l Blues in '69 & Giant Step/De Old Folks at Home also in '69. During this time he & Cooder worked with the Stones. Also.Jamming with Edward - Cooder, Jagger, Charile Watts, Bill Wyman & Nicky Hopkins. Best guitar lesson ever: Cooder taught Keith Richards open-G blues tuning - check it out on Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main St.
threekitty 1 year ago
JED was a Kiowa OK. He broke out touring with Conway Twitty then went to CA & did session work for damn near everybody. Read the liner notes!. He played on Taj Mahal's first 3 albums - guitar & piano - the bottleneck riffs on Statesboro are his. He played whatever - lead, rhythm, slide, county, jazz..Look for him on stuff by Levon Helm, Leon Russell, Jackson Brown, Albert King, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons, Keith Moon, Nilsson, Van Dyke Parks.
threekitty 1 year ago
i get so pissed off listenin to all of these blues masters i just wana cut my ears and my hands off
bigcountrypicker 1 year ago
@bigcountrypicker what the fuck
AgentCarter 1 year ago
Great stuff.
dickshawny 1 year ago
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It was one of those hazy, orangish afternoons in LA back in '65. I was 16 and hanging out at the Ashgrove on Melrose. Up pulls an old Studebaker and out steps a virtually unknown Taj Mahal. He had driven to LA from Boston where he had played at the famed Club 47. That night he made his LA debut to a small crowd on Thursday night. The first song was a duet with a blonde gal and they did "Black-eyed Susan". I recall it perfectly. He played a Guild Frontiersman ax and I became his 1st official fan
bigstevieboy66 1 year ago
It was one of those hazy, orangish afternoons in LA back in '65. I was 16 and hanging out at the Ashgrove on Melrose. Up pulls an old Studebaker and out steps a virtually unknown Taj Mahal. He had driven to LA from Boston where he had played at the famed Club 47. That night he made his LA debut to a small crowd on Thursday night. The first song was a duet with a blonde gal and they did "Black-eyed Susan". I recall it perfectly. He played a Guild Frontiersman ax and I became his 1rst official fan
bigstevieboy66 1 year ago
love that man ...stil a great influence ...hea's a real gem ..miss him at your peril !!
potrezeb1 1 year ago
go to wiki pedia sez there gregg [allman] gave him a taj mahal album w\statesboro blues on it and a bottle of coricidan for what ails ya. duane poured out the pills .used it for a slide to learn the part.
treyrosenmeyer 1 year ago
soul music..it feeds my soul (literally)
blunklaura 1 year ago
Awesome number! Greetings to one and all from Jarrahnut and Big Hugh of Mundlimup in wonderful Western Australia.
Jarrahnut 1 year ago
Duane Allman supposedly decided to pick up slide after this song
bluesboy25000 1 year ago
I remember buying the album and seeing Taj and the band around Cambridge when they broke out of Umass in the late 60's early 70"s and it is definitely Jesse playing slide on the entire album and specifically this song. By the way, Taj still has it these days...
LouViola 1 year ago
This is the version that inspired Duane Allman, Jesse Ed Davis on slide guitar.
SteveGaines 1 year ago
'Giant Step/ De Ole Folks At Home' is one of the most influential albums of my childhood. When I was 18 years old I bought a steel dobro just because of Taj.
chariotdrvr14 1 year ago
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh just close your eyes and ride
POKE53 1 year ago
are you listening jim?
ralphcraddock 1 year ago
are you listening to this jim !!
allman who?
thats jesse ed on slide there.
ralphcraddock 1 year ago
@ralphcraddock i believe it's Duane Allman, don't ever forget that. Nah man i'm just jossin, this version is awesome too!
Talesofspace8 1 year ago
@ralphcraddock got there in the end bud
jimbob2zappa 1 year ago
Now, isn't this lovely !
VictoriaRu29 1 year ago
it was JED.
a very great guitarist,
all respect to taj.
ralphcraddock 1 year ago
The Blues live on!! Brilliant stuff
MrStrobey 1 year ago
ALUCINANTE!!!
leandro87l 1 year ago
He looks so young in this picture
DeathcoreIsNotMetal 1 year ago
Magic, magic, magic slide. Love it!
Johnoppo 1 year ago
Bravisimo.
MrLausanneBlues 1 year ago
. . .I know the drummer on this and all the slide playing is Davis' !
aammirr 1 year ago
Everybody who plays guitar should listen to Jesse Ed Davis. Everybody who loves manhood, should listen to him for ...the same reason. Him & Taj.
2quundar 1 year ago 8
great song
789pequignot 1 year ago
One of the few versions of this song that ranks with the Allman's Fillmore sessions
retropicker 1 year ago
@retropicker duane did a better version at the Atlanta pop festival...check it out. Best fuckin Allman bros concert iver heard
Wdd4lif3 1 year ago
One of my favorites electric blues
1952a 1 year ago 6
This is the song that inspired Duane Allman to learn to play slide guitar.
Bopalena 1 year ago
"IF you can't make it.....I know your sister Lucille says she wanna go." Love it. The art of negotiation.
aesthetic1950 1 year ago
fuck that - this a McTell number. Sure, Taj does a good version but McTell wrote it and played it to such a sublime level...McTell was horrendously overlooked in his time and by those that followed - give the man the credit he deserves - this is a McTell tune, end of!
oasisrock1 1 year ago
Actually, Blind Willie McTell. While Ralph was a very fine folkie, he was never a bluesman and likely never even knew about the place called Statesboro.
Pinzhead 1 year ago
taj is on point with this one. excellent.
plasticjesus23 2 years ago
Nice to see some love here for the great Jesse Ed Davis. He was brilliant. Check out his guitar solo on "Bacon Fat" from the Taj Mahal album "Giant Step/Ole Folks at Home" Now that was a blues groove! Wish I could find it on Youtube.
wvcottrell 2 years ago
Feckin brilliant tune!
Does anyone have the guitar tab for this version? (I'm tone deaf so can't play by ear)
D3ltaStar 2 years ago
haha im the other way around, i have to hear it i cant play from tabs i gett mixed up :)
Ace21425782 1 year ago
for me this is the one. I had it for years. never will retire it.
buggadugg 2 years ago
Great version! This blue me away in my teens. Nice hammerin' strum. Overal superb!
gonzocurt 2 years ago
yes! glad for the allman bro's making it famous, but even more grateful for this man making the blueprints available...
Vladimir09Lenin 2 years ago
Blind Willie McTell made "the blueprints available".
rydochi 2 years ago
@rydochi
wow. guess i learned something new today. nice!
Vladimir09Lenin 2 years ago
im pretty sure gary moore and lots other artist got influence of this guy
Alileopil 2 years ago
I know if you can't make it your sister wanna go.....WooHoo, sing it Taj! ;)
o0sunsi0o 2 years ago
What a superb song...
taj7575 2 years ago
Well,.... er, ..... Jesse Ed Davis , ok ?
2quundar 2 years ago
Very nice, heard this is what Duane Allman picked up on and started slide with. ABB really electrified this song, but still like TM's version. Even Taj Mahal couldn't save that "Rock and Roll Circus," it's awful. Only video I've ever seen where every act came off poorly, and most were top-notch artists.
esslar1 2 years ago
"Adequately Monumental" rendition of this blues standard.
I'd probably put it toward the bottom end of my top 5 ever, right behind LVB's 7th but ahead of EROICA.
I want to quit my job and hang out with that bassist fulltime.
Sandrone90 2 years ago
Awesome track! Greetings to one and all, from Jarrahnut in wonderful Western Australia!
Jarrahnut 2 years ago
This song is funny cause my University is in a city called Statesboro,GA
williamwhitec 2 years ago
The composer, William Samuel McTier - better known as Blind Willie McTell, named the song after Statesboro, GA... He was born in Thomson, GA around 1899 and first recorded Statesboro Blues around 1928.
ganeco 2 years ago
Cooder and Taj DID do a version of this in the Rising Sons though eh?
my favourite version of this song, thanks a lot for posting.
Matty73 2 years ago
kevcl747, when did you see JED? Am trying to track down the Silver Wilburys boot which was the Palomino Club performance with Taj, JED, Dylan, Harrison and John Fogarty in 1987.... Motard, agree re his style being very similar to George's. The VG article I refers to says JED often practised Harrison solos - he later played on GH's album Extra Texture (as well as HEAPS for other great artists who knew great guitar playing when they heard it)
AnnieMcNeill 2 years ago
I saw JED play in the early 70´s. Santa Monica, near the beach in some warehouse. Unreal! Virtuoso guitar player in every sense. No need to imitate GH. He had total mastery of the guitar. Also, the original liner notes on ¨Taj Mahal¨lists JED on lead, Ry Cooder on Rythm and Taj on harp, plus the drummer and bass player, thats it! JED played electric slide on Statesboro Blues ,guaranteed!
kevcl747 2 years ago
Thanks kevcl747 - I'm more than happy to agree it was JED. BTW can you tell me who is listed for bass and drums - AMG in Credits lists Chuck Blackwell (drums) and Gary Gilmore (bass) who certainly played on Natch'l Blues but also credits Bill Boatman with rhythm guitar & Sandy Konikoff (drums) - mentions RC on review but not in credits! Have just got myself a copy of the Palomino Club gig with Taj, JED, Dylan, Harrison and Fogarty from 1987 - boy am I happy. RIP JED.... forever missed
AnnieMcNeill 2 years ago
thanks for this post. Can anyone confirm that it WAS Jesse Ed Davis who played the slide on Statesboro blues - I've read elsewhere that it was Taj and/or Ry Cooder?
Thanks
AnnieMcNeill 2 years ago 4
On the album notes for all songs it says Jesse played guitar and piano and Taj played slide and harp
MOTARDkamikaze 2 years ago
Thanks for that...There was an excellent article in Vintage Guitar mag a couple of years back that credited him with the slide which was why I asked. Also had read the fact that he played slide on Eric Clapton's Hello Old Friend on No Reason to Cry (EC asked him to). Also don't know if you are a fan of JED but on the Concert for Bagladesh he does a beautifully subtle slide intro - very short - to Billy Preston's great performance of That's The Way God Planned It... Anyway thanks for the info
AnnieMcNeill 2 years ago
@AnnieMcNeill
thats funny cause ive read the same thing in two guitar mags, he credited jesse for playing slide on statesboro blues, he said he was one of the few people, him and muddy waters that could play slide in standard tuning
cowbelltell 1 year ago
@AnnieMcNeill I just got turned on to this jesse Ed Davis, and know nothing about him, can you direct me as to what to listen to, to get some more of him. I've played guitar for 40yrs and feel like I've missed out on someone I should get hip to. THANKS
wc4dblues 1 year ago
@MOTARDkamikaze It's a great version whoever is playing but that's gotta be Jessie on the slide it sounds more like his style rather than Taj...
rbutler8585 8 months ago
It was Jesse Edwin Davis!!!!! Nobody played electric like him, not Ry Cooder, not Taj, not even Duane Allman. Saw Jesse with his own band in Santa Monica, CA and he blew me away!!!!
kevcl747 2 years ago
Ok, we've got to solve this problem.... BTW Rock and Roll Circus is worth the money alone just for Taj and the band. But back to Statesboro blues and the slide... Motard, presume you have the CD/album and that is where you are quoting from? Coz in the All Music Guide, they cite JED as playing lead guitar in the Review section but then don't even include JED as playing guitar in the the Credits section. The review and Credits both cite Taj as playing slide.... I've written to AMG re this
AnnieMcNeill 2 years ago 2
Ya I'm just goiing by the liner notes on the cd!!
MOTARDkamikaze 2 years ago
@ you & Annie: - I don't know nothin' except that "Bacon Fat" features JED and rates in my all-time top 10 lay back and groove at the end of a phonograph needle.
flamencoprof 2 years ago
p.s. Was from the album "Giant Step", a rarity when imported to my country way back, remains a favourite to this day.
flamencoprof 2 years ago
@flamencoprof i believe statesboro blues is on his self titled album, taj mahal... i bought this record for my mom for xmas, but i dont know if she will be getting it after listening to it :P
PhoulOne 2 years ago
@AnnieMcNeill i knew jesse ed, and saw him play this in honolulu in '79 - he claims it was him and that is good enough for me...
dljone9 1 year ago
@AnnieMcNeill
I loved how Taj would call out "MISTER Davis !!" when it came time for one of Jesse's solos. I spent a very uncomfortable half hour crammed behind the cigarette machine,lying on fake rocks with my face jammed into my friend Spooly's massive Afro while we hid for the second audience change at the show at Ronnie Hawkins's Rockpile on lower Yonge St. in Toronto. Taj was SO PISSED that management had sprung an extra show on him, without extra pay no doubt ! Jesse Edwin Davis ruled !
ELMASLAD 1 year ago
Just saw this post. Can't say who played on the record, but I sat 5 ft in front of Taj & the band (Black Dome, Cinti, 1969) for two shows. They played all the songs that became the "Natural Blues" album. Taj looked just like this pic & sat if playing his National, usually stood to play harp. Jessie Davis did all the slide guitar on a Telecaster. Gary Gilmore was in back & played awesome bass. I think I've seen 'em all, & these were magic performances that words can't describe.
ElBajista52 1 year ago
Just saw this post. Can't say who played on the record, but I sat 5 ft in front of Taj & the band (Black Dome, Cinti, 1969) for two shows. They played all the songs that became the "Natural Blues" album. Taj looked just like this pic & sat if playing his National, usually stood to play harp. Jessie Davis did all the slide guitar on a Telecaster. Gary Gilmore was in back & played awesome bass. I think I've seen 'em all, & these were magic performances that words can't describe.
ElBajista52 1 year ago
@AnnieMcNeill There's another version of this song with Ry Cooder.
fudgecool 1 year ago
@AnnieMcNeill
According to the book "Midnight Riders" which is a bio on ABB - Jesse Davis definitely was who inspired Duane to pick up the slide.
skydog7725 9 months ago
@AnnieMcNeill -dont listen to these morons, of course it was jesse ed davis playing slide on this recording. RIP
1954telecaster 8 months ago in playlist Blues
@AnnieMcNeill Ry and Taj formed the Rising Sons-band back in '65 and recorded a session with Columbia in '66, feat a version of Statesboro Blues w Ry on slideguitar. The sesson was canned (released on cd in '92) but got Taj a contract with Columbia, rerecording the song for the first album and with JED on slideguitar. Hence the slideguitar confusion?
JonasA 5 months ago
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good stuff man.
guitamasta 2 years ago