Baby Please Don't Go Fred McDowell

[snaggable]

solid gold, this oughta be added to the national preservatory or whatever it's called so that beings millions of years from now can enjoy this treasure of a talent

[lostintheblues]

@snaggable that's gotta be the best damn idea i've ever heard

[thefringthing]

Song starts around 1:45 for those not interested in the preamble.

[lostintheblues]

@thefringthing um...fred talking is gold, if you are a true fan then you never would have posted that.... the ''preamble'' is the main reason i posted this

[thefringthing]

@lostintheblues It's not that I'm not interested, just that I've heard it many times before. (I have the album this single ended up on.)

[DeathTimer]

HOLY COW!!!

I somehow head this song and I was looking for it's artist for years

Finally found it

That's not Rock N' Roll

THAT"S COMPLETLEY PURE BLUES

[friendlyisle]

I'll make the guitar say what I say., . . .

[us1776]

oh my god soooooo good

[MsCaleb79]

Rock n´roll!!!!

[SacvsCA]

sacvs.wordpress [dot] com/2011/02/18/blast-from-the-­past-vol-213-mississippi-fred-­mcdowell-baby-please-dont-go/

[SacvsCA]

thanks for posting this!

[AGDemo]

@SacvsCA Amen! Thank You!!

[philserious]

awesome.

[arlocommotion]

Love hearing McDowell! Thanks for putting this and others up.

Now, favor? Would you upload his version of "Jesus is on the Main Line?" or tell me how I might get it from an LP (turntable in family room) to my PC (one floor up)? How did you do it? I'm off now to hear  your upload of his Kokomo Me Baby :)

[187killerCali]

I love this song

[SoberGeorge]

Thanks for the upload. Incredible.

[LTmattYT]

i love hearing him talk lol

[jboose]

"I make the guitar say what I say, y'unnastan -- if I say 'our father', it'll say 'our father'; if I give it a hymn, it'll sing it; If I play Amazing Grace, it'll sing that too."

Gives me chills.

[pryncyss]

the thing I appreciate about Mississippi Fred and others like him is their real talent. I'm not saying others aren't as talented but with Fred, what u hear is all Fred and not a manufactured sound. He seems sincere about his art and I like that!

[Behutet93]

It's gotta be cool when the Rolling Stones cover one of your songs(You Got to Move) on one of their albums.....They sell millions...then you get a fat check with lots of zeros behind a number.....

[bluesderek]

Depends ... in those days record companies didn't care too much about paying royalties to obscure bluesmen. Willie Dixon had to sue Led Zeppelin before he actually saw any money

[Behutet93]

Yes, I read about Willie D. I also had read of Mississippi Fred McDowell being paid a visit by the owner of Arhoolie Records and being delivered the check for his tune. I wonder if SRV recorded some of Buddy Guy's tunes to share the wealth, as SRV records sell. Like a thank you to Buddy.

[bluesderek]

I don't think so, SRV played BG songs live long before he recorded them and he recorded some on his very first album, when nobody could know if it would become a success. So he played BG out of love for his music

[dontdodrugzz1]

the rolling stones is RETARTED compared to fred mcdowell

[dontdodrugzz1]

the rolling stones is retarted compared to fred mcdowell and plus he never got royalties from them.

[morleygrey]

Bill Wyman has played with many famous blues artists, his book, Blues Odyssey is an incredible journey through the history of American blues music and it's artists. The Rolling Stones grew up in the 1950;s and listened to nothing but American blues and Doo-Wop and Gospel recordings growing up. Youshould read about there background. It's very interesting. More people got paid than what you would think, not saying all of them, but Bill Wyman has a true appreciation for these artists & there music.

[dontdodrugzz1]

FU BICH

[morleygrey]

I see you have a real passion for stupidity and ignorance. Well done Chris Rock wannabe!

[insightfloww]

Who the heck needed that cover?

Should I be asking...Lady Ja Ja sells millions too.

[OscarCommie]

Only for the most part you get a whole lot of nothing...

[checkraisedbywolves]

3:24 " play it "

4:19 " yeah ! "

[checkraisedbywolves]

I listen to this piece 2 or 3 times a week....okay,4 or 6 times,as I can't listen just once......OK, 6 or 9 times.

Can you listen to it just once ?

It finally hit me that Fred was "passing out his business card" when he says:

"Whenever you get somebody you know,want to plow for you,you just call for Fred McDowell.I was raised on the farm,you understand."

He farmed his WHOLE life except for the very last few years,when the benevolent record men finally paid him enough to survive.

[tatyramirez]

ahhh! la magia del vinilo

[tatyramirez]

siii! un monton

[tatyramirez]

es simple amor a la música

[checkraisedbywolves]

"I do not play no rock and roll"..........then proceeds into a riff that had the Motor City Madman,the Schoolboy ,and the rest of them drooling the first time they heard it.

I still drool every time I hear it.

[steelyodis]

Thanks!!!

[thefringthing]

This is in the first tracks of I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll, so I think it is available on CD.

[garymb350]

I used to think that John Lee Hookers was the best version of this but no longer this is great just shows what a great guitar player fred was.

gary

[lostintheblues]

Not that I know of, sorry.

[DAVO1984FI]

Is this recording avaible in any kind of cd??

[sometimesido99]

my favorite song by mr. mcdowell....just beautifull. Thank you very much.

[o0whitestripes0o]

Love this.