Bukka White Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (1977)

[Bigkahkistan]

I want to this lively at my deathbed.

[spotoboy]

This is my most favorite youtube. Please don't claim intellectual property on this. I didn't watch Elizebeth Cotton's "Freight Train" for a couple months. She has been dead for more than 10 years; now somebody said they own her song and took it off youtube.. It would be very bad karma to take this from people, don't do it.

[meurole]

I love how this is slightly different than his other performance of Aberdeen Mississippi. The timing is a little more loose. Bukka White is a cool dude.

[rfw45]

I love this sooo much. This is the real deal . Thank God. there is footage of things like this still out there. Can we say, "Library of Congress". lol

[Isrealit360]

@rfw45 library of congress indeed!!!!

[deewilki]

people go search for sam chatmon and the shieks they inspired patton and memphis slim ( they were all related) sam chatmon is truly a genius like bukka and all the old blues guys n girls way befor muddy or bb r johnston and many more sadly few now realise ther true greatness rip sam and bukka and the rest

[jahja52]

If you fancy seeing some music inspired by Bukka White this March, Alabama 3 are performing acoustic and unplugged!

They are performing in this stripped down acoustic way to show the songs in a format reminiscent of the people that have been their inspiration, chiefly the old Delta Blues players like Fred MacDowell and Bukka White.

See alabama3.co.uk for more details

[madFlam1]

another completely unique style

[nuclear944]

You really start to appreciate how much soul and passion (as insainanarchist said) when try to actually play and replicate his music.

[UWETHEGOAT]

@nuclear944 - These old blues tunes are really tough to cover well.

You start out vowing not to sound like a british pub rock band, but that is where you end up. (especially if you are British and playing in a pub).

[JosephMalicke]

It scares me with beauty that he sang about these "two little women just from New Orleans" for 40 years. I can picture Bukka as a 20 year old man, like I am today, sitting down in Aberdeen, seeing two women (running hand in hand, like Barbecue Bob says), swept away by their beauty, envious that they just arrived from New Orleans, the place Bukka's heart was destined to go. It's my favorite line in the song... I'll always think of those "two pretty little women just from New Orleans"

[JosephMalicke]

He played this song for over 60 years. In this video, he is days from his death. And yet he plays the song with the same passion as in the 1930 recordings. Absolutely astonishing. It gives me goosebumps. This man was a "good 'ol boy", like the original Charlie Patton. Played, lived, breathed music and the blues from the day he was born to the day he died. Thank you, Bukka White, for everything. Your heart was a blazing inferno, and it kept us warm for 71 years.

[fuxgood]

@JosephMalicke Yeah I was gonna say if in fact this is a recording from '77 it had to be in the first 7 weeks of that year because he died Feb.26 1977.

And you're right...same passion as he always had, singing from the soul.

Thanks to the poster for this wonderful vid.

[sheilapatrick1]

looked like on his last leg but still played like in his prime

[busessuck1]

UK TV doesn't make badass stuff like this anymore

[robbyeebor]

Cool..

[mrallcz]

Genialny blues.

[Floorbird]

The slappin of the guitar learned from Charley Patton. When they played juke joints and house rent parties their was no amplification so to be heard this and foot stumpin got the place fussin and fightin and of course dancing.

[spotoboy]

This music is covered by Fleetwood Mac on the album "then Play On'" Peter Green was great to have brought Bukkas music to me. Took me 40 years since that album release to hear this.

[betokkikke]

Take me there, man!!!

[ganjaganja879]

fantastic!

[faunoram]

todos los bluseros mientras más viejos tienen mucha más polenta!!

ni icurre lo mismo con los rockeros viejos, que dan pena verlos viejos

es extraño, es como si los bluseros se volviesen más salvajes a medida que pasan los años

thanks for this incredible post !

[giullardetempifuturi]

wow

He's GREAT!

[6t4eldo]

i feel cheated, i never saw bukka,howlin' wolf,muddy,misssissippi john hurt ,wiilie dixon nor any of these O.G. blues legends.........

[PREZ150]

This was 1977 the same year Bukka died.

[MsKeepinItReal]

sure was

[edboswell]

Bukka White was BB King's Uncle. He really did sing his way out of prison. A real showman and great storyteller. He ripped in concert, and made up lyrics on the spot..... I saw him at the Ashgrove about 1972

[madseacow7084]

<--- jealous

[snecadc10]

@edboswell ,,oh yes the old timerss didnt need any prepareations cause packed the blues around with em,,they lived the blues,,you gotta admire it,,i love it when he gets fired up toward theand hlers out alitle,and they said he passed away a few weeks lter,,well that was a nice endind to man who led a pretty hard life like my dad and many others!!!

[mylesteddy]

wow what a gem it takes me all the way back to when he toured the uk with son house , skip james etc. the energy of his performance has always remained with me thankyou

[IvoryPhil]

This has to be the last footage appearience of Bukka. His smile at the end for me is like the smile of my father.

[dioisfreakinamazing6]

I think you're right...it is impossible...they're both so good!

[texecution]

Aaaaaaghhhhgw!

[bleuskais]

Bro, it'll be impossible to choose... trust me. :P

[abaneyone]

Wow!

[dioisfreakinamazing6]

Now the question is...Booker White or Son House...Who do I like more?...

[shiambles]

If the choice was between Howlin wolf and this guy, I knew the answer

[deewilki]

@dioisfreakinamazing6 sam chatmon and bukka and son

[zappascotland]

Absolutely love this version.

[bobjones864]

This is American Music at its best.

[miasm]

if it's possible for music to give one joy and the blues at the same time here it is

[PootWilliams]

Killer guitar style. To bad the vocals aren't a little louder. Then again it sounds like you're there in the room with him. Love his outro!

[obseebish]

40 years ago I had the

occasion to spend some time with Buka

He was wearin the same gear as in this vidio.

He was very gracious to the a kid with the blues we shared some tunes that live with me still .

He said he liked the iron Guitar because they holds up.

He was and is a great spring bubbling rolling from the human earth

where the greats have come to drink

Thank you for passing the dipper.

Bob Robb

[yankeesinflorida]

Robert Plant really digs this dude!

[48755003]

Great post and a incredible song !!

[brentlayzee]

He was dying here.

Bukka had what the early greats like

Charley Patton and Tommy Johnson had,

he was not only a Bluesman,

but a showman as well.

And on top of that

he was a snazzy dresser too!

Look at that shirt!

That's smooth!

[williestratton]

yeah him and BB were/are snappy dressers, hahaha. you know he's BB's uncle?

[EdwardBlues]

i love bukka's speech at 3:40

it's prophetycal (he passed away that year)

[InsainAnarchist]

Its amazing the kind of passion he put into his music all those years. It's the kind of passion that never fades. Even after he's gone.

[zanklwang09]

well said

[zanklwang09]

he sadly died the same year. really good music.

[ZUWARRAH]

its sad, that was the year he passed away.

RIP BOOKER T. WASHINGTON WHITE.

[ZUWARRAH]

poor old booker.

[sophistikittenlin]

There's footage of Bukka playing Poor Boy Long Ways From Home from this same session as well (not the b&w footage from the late 60s). Wonder if there's more?

[RaggedTime]

Wow, that was powerful. Thanks.