Maxwell Street as we knew it is gone, but a new version was still out there last summer with vendors, food and some music. We'll see how it fares next summer.
Maxwell Street as we knew is gone, but a new version was still out there last summer with vendors, food and some music. We'll see how it fares next summer.
Maxwell Street no longer exists. I heard that the University of Chicago basically shut down the street with a fence when it expanded its campus some years ago.
honkeys brought this stuff mainstream black folks couldnt support this on dey own thank the stones yardbirds shadows of knight, for bringin this to the masses
Nighthawk gave Ike Turner, Earl Hooker and Pinetop Perkins their starts in the music business. He's a God-like figure to the remaining traditional Blues musicians in Chicago. Then there's Earl Hooker; BB King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Luther Allison and countless others named Earl as the best Blues guitar player that ever lived. Robert was his mentor. If you don't understand what Blues really is it's waste of time trying to explain it to you.
This is BLUES! I understand that if you don't know the difference between rock and Blues you don't understand. The rockers that try to imitate this music can never capture the feel and nuances. "You ain't picked no cotton, you ain't done no time. No white boy ever called you nigger, your skin ain't Black like mine..."
My friend what about Rory Gallagher and the ablino wonder that is Johnny Winter? Joe Bonamassa is getting along fine too. While not exactly blues you might try Dock Boggs as well, pretty polly is fantastic.
@nottoberemembered Gallager is passable euro-imitation, just not the real deal. But, I wll add that Winter's albinoism (i.e. skin color) is the closest thing to the African-American experience.
I don't think Gallagher is an imitation, just different style. His blues had a lot more rock to it. Its not a matter of imitating, I mean Rory would destroy these guys on the guitar but that doesn't make him better unless you prefer guitar and you obviously prefer this kind of blues, but to call the G man a cut rate imitator is insulting there is no way these guys could imitate Rory after all.
@richone99 I'm not saying Rory is better then these men at their own music, Rory played his own music, he wasn't imitating this but played his own style and he always had great respect for the roots of the blues doing nice covers here and there. I'm not deluded, we're just argueing past each other. Rory was a very humble man and he had his own authenticity.
Oh and speaking of Irish I nearly forgot Gary Moore on my white blues players who don't suck, again though more rock than blues.
@richone99 I hear ya, but I love it sooooo much I can't help but sing from my heart, while trying to help people know about this music........best wishes......
That's the Gretsch Corvette Nighthawk bequethed to his son, Sam Carr.I witnessed the sale of it.Sam sold it to John Montague owner of the Memphis Music Museum.He had Rod Norwood (a vintage guitar collector) restore it in 1992.He didn't do a lot to the cosmetics of it, so it still had Nighthawk's mark on it.I saw Rod play it.The same tone...it was eerie! I guess it's still around Tennessee.
Wow - that is the real deal. Thank you for posting. I hadn't heard Robert Nighthawk before. And the scene on Maxwell St. just does my heart good. While I tip my hat to Nighthawk, I'll add that I saw Magic Slim at the Silver Dollar in Toronto a few years back and that man is the real deal too! Don't get to see Blues like this that often!
Robert Nighthawk also recorded under the name Robert Lee Mccoy. This whole performance can be bought on cd. At least it could as something like "Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street" . It is outstanding the whole way through but this had always been my fave song on it. I don't know if accurate but I did hear on time that he played Muddy Water's wedding reception. I figure with all the musicians in Chicago at that time that's quite a compliment.
When I think of Maxwell Street I really tear up..this was a place you could shop, listen to blues and of course the Chicken Man..what memories..thanks for sharing..
Name of the song: Cheating and Lying Blues on the Live on Maxwell Street 1964 album. Robert played at Muddy Water's first wedding in Mississippi--the party got so rowdy that the floor caved in! Robert had talent that few can compare with and played regularly on Maxwell Street when he was in Chicago. Hard to get him into a studio though as he preferred the street.
@Danabl It's actually called Cheatin' and Lyin' Blues. Thanks for this incredible post. I always loved this footage. They put bits of it in some videos on the blues but I've never seen the entire thing.
How cool, thanks Man for posting this, I got the album. Imagine, strollin' down the street on a warm day, hearing these guys play, right there on the side walk like that, wow I'll tell ya, I might just have stayed there all' day! Imagine that's just on that one day, it might be Hound Dog Taylor or Muddy Waters on another day,......cool. (oo)
Robert Nighthawk plays on a stoop at Maxwell Street Market in Chicago, 1964. From the marvelous film "And This Is Free" which documents a typical Sunday at Chicago's oldest (now defunct) outdoor market.
if you haven't read deep blues you don't know shit about the blues. Robert nighthawk has an c.d called bricks in my pillow Do your-selfs a favor and get both
Hell yeah on the Deep Blues. It's shorter than most of the other blues books I've read and yet far more concise and purely unbiased information. Like I said, any of you interested in the blues should get this book--they run anywhere from about 50 cents to $3.00 on Half.com if you look at the right time.
heard this an album issued as 'Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell St' 25 years ago. This was the first time I realised there was some dude there with a camera as well, either Leadbetter or Bloomfield. Nighthawk was top drawer. It wasn't the passing round the hat thing Nighthawk didn't like about Chicago though. He just didn't like it period. He preferred the south.
I heard this an album issued as 'Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell St' 25 years ago. This was the first time I realised there was some dude there with a camera as well. Nighthawk was top drawer. He didn't like Chicago though. He preferred the south.
According to Robert Palmer: Nighthawk taught many people in Chicago before he left to roam the country. Most important among these was Muddy Waters (who, Palmer maintains, rarely played Maxwell because he thought himself too important to "pass the hat & that bullshit"--one of his only Maxwell gigs was a promotion in front of a prominent Jewish-owned store for an early Little Walter Jacobs record). Yes, Deep Blues is a great book. Buy it on Half.com for like 10 cents, seriously! Do it.
I even saw Hound Dog Taylor down there in about early 75. He had a Swede with him I guess. Man, I remember one nite in '73 going to the Burning Spear to hear Albert King and then afterwords going down to Maxwell Street Polish Sausage. Digthis, it was about 3 below zero and there were about 5 of us fools standin' in line at 2:00am waiting for our Polish Sausage Fix.
Whenever I fret about the overload of information in today's world, I just remind myself that seeing Robert Nighthawk in action wouldn't have been possible otherwise.
Truly fantastic to see this monumental blues-man in action, I've never seen any film of him before. Those slide licks get me every time.
It's a shame that the editors saw fit to chop up the performance though, as in reality this number is 4 minutes and 58 seconds long. If you listen carefully you can hear where the edits are... Perhaps the most obvious splicing can be heard in the slide break at the end which has a large chunk missing in the middle.
this is so absolutely fantastic. Robert Nighthawk has the most amazing tone and vibe.Been listening to this record for years and had no idea there was any video. jeez I love this.
I've been at the 'new' Maxwell Street. Lost all of it's charm. More like most swap meets and now & then a musician may show up, I don't know how it will be in the summer of 2010. I used to go the 'old' Maxwell Street in the 70's & 80's - was quite an experience, I loved it.
The Maxwell Street of the 70s and 80s was a shell of what was there in the 50s and early 60s. I was born in that neighborhood (Just north of Roosevelt).
Marvelous. As a boy going to Maxwell street in the 80's, very similar shit was going on. Only clothes had changed. When I left for college, my mother sent me clippings of legal battles over the fate of Maxwell street. She knew how I loved the place. On a train from New Orleans to Detroit last summer, I rode through the neighborhood where this historical market once thrived. There appears to be a resurrected version of the market along a stretch of nearby overpass. Anyone got any info on that?
What an enormous talent this cat was. There is another great song on this same album entitled "The Time Have Come". Sure would like to hear that one :)
It's actually a Doc Clayton tune, and both Pat Hare and Nighthawk recorded it...Nighthawk was around before Hare- but this video was him after he was rediscovered, I think.
The part of his solo @ 1:55 is some of the most gutbucket s^&* you'll ever hear.
Never heard this guy until i read about him in an article written about a founding member of Fleetwood Mac. This song is as good as any Chicago blues gets!!!
Hard blues, the real shit. Unlike a lot of this recycled/repacked contemporary blues one hears today. All sounds the same. One lick of this and you know it's Robert Nighthawk - a baaad man.
Unbelievable song I cant stop listening to it! And I just found the ringtone at DownloadEveryTone. com the quality is awesome if anyone wants to get it __
Incredible video. We had to move from this neighborhood in 1963 ( a few blocks north on Roosevelt and Peoria) when the city knocked down several blocks to build the Circle Campus, now known as UIC.
I can still remember these great Blues musicians playing outdoors at Maxwell Street.
ahhh the blues,real blues men can surely appreciate this,the heart and soul of american music.African american culture surely has made a profound contribution to the development of rock and roll and other forms of contemporary music.
the footage has been mixed up a bit , I have seen the same footage of the people dancing but its not to this tune its been slowed down , they were dancing to a faster blues tune like maxwell street jam from robert Nighthawk.
Yeah, you're right. Danabl has taken the footage from this flic and slowed it down. It actually works pretty well for a youtube video because this dancing shit is fucking great but it's to some pretty standard 8 bar blues in the movie, and what's shown during this song is clips of shady motherfuckers hawking some jewerly on maxwell st. Really, it's a good edit, though a little off because the dancing, clapping and air guitar fit the other scene and not this.
at 1.:36..the lead guitarist is playing a slide lick with just fingers..i believe it !!( grew up in Chicago in 50's and 60's). Maxwell Street was scary and cool ..all at once. such a mix of people and sights !
So good it's supernatural, like something from BEYOND, just BEYOND. The boxset of THIS IS MAXWELL STREET is terrific, and young Mike B's interview with Robert is the icing on the blues cake. Thank Ian Talcroft for the resurrection of this stuff.
Maxwell street where the best blues can be heard and the best polish can be had..
shire2005 1 week ago
You can see the film on NetFlix Steaming
EnzoPuliti 1 month ago
Damn that woman on 1:34 is sexy as fuck omg.
MrMrjld123 2 months ago
Good
progre100 3 months ago
Just look up 'And This is Free' Maxwell Street video, on the internet you should be able to still get it.
Danabl 4 months ago
Where can I buy copies of these old music videos? Still blows my hair back. Anything that good's gotta be good for ya:)
bddyer59 4 months ago
Maxwell Street as we knew it is gone, but a new version was still out there last summer with vendors, food and some music. We'll see how it fares next summer.
Danabl 4 months ago
Maxwell Street as we knew is gone, but a new version was still out there last summer with vendors, food and some music. We'll see how it fares next summer.
Danabl 4 months ago
Maxwell Street no longer exists. I heard that the University of Chicago basically shut down the street with a fence when it expanded its campus some years ago.
rmurbach1961 4 months ago
That lady in the print dress at 1:50 looks just like Angela Bassett.
rodentcafeteria 5 months ago
Blues doesnt get better than this - the soul in the guitar is quite incredible. Check out my channel for a little blues guitar.
fieldfullofthistles 6 months ago
where the hell is the goddamn slide? i dont even see it on his pinky, and his other 4 are clearly at work. Gretch Corvette baby
TheInboil 7 months ago
Holy sh*t that is dirty. And the clip itself is incredible.
nesnejls 7 months ago
honkeys brought this stuff mainstream black folks couldnt support this on dey own thank the stones yardbirds shadows of knight, for bringin this to the masses
BigBishop1 8 months ago
@BigBishop1
Enough with the racial stuff. I don't give a damn where the music came from or what color the musicians were that did it, it's some damn good music.
ReubenAdkins 6 months ago
Nighthawk gave Ike Turner, Earl Hooker and Pinetop Perkins their starts in the music business. He's a God-like figure to the remaining traditional Blues musicians in Chicago. Then there's Earl Hooker; BB King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Luther Allison and countless others named Earl as the best Blues guitar player that ever lived. Robert was his mentor. If you don't understand what Blues really is it's waste of time trying to explain it to you.
bobbybluz1 8 months ago
This is BLUES! I understand that if you don't know the difference between rock and Blues you don't understand. The rockers that try to imitate this music can never capture the feel and nuances. "You ain't picked no cotton, you ain't done no time. No white boy ever called you nigger, your skin ain't Black like mine..."
bobbybluz1 8 months ago
@bobbybluz1 actually rock its black too (chuck berry, bo didley) honkys are just bad mitators of real rock too
TheSatanas666 8 months ago
@TheSatanas666
You're a crazy racist person who has no idea what the hell you're talking about. Man, I'm tired of this!
ReubenAdkins 6 months ago
Wonderful! This is blues. The musicians, the people, the atmosphere. Pure blues.
MrMuddymilton 9 months ago
@LTCM1994 The one singing.
misterthingy 9 months ago
The name of the song is Murderin' Blues.
ssurfcity 9 months ago
@LTCM1994 the black one
TheInboil 9 months ago
anyone know/ wanna guess what kinda amp that is?
TheInboil 9 months ago
@LTCM1994 The one on the right.
Danabl 9 months ago
This is the Blues, raw and pure, the way it's supposed to be!
rmurbach1961 9 months ago
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I had no idea there was footage to this !
Check out Kenny Brown, Danny Lancaster, Alvin Youngblood Hart at North Mississippi Hill Co. Picnic....Jimmy Reed tribute.DL on Vocal, guitar....
Kenny Brown just tore it up at the 100th yr B-day Mr. Robert Johnson in Greenwood
MS. He was SO good !
Polly6761 9 months ago
I had no idea the was footage to this !
Check out Kenny Brown, Danny Lancaster, Alvin Youngblood Hart at North Mississippi Hill Co. Picnic....Jimmy Reed tribute.DL on Vocal, guitar....
Kenny Brown just tore it up at the 100th yr B-day Mr. Robert Johnson in Greenwood
MS. He was SO good !
Polly6761 9 months ago
@Polly6761 Thanks, I will check out the performers you listed.
Danabl 9 months ago
This is exactly why whites can't shout/play the blues, just cut-rate imitators.
richone99 10 months ago
@richone99
My friend what about Rory Gallagher and the ablino wonder that is Johnny Winter? Joe Bonamassa is getting along fine too. While not exactly blues you might try Dock Boggs as well, pretty polly is fantastic.
nottoberemembered 10 months ago
@nottoberemembered they suck baby
TheSatanas666 10 months ago
@nottoberemembered Gallager is passable euro-imitation, just not the real deal. But, I wll add that Winter's albinoism (i.e. skin color) is the closest thing to the African-American experience.
richone99 10 months ago
@richone99
I don't think Gallagher is an imitation, just different style. His blues had a lot more rock to it. Its not a matter of imitating, I mean Rory would destroy these guys on the guitar but that doesn't make him better unless you prefer guitar and you obviously prefer this kind of blues, but to call the G man a cut rate imitator is insulting there is no way these guys could imitate Rory after all.
nottoberemembered 10 months ago
@nottoberemembered Well he was Irish. They suffered as the hands of the supremist whites, the British.
Not to say he couldn't play guitar, he just did not have the authenticity of the Afro-American delta bluesman.
As far as playing better than these black men at their own music is a big leap in delusion.
richone99 10 months ago
@richone99 I'm not saying Rory is better then these men at their own music, Rory played his own music, he wasn't imitating this but played his own style and he always had great respect for the roots of the blues doing nice covers here and there. I'm not deluded, we're just argueing past each other. Rory was a very humble man and he had his own authenticity.
Oh and speaking of Irish I nearly forgot Gary Moore on my white blues players who don't suck, again though more rock than blues.
nottoberemembered 10 months ago
@richone99 I hear ya , but it is something I love Soooo much, I just have to give it my best and help keep it alive.
Polly6761 8 months ago
@richone99 I hear ya, but I love it sooooo much I can't help but sing from my heart, while trying to help people know about this music........best wishes......
Polly6761 8 months ago
god damn it this is beautiful...
TravisHY 10 months ago
Interstingly, at 1.07 you can see both guitarists and neither looks like he's playing the slide guitar solo - both look like they're playing rhythm.
nickchaser 11 months ago
That's the Gretsch Corvette Nighthawk bequethed to his son, Sam Carr.I witnessed the sale of it.Sam sold it to John Montague owner of the Memphis Music Museum.He had Rod Norwood (a vintage guitar collector) restore it in 1992.He didn't do a lot to the cosmetics of it, so it still had Nighthawk's mark on it.I saw Rod play it.The same tone...it was eerie! I guess it's still around Tennessee.
andy131481 11 months ago
THANKS!
hometoeli 11 months ago
Animal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
titotrinanes 1 year ago
I think this maxwell street was like a "red light" street too many people dancin with the malted milk in head O_o
BordiniBlues85 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing a great part of my childhood growing up in Chicago in the 60's. Thanks so much.
elangelphoto 1 year ago
The blues do want to make you groove ! doughboy
islamsuxs 1 year ago
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Great video. In the CD Live on Maxwell Street 1964 the song is called Cheating And Lying Blues.
Greetings from Argentina
traflag06 1 year ago
Great video. In the CD Live on Maxwell Street 1964 the song is called Cheating And Lying Blues.
Greetings from Argentina
traflag06 1 year ago
Wow - that is the real deal. Thank you for posting. I hadn't heard Robert Nighthawk before. And the scene on Maxwell St. just does my heart good. While I tip my hat to Nighthawk, I'll add that I saw Magic Slim at the Silver Dollar in Toronto a few years back and that man is the real deal too! Don't get to see Blues like this that often!
SRutchinski 1 year ago
Robert Nighthawk also recorded under the name Robert Lee Mccoy. This whole performance can be bought on cd. At least it could as something like "Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell Street" . It is outstanding the whole way through but this had always been my fave song on it. I don't know if accurate but I did hear on time that he played Muddy Water's wedding reception. I figure with all the musicians in Chicago at that time that's quite a compliment.
Wuddymaters13 1 year ago
RAW BLUES ROOTS! AWESOME
BordiniBlues85 1 year ago
When I think of Maxwell Street I really tear up..this was a place you could shop, listen to blues and of course the Chicken Man..what memories..thanks for sharing..
Blues personified...
elisa412 1 year ago
Great music and the lady dancing at 1:33 is so sentual,, wow .Hot or what :)
corvettesR1 1 year ago
whATEVER he is doing at 2:00 is amazing..that sound
bronenalladin 1 year ago
This is the real shit man gotta love it he he
SirFrancisBurton 1 year ago
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This is absolutely awesome. They just don't play the Blues like this anymore!
rmurbach1961 1 year ago
This is absolutely awesome. They just don't play the Blues like this anymore!
rmurbach1961 1 year ago
This is my favourite blues recording ever. The guitar always brings tears to my eyes and nothing else has ever done that.
Zootoid 1 year ago
This is great... street parties suck nowadays
busessuck1 1 year ago
Name of the song: Cheating and Lying Blues on the Live on Maxwell Street 1964 album. Robert played at Muddy Water's first wedding in Mississippi--the party got so rowdy that the floor caved in! Robert had talent that few can compare with and played regularly on Maxwell Street when he was in Chicago. Hard to get him into a studio though as he preferred the street.
sugarmamaaa 1 year ago
Thank you for this great post!
watchinshadows 1 year ago
what song was this?
willwelsh816 1 year ago
@willwelsh816 - the song is called Eli's Place.
Danabl 1 year ago
@Danabl it's actually called "Murdering Blues" Also covered by Johnnie Winter
tommyau2006 1 year ago
@Danabl actually the song is called murdering blues
dimitris2005 1 year ago
@Danabl It's actually called Cheatin' and Lyin' Blues. Thanks for this incredible post. I always loved this footage. They put bits of it in some videos on the blues but I've never seen the entire thing.
sharkabilly 1 year ago
@Danabl or Murderin' Blues (as J.Winter called his version)
PeccJeden 1 year ago
@Danabl wrong.. the song call Cheating and lying blues
BordiniBlues85 11 months ago
@Danabl - It's actually more widely known as Murdering Blues. Johnny Winter probably does the definitive cover of it.
chiron8839 8 months ago
@willwelsh816 Name of the song: Cheating and Lying Blues on the Live on Maxwell Street 1964 album.
sugarmamaaa 1 year ago
@willwelsh816 depends on which album you listen to. It's also referred to as "Cheatin and Lying Blues"
sugarmamaaa 9 months ago
play it long loud and proud cause aint nuthin so good as the blues
familytunes1 1 year ago
Yes, it was great, I thought it would always be there on a Sunday morning. I was one of the lucky ones who was there.
Danabl 1 year ago
How cool, thanks Man for posting this, I got the album. Imagine, strollin' down the street on a warm day, hearing these guys play, right there on the side walk like that, wow I'll tell ya, I might just have stayed there all' day! Imagine that's just on that one day, it might be Hound Dog Taylor or Muddy Waters on another day,......cool. (oo)
OlBlueshound 1 year ago
Aw, play this loud, PLAY IT LOUD!!
worotan 1 year ago
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This is a FUCKING VIDEO!!!! YES!!!!!!!!
mcnowski 1 year ago
Now that's down home blues!!!!
barbequebobmaglinte 1 year ago
THATS TONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jwjones1 1 year ago
Robert Nighthawk plays on a stoop at Maxwell Street Market in Chicago, 1964. From the marvelous film "And This Is Free" which documents a typical Sunday at Chicago's oldest (now defunct) outdoor market.
mrpeanuckle 1 year ago
@osvelhos
wha'd 'he' say??
DAREALAndyRampage 1 year ago
nothing like good ol' blues
teogrimo 1 year ago
A pity the camera didn't capture that scorching slide solo!
lordkoos 1 year ago
if you haven't read deep blues you don't know shit about the blues. Robert nighthawk has an c.d called bricks in my pillow Do your-selfs a favor and get both
ArtofDreaming1 1 year ago
@ArtofDreaming1
Hell yeah on the Deep Blues. It's shorter than most of the other blues books I've read and yet far more concise and purely unbiased information. Like I said, any of you interested in the blues should get this book--they run anywhere from about 50 cents to $3.00 on Half.com if you look at the right time.
JSGuitar80 1 year ago
thanks,
for this vidéo
many thanks
18hopkins 1 year ago
heard this an album issued as 'Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell St' 25 years ago. This was the first time I realised there was some dude there with a camera as well, either Leadbetter or Bloomfield. Nighthawk was top drawer. It wasn't the passing round the hat thing Nighthawk didn't like about Chicago though. He just didn't like it period. He preferred the south.
callippo99 1 year ago
I heard this an album issued as 'Robert Nighthawk Live on Maxwell St' 25 years ago. This was the first time I realised there was some dude there with a camera as well. Nighthawk was top drawer. He didn't like Chicago though. He preferred the south.
callippo99 1 year ago
This is like the same blood, if you not feel it, you're not person thats the blues.
YoGroucho 1 year ago
Damn! That's some good blues.
liferev 1 year ago
It's amazing that this footage exists at all. Was this taken by Mike Bloomfield, anyone know? I know he interviewed Nighthawk.
lordkoos 1 year ago
The Best !!!
blues999z 1 year ago
According to Robert Palmer: Nighthawk taught many people in Chicago before he left to roam the country. Most important among these was Muddy Waters (who, Palmer maintains, rarely played Maxwell because he thought himself too important to "pass the hat & that bullshit"--one of his only Maxwell gigs was a promotion in front of a prominent Jewish-owned store for an early Little Walter Jacobs record). Yes, Deep Blues is a great book. Buy it on Half.com for like 10 cents, seriously! Do it.
JSGuitar80 1 year ago
this is the Devil's music!!!
bigdog5994 1 year ago 2
I don't care what anyone says, on this day in 1964, Robert Nighthawk was the king of the blues!
sanQ 1 year ago
opa alla och
panprank 1 year ago
Robert Nighthawk is superb :) He started up his music in St. Louis and moved to Chicago in the 1930's. He was one of the best!!!
allaboard70 1 year ago
this must be looped eternally. thanx.
TheSecretmuseum 1 year ago
@TheSecretmuseum I've listened to it four times already, and am planning on much more. Amazing!
sanQ 1 year ago
yessah
BigBishop1 1 year ago
I even saw Hound Dog Taylor down there in about early 75. He had a Swede with him I guess. Man, I remember one nite in '73 going to the Burning Spear to hear Albert King and then afterwords going down to Maxwell Street Polish Sausage. Digthis, it was about 3 below zero and there were about 5 of us fools standin' in line at 2:00am waiting for our Polish Sausage Fix.
wesrace1 1 year ago
pretty much the ultimate blues sound, no?
2quundar 1 year ago
One of THE greatest! See what the Blues does to the ladies when its played right ;-)
Espanadadude 1 year ago
WOW !!!!!!
pontepolentepontepi 1 year ago
This is the blues, nothing but the blues.
lobizoon1 1 year ago
que buen blues, perfeccion
victoralfredoc 1 year ago
This is part of the hour long documentary AND THIS IS FREE. It is finally available on DVD (GOT MINE!) and well worth owning.
Of course they killed Maxwell Street. It was too cool to live. Watch the movie.
kpls72 1 year ago
How the hell did he make that sound at 1:55-2:30 ? Never heard slide like that, wow!
Catsincages 1 year ago
@Catsincages I was wondering the same thing, that part of the video seems fishy to me.
Kals33 1 year ago
This tune wqs originally done/written by Doctor Clayton. Check it out-Nighthawk's version gives it 100 proof octane!!
blueguitar69 2 years ago
Maxwell street had to be an amazing place
revenez 2 years ago
Whenever I fret about the overload of information in today's world, I just remind myself that seeing Robert Nighthawk in action wouldn't have been possible otherwise.
dukeofdeco 2 years ago
Whoah Yeah !*#!
Truly fantastic to see this monumental blues-man in action, I've never seen any film of him before. Those slide licks get me every time.
It's a shame that the editors saw fit to chop up the performance though, as in reality this number is 4 minutes and 58 seconds long. If you listen carefully you can hear where the edits are... Perhaps the most obvious splicing can be heard in the slide break at the end which has a large chunk missing in the middle.
TheSpottytoad 2 years ago
this is so absolutely fantastic. Robert Nighthawk has the most amazing tone and vibe.Been listening to this record for years and had no idea there was any video. jeez I love this.
telebasher 2 years ago
Spine tingling licks and original dirty dancing at 1:35 Yep, '64 looked like a better year than most!
Threeload 2 years ago
So that's what a block party is. Robert Nighthawk sends shivers down your spine.
MAJORSNODGRASS 2 years ago
This says it all, essential blues great!
jayfarmer 2 years ago
Now that's a block party. 5*****
Thirsty58 2 years ago
Amazing footage, so genuine, pure blues feeling.
TheSunRecords 2 years ago 2
I love this video, his guitar tone is so fat and raw.
PeteyHop 2 years ago 5
Pity that the cameraman completely skips the guitar solos!
lordkoos 2 years ago 2
the women dancing in 1:36 is sexy as hell
MrJld123 2 years ago 4
HELL YEA!!!!!
torrity 2 years ago
nice jt 30 mic
harmonicabill 2 years ago
素晴らしい！
bluehawkhiro 2 years ago
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Different Formats Supported for this Video at W W W . 50U . ORG
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If you weren't there, you don't know, so you can't say! FUCK OFF!!!
augie699 2 years ago
I was there, seen these musicians, were you?
Danabl 2 years ago 7
@Danabl Haha..."I was there"! Love it.
cedricleecason 1 year ago
This is a Doc Clayton song.Had a hit with it about 1941.
steinsteel 2 years ago
I've been at the 'new' Maxwell Street. Lost all of it's charm. More like most swap meets and now & then a musician may show up, I don't know how it will be in the summer of 2010. I used to go the 'old' Maxwell Street in the 70's & 80's - was quite an experience, I loved it.
Danabl 2 years ago
@Danabl
The Maxwell Street of the 70s and 80s was a shell of what was there in the 50s and early 60s. I was born in that neighborhood (Just north of Roosevelt).
utahaztec 1 year ago
Marvelous. As a boy going to Maxwell street in the 80's, very similar shit was going on. Only clothes had changed. When I left for college, my mother sent me clippings of legal battles over the fate of Maxwell street. She knew how I loved the place. On a train from New Orleans to Detroit last summer, I rode through the neighborhood where this historical market once thrived. There appears to be a resurrected version of the market along a stretch of nearby overpass. Anyone got any info on that?
jackhincham 2 years ago
Did you see how lewdly they were dancing in the streets?
TiggerOaks 2 years ago
awesome!!!!!!!
BordiniBlues85 2 years ago
ooh baby. Gotta love those Chi Blues.
And it's footage of the old Maxwell street.
Makes me wanna roll down and go get a polish at Jim's Original. Cruisin to some Muddy Waters and those blues.
gnerd 2 years ago
What an enormous talent this cat was. There is another great song on this same album entitled "The Time Have Come". Sure would like to hear that one :)
rievans57 2 years ago
Great Catch Of The Day... RAW SOUL
my58chevy 2 years ago
Absolutely awesome
bernie910 2 years ago
The Chicago Blues,...yeah!
ruotze 2 years ago
The explicite version of Hey Joe. But damn this is awesome, really soulful guitar playing.
nielsnielsniels 2 years ago
Raw Hard Out Blues...Lovin it:-)
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09freedomlife09 2 years ago
I believe this is a tune by Pat Hare.
Blues7Ways 2 years ago
It's actually a Doc Clayton tune, and both Pat Hare and Nighthawk recorded it...Nighthawk was around before Hare- but this video was him after he was rediscovered, I think.
The part of his solo @ 1:55 is some of the most gutbucket s^&* you'll ever hear.
YoungBlood335 2 years ago
Pat Hare took it a little to seriously. He recorded "I'm Gonna Murder My Woman", then did. Spent the rest of his life in Joliet.
bfrank531 2 years ago
I knew the song in that version but did not know that there was film material.
Do you have JIMMY REED films, too? There is only one from 1975 on youtube. But at least 2 other do exist from 1964 on 68.
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2009framat 2 years ago
Man, thats incredible. Great playing and what a voice!!
rwlane 2 years ago 9
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He said it! "THATS INCREDIBLE!"
Any way ONE Can Get his mitts on this film??
DAREALAndyRampage 1 year ago
Never heard this guy until i read about him in an article written about a founding member of Fleetwood Mac. This song is as good as any Chicago blues gets!!!
namnoiz 2 years ago 2
i worked at halsted and cermac rd. maxwell st was jumpin in 60-70"Sgood food-good music and good people.Now i look at it and say---GOOD GRIEF !!!
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changlyqbl 2 years ago
Hard blues, the real shit. Unlike a lot of this recycled/repacked contemporary blues one hears today. All sounds the same. One lick of this and you know it's Robert Nighthawk - a baaad man.
Cheryi812 2 years ago
This is awesome!!
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gomezlobus 2 years ago
Incredible video. We had to move from this neighborhood in 1963 ( a few blocks north on Roosevelt and Peoria) when the city knocked down several blocks to build the Circle Campus, now known as UIC.
I can still remember these great Blues musicians playing outdoors at Maxwell Street.
utahaztec 2 years ago
ahhh the blues,real blues men can surely appreciate this,the heart and soul of american music.African american culture surely has made a profound contribution to the development of rock and roll and other forms of contemporary music.
MrCaribbean 2 years ago
the footage has been mixed up a bit , I have seen the same footage of the people dancing but its not to this tune its been slowed down , they were dancing to a faster blues tune like maxwell street jam from robert Nighthawk.
andygammy 2 years ago
Yeah, you're right. Danabl has taken the footage from this flic and slowed it down. It actually works pretty well for a youtube video because this dancing shit is fucking great but it's to some pretty standard 8 bar blues in the movie, and what's shown during this song is clips of shady motherfuckers hawking some jewerly on maxwell st. Really, it's a good edit, though a little off because the dancing, clapping and air guitar fit the other scene and not this.
prfit 2 years ago
at 1.:36..the lead guitarist is playing a slide lick with just fingers..i believe it !!( grew up in Chicago in 50's and 60's). Maxwell Street was scary and cool ..all at once. such a mix of people and sights !
Wacokid48 3 years ago
Lots of his playing is like that: can't tell what's slide and what's just bends. But it's all some of the heaviest playing of all time.
lits 3 years ago
Nice!
mojogypsy 3 years ago
Spectacular tone but I wish they'd have kept the camera in real time on the players instead of showing all the bullshit stuff.
Barnekkid 3 years ago
So good it's supernatural, like something from BEYOND, just BEYOND. The boxset of THIS IS MAXWELL STREET is terrific, and young Mike B's interview with Robert is the icing on the blues cake. Thank Ian Talcroft for the resurrection of this stuff.
kpls72 3 years ago
cryn`out loud,that slide will get u up off
yo ass me no questions and i`ll tell u no lies
eflatb 3 years ago
¡Pero qué maravilla!
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OtisSpain 3 years ago
this guy could rip out your soul...
foolintherain116 3 years ago 2
Whooooohooooooo beotch shlap my ass and call me kraZeyyyy
jjelaso123 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing!
Hofwolf 3 years ago
Thank you for keeping the beauty of Maxwell Street alive. Thank you, thank you!!!!
myomy420 3 years ago
Deep, DEEP, Deep blues!
jp28hc 3 years ago 2
Who are the other musicians , Please ?
Bumblebee38 3 years ago