Uploaded by JTgrimteam on Jul 20, 2010
In My Opinion ; One Of the Best And Most Genuine Musical Pieces Ever Recorded. Mississippi John Was an Amazing Musician And Human Being.
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I don't play and I owe him a debt.
"He could play a guitar just like ringin' a bell".
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good old southern music, we got some of the best in every genre : )
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I wish had a granda like MJH to tell me stories like this :(
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@joebstarsurfer fkn hell, what a version, he was "a desperator", A DESPERATOR, HA, "..he was a mean....", a mean MF.., couldnt say that on record then..... fkn hell, what a song, fingerpicking, shitkicking, drinking, gunfighting, taking the consequences, standing at the gallows, standing way up high... fkn hell...
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@yzetta "...he was a mean.....", a mean mf, couldnt say that on record then...
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@theshowmecanuck The graphic in the video that says 'In Walked Salk O'Lee' is from the graphic story about the True Story first published in the Saint Louis Riverfront Times on Jun 27 2007.
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The song Stagger Lee is based on a real murder in St Louis on Xmas night 1895 by pimp Lee Sheldon aka Stagger Lee. Hurt's monolog was made up, except Lee did shoot Billy Lyons after a fight when BL grabbed SL's hat. BL didn't have a wife or kids. The real story is well doc'd. Lee died prison 1911. Song first pub'd 1910: by John Lomax.
VERY COOL free graphic story GOOGLE: RIVERFRONT TIMES STORY OF STAGGER LEE.
THUMBS UP if you want others to see this comment and find the story download too.
3 weeks ago 4
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Some people love to clutch their peals over how violent rap is, but hearing this and other folk & blues songs tells me that "gangsta" types have been around a long time and are nothing truly new.
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Why hasn't this got more views? :s
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prs1093 1 year ago 9
Wonderful stuff. You're right -- he was one of the best. I got to see him play a couple of times back in the mid-60s and it was a real treat. The sad part is the amazing records he made back in the late 20s fell into obscurity, and he spent most of his life unknown to the music world until a handful of collectors went and found him and brought him back to the stage and recording studio for the last several years of his life. Almost everyone who fingerpicks guitar owes him a considerable debt.
CroatAndNettles 1 year ago 7