Bad Blues - Carolina bluesman Baby Tate

Here's the original version of "Bad Blues" by Baby Tate, recorded in 1961.
In the spoken introduction of the song he explains what gives him the blues and what he then does...smart advice!

I first heard this instrumental when I was about 15 years old.
I found the lp called "The Blues" in our local library and it has several tracks by Baby Tate. His music left a very profound impression on me and inspired me to start to play the guitar...and after many years of fooling around I finally recorded my own version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06nOZES084
I also uploaded some lessons on this tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnr98Xc--u8
TABLATURE
I tabbed this song out (intro and ALL the verses) so if you don't want to listen to my explanations get the tab (you'll learn faster and more easely)
Go to my website
http://www.daddystovepipe.com
and click on the Paypal logo.
Cost : €7.50 (about $10)
PROMO !
If you order the tab you get a free bonus, tab to another great slow blues in E with lotsa jazz influences
Here's the link to that song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba-k58x3lmE

The music is accompanied by all the photo's I have of Baby Tate :

1. 0.00
cover of the cd "The Blues" recorded by Samuel Charters in 1961. The music of this cd was used in a short documentary film with the same title. I've never seen the documentary, you can only see it in the library of a North Carolina university.
The cd has also great tracks by Furry Lewis and Pink Anderson and is still available at www.folkways.si.edu

2. 0.10
Photo of Baby Tate on the backcover of a Trix lp called "Medicin Showman - Peg Leg Sam", a harmonical ace, tap dancer (yes) and raconteur.
Here's a sample of his art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OciGRpwJfkI
Baby Tate accompanied Sam on several tracks of that lp.

3. 0.20
Cover of Baby Tate's only available cd on the Prestige Bluesville label, recorded in 1961 (BT died of a heart attack in 1970)

4. 0.30
Photo from the book "Crying for the Carolines" by Bruce Bastin. A great little book on Carolina Blues.

5. 0.40
Photo from the book "Blues Faces" by Samuel Charters
This photo was taken after a disturbing scene with a local sheriff...you'll have to read the book to know why.

6. 0.50
same as 5

7. 0.60
same as 4.

8. 1.10
photo of a cover of a Blind Boy Fuller lp. BBF influenced all Carolina bluesmen

9. 1.20
cover of an lp called "Out In The Cold Again"

10. 1.30
Same as 2.

11. 1.40
photo from the book "Red River Blues" by Bruce Bastin

12. 1.50
cover of an lp called "Walking Blues"

13. 1.60
cottonfields

14. 2.10
same as 5. but with his worried looking wife at his side

The rest of the photo's are repeats

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• blues
• instrumental
• fingerpicking
• baby
• tate
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[bluesman690]

Where is Baby Tate from? What part of Carolina?

[daddystovepipe]

@bluesman690

Greenville

[UkeeDreamer]

Groovey.  Got the Blues man. Thanks,

Loon

[Kals33]

@RaNdOmHigHfIvEs You shut your mouth before I dislike this. >:C

[baldyglasses]

Great one

[RaNdOmHigHfIvEs]

Not one dislike......EVERYONE LOVES THE BLUES!

[moonshack]

awesome



[515742617000027]

@daddystovepipe cool. thats like 15 minutes from where i live!

[spider7431]

thats what its all about

[bluesman690]

@daddystovepipe SC cause there is one in NC too!

[AngrySofaPictures]

I was researching different types of blues about a year ago. I came across this song and absolutely fell in love with it. I still come back and listen to it to this day.