Hammock Blues (Hammer Blues) {Charley Patton}

This is an old blues song that Charlie Patton wrote in the 1920's, he was one of the first bluesmen to ever record and one of the main Pioneers of the blues if not the main founder of blues music as we know it today.

Credit goes out to "Harry's Blues Lyrics Online" for this wonderful info :

Note 1: as the first verse indicates, this song was mis-titled when it was issued by Paramount Records, it should have been titled "Hammock Blues";

Note 2: the state prison in Parchman, Mississippi, whose escapees often wandered into Patton's native Dockery, a Delta plantation town. Parchman was a complex of 15 labor camps covering a large area in Mississippi, a closed society of black men who were offered as "contract" labor to farms, railroads and industries of many sorts, passed around to do labor for the financial benefit of both the contractor and the state who sold them;

Note 3: Bob Lee was the name of one of the steamships operated by the Lee Line of Memphis

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Music

Tags:

• Jesse Matthews
• Charley Patton
• Charlie Patton
• Hammock Blues
• Hammer Blues
• Blues
• Delta
• Slide
• Folk
• Fingerstyle
• Fingerpicking
• Indie
• Unsigned

[Bflatblues55]

Jesse I'd LOVE to hear you sing more blues.... this is outstanding.

[JesseMathews]

That's good because that's my favorite music ;), I specially like Pattons Feel to the blues is absolutely amazing, its kind of hard to understand the words from the bad recordings but the groove and feel of he's music is fantastic.

Thank You for Watching and your kind words! :).

Jesse.

[LillyC68]

Gorgeous singing, Jesse! Straight from the heart! Congratulation and 5*****,

Lilly

[JesseMathews]

Thank you very much Lilly your too kind ! :-)

Jesse.

[TheJinxBlues]

Brilliant! Wonderful vocals - and playing too.

[JesseMathews]

Thanks much obliged :)

[JesseMathews]

Thanks Paul :)

[fendermac]

Great job - very nice indeed.

[JesseMathews]

Thanks man I love charlie patton, you feel the ground shake and the mules working in he's music, the real stuff :)

[JesseMathews]

Your very welcome Rineke :)