Uploaded by Hvdlinde on Dec 31, 2010
Tunica Motel is a fine example of swamp blues, the trademark of Tony Joe
White. It's from "10 jaar het beste uit 2 meter sessies" (Varagram 1997). 2
meter sessies, a dutch radioprogramme, asked musicans to perform an unplugged version of one of their
songs.
Tony Joe White chose Tunica Motel, a song about a man who escapes the city,
drives to Memphis to find his tranquillity in a motel which bears the same name
as the song. At daytime he finds his comfort and rest but at nights he is
haunted by regret and thoughts about the founding father of the blues Robert
Johnson and his reason to sing. He reputedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads.
Will he ever sleep? Can he resist the alluring Crossroads? Will he walk the
path of virtue or will he go astray and fall into evil ways? Tony Joe White
puts us at the Crossroads with Tunica Motel and whilst playing his gritty,
dirty and muggy blues, he's waiting for answers. So do I.
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All Comments (11)
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Very nice! Thanks.
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Nice!
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Saving Abel 's
Mississippi Moonshine
on UTUBE...tells it all
Tony or Joe or White but not Sue !
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Robert Johnson was playing near Greenwood during the depression a harmless flirt he was enthralled with his friend a beauty who came to hear him play. Sonny Williamson who was with him said, friend your drinking to much. Naa ! So he continued to drink a large amount that night. Next day he fell ill and over the next three days he got worse finally going into convulsions. He stopped breathing & died. His symptoms were consistent with acute alcohol poisoning. The whiskey was moonshine.
Anthony
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In his better songs he tells a story. This is a good example, you can picture the whole scene.
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Fine. - E
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heal-all
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Tony Joe rules :)
Great work
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JDoubleOP 1 year ago
@JDoubleOP Txs for favouriting my video of Tony Joe White!
Hvdlinde 1 year ago