Uploaded by synapsecracklepop on May 23, 2009
This is from the "Lomax - First Recordings"
Fortunately Fred was alive in the fifties and sixties during the renaissance of Folk Blues, so that his talent could be recorded for posterity, for us.
"In the spoken introduction to the Capital Blues Collection "I Don't Play No Rock 'N' Roll," Mississippi Fred Mc Dowell says, " My type of blues, I play it with a bottleneck, you understand, see - rib what come out of a steak." Mississippi Fred later switched to a glass bottleneck because "it get's more clear sound out of it.""
http://www.themusicarchive.com/drboom/fame/mcdowell.htm
Thank you, Fred McDowell
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This has got to be one of the greatest blues songs ever
2 years ago 24
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Good Lord! That there is SOUL music, straight from his heart to yours. Pure.
2 years ago 15
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I drive by his grave often but stopped today for a visit. This is North Mississippi Blues. It's a little different from Delta Blues and Memphis Blues and not quite as well known. Broken glass bottle neck slide was his favorite.
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As far as the tuning goes, he's really low - C# or C for sure (sorry can't find my tuner). I love those deep low sounds. For some good raw slide blues, btw, check "Rosetta West - Underground."
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@ben13rown I think, but i'm not sure, tune is a open D
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@ben13rown it sounds like he is playing in open D but a fullstep down
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i shoo gotz da blues tanite, yes lawd !
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@pastiestatheist yup he also uses this guitar work for "fred's worried blues", and "everybody's got me down"<--which has a really cool monologue on the blues at the beginning
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deadly.
7 months ago 2
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Sure sounds like it to me.
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Isn't this the same arrangement as Goin Down to the River?
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this is fuckin amazing- anyone know the tuning by any chance?
ben13rown 1 year ago 6
I'm not a musician, sorry.
yeah, it's the real deal, isn't it?
synapsecracklepop 1 year ago