Robert Petway - Catfish Blues (1941)

Very little is known about Robert Petway. He recorded only sixteen songs between 1941-1942 and there is only one photo available of him.
But this song, "Catfish Blues" is an important part of blues history !
For example Muddy Water based his "Rollin' Stone" hit on this recording and you can hear it.

I hope owners of the rights want to see this as an honor to this artist who plays with just wonderful blues-feeling!
And same goes to these random photos of other blues artists, which I have found from net.
My hope is that everyone can just listen to this fine musician. Enjoy!
It's so nice, that you can still buy these recordings on CD, mine is an old vinyl album!

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• Catfish
• Blues
• Robert
• Petway
• blues

[lastrada52]

Read the above blurb about Muddy Waters' Rollin' Stone. When a white singer (Elvis P.) performs old blues songs he's accused of having "stole" it. When Black performers (Muddy) use something from another Black performer (Petway) it's called "based on." Sounds like terminology a wily publisher of poor black blues singers would use. This is why an Elvis gets blamed when he sings a blues number & publishers don't pay the original Black artist. It's a shame we just can't enjoy their art.

[cojwat]

@lastrada52 __Sorry, I don’t get your point or I don’t want to get – except the last sentence which I really agree.

English is not my language, I just try to use it, but in this case I think that I understood what I wrote.

And I don’t have anything to do with music industry. I just love the blues and many other kind of music.

Maybe your message is so hard to understand for me, because we don’t have such a “black/white” history here in Scandinavia. And God, I’m proud about that.

Yours Cojwat

[jipidibipity]

Thankyou. Who is taking the money for his songs nowadays for when I buy this single?

[oscy360]

this should have a million views!!!!

[labelmejay]

@cojwat good answer my friend

[gitfiddlejim1]

Talkin about Catfish, and the many who did it, Bobo Slim Thomas, guitar, Sonny Boy Williamson harp, Leonard Ware bass,recorded Catfish @ Scotts Radio Service Jackson Ms July 24th 1951 for the Trumpet label.

[Glaeken1961]

This is trance. Just wonderful, so free, so honest. It's like a satellite signal, overcoming all temporal boundaries, all geography.

[lastrada52]

@administrator1037 - One other thing -- you and I are getting further and further away from the subject -- Robert Petway. Let's not waste YouTube space and the poster cojwat's time with our selfish words. Out of respect for Mr Petway let's stick to the subject administrator1037 -- or let it go....

[lastrada52]

Redneck? Good thing my black friends don't know you. I'm the furthest thing from redneck there is. You've got lot of nerve judging me without knowing me. Shows a bit of prejudice & ignorance. No matter what I said in my post -- I never called or accused YOU of anything. I don't make judgment calls unseen. If Public Enemy weren't racist -- they never would've said anything about Elvis in that manner. Professionals keep it about the music not the person.

[administrator1037]

@lastrada52 LOL! Someone called Public Enemy Racist. That's as good as a redneck confession.

[lastrada52]

@administrator1037 - Public Enemy's very lyric reads racist to my ears. But Elvis is still talked about, influential & sells millions 34 years after his death. Public Enemy is a footnote in music. Important to those who liked them -- which never numbered anywhere as high as Elvis. If you don't like Elvis -- fine. Muhammad Ali, James Brown & Sammy Davis Jr. did & that's enough for me. What Public Enemy writes/thinks doesn't matter when blacks like them loved him. Period!