Statesboro Blues*Willie McTell*Blue Riders*gtr harp drums

The Blue Riders:
Ben Andrews guitars
Tim Jarvis drums and percussion
Hugh Feeley harmonicas
The 71 other session youtube clips are at...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tymjar&search=Search

or just say hi, at:
http://www.myspace.com/timothyjarvis
"For over 20 years Ben has been playing the clubs & festivals along the Eastern seaboard of the USA. His picking on a variety of guitars ~ 12 string, Dobro, 6 string ~ is awesome!! He always gives a passionate display of virtuoso playing, whether it is the ragtime styles of Blind Blake or Willie McTell, the powerful driving rhythms of Huddie Ledbetter or the delicate slide of Mississippi John Hurt he just oozes authenticity. His rich voice perfectly compliments his playing. It is rare to get a combination of superb guitar, stunning vocals & natural swing but with Ben Andrews you get just that Ben also provides music scores for film, TV & radio. He has appeared at major festivals throughout the USA & Europe & has performed with many of the legends of blues including: - Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Brownie McGhee, John Hammond Jnr. and Robert Lockwood Jnr."
From: www.bluefrontbluesroom.org/Artist%20biogs%

I guess that in the early 1970s there was no Blind Willie McTell estate for the Allman Brothers to have payed copyrights to anyway...somebody was singin' the blues.
This song swung hard; bouncing along, playing the drums with the brushsticks was a ball. If you like this, check out Ben Andrews Blue Rider Trio doing some Robert Johnson / Kokomo Arnold, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Howlin' Wolf , Thomas A. Dorsey, Rev. Gary Davis, etc.
If you like any of the harmonica or greats of country / folk blues artists, whether Mississippi Delta , Ragtime or Piedmont fingerstyle acoustic guitar: Henry "Mule" Townsend, Dr. Ross, Ramblin' Thomas, Sam Chatmon , Tampa Red, Scrapper Blackwell, Willie Doss, Doc Reese, Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red, Earl Hooker, Etta Baker, Elizabeth Cotten, Jesse Fuller, Son House. If you like any of the country folk blues artists, whether Mississippi delta , or just fingerstyle acoustic guitar ... please give this a listen:
Mr. McTell´s music encompasses ¨Eastern Seaboard/Piedmont, with lighter, bouncier rhythms and a ragtime influence; and Deep South, with its greater emphasis on intense rhythms and short, repeated music phrases¨
A little history of the Virginia, Piedmont style:
"In the mid-1920s, a form of guitar music evolved from African-American culture that echoed the soul and personality of African-American life. The style evolved from "rags," played with banjos, fiddles and percussion. As the guitar replaced the banjo as the lead instrument and songs were picked from the strings rather than strummed, an energetic voice emerged that began to sweep through the Southeast, and it was called Carolina blues, or Piedmont blues. Piedmont blues differed from the tradition blues that lulled a sad, longing story and picked up the pace, peppy enough for people to dance to it. The sound, because it was played with guitar and After World War II, the electric guitar began to replace the acoustic guitar, and the blues picked up an influence from the 1950 rock 'n roll."
Alan Lomax , George Higgs and more at
http://www.unctv.org/webcast/music/fw_piedmont_blues.html
A world of thanks to a MAJOR inspiration of mine...David "Panama" Francis. I think Phish/Greatful Dead, Taj Mahal and Keb Mo listener might give this clip a listen.
Cheers to THE 100 CLUB, London.
Thanks to Thomson, Georgia for the Annual Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival and Bob Dylan, who memorialized him in a song.
Blue Riders acoustic blues trio recorded in 1995
Here´s a doff of the hat to Warner Williams and Jay Summerour
The Blue Riders recorded in Virginia, U.S.A., in 1995
- tymjar

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[bluesmanjones]

This is great. I like your version better than the Allman Bros. That's two in a row I've really liked since I stumbled across you guys on the tube. I guess I'll have to check out the rest of your videos now. I really dig the harp on this one. Very nice.

[tymjar]

Glad you like the Rider's sound. Find 2 hours of Blue Riders clips, at youtube searchwords: tymjar blue riders

[JohnDEly]

Just for the record, the Allman Bros. led all their sets in the Duane Allman era with this song, and they picked it up from Taj Mahal, to whom they indeed gave credit, and the influence of the Taj bottleneck version is self-evident. Georgia would seem to be a place where the delta and the piedmont mix togetherm, eh?

[tymjar]

Finally, an informed youtuber. The, "they", Ben refers to is NOT the Allmans, rather it was the infamously sleezy copyright lawyers in the Capricon Records offices. Artist don't make final decisions about credits; those are legal decisions = $ must be payed. Disastoursly mismanaged, Capricon was shortlived.

Blasting the lawyer/liars, Duane explained his not having knowing the songs full origins(their job to do) in a Melody Maker interview.

[robibm2003]

Dude, Blind Willie was unbelievable. I have an album (LP) by him I bought as a cutout 20 or so years ago and it kicked my ass! He and Lonnie Johnson are two guys the public doesn't really hear about, but you gotta check them out.

The video is hard to watch, but the performance cooks! Nice job, guys!

[tymjar]

This is the old clip. The clip was fixed and re-uploaded many months ago. All 40 are at youtube search: tymjar Blue Riders

[farje1]

All I can say is: bloody brilliant!

[Outlawed1968]

Actually, the Allman Bros copied Taj Mahal's version of Statesboro Blues .....almost lick for lick. The main difference was that they changed keys and added a little bit of an extra intro into it. Duane Allman based alot of his playing style off what he learned from Taj Mahal.

[BluezArt]

Very nice version and  authentic! Good job!

[imnemigre]

Inclined to call ZZ Top pretenders after hearing these guys perform ...

[johnkiene]

The Allman's version is more like Elmore James' version which is from approx. the 1960's...I think.

[harmonicaman12]

@resoblues True Tim is a true MUSICIAN. Historian of the blues and a wonderful human being. PERIOD.

[harmonicaman12]

You are the best fans a band could want, thank you for you comments.

[daishogroup]

GREAT!! This is the blues.

[resoblues]

God a drummer that knows how to play this. Frikin amazing.

[xjoel]

I like thyeir music but not their politics or the comments that followed. The "think" comment that the Allman Bros. didn't give credit is hogwash and for those that think they sould share royalties, then so should the Blue Riders as well as all of the folks on youtube who are stealing his music by listening to it and even downloading it for free.