Uploaded by tiacarroll on Jul 6, 2007
Ma Rainey documentary, video trailor
Prove It On me Blues
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Once again, as in the Rosemary Rainey piece, Tia Carroll's vocal rendition is too modern day, lightweight and weak to be considered classic Ma Rainey blues, which were more heavy and raw, The Washboard Tub Jug Band musicians here are too "city slick," failing to capture that pre-war, rural feeling of the original band captured on Ma's Paramount Records 78 rpm recordings. Ma Rainey-"Dead Drunk Blues"---Gertrude Melissa Pridgett, you is da mother of all the blues dead or alive!!!
4 years ago 3
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hmm... I'm listening to it now and I see what you're saying.
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anyone remember celie's blues?
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From PROVE IT ON ME BLUES
"Went out last night with a crowd of my friends,
They must have been women, 'cause I don't like no men.
It's true I wear a collar and a tie, Make the wind blow all the time
They say I do it, ain't nobody caught me, Sure got to prove it on me. "
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Tia Carroll does nail the Ma Rainey "look," although Tia is prettier than Ma. Rather than to do Ma, Tia is more poised to do a jazz collage of various female blues artists like Ma, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Lucille Hegamin, etc. but in Tia's own voice. Hit this kind of production up for a Public Television Broadcasting special to be shown during one of PBS-TV's fundraisers and you have a new jazz star, Miss Tia Carroll.
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I was surprised to hear the radical change in Ma's voice, starting with the first version of Boweavil Blues, where she is a sweet mezzo-soprano, to her much later re-recording New Boweavil Blues, where Ma is now a heavy contralto and sounds like a man. Both Paramount 78 versions are significant, not only for the blues but in showing Ma's vocal and musical progression during her career as Mother of the Blues.
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I'm guessing 1. it was dream
2. it wasn't REALLY Ma Rainey but someone who had that spirit
3. majesty's a hot mess and acting up
or 4. It really happened
But I love this... and I do want to hear the entire song.. shit
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???? I dont get it. You know Ma has been dead since like the 1930's right? Maybe i missed the joke!
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Wish I could actually hear all of the song!
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Love this.
tel58 4 years ago
Thanks, it was fun. The complete video will be shown at the Oakland International Film Festival on October 24th.
tiacarroll 4 years ago