Josh White - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

Josh White blues guitarist

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Music

Tags:

• blues
• guitar
• fingerpicking
• clapton
• duet

[frg8526]

Wow that was great!!! His daughter is a very good singer.

[JRobson1955]

Glad you liked it. The 1st time I saw (and heard it ) It blew my mind. It's a lot of fun to play!

[John55son]

I saw Josh in the winter of '63 in El Paso. Had a chance to actually sit and talk with him and ended up driving him and his bass player to the airport. I actually strummed his 0021NY Martin. Then saw him twice in the winter of '65 in Detroit and howdied him after the performances. He's playing his Guild Josh White model which is now in the hands of a Michigan man--or so I've been led to believe. Elijah Wald's JOSH WHITE: SOCIETY BLUES is the best bio of Josh that I've read.

[dojasak707]

very special recording. 

[John55son]

@bostonteabagger71739 Not trying to one up you but in the interest of sharing--a college professor who knew I loved Josh passed away and left me Josh's four record 78 album of Ballads and BLues. Decca A-447. I don't really play them. Too precious to risk. I also have a ten inch lp of his I got at a thrift shop. Amazing what people discard--or maybe it was their way of passing it on to someone like me. Cheers.

[John55son]

@cantorgasma So Soon in the Morning's disc info is:

JOSH WHITE SINGS BALLADS-BLUES

ELECTRA 114

1957

It's one of my favorites too. I think it is out on CD.

[sawabojo]

@John55son that must be a special memory im sure

[aussiebaron]

As a struggling piano player early '60's, Josh White and Charlie Byrd were both an inspiration. Still today, i play the keyboard (yamaha tyros) and endeavour to recreate this sound. What a player, what a voice, and what a family..

Although i do remember JW being known as a traditional folk singer in those days.. Now a blues singer of world renown. something special..

Thanks for the technology that provides us all with such magical gems, never to be forgotten..

[cantorgasma]

Absolutely the greatest of the great, a true original. An immortal. I still have all hisLPs from 50+ years ago. Do you have "So Soon inthe Morning"? I can never get tired of it.

[PorroFirst]

@DJRU2 There were beautiful people in the 60's too you know.

[auntiezanne]

Damn. I was 19 when he died. And now that I am 61 I wish to fuck I had listened to him before now. I'd give him a place to stay, food, drink, and a nice bathroom to let him slip and slide with whatever honeys he wanted. What a fantastic, mellow voice he had. I hope when he died he had some idea of how great he was!!