Sonny Boy Williamson ll's "I Can't Understand"

An instrumental arrangement of Sonny Boy Williamson II's "I Can't Understand." Arranged and performed by Todd Allen Gates.

My three YouTube channels:

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddGates - my musician channel

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddAllenGates - where I discuss the ideas in my book "Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer" (a dialogue between a Christian proselytizer and a Socratic skeptic)

- http://youtube.com/user/ToddAllenGates2 - where I discuss the ideas in my book "Hunting, Gathering, & Videogames" (such as "Why do we have to work?" and "Why do we have to use money?" and "How should we define 'success'?")

Category:

Music

Tags:

• blues
• harp
• harmonica
• Sonny
• Boy
• Williamson
• Can't
• Understand
• music
• subway
• ToddGates
• ToddAllenGates
• ToddAllenGates2

[greavsie29]

brilliant as always

[ToddGates]

TOO kind, greavsie29, but thank you!

- Todd

[PuzzledDragonVideo]

Great playin' and great natural reverb too.... wow. (As to pypermarru1 - i am so sorry as I accidentally hit the thumbs down when I was aiming at the thumbs up....)

[ToddGates]

@ermis30

> exellent bravo

Thank you!

[ToddAllenGates]

@xneieva

> It is simply a very special and inspired musical moment

Agreed! Sonny Boy Williamson is favorite harpist, and this album--"Keep It to Ourselves--is my favorite blues recording. It deserves to be *far* more famous than it is. It's like a buried treasure.

- Todd (writing from my main channel)

[xneieva]

I really hope that this clip encourages people to listen to the original, which without exageration is the most perfect and dramatic few minutes of music I have ever heard. It is simply a very special and inspired musical moment .

[ToddAllenGates]

> You're very good.

Thanks Joe!

[aksarben68114]

Your very good... Omaha, Nebraska

[ToddAllenGates]

> Is that in the shower room of a jail?

Ha-ha no ... it's in a NYC subway station (I recorded there b/c of the natural reverb).

[slidehouse]

Just curious. Is that in the shower room of a jail?

[readchesterton]

lol Well my motto is..If God can use Balaam's Ass then maybe He can use me... a redeemed horses donkey :)

[ToddAllenGates2]

> your playing and your creativity is evidence enough for me that there is a Creator.

Just call me God's token atheist messenger!

[readchesterton]

Todd,

joking aside and from the heart...your playing and your creativity is evidence enough for me that there is a Creator. You inspire me!

Pat