'Down The Dirt Road Blues' CHARLEY PATTON, 1929 Delta Blues Guitar Legend

CHARLEY PATTON (1891-1934)
" Down The Dirt Road Blues " (1929)

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[mmpresti]

Some people tell me, oversea blues ain't bad

It must not been the oversea blues I had

Everyday seem like murder here

(My god, I'm no sheriff)

I'm going to leave tommorrow,

I know you don't bid my care

I ain't going down no dirt road by myself

If I don't carry my rider, going to carry someone else

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

great !

thank you very much

[mmpresti]

I'm going away to where I'm known

I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

My rider got somethin' she try to keep it hid

Lord, I got somethin' find that somethin' with

I feel like chopping, chips flying everywhere

I've been to the Nation, lord, but I couldn't stay there

[909chuck]

I haven't been by here lately, so it's good 2 visit again. Thanx Dorian 4 so many fine tunes! What is interesting is the bluesmen who lived to be old and had met/sung with the likes of Charley. Read interviews and there was almost a "blues circuit" they travelled in performing. Thanx again!

[BogusMojo]

Early blues music is so haunting to me.

[petfireball]

@greggsmusic charley...robert followed him when he was younger..howlin wolf did as well

[greggsmusic]

who is the king of delta blues Robert or Charley

[ijoan]

@steinsteel Sorry pal, it's simply not true. I appreciate your wanting it to be so. But the only "code" Charlie is singing in is alcohol's slurry diction. If you want a blues guy "protest" song try Josh, White, J B Lenoir, or, in a much more careful way, Willie McTell. Patton is not singing anything like your projections would cause you to believe. Same for Robert Johnson. These were very common themes in blues, suffering, supernatural fear, loss--but not in any veiled way.