Blues: Full Moon Lightnin Ground Zero
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Uploaded by fullmoonlightnin on Dec 14, 2007
Location: Clarksdale Mississippi, Ground Zero Blues Club
Discontent with the available places to hear live blues music, actor Morgan Freeman and his business partner Bill Luckett opened the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The idea was to bring back the look and feel of an old juke joint (sans the gambling and corn liquor) while creating a stable safe place where the best Delta blues could be heard. Before Ground Zero, impromptu gigs would spring up with little notice in Clarksdale...live music at best was a catch as catch can situation. Boarded up for decades, the building was once used as a cotton sampling and seeding facility, but today, just steps from the old train depot where Muddy Waters left for Chicago, Ground Zero continues the tradition of serving up the blues from the spot where it all started.
While we were passing through Clarksdale, Morgan Freeman extended an invitation to the band to come and play. This show was the first time that I had ever heard Joel play slide guitar. After the show Sam Carr remarked that he had not "heard slide guitar like that since his daddy Robert Nighthawk played". A ringing endorsement considering Robert Nighthawk is considered the finest slide guitar player ever. Sit back and enjoy "Mean Ol' Frisco".
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@apevertigo It's Joel Poluck.
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In living in Western Australia I do not have access to clubs like the one in the clip.
I am so sad.
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this song big scary sound voice
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This is nice... I'm from SC residing in MD.....can really appreciate music like this... *tapping my feet swaying to the beat..* :O)
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have my earphones on and this is turned up and i am rocking out... thanx for the video... awesome.love the blues.... nothing else like it.. speaks to the very depths of my soul.
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me: *turns up the volume*
The gf: TURN TAHT SHIT DOWN
me: no way honney, its floyd and joel when they are best !
the gf: floyd ?? as in floyd lee ??
me: spot on babe.
the gf: TURN THAT SHIT UP !!
10 months ago 2
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Amazing sound, please tell me what's the name of the guy who plays slide-guitar???
thanx for anwering...
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what a voice, like silk after having the shit beat out of it by jack daniels
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BEST of THE BEST MUSIC !!!!!!!!!
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That was Jimbo Mathis sitting down playing guitar. The Sunflower River Blues & Gospel fest is this weekend! (Aug 6-8)
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pleading to see yall live.... SC is far from NY.
pmariew 3 years ago 7
This Clip was a real JOY! Thank You for posting! I subscribed to this channel. Will
AdriftNWo 4 years ago 7