Champion Jack Dupree - Junker's Blues

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[james lujack]

howtoplanaparty...........he war a dichen instruka..........git yo spellin' rite!..........this was only one of Jack Dupree's renditions.............there were other renditions..........like on the live Columbia "Junker's Blues.........where he was infronta judge and he said Champion Jack You is Free!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote........­UNqoute but I don't got that albu no mo........

[9thWardJukebox]

I am so damn busy and there you go and make me laugh!!! (Thanks, I needed "dat"!!!)

[crimpo]

You'd never call Champion Jack polished but he certainly sent a message. One of the greats in my book.

As for the concept of 'stealing' music - tread softly there with the Blues. All these musicians took what they heard and reinterpreted and made it their own. Isn't that what a blues (or jazz) 'standard' is? If I hear the Memphis Jug Band or Hound Dog Taylor play a standard then the result couldn't really have been performed by anyone else!

[9thWardJukebox]

Jack was a lot smarter than he led on to believe. I have also read he was a very light drinker and pretty much stayed clean of drugs. But "image" mean a lot (unfortunately), especially when you're a blues musician, who are generally one gig away from being hungry and homeless.

[Leon1949Green]

But all his renditions were to spoof the drug life: nice free bio today from ODNB

[nequeteee]

jazzuela :)

[9thWardJukebox]

Sounds like an "urban legend"...altho dates do work and Page was on his way to the Yardbirds and Beck was exiting. Just because the dates work just makes it that more of a target become a "made-up story". i will see what I can run down on this over the next few days but at the moment...I'm not very optimistic.

[bigtone1348]

A friend of mine tells me of a 4 track seven inch Jack made with Jimmy Page in London in 1964.

The tracks are

Track no. 9

London Special

Fine & Mellow

All Right

I can find no record of this....any ideas?

[bigtone1348]

The same goes for Son House, but boy they could get the blues across!

[screwmaster404]

don't be no junker

[monkeytown1000]

Great upload. 'Stealing blues'- everybody did it. Nearly all of Robert Johnson's songs were his interpretations of other blues musos songs, but he took them & revolutionised them. Jack lived for a long time here in England, in Halifax as an unlikely a place for a blues muso to end up as you could imagine. They still remember him there. He said moved here because he got off the boat and the white customs officer called him "sir". We had racism here, but never segregation or 'Jim Crow'.

[howtoplanaparty]

Befo e take up de pie-anna, he war a diction instructor.