'Green River Blues' CHARLEY PATTON (1929) Delta Blues Legend

" Green River Blues " (1929)
CHARLIE PATTON (1891-1934)

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[santefering]

Super!

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

yes !! :)

[santefering]

I would never normally praise any one for there own choice in music, but you really do have a soul for music.

[TheIsraDave]

Haunting and beautiful music, Charlie Patton at his best--esp. the third chorus.

[P90smuv]

1929 lol

[aaron4wilkins]

Sorry for four post here,want to say these are liner notes from Yazoo L-1020

[aaron4wilkins]

The whining sound of the E riff is created by bending the third string almost a whole tone at the second fret.The minor third interval between the open first string and the second string pulled at the eight fret also appears in Tommy Johnson's Bye Bye Blues.

[aaron4wilkins]

Green river (standard tuning ,key of E) is based on an unusual picking pattern. It undoubtedly contains double thumb work,resulting in 4 thumb strokes per beat.By playing this pattern once or twice after each verse line,he arrives at a strange bar pattern.

[aaron4wilkins]

On the dominant(B7)of this standard three chord blues,there is the following harmonic device:he does not use the fourth string in the strum,which is the third of the chord. This leaves the root,fifth,and seventh.Then he removes his finger from the first string.This drops the fifth of the dominant(F#) to the root of the tonic,(E),known as an anticipation.This produces a chord B-A-B-E which is neither dominant nor tonic but in between. It is this latter chord that finally cadences to the tonic(E)

[jacksondemarre]

Due to the lyrics in this song I think there is no doubt that W.C Handy saw 16 year old Charley Patton playing at the Tutwiler train station in 1903.

[aaron4wilkins]

Some people say them green river blues 'aint bad,but i dont think was the green river blues they had..



[edwfriend]

When it comes from the heart it shows ---for sure.... respectfully---ol ED

[MrBuk86]

@jpw8583 That's cause he's the man!