Papa Was A Rascal
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LEFT hand...LEFT hand!! DAAAAYYYUMM...that LEFT hand!!
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This is what should be held in high regard. Not fashion, one hit wonders, wicked vanity, cruel intentions. This is suffering. This is love.
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Always thought my skin was the wrong color...very difficult for a white person to get into a black club in the old days...somehow we managed and it was heaven!!
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I went out to see him when I was a teenager, in the Garden District or Uptown maybe after he'd fallen on hard times and somebody got him an upscale gig, don't remember the name of the bar, but my oh my, he played with his audience, you get my drift. He was cool. At Jazzfest, he knew what was what -- all those drunk white kids -- such a genius, James Booker. I love him still. Nobody but nobody played like him.
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he was the great inspiration for Harry Connick jr.
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It's one of life's great treasures when you first discover this guy and his music. You hear one recording and then you want to hear more.
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@Freeminder23 To my knowledge, this is the recording featured on the Live at Montreux disc, although it is likely out of print (as is most of his recordings, unfortunately.
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i watch this about 63 times a week and i always thing the bass player is gonna hit sweet james in the noodle.
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Thought so...along with the loss of his immediate family by the age of 28...just finished teaching class, got home and saw your comment! Hmmmm...something is surreal here--I finished class with a song by Booker.
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@MultiKZB That accident caused Booker to become a drug addict, which contributed to his "Mad Genius"
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I have to say, after 50 years of loving great rocking piano, this guy just blows me away!!! I heard him on NPR last month, and have systematically been collecting all of his music I can find.
He's better than Xanex, booze, and maybe even money!!!!!
iTunes has tons of his music.
What a gift he had.
So sad he's gone.
fairbam 4 years ago 14
Booker is THE KING. A crazy mad bastard on the piano...he took it to another level and that level will be there forever...listen and go there.
fonkpop 4 years ago 12