Odetta - Jim Crow Blues

"Jim Crow Blues"
Performed by Odetta Holmes (2003)
originally performed by Lead Belly (1930)
From the movie: Lightning In a Bottle: A One Night History of the Blues
concert: New York's Radio City Music Hall (February 2003)
Director : Antoine Fuqua
Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese
Music Director: Steve Jordan
Producer: Alex Gibney & Margaret Bodde

Lyrics: Lead Belly version


Bunk Johnson told me too, This old Jim Crowism dead bad luck for me and you
I been traveling, i been traveling from shore to shore
Everywhere I have been I find some old Jim Crow

One thing, people, I want everybody to know
You're gonna find some Jim Crow, every place you go

Down in Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia's a mighty good place to go
And get together, break up this old Jim Crow

I told everybody over the radio
Make up their mind and get together, break up this old Jim Crow

I want to tell you people something that you don't know
It's a lotta Jim Crow in a moving picture show

I'm gonna sing this verse, I ain't gonna sing no more
Please get together, break up this old Jim Crow

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Odetta
• Holmes
• Jim
• Crow
• Blues
• Lead
• Belly

[michael64543]

Heard her perform live many times in the 60s. Always WOW!

[Bloody0Martyr]

we gotta get together people and stop this Ol' Jim Crow Blues!

[aussiechickdiana]

What a beautiful looking woman. Still handsome, powerful and singing when most of us @ that age, are thinking of retirement, or playing golf!

"Go, Odetta", wherever you are in The Celestial Realms...I know you will NOT rest in peace, 'till we all are...

diana <3

[asaturley]

Isn't the great Odetta's performance of Jim Crow Blues just stunning? I saw this on TV -a longer version. I wish I could hear the longer one. Anyone got any ideas? It goes like:

Muddy Waters said it, I got that old Jim Crow, Otis Redding said it, I got that old Jim Crow

and so on....

[BlueyesMysterie]

gotte love it! what a voice it's just stunning!

[frenzexperiment]

thanks for the post, awesome!