Lightnin'Hopkins Mr Charlie, your rollin'mill is burnin' down

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Uploaded by on Mar 27, 2009

Lightnin'Hopkins
If someone has a problem with me uploading this vid, plz notify and I'll remove it.

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  • atbieb not much after you said that have you heard other recordings of this? sometimes when he sing 'wooah!! mr charLIE' you have to turn the auto volume levelling off or at least-ways set it to "classical" cos the electronics can't cope with how he sound when he sings when the feelingscome out like an ashmatic flutist or an arthritic drummer maybe start off then the whole orchestra come in this how he sound to me telling this story = 3+1/2 minutes on my LP b4 u hear ur rolling mill's bur....
  • @theOGslagster127

    What do you mean with auto volume leveling? Where do you turn that off?

  • who is that playing the harmonica? its not sonny terry!

  • @6t4eldo Billy Bizor I believe.

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  • It's good to know that Mr. Charlie let the stuttering boy finishing his song after finding about his burning mill in the first line.

  • If I'd of been that little kid, I'd of sat at his feet everyday, beggin' him to teach me some more blues!!!

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  • This is just great!

  • So good to see this has been preserved with the full story and the part at the end about John Lee Hooker. Thank you so much for posting !

  • The black folk had lived a tough pass, Not many want to remember there mama's and daddy's, grandma and grandpappy's being beat and killed just for liven. That's blues.

  • Yeah man yeaH.

  • Why don't todays black folks do this anymore? its all ignorant rap that many only want to do. its a sad saad damn shame that many black folks forget their roots with the Blues!

  • @msmaggymgill Billy Bizor

  • now you know who fathered James Brown......

  • @lampens Straight outta prison I believe haha

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