Charley Patton - Jesue Is a Dying-Bed Maker

Charley Patton - Jesue Is a Dying-Bed Maker(1930)

Whenever people discuss the "best" or "favorite" Charley Patton tracks, my personal favorites are rarely ever included, nor can they be heard on youtube, don't really know why ;-)

Here they are anyways, enjoy !!

Charley Patton was "the" delta blues man of course, his playing was raw and expressive, a distinctive style, rather dissident to the other blues players of the time. A monument !

The images in the video relate to Patton's life:
- The Dockery farm was the sawmill and cotton plantation where Charley and his family lived from 1900 onwards.
- "The masked Marvel" was the Paramount promotion campaign for his second (or third ??) release, crediting the first 10.000 copies to "the masked marvel" instead of Charley Patton.

- The last image is that of Rosetta, Charley Patton's daughter (one of ??) (last living and known anyways)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Charley
• Patton
• delta
• blues
• mississippi
• jesue is dying-bed maker

[psudeoaccount]

Is he saying, "I'm a goddamn nigger" at the begining? Good song by the way.

[sobie99]

@psudeoaccount

He's mumbling "he's a dying bed maker" ;)

[SEANFIR]

Always thought he had very white features...

[sobie99]

Yeah, the true descent of Charley Patton is unknown, but there's clues that he was probably a mixture of black, white and cherokee.

[StrongHeartLives]

@StrongHeartLives - better - to hold silence in your heart for your entire life rather than to ask if the word you should hear should be 'nigger' or something else...

[StrongHeartLives]

@psudeoaccount - live with the ambiguity until you get an answer.

[blacklion1798]

i find it SO hilarious what some of you thought he was saying at the beginning. he was saying fucking DYING BED MAKER. not dying dead ... LOL!

[iwaymatt]

i believe he is saying he's a dying dead nigger.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@TheMahagoni hey rafcist, who gives a damn? huh you dirt bag...sheesh you are worrying about NOTHING. You can't tell from the genes so scum like you have to worrry the skin. I hope you and your lot get the clap.

[GrigoriZhukov]

@sobie99 heh, anyone what worries about stuff like that is no account. N'matter where dey from, be it up town bahstahn or solitary at angola up for 6 life terms. He's was a man that could out play purt near anybody, any time day or night, drunk or sober, ill or well. What the hell are you fools worrying color fo'? Only racist sack of shit cares what color you are, wel that and damned politicians who are racist by definition.

[TheMahagoni]

@SEANFIR roger that