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Megathread What Are You Listening To? XXXI: Kiely’s Revenge

Classic recording of Woodie, good smack, cuppa tea, bacon and black pudding on white bread with HP sauce so I'm a happy guy.



@ageingpartyfiend
you a fan of Mr Guthrie by any chance? My feeling is you are and are more than a casual fan of his work.
 
@placebonaut
@ageingpartyfiend

check this out, yeah it's Blind Lemon Jefferson and was recorded on those wax disks not long after music boxes became out of fashion so the sound is of the time but adds to the vibe imho.

alongside tunes like Darling Cora, Go dig my grave, Moonshiner blues, standing at the burying ground and all those truly classic folk songs Jack O' Diamonds is so old and a field recording classic, this version is on my top 7 pieces of music I've ever heard.

 
Zopiclone bandit said:
@placebonaut
@ageingpartyfiend

check this out, yeah it's Blind Lemon Jefferson and was recorded on those wax disks not long after music boxes became out of fashion so the sound is of the time but adds to the vibe imho.

alongside tunes like Darling Cora, Go dig my grave, Moonshiner blues, standing at the burying ground and all those truly classic folk songs Jack O' Diamonds is so old and a field recording classic, this version is on my top 7 pieces of music I've ever heard.

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yeah very familiar with him, I had a bit of an exploration into blues a few years ago

I quite like the old delta stuff myself, hard to beat Robert Johnson, shame there's not many recordings of his around

 
Zopiclone bandit said:
@placebonaut
@ageingpartyfiend

check this out, yeah it's Blind Lemon Jefferson and was recorded on those wax disks not long after music boxes became out of fashion so the sound is of the time but adds to the vibe imho.

alongside tunes like Darling Cora, Go dig my grave, Moonshiner blues, standing at the burying ground and all those truly classic folk songs Jack O' Diamonds is so old and a field recording classic, this version is on my top 7 pieces of music I've ever heard.

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I have an old album of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee doing Jack o Diamonds. Great song
 
placebonaut said:
yeah very familiar with him, I had a bit of an exploration into blues a few years ago

I quite like the old delta stuff myself, hard to beat Robert Johnson, shame there's not many recordings of his around

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I agree with you 100%
Blues is such a huge style of music but the stereotype is Eric Clapton or Muddy Waters with electric guitar and the 12 bar lyrical style taken from the Share Cropping, cotton picking call & response tradition.

then you have what I call real blues, none electric guitars tuned to #D and finger picked, Lightning Hopkins and Mississippi Fred McDowell being near perfect style in their playing. When I first heard Robert Johnson I was sure it was more than 1 person playing as he keeps a drone baseline pinning the whole song together, you get treble and bass at the same time which isn't easy to do, when I began to play guitar i was set in my mind to master finger picking but it's such a hard style to learn.

The best Slide / Bottleneck player I've ever heard is Blind Willie Johnson, his stepmother threw Lye in his face at the age of 3 due to his dad cheating on his wife so her only option was to burn an innocent kids eyes out FFS!!!!!
He can fingerpick and play slide like nobody ever, Led Zeppelin have covered so many of his songs, Robert Plant has said in many interviews the guy is amazing and has never been given the RESPECT due.
His track "Dark was the night, cold was the ground" is one of the tracks NASA sent into space carved onto a gold disk.
"As a result, Johnson is credited as one of the most influential practitioners of the blues and his slide guitar playing, particularly on his hymn "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", is highly acclaimed. This song was included in the golden phonograph records aboard the Voyager interstellar probes launched in 1977 by NASA. Other recordings by Johnson include "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed", "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" and "John the Revelator"."

it's hard for me to pick 1 track that showcases his jaw dropping skill but this is the first song I heard by him so I'll stick with that.


let me know what you think of it, it's a song about The Titanic disaster.
 
Zopiclone bandit said:
I agree with you 100%
Blues is such a huge style of music but the stereotype is Eric Clapton or Muddy Waters with electric guitar and the 12 bar lyrical style taken from the Share Cropping, cotton picking call & response tradition.

then you have what I call real blues, none electric guitars tuned to #D and finger picked, Lightning Hopkins and Mississippi Fred McDowell being near perfect style in their playing. When I first heard Robert Johnson I was sure it was more than 1 person playing as he keeps a drone baseline pinning the whole song together, you get treble and bass at the same time which isn't easy to do, when I began to play guitar i was set in my mind to master finger picking but it's such a hard style to learn.

The best Slide / Bottleneck player I've ever heard is Blind Willie Johnson, his stepmother threw Lye in his face at the age of 3 due to his dad cheating on his wife so her only option was to burn an innocent kids eyes out FFS!!!!!
He can fingerpick and play slide like nobody ever, Led Zeppelin have covered so many of his songs, Robert Plant has said in many interviews the guy is amazing and has never been given the RESPECT due.
His track "Dark was the night, cold was the ground" is one of the tracks NASA sent into space carved onto a gold disk.
"As a result, Johnson is credited as one of the most influential practitioners of the blues and his slide guitar playing, particularly on his hymn "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", is highly acclaimed. This song was included in the golden phonograph records aboard the Voyager interstellar probes launched in 1977 by NASA. Other recordings by Johnson include "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed", "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" and "John the Revelator"."

it's hard for me to pick 1 track that showcases his jaw dropping skill but this is the first song I heard by him so I'll stick with that.


let me know what you think of it, it's a song about The Titanic disaster.
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absolute golden era.

I have quite a collection of old blues stuff including blind Willie Johnson and Lightning Hopkins, I think his version of baby please don't go is better than Big Joe Williams version (not sure he actually wrote it but think he's most associated with it), you can feel how hot it is in the laziness of his voice, pure magic

 
placebonaut said:
absolute golden era.

I have quite a collection of old blues stuff including blind Willie Johnson and Lightning Hopkins, I think his version of baby please don't go is better than Big Joe Williams version (not sure he actually wrote it but think he's most associated with it), you can feel how hot it is in the laziness of his voice, pure magic

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you know big Joe Williams and lightning hopkins!!!!!!!!!
Bro I swear to God I had to read your reply 3 times to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, I openly admit I'm a bit of a music snob in many ways and I am a kinda Alax Lomax type figure in the way of hinting down original tunes done by proper people (think Lightning Hopkins, Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, my HERO of Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell) and anyone who is aware of that take with lightning hopkins playing Baby please don't go gets my attention right away and my RESPECT 100% without saying a single word.

if you know "Old Po' Lightning" you gotta check out another truly jaw dropping texan guitar player Townes Van Zandt, Old Po' Lightnin' had the same teacher / student relationship that Son House had with Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.

go bring me my shotgun by Po' Lightnin' still gives me the chills each time I hear it all these decades after I first heard it.

I didn't get his style for a few years when I was new to proper blues as Lightning was unique and I found some of his riffs just way too "out there" as my primary school level education to blues was all Chess records so it was Muddy waters stuff, you will laugh at me upon reading that I kniw for a fact but i csn admit it as it's truth despite not having any Kudos or Cool points about it, the day i first heard Son House it changed me deeply, it was equal to my reggae education, all i had was bob marley albums THEN i heard scientist - greatest dub album in the world and everything changed for me that moment.
it's equal to listening to early Rolling Stones or The Yardbirds then you hear Blind Willie Johnson for the first time, it changes your ears forever.

THIS right here is why I have pictures of Mississippi Fred mcdowell on my wall, his equal to blind Willie Johnson for his slide work. I literally am obsessed with the guy, he changed my ears for the rest of my life. I AM BEING 100% SERIOUS WITH YOU.

 
Zopiclone bandit said:
you know big Joe Williams and lightning hopkins!!!!!!!!!
Bro I swear to God I had to read your reply 3 times to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, I openly admit I'm a bit of a music snob in many ways and I am a kinda Alax Lomax type figure in the way of hinting down original tunes done by proper people (think Lightning Hopkins, Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, my HERO of Blues Mississippi Fred McDowell) and anyone who is aware of that take with lightning hopkins playing Baby please don't go gets my attention right away and my RESPECT 100% without saying a single word.

if you know "Old Po' Lightning" you gotta check out another truly jaw dropping texan guitar player Townes Van Zandt, Old Po' Lightnin' had the same teacher / student relationship that Son House had with Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.

go bring me my shotgun by Po' Lightnin' still gives me the chills each time I hear it all these decades after I first heard it.
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Some of my blues collection

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some of the delta albums to give you a flavor

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Zopiclone bandit said:
I didn't get his style for a few years when I was new to proper blues as Lightning was unique and I found some of his riffs just way too "out there" as my primary school level education to blues was all Chess records so it was Muddy waters stuff, you will laugh at me upon reading that I kniw for a fact but i csn admit it as it's truth despite not having any Kudos or Cool points about it, the day i first heard Son House it changed me deeply, it was equal to my reggae education, all i had was bob marley albums THEN i heard scientist - greatest dub album in the world and everything changed for me that moment.
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Popular artists are how most people get into stuff, it's what we'd call a gateway drug :ROFLMAO:

pretty much happened the same way with me a number of times.

Zopiclone bandit said:
it's equal to listening to early Rolling Stones or The Yardbirds then you hear Blind Willie Johnson for the first time, it changes your ears forever.

THIS right here is why I have pictures of Mississippi Fred mcdowell on my wall, his equal to blind Willie Johnson for his slide work. I literally am obsessed with the guy, he changed my ears for the rest of my life. I AM BEING 100% SERIOUS WITH YOU.
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I was switched onto the blues stuff via the endless things I read and watched about the 60s groups wanting to emulate their blues heroes.

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that's a banger right there, woooo
 
This is the famous title track from a really good album. I like this early version of this track best, it's kind of raw, not over-produced, so you can just hear the musical elements more clearly .





There are so many other different, original, ground breaking, great tracks on the album too.
 
I wish they'd upload the whole song, they've done the intro here which is great once the bass kicks in. That girl is so good on the bass! Her playing anchors the whole thing!



There's another section nearby with part of the solo in the middle bit, but no complete song :(
 
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