Friday, 30 July 2010

Son House





















Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

John the Revelator

Death Letter Blues

Yonder Comes the Blues

Jack White on Son House

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Elizabeth Cotten



Nobody did teach me, everything I know, I learned all by myself, so, I give myself all of the credit.

Shake Sugaree

Mama, Your Papa Loves You

Spanish Flang Dang / Untitled Jig

Sunday, 25 July 2010

Bessie Smith




No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair

Saturday, 24 July 2010

Reverend Gary Davis - Children of Zion




"There is absolutely no controlling or guiding him. He says what he pleases, when he pleases to say it, all very pontifically. I think the resemblance to the authoritative African wise man or witch doctor is striking... Rev. Davis is a wonderful, poetic, old gentleman. He is also as bitter and grieved a ghost of human decency and dignity as ever haunted this weary strumpeted old earth."

Death Don't Have No Mercy

The Bill Broonzy Story
















I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

Key to the Highway

Skip James - Crow Jane



He was quite... almost mysterious... full of spirits... he could be both... he could be lively. Down in Newport... he was so nervous... he was scared shitless. That’s probably the quietest I ever seen him. He could rub people the wrong way. But I was on his good side. I never gave him any argument. I tell you the truth, he liked those %$#@houses and drank a lot... I asked my mom as a young kid what that was. She said, “It gave him the spirit”

Hard Time Killin' Blues

Devil Got My Woman

Victor Records

Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - Naptown Blues 1929-1934



Whiskey Is My Habit, Good Women Is All I Crave

How About Me

When the Sun Goes Down

Blind Lemon Jefferson



They were rough. Men were hustling women and selling bootleg and Lemon was singing for them all night... he'd start singing about eight and go on until four in the morning... mostly it would be just him sitting there and playing and singing all night.

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

The Essential Pete Seeger

















I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Chaconne

The Sinking of the Reuben James

Round Round Hitler's Grave