Can't seem to warm up to punk, yep, it's me.
All this talk about the Stones inspired.
A Howlin' Wolf classic but you knew that.
Can't seem to warm up to punk, yep, it's me.
All this talk about the Stones inspired.
A Howlin' Wolf classic but you knew that.
This tune has a history attached to it but like most when this version came out I knew nothing of that long history. Yep, a lot like House of the Rising Sun, Frankie and Johnny, Pretty Polly.
History right here
Here is a unique deal, this record is all we have, yep, only one in existence. Hull and Reed out of that Mississippi hill country, or so I've read.
BLACK PATTI records were race records, a short lived deal. Now all those records if in good condition worth some $$$$$$.
I just can't over state how much I like the Mississippi John Hurt version of Stagger Lee.
There's a Clash version that I listen to all the time as well.
not exactly a cover, but whatever
malmo wrote:
Every cover by Eva Cassidy is better than the original. In fact, makes you think "this is the way it should have been done."
Yep! Discovered her a few years ago.
Everly brothers did this in 1960 but this surpasses it in my opinion.
Otis! I win the thread.
Nina Simone.
My favourite rendition of it actually:
seattle prattle wrote:
I just can't over state how much I like the Mississippi John Hurt version of Stagger Lee.
There's a Clash version that I listen to all the time as well.
Hurt recorded 10 songs in 1928 that was one of them. Then he simply gave it up, was found in the 60's and brought back of course by now he's and old man. Mellow delivery very nice.
The great Big Bill Broonzy vocals, guitar Jazz Gillum on harmonica did the orginal.
The greatest blues harmonica cat we have/had the great Little Walter Jacobs.
The death of Little Walter
A few months after returning from his second European tour, Little Walter was involved in a fight while taking a break from a performance at a nightclub on the South Side of Chicago. He apparently sustained only minor injuries in this altercation, but they aggravated the damage he had suffered in previous violent encounters, and he died in his sleep at the apartment of a girlfriend, at 209 East 54th Street in Chicago, early the following morning.[1][12] The official cause of death on his death certificate was coronary thrombosis (a blood clot in the heart); evidence of external injuries was so insignificant that the police reported that his death was due to "unknown or natural causes",[12] and no external injuries were noted on the death certificate.[1] His body was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery, in Evergreen Park, Illinois, on February 22, 1968.[12]
Actually, Mississippi John Hurt recorded 13 songs in 1928. You better start reading your books again.
malmo wrote:
Every cover by Eva Cassidy is better than the original. In fact, makes you think "this is the way it should have been done."
Well, wow. Didn't expect that. Sold.
Molly Hatchet - Dreams I'll Never See - 11/10/1978 - Capitol Theatre
bbc wrote:
Actually, Mississippi John Hurt recorded 13 songs in 1928. You better start reading your books again.
Actually holding that CD in my hand, yep 13. How did you even know there was a John Hurt?
So you're into prewar blues, you'd have to be to know that,
Might have posted this before, shucks
A Wilson Pickett tune. my fav tune he does.
Hillbillie Clarence Ashley is the daddy of the original "House of the Rising Sun" from 1933 his other classic was right here "Little Sadie"