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♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
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♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
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♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
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♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
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Yeah, Ma!
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Yeah, baby!
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♪ I had the blues so bad ♪
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♪ I sat down on my floor ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ I'm on my way ♪
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♪ Crazy as I can be ♪
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♪ Oooh… ♪
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♪ Hmm… ♪
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♪ Hmm… ♪
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♪ Ah! ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ I'm on my way ♪
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♪ Crazy as I can be ♪
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♪ Hey ♪
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♪ Hey, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ Hey ♪
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♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
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♪ I'm on my way ♪
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♪ Crazy as I can be ♪
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Testing, testing, one, two, three.
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Testing, one, two, three.
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- Testing, testing, one, two...
- Got that list?
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Uh, I got it. Don't worry about it.
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I'm holding you responsible.
You keep her in line.
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I'm not putting up with any shenanigans.
You hear, Irv? Irv?
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Irv?
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Irv!
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Not putting up with any Royal Highness,
Queen of the Blues bullshit.
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Mother of the Blues, Mel.
Mother of the Blues.
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Heh. You should've heard Levee
at the club last night, Toledo.
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Trying to talk
to that gal Ma had with her.
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You ain't got to tell me.
I know how Levee do.
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Levee tried talking to her
and got his feelings hurt.
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I want you to get her in here,
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record those songs
on that list, and get her out.
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Just like clockwork.
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Like clockwork, Mel.
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And that horn player,
the one who gave me those songs,
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is he going to be here today?
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- I want to hear more of that sound.
- How you boys doing, Cutler?
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Fine, Mr. Irvin.
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Where's Ma? She with ya?
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I don't know.
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She told us to be here at 1:00.
That's all I know.
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Where's the, uh, horn player?
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Levee's supposed to be here same as we is.
I reckon he'll be here in a minute.
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Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, Chicago.
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He ain't from 'round here now.
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Come on in. I'll get you fed
and ready to make some music.
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Right.
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Right down the hall.
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Where's Ma?
How come she isn't with the band?
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Everything's under control, Mel.
I got everything under control.
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Cutler, here's the list
of songs we're going to record.
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Why isn't she here?
And where's that horn player?
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What we got there, Toledo?
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Eh, we got, uh…
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Mmm. "Prove It on Me,"
"Hear Me Talking to You,"
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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,"
"Moonshine Blues."
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Oh. Them ain't the songs Ma told me.
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I wouldn't worry about it if I was you.
Ma'll get it straightened out.
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"Moonshine Blues."
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That's one of them songs
Bessie Smith sang, I believes.
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Eh, Slow Drag's right.
I wouldn't worry about it.
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Levee know what time
he's supposed to be here?
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Levee left the hotel
talking about he was gonna buy shoes.
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Says it's the first time
he beat you shooting craps.
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- I ain't thinking about no four dollars.
- Levee sure was.
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Let me get a hit of that.
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That four dollars
liked to burn a hole in his pocket.
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He's supposed to be here at 1:00.
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- That's some good Chicago bourbon.
- Look here, Cutler!
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- I got me some shoes.
- Ooh!
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Nigga, I ain't studying you.
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How much you pay
for something like that, Levee?
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Eleven dollars.
Four dollars of it belong to Cutler.
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Ooh! Levee say if it wasn't for Cutler,
he wouldn't have no new shoes.
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I ain't thinking about Levee or his shoes.
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Let's get ready to rehearse.
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I'm with you on that score.
Don't want to be here all night.
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Ain't but four songs on the list.
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Last time there was six songs.
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Yeah. Now I'm ready.
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I can play some good music now.
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Damn! They done changed things around.
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Don't never leave well enough alone.
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Yeah, everything changing all the time.
Even the air you breathing change.
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Yeah, you got, uh, monoxide,
hydrogen, changing all the time.
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Skin changing.
Different molecules. Everything.
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Nigga, what is you talking about?
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I'm talking about the room,
I ain't talking about no skin and air.
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I'm talking about something I can see.
I ain't talking about no molecules.
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I know what you talking about.
You don't know what I'm talking about.
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That door. You see that door?
That's what I'm talking about.
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Door wasn't there before.
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You wouldn't know your right from left.
And damn if that door wasn't there.
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If you talking about
they done switched rooms, you right.
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But don't go telling me
that door wasn't there.
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Damn the door and let's do this.
I want to get out of here.
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Toledo started all that about the door.
I'm just saying that things change.
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What you think I was saying?
Things change. The air and everything.
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Now you gonna say you was saying it.
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You gonna fit
two propositions on the same track,
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run them into each other,
and 'cause they crash,
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you gonna say it's the same train?
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Now this nigga talking about trains.
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We done went from the air
to the skin to the door and now trains.
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Toledo, I'd just like to be
inside your head for five minutes
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just to see how you think.
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You done got more shit
piled up and mixed up in there
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than the devil got sinners.
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You been reading too many goddamn books.
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What you care about how much I read?
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I'm gonna ignore you
'cause you're ignorant.
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- Let's rehearse the music.
- All right.
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You ain't gotta rehearse that.
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Ain't nothing but old jug-band music.
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They need one of them jug bands for this.
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Don't make no difference to me,
long as we get paid.
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That ain't what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about art.
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What's drawing got to do with it?
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Where you get this nigga from, Cutler?
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He sound like one of them Alabama niggas.
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It's Slow Drag, all right.
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Just play the piece, nigga.
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If you want to be one of them, uh,
what you call virtuosos or something,
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you're in the wrong place.
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You ain't no King Oliver or Buddy Bolden.
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You're just an old trumpet player
come a dime a dozen.
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Talking about art.
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What is you?
I don't see your name in lights.
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I just play the piece. Whatever they want.
I don't criticize other people's music.
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I ain't like you, Cutler. I got talent.
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- Oh, shit.
- Ooh.
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Me and this horn, we's tight.
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If my daddy had a knowed
I was gonna turn out like this,
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he woulda named me Gabriel.
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Oh!
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I'm gonna get me a band
and make me some records.
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I done give Mr. Sturdyvant
some of my songs I wrote,
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and he say he gonna let me
record them when I get my band together.
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I just gotta finish
the last part of this song.
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I knows how to play real music,
not this old jug-band shit.
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I got style.
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Oh, everybody got style.
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Style ain't nothing but keeping
the same idea from beginning to end.
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Everybody got it.
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Everybody can't play like I do.
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Everybody can't have their own band.
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Until you get your own band
where you can play what you want,
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play the piece and stop complaining.
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I told you when you came on here,
this ain't none of them hot bands.
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This is an accompaniment band.
You play Ma's music when you're here.
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I got sense enough to know that.
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I could look at y'all
and see what kind of band it is.
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I could look at Toledo
and see what kind of band it is.
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Oh, now Toledo ain't said nothing to you.
Don't get Toledo started now.
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Is you all gonna
rehearse the music or ain't you?
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How many times you done play them songs?
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- What you gotta rehearse for?
- This a recording session.
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I want to get it right the first time
and get on out of here.
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Well, y'all go on and rehearse, then.
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I'm going to finish this song
for Mr. Sturdyvant.
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Levee, I don't want no shit.
You rehearse like everybody else.
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You in the band just like everybody else.
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Mr. Sturdyvant gonna have to wait.
It's the band's time.
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I'm ready if you want to rehearse.
I said there ain't no point in it.
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Ma ain't here. What's the point?
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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
One, two, you know what to do.
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No, no, no. No, no.
We ain't doing it that way.
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We doing my version.
That's what Mr. Irvin told me.
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Say it's on the list he gave.
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Let me worry about what's on the list.
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What sense it make
to rehearse the wrong version?
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You supposed to rehearse
what you gonna play.
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- That's the way they taught me.
- That's what I'm trying to say.
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You trying to tell me
what we is and ain't gonna play,
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and that ain't none of your business.
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Your business is to play what I say.
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Oh. I see now.
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You done got jealous
'cause Mr. Irvin using my version.
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What I got
to be jealous of you about?
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The day I get jealous of you,
I may as well lay down and die.
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Levee started all that
'cause he too lazy to rehearse.
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Where's the paper?
Look at the paper. See what it say.
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Gonna tell me I'm too lazy to rehearse.
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We ain't talking about the paper.
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We talking about
you understanding where you fit in here.
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- You play what I say.
- I don't care what you play.
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Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up.
I don't care what you play.
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You boys know what's keeping Ma?
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Uh…
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Can't say, Mr. Irvin.
She'll be along directly, I reckon.
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Well, you go ahead.
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Mr. Irvin…
About these songs…
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Whatever's on the list.
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I'm talking about this "Black Bottom."
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- It's on the list.
- Yes, sir, I know it's on the list.
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But I just want to know which version.
We got two versions of that song.
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Oh, Levee's version.
We're using Levee's arrangement.
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Okay, got that straight.
Now about this "Moonshine Blues."
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Yeah, we'll work it out with Ma, Cutler.
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You boys just rehearse
whatever's on that list.
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See, I told you!
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It don't mean nothing when I say it.
You got to wait for Mr. Irvin to say it.
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I told you the way it is.
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The sooner you understand
it ain't what you say,
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or what Mr. Irvin say,
it's what Ma say that count.
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I don't care what you play.
Don't matter to me.
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Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up.
I don't care what you play.
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Thank you. All right, let's, uh,
play this "Hear Me Talking to You"
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till we figure out
what's going on with this "Black Bottom."
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One, two, you know what to do.
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Don't nobody say when it comes to Ma.
She gonna do what she wanna do.
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Mr. Irvin the one putting out the record.
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He gonna put out
what she want him to put out.
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Levee confused about who the boss is.
He don't know Ma's the boss.
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You know how many records
she sold in New York?
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And you know what's in New York?
Harlem. Harlem's in New York.
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So what
if they didn't sell in New York?
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We packed them in
in Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta.
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We ain't in Memphis. We in Chicago.
We in a recording session.
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Mr. Sturdyvant and Mr. Irvin
say what's gonna be here.
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00:15:28,541 --> 00:15:30,166
You heard what the man told you.
237
00:15:30,250 --> 00:15:32,875
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
Levee's arrangement.
238
00:15:32,958 --> 00:15:34,875
There you go. That's what he told you.
239
00:15:34,958 --> 00:15:37,125
I don't know why y'all want
to pick with me about it.
240
00:15:37,208 --> 00:15:39,666
I'm with Slow Drag.
Let's go and get it rehearsed.
241
00:15:39,750 --> 00:15:42,500
All right, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,"
Levee's version.
242
00:15:42,583 --> 00:15:45,000
How that first part
go again there, Lev?
243
00:15:45,083 --> 00:15:46,083
It go like this.
244
00:15:52,125 --> 00:15:53,708
That's to get the people's attention.
245
00:15:53,791 --> 00:15:56,583
That's when you and Slow Drag
come in with the rhythm,
246
00:15:56,666 --> 00:15:58,333
me and Cutler play on the breaks.
247
00:15:58,416 --> 00:16:00,374
The man asked how the part go.
Ain't ask for all that.
248
00:16:00,375 --> 00:16:01,750
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
249
00:16:02,333 --> 00:16:04,750
One, two, you know what to do.
250
00:16:13,125 --> 00:16:17,791
Hey, hey, hey. Y'all gotta keep up now.
You playing in the wrong time.
251
00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:20,666
Will you let us play this song?
We been playing before you was born.
252
00:16:20,750 --> 00:16:22,291
Trying to tell us how to play.
253
00:16:22,375 --> 00:16:24,000
All right. Let's try again.
254
00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:25,625
Wait a minute. Let me fix this.
255
00:16:25,708 --> 00:16:27,333
This string starting to unravel,
256
00:16:27,416 --> 00:16:29,875
and you know
I want to play Levee's music right.
257
00:16:29,958 --> 00:16:32,540
If you was any kind of musician,
you'd take care of your instrument.
258
00:16:32,541 --> 00:16:34,125
Keep it in tip-top order.
259
00:16:34,208 --> 00:16:37,208
If you was any kind of musician,
I'd let you be in my band.
260
00:16:37,291 --> 00:16:38,666
- Shit.
- Damn!
261
00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:41,708
Slow Drag, watch them
big-ass shoes you got.
262
00:16:41,791 --> 00:16:43,250
Ain't nobody done nothing to you.
263
00:16:43,333 --> 00:16:44,332
You done stepped on my shoes.
264
00:16:44,333 --> 00:16:45,833
Then move them out the way.
265
00:16:45,916 --> 00:16:47,516
You was in my way. I wasn't in your way.
266
00:16:47,541 --> 00:16:50,291
Any man who takes a whole week's pay
and puts it on some shoes,
267
00:16:50,375 --> 00:16:51,625
understand what I mean,
268
00:16:51,708 --> 00:16:53,958
what you walk around
on the ground with, is a fool.
269
00:16:54,041 --> 00:16:55,201
And I don't mind telling him.
270
00:16:55,250 --> 00:16:56,833
What difference it make to you?
271
00:16:56,916 --> 00:16:59,083
Ain't nothing wrong
with having nice shoes.
272
00:16:59,958 --> 00:17:01,625
- Look at Toledo.
- Ooh!
273
00:17:02,833 --> 00:17:04,041
What?
274
00:17:06,208 --> 00:17:07,541
What was that about Toledo?
275
00:17:08,125 --> 00:17:11,041
Nigga got them clodhoppers. Old brogans.
276
00:17:11,125 --> 00:17:13,375
He ain't nothing but a sharecropper.
277
00:17:14,250 --> 00:17:15,416
Hey, Slow Drag.
278
00:17:17,166 --> 00:17:18,541
Play something for me.
279
00:17:23,166 --> 00:17:26,291
A man gotta have
some shoes to dance like this.
280
00:17:27,333 --> 00:17:30,583
He can't dance like this
with them clodhoppers Toledo got.
281
00:17:30,666 --> 00:17:33,791
That's the trouble with colored folks,
always looking to have a good time.
282
00:17:33,875 --> 00:17:35,874
More niggas have got killed
trying to have a good time
283
00:17:35,875 --> 00:17:37,458
than God got ways to count.
284
00:17:38,250 --> 00:17:41,875
♪ When the world goes wrong
And I got the blues ♪
285
00:17:41,958 --> 00:17:45,333
What the hell having a good time mean?
That's what I want to know.
286
00:17:45,416 --> 00:17:47,541
Got to be more to life
than just having a good time.
287
00:17:47,625 --> 00:17:49,958
If there ain't,
then this is a piss-poor life we're living
288
00:17:50,041 --> 00:17:51,833
if that's all there is
to be got out of it.
289
00:17:53,541 --> 00:17:56,000
Niggas been having
a good time before you was born,
290
00:17:56,083 --> 00:17:58,583
and they gonna keep
having a good time after you gone.
291
00:17:58,666 --> 00:18:01,458
Nobody talking about
making the lot for the colored man
292
00:18:01,541 --> 00:18:02,958
better for him here in America.
293
00:18:03,041 --> 00:18:05,458
Ain't nobody
thinking about what kind of life,
294
00:18:05,541 --> 00:18:07,082
the world they gonna leave
for the young'uns.
295
00:18:07,083 --> 00:18:10,208
It's just, "Show me a good time.
That's all I want."
296
00:18:10,291 --> 00:18:12,333
Aw. It just makes me sick.
297
00:18:12,416 --> 00:18:14,125
Good times is
what makes life worth living.
298
00:18:14,208 --> 00:18:15,165
Uh-huh.
299
00:18:15,166 --> 00:18:18,208
Hey, I know how to have a good time
as well as the next man.
300
00:18:18,708 --> 00:18:20,166
Yeah.
301
00:18:20,250 --> 00:18:23,666
I just said there's got to be
more to life than just having a good time.
302
00:18:23,750 --> 00:18:26,125
I said, the colored man
ought to be doing more
303
00:18:26,208 --> 00:18:28,458
than trying to
have a good time all the time.
304
00:18:30,666 --> 00:18:32,458
Well, what is you doing, nigga?
305
00:18:32,541 --> 00:18:34,208
You're talking all them highfalutin ideas
306
00:18:34,291 --> 00:18:36,171
about making
a better world for the colored man.
307
00:18:36,208 --> 00:18:37,875
What is you doing to make it better?
308
00:18:37,958 --> 00:18:42,000
You playing the music and looking for
your next piece of pussy same as we is.
309
00:18:42,083 --> 00:18:43,583
What is you doing?
310
00:18:43,666 --> 00:18:46,750
It ain't just me, fool. I said everybody.
311
00:18:46,833 --> 00:18:50,250
You think I'm gonna solve
the colored man's problem all by myself?
312
00:18:50,333 --> 00:18:53,083
I said "we." You understand that?
313
00:18:53,166 --> 00:18:56,250
We? That's every living
colored man in the world
314
00:18:56,333 --> 00:18:59,000
got to do his share, got to do his part.
315
00:18:59,083 --> 00:19:01,416
I ain't talking about
what I'm gonna do or you gonna do,
316
00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:04,083
or Cutler, Slow Drag, anybody else.
317
00:19:04,166 --> 00:19:08,291
I'm talking about
what all of us gonna do together.
318
00:19:08,375 --> 00:19:10,250
That's what I'm talking about, nigga.
319
00:19:11,666 --> 00:19:13,750
Well, why ain't you just say that then?
320
00:19:16,125 --> 00:19:19,166
Toledo, I don't know
why you waste your time with this fool.
321
00:19:19,791 --> 00:19:21,374
I ain't gonna be
too many more of your fools.
322
00:19:21,375 --> 00:19:22,875
Ain't nobody studying you.
323
00:19:22,958 --> 00:19:25,416
All right, I ain't nobody.
Don't pay me no mind.
324
00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:27,000
Ain't nobody but the devil.
325
00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:28,625
There you go. That's who I am.
326
00:19:28,708 --> 00:19:30,457
I'm the devil.
I ain't nothing but the devil.
327
00:19:30,458 --> 00:19:33,333
I know a man sold his soul to the devil.
328
00:19:33,416 --> 00:19:36,916
Name of Eliza Cotter.
Lived in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
329
00:19:37,958 --> 00:19:40,791
Devil came by
and he upped and sold him his soul.
330
00:19:40,875 --> 00:19:43,958
Nigga, how you know
this man done sold his soul to the devil?
331
00:19:44,041 --> 00:19:46,208
You talking some old-woman foolishness.
332
00:19:46,291 --> 00:19:48,583
Everybody know. It wasn't no secret.
333
00:19:48,666 --> 00:19:51,066
He went around working
for the devil and everybody knowed it.
334
00:19:51,125 --> 00:19:53,708
Carried him a bag.
One of them carpet bags.
335
00:19:53,791 --> 00:19:56,333
Folks say he carried
the devil's papers and whatnot
336
00:19:56,416 --> 00:19:58,750
where he put
your fingerprint on the paper with blood.
337
00:19:58,833 --> 00:20:00,553
Where he at now?
That's what I want to know.
338
00:20:00,625 --> 00:20:02,875
He can have
my whole handprint if he want to.
339
00:20:02,958 --> 00:20:04,625
Showed up one day all fancied out
340
00:20:04,708 --> 00:20:07,416
in the finest clothes
you ever seen on a colored man.
341
00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:11,166
Pocketful of money,
just living the life of a rich man.
342
00:20:11,833 --> 00:20:14,000
Had him a string of women
he run around with
343
00:20:14,083 --> 00:20:15,666
and throw his money away on.
344
00:20:15,750 --> 00:20:18,166
One of the fellas
of them gals he was messing with
345
00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:20,625
got fixed on him wrong
and Eliza killed him.
346
00:20:20,708 --> 00:20:22,625
And laughed about it.
347
00:20:22,708 --> 00:20:25,000
Sheriff come
and arrest him and let him go.
348
00:20:25,083 --> 00:20:27,333
Trial come up. Judge cut him loose.
349
00:20:27,416 --> 00:20:28,332
Cut him loose
350
00:20:28,333 --> 00:20:30,666
and give him a bottle of whiskey.
351
00:20:30,750 --> 00:20:32,624
Folks ask what done happened
to make him change,
352
00:20:32,625 --> 00:20:35,875
and he tell them straight-out
he done sold his soul to the devil
353
00:20:35,958 --> 00:20:37,707
and asked them
if they wanted to sell theirs, too,
354
00:20:37,708 --> 00:20:39,416
'cause he could arrange it for them.
355
00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:42,375
Hold on. What happened to this fella?
That's what I want to know.
356
00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:45,250
Last I heard,
he headed up north with that bag of his,
357
00:20:45,333 --> 00:20:47,208
handing out
$100 bills on the spot
358
00:20:47,291 --> 00:20:49,625
to whoever wanted
to sign on with the devil.
359
00:20:49,708 --> 00:20:51,958
Hmm. I sure wish I knew where he went.
360
00:20:52,041 --> 00:20:53,521
He wouldn't have to convince me long.
361
00:20:53,541 --> 00:20:55,125
Hell, I'd even help him sign people up.
362
00:20:55,208 --> 00:20:59,166
Nigga, God gonna strike you down
with that blasphemy you talking.
363
00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:01,875
Oh, shit. God don't mean nothing to me.
364
00:21:01,958 --> 00:21:04,458
Let him strike me.
Here I am, standing right here.
365
00:21:04,541 --> 00:21:06,040
What you talking about he gonna strike me?
366
00:21:06,041 --> 00:21:08,750
Here I am.
Let him strike me. I ain't scared of him.
367
00:21:08,833 --> 00:21:10,625
All right. You gonna be sorry.
368
00:21:10,708 --> 00:21:12,308
You gonna fix yourself to have bad luck.
369
00:21:12,333 --> 00:21:13,813
Ain't nothing gonna work out for you.
370
00:21:13,833 --> 00:21:15,250
- Bad luck?
- Yeah.
371
00:21:15,333 --> 00:21:16,833
What I care about bad luck?
372
00:21:17,708 --> 00:21:19,208
You talking simple.
373
00:21:19,291 --> 00:21:21,250
I ain't had nothing
but bad luck all my life.
374
00:21:21,333 --> 00:21:24,250
Couldn't get no worse.
What the hell I care about bad luck?
375
00:21:24,333 --> 00:21:26,083
I eat it every day for breakfast.
376
00:21:26,166 --> 00:21:29,041
You dumber than I thought you was,
talking about bad luck.
377
00:21:29,833 --> 00:21:30,833
All right, nigga.
378
00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:34,000
You'll see.
379
00:21:34,583 --> 00:21:35,916
Can't tell a fool nothing.
380
00:21:37,125 --> 00:21:38,250
You'll see.
381
00:21:47,875 --> 00:21:49,000
Oh. There you go.
382
00:21:50,583 --> 00:21:51,666
Over there.
383
00:21:51,750 --> 00:21:53,583
Whoa!
384
00:22:00,375 --> 00:22:01,666
What are you doing?
385
00:22:02,333 --> 00:22:04,958
Cutler, your boys' sandwiches are here.
386
00:22:05,458 --> 00:22:07,125
- Cutler?
- Lady...
387
00:22:07,208 --> 00:22:08,915
- This is a brand new car.
- Lady...
388
00:22:08,916 --> 00:22:10,125
Ain't had but a ding.
389
00:22:10,208 --> 00:22:13,291
- Okay, lady...
- What you gonna do?
390
00:22:13,375 --> 00:22:14,290
- Ma!
- I'm talking...
391
00:22:14,291 --> 00:22:16,332
I got eyes, you got eyes.
What are you gonna do?
392
00:22:16,333 --> 00:22:17,457
- Listen to me...
- What happened?
393
00:22:17,458 --> 00:22:19,040
Tell this man who I am. Get him straight.
394
00:22:19,041 --> 00:22:20,875
Tell this man who he's messing with.
395
00:22:20,958 --> 00:22:23,333
Officer, what's the matter?
What's the problem?
396
00:22:23,416 --> 00:22:24,999
When I walked up
on the incident, this lady...
397
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,833
- Sylvester wrecked Ma's car.
- I… I did not. The man hit me.
398
00:22:27,916 --> 00:22:29,436
You want it in a nutshell?
399
00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:30,915
We got her charged
with assault and battery.
400
00:22:30,916 --> 00:22:33,083
- Assault and what for what?
- Sylvester was driving...
401
00:22:33,166 --> 00:22:34,915
I can tell you what happened
if you wanna know.
402
00:22:34,916 --> 00:22:37,375
That's my nephew.
That's Sylvester. He was driving my car...
403
00:22:37,458 --> 00:22:39,625
- We don't know whose car it is.
- That's Ma's car.
404
00:22:39,708 --> 00:22:41,041
I bought and paid for that car.
405
00:22:41,125 --> 00:22:42,833
That's what you say.
We gotta check it out.
406
00:22:42,916 --> 00:22:44,125
What's the problem?
407
00:22:44,208 --> 00:22:45,207
I was calling the paddy wagon
408
00:22:45,208 --> 00:22:47,666
to haul them
to the station, sort everything out.
409
00:22:47,750 --> 00:22:49,915
- She's aggressive with the other driver...
- He got ugly with me.
410
00:22:49,916 --> 00:22:52,207
- I don't know why you tell that lie.
- You let me tell the story?
411
00:22:52,208 --> 00:22:54,333
Well, if you gonna tell it, tell it right.
412
00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:04,041
Like I said,
while I was waiting for the paddy wagon,
413
00:23:04,125 --> 00:23:05,845
I turn to hear
this guy's side of the story.
414
00:23:05,875 --> 00:23:07,515
She won't let him get a word in edgeways.
415
00:23:07,541 --> 00:23:10,208
He steps in front of her
to tell his version of things,
416
00:23:10,291 --> 00:23:11,207
she pushes him to the ground.
417
00:23:11,208 --> 00:23:12,583
She ain't hit him. He just fell.
418
00:23:12,666 --> 00:23:14,624
If that don't beat all to hell.
I ain't touched the man.
419
00:23:14,625 --> 00:23:17,250
All right, Ma. Officer,
can I speak to you for a minute?
420
00:23:17,333 --> 00:23:18,333
I got things to do.
421
00:23:18,416 --> 00:23:20,291
He bumped into me and fell down.
422
00:23:20,375 --> 00:23:22,333
Flopping on the ground like a rag doll.
423
00:23:23,541 --> 00:23:24,958
I ain't touch the man.
424
00:23:32,750 --> 00:23:33,875
All right, Ma.
425
00:23:33,958 --> 00:23:35,500
Come on. Let's go. Move it out.
426
00:23:36,083 --> 00:23:37,124
I got it all taken care of.
427
00:23:37,125 --> 00:23:38,750
Clear it out. Come on. Let's go.
428
00:23:38,833 --> 00:23:40,208
What's going on? What did you do?
429
00:23:40,291 --> 00:23:41,249
Sturdyvant, get on away from me.
430
00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:43,370
That's the last thing I need,
to go through your shit.
431
00:23:43,375 --> 00:23:45,666
- Everybody move along.
- It's not the place.
432
00:23:45,750 --> 00:23:47,000
Here, Ma.
433
00:23:47,916 --> 00:23:49,250
Let me take your things.
434
00:23:50,875 --> 00:23:52,625
- I don't believe we've met.
- Hi.
435
00:23:52,708 --> 00:23:54,749
That's my nephew Sylvester,
and that there's Dussie Mae.
436
00:23:54,750 --> 00:23:56,583
- Oh, hello.
- Everybody here?
437
00:23:56,666 --> 00:23:58,125
They're in the band room.
438
00:23:58,208 --> 00:24:01,375
- Ma, why don't you sit and relax?
- I ain't for no sitting.
439
00:24:01,458 --> 00:24:03,916
- Where's the bathroom?
- Uh, down that hall.
440
00:24:04,416 --> 00:24:07,916
Honey, call down there and see about
my car. I need my car fixed today.
441
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,416
Why y'all keep it so hot in here?
442
00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:11,916
Y'all want to make records,
better get a fan on.
443
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,458
I got it, Ma.
I'll take care of everything.
444
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:31,041
She's late and already...
445
00:24:31,125 --> 00:24:33,750
I talked to her last night.
Got everything straight.
446
00:24:33,833 --> 00:24:35,958
You stay out of the way. Let me handle it.
447
00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:37,833
You handled it last time, remember?
448
00:24:37,916 --> 00:24:41,500
She marches in like she owns the place,
complains about the building being cold,
449
00:24:41,583 --> 00:24:44,000
trips over a mic wire,
then threatens to sue me.
450
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,291
I ain't never been in a recording studio.
451
00:25:03,416 --> 00:25:04,583
Where the band at?
452
00:25:04,666 --> 00:25:06,583
They off somewhere rehearsing.
453
00:25:08,166 --> 00:25:10,250
Come over here and let me see that dress.
454
00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:13,416
That dress look nice.
455
00:25:15,250 --> 00:25:17,833
I'm gonna take you tomorrow
to get you some things
456
00:25:17,916 --> 00:25:19,666
before I take you down to Memphis.
457
00:25:20,416 --> 00:25:23,666
They got some clothes up here
they ain't got in Memphis.
458
00:25:24,458 --> 00:25:26,791
- I want you to look nice for me, hmm?
- Mmm-hmm.
459
00:25:26,875 --> 00:25:29,750
You gonna travel with the show,
you gotta look nice.
460
00:25:29,833 --> 00:25:32,458
I just need me some new shoes.
These hurt my feet.
461
00:25:32,541 --> 00:25:35,916
Oh, don't you be messing around
with no shoes that pinch your feet.
462
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,875
Ma knows something about bad feet. Mmm.
463
00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:44,916
♪ Oh, Lord ♪
464
00:25:47,208 --> 00:25:50,333
♪ These dogs of mine ♪
465
00:25:51,208 --> 00:25:55,041
♪ They sure do hurt me ♪
466
00:25:55,125 --> 00:25:58,375
♪ All the time ♪
467
00:26:00,333 --> 00:26:02,500
♪ Reason why? ♪
468
00:26:02,583 --> 00:26:05,625
♪ I don't know ♪
469
00:26:07,833 --> 00:26:13,708
♪ Lord, I beg to be excused ♪
470
00:26:20,125 --> 00:26:21,166
Okay.
471
00:26:21,916 --> 00:26:24,500
Go on, get my slippers
out my bag over yonder.
472
00:26:30,375 --> 00:26:34,291
♪ I can't wear me no sharp-toed shoes ♪
473
00:26:36,083 --> 00:26:38,666
♪ I went for a walk ♪
474
00:26:39,541 --> 00:26:41,041
♪ I stopped to talk ♪
475
00:26:43,833 --> 00:26:50,125
♪ Oh, how my corns did bark ♪
476
00:26:50,833 --> 00:26:53,833
I just want
some of them yellow ones.
477
00:26:53,916 --> 00:26:55,666
About a half size bigger.
478
00:26:55,750 --> 00:26:58,541
We'll get you whatever you need.
Sylvester too.
479
00:26:58,625 --> 00:26:59,905
Sylvester, tuck your clothes in.
480
00:26:59,958 --> 00:27:02,458
Straighten them up and look nice.
Like a gentleman.
481
00:27:02,541 --> 00:27:03,874
Look at Sylvester with that hat on.
482
00:27:03,875 --> 00:27:07,250
Take that hat off inside.
Come over here and leave that piano.
483
00:27:07,333 --> 00:27:10,875
I ain't doing nothing
to the… piano. I'm… l… looking at it.
484
00:27:10,958 --> 00:27:13,208
Baby, come over here and sit down.
Come on.
485
00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:16,083
Soon as Mr. Irvin come back,
486
00:27:16,166 --> 00:27:18,833
I'm gonna have him take you down,
introduce you to the band.
487
00:27:19,583 --> 00:27:21,791
Cutler gonna show you how your part go.
488
00:27:21,875 --> 00:27:24,666
When you get your money,
send some of it home to your mama.
489
00:27:24,750 --> 00:27:27,916
- Let her know you're doing all right.
- Okay.
490
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,250
Ma, I called down
to the garage and checked on your car.
491
00:27:32,333 --> 00:27:36,000
It's just a scratch, and they'll
have it ready for you this afternoon.
492
00:27:36,083 --> 00:27:38,250
They'll send it over
with one of their fellows.
493
00:27:38,333 --> 00:27:39,708
Better have my car fixed right.
494
00:27:39,791 --> 00:27:43,166
I ain't going for that. Brand-new car.
They better fix it like new.
495
00:27:52,458 --> 00:27:54,583
Irvin, what is that I hear?
496
00:27:54,666 --> 00:27:56,708
I know they ain't rehearsing
Levee's "Black Bottom."
497
00:27:56,791 --> 00:27:58,166
I know I ain't hearing that.
498
00:27:58,250 --> 00:28:00,208
Ma, it's what I wanted
to talk to you about.
499
00:28:00,291 --> 00:28:02,500
Levee's version, it really picks it up.
500
00:28:02,583 --> 00:28:06,208
I ain't studying Levee nothing.
I know what he done to that song.
501
00:28:06,291 --> 00:28:08,833
I don't like to sing it that way.
I'm doing it the old way.
502
00:28:08,916 --> 00:28:11,416
That's why I brought my nephew
in here to do the voice intro.
503
00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:15,000
That's what people want now, Ma.
They want something they can dance to.
504
00:28:15,083 --> 00:28:17,208
Levee's arrangement
gives the people what they want.
505
00:28:17,291 --> 00:28:20,000
It makes them excited,
forget about their troubles.
506
00:28:20,083 --> 00:28:24,166
I don't care what you say, honey.
Levee ain't messing up my song.
507
00:28:24,250 --> 00:28:26,916
If he got what the people want,
let him take it somewhere else.
508
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,416
I'm singing Ma Rainey's song,
not Levee's song.
509
00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:31,083
Now that's all there is to it.
510
00:28:31,666 --> 00:28:34,750
Carry my nephew on down there.
Introduce him to the band.
511
00:28:34,833 --> 00:28:36,958
I promised my sister I'd look out for him,
512
00:28:37,041 --> 00:28:40,291
so he's gonna do
the voice intro to the song my way.
513
00:28:40,375 --> 00:28:41,458
We just figured...
514
00:28:41,541 --> 00:28:45,541
Who's this "we"? What you mean "we"?
Come talking this "we" stuff. Who "we"?
515
00:28:46,125 --> 00:28:47,708
Me and Sturdyvant. We decided...
516
00:28:47,791 --> 00:28:50,250
You decided, huh?
I'm just a bump on a log.
517
00:28:50,333 --> 00:28:52,207
I'm just gonna go
whichever way the river drift.
518
00:28:52,208 --> 00:28:54,000
Is that it? You and Sturdyvant decided?
519
00:28:54,083 --> 00:28:56,163
- No. We just thought...
- I ain't got no good sense.
520
00:28:56,208 --> 00:28:59,541
I know nothing about music
or what a good song is or what ain't.
521
00:28:59,625 --> 00:29:01,208
You know more about my fans than I do.
522
00:29:01,291 --> 00:29:03,833
It's not that.
It's more of what the people want.
523
00:29:05,291 --> 00:29:09,458
Tell you something, Irvin, and you can go
up there and you can tell Sturdyvant too.
524
00:29:10,083 --> 00:29:13,375
What you all say
don't count with me, you understand?
525
00:29:13,458 --> 00:29:16,375
Ma listen to her heart.
Ma listen to the voice inside her.
526
00:29:16,458 --> 00:29:17,833
That's what count with Ma.
527
00:29:18,625 --> 00:29:20,250
Carry my nephew on down there.
528
00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:23,500
Tell Cutler he'll do the voice intro
to the "Black Bottom" song.
529
00:29:23,583 --> 00:29:25,166
Levee ain't messing up my song.
530
00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:27,082
If that don't set right
with you and Sturdyvant,
531
00:29:27,083 --> 00:29:29,583
I can carry my black bottom
on back down South to my tour,
532
00:29:29,666 --> 00:29:31,625
'cause I don't like it up here noways.
533
00:29:32,291 --> 00:29:34,125
Okay, Ma.
534
00:29:35,125 --> 00:29:36,125
I don't care.
535
00:29:38,583 --> 00:29:40,625
- I just thought...
- Damn what you thought!
536
00:29:40,708 --> 00:29:43,125
What you look like
trying to tell me how to sing my song.
537
00:29:43,208 --> 00:29:45,833
That Levee and Sturdyvant shit,
I ain't going for it.
538
00:29:47,708 --> 00:29:51,041
Sylvester, go introduce yourself.
I'm through playing with Irvin.
539
00:29:51,125 --> 00:29:53,875
Uh… Where I go? Which way they at?
540
00:29:55,041 --> 00:29:57,375
Come on. I'll carry you down there myself.
541
00:29:57,458 --> 00:29:59,208
Can I go? I want to see the band.
542
00:29:59,291 --> 00:30:00,541
No. Come on, Sylvester.
543
00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:03,708
Okay, Ma. Have it your way,
544
00:30:04,291 --> 00:30:06,166
but we'll be ready to go in 15 minutes.
545
00:30:06,250 --> 00:30:08,291
We'll be ready to go when Madam says so.
546
00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:10,083
That's the way it go around here.
547
00:30:12,166 --> 00:30:13,208
Perfect.
548
00:30:32,291 --> 00:30:34,250
Cutler, this here my nephew Sylvester.
549
00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:37,541
He'll do the voice intro
on "Black Bottom" using the old version.
550
00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:39,916
What? Mr. Irvin said
we're using my version.
551
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,541
I ain't studying you or Mr. Irvin.
552
00:30:41,625 --> 00:30:43,624
Cutler, get him straightened out
on how to do his part.
553
00:30:43,625 --> 00:30:44,785
I ain't thinking about Levee.
554
00:30:44,833 --> 00:30:47,000
These folks done messed
with the wrong person.
555
00:30:47,083 --> 00:30:50,791
Cutler gonna teach you how to do
your part. Go ahead and get it straight.
556
00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:52,958
Don't worry about what nobody else say.
557
00:30:55,666 --> 00:30:58,250
Hey, come on in, boy.
I'm Cutler.
558
00:30:58,333 --> 00:31:01,875
That's Toledo, Levee,
and Slow Drag over there.
559
00:31:01,958 --> 00:31:04,166
- Sylvester, huh?
- Sylvester Brown.
560
00:31:04,250 --> 00:31:05,750
I wrote a version of that song,
561
00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:08,541
what picks it up
and sets it down in the people's lap,
562
00:31:08,625 --> 00:31:10,416
and here she come talking this.
563
00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,000
You don't need that old circus bullshit.
I know what I'm talking about.
564
00:31:14,083 --> 00:31:16,291
You gonna mess up the song,
Cutler, and you know it.
565
00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:17,832
I ain't gonna mess up nothing. Ma say...
566
00:31:17,833 --> 00:31:19,458
I don't care what Ma say!
567
00:31:20,041 --> 00:31:22,500
I'm talking about
what the intro gonna do to the song.
568
00:31:22,583 --> 00:31:25,415
The peoples in the North ain't gonna
go for that old tent-show nonsense.
569
00:31:25,416 --> 00:31:27,124
- They wanna hear some music.
- Nigga.
570
00:31:27,125 --> 00:31:29,791
I done told you time and again.
Ma say what to play, not you.
571
00:31:29,875 --> 00:31:32,833
You ain't here to be doing no creating.
You play whatever Ma say.
572
00:31:32,916 --> 00:31:35,208
I might not play nothing.
I might just quit.
573
00:31:35,291 --> 00:31:38,208
Nigga, don't nobody care if you quit.
Whose heart you gonna break?
574
00:31:38,291 --> 00:31:39,458
Levee ain't gonna quit.
575
00:31:39,541 --> 00:31:41,666
He need to make money
to keep him in shoe polish.
576
00:31:44,333 --> 00:31:47,583
I done told y'all you don't know me.
You don't know what I'll do.
577
00:31:47,666 --> 00:31:50,125
I don't think nobody give a damn.
Sylvester, look here.
578
00:31:50,208 --> 00:31:52,791
The band plays the intro,
and then you say,
579
00:31:52,875 --> 00:31:55,208
"All right, boys, you done seen the rest."
580
00:31:55,291 --> 00:31:56,833
"Now I'm gonna show you the best."
581
00:31:56,916 --> 00:31:59,833
"Ma Rainey's gonna
show you her black bottom."
582
00:32:00,416 --> 00:32:03,541
You got that? Heh. All right,
let me hear you do it one time.
583
00:32:05,791 --> 00:32:08,083
All right, boys, you done s… s…
584
00:32:09,583 --> 00:32:10,625
…seen the rest.
585
00:32:12,541 --> 00:32:14,166
Now I'm gonna show you the best.
586
00:32:15,125 --> 00:32:19,166
Ma Rainey's gonna show you
her black b… b… b…
587
00:32:21,166 --> 00:32:22,250
…bottom.
588
00:32:22,333 --> 00:32:26,791
All right, Cutler.
Let me see you fix that.
589
00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:28,958
Straighten that out.
590
00:32:29,041 --> 00:32:31,750
Slow Drag, whoo, you hear this shit?
591
00:32:31,833 --> 00:32:34,583
How in the hell the boy
gonna do the part if he can't even talk?
592
00:32:34,666 --> 00:32:37,750
Who… Who's you
to tell me what to do, nigga?
593
00:32:37,833 --> 00:32:41,041
This ain't your band.
Ma tell me to d… do it, I'mma do it.
594
00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:44,375
So you can go to hell…
n… n… nigga.
595
00:32:47,041 --> 00:32:50,625
B… Boy, ain't nobody
studying you. Cutler, go on and fix that.
596
00:32:51,208 --> 00:32:53,750
You fix that
and I'll shine your shoes for you.
597
00:32:53,833 --> 00:32:55,375
Go on and fix that one.
598
00:32:55,458 --> 00:32:58,958
You say, uh, you Ma's nephew?
599
00:32:59,041 --> 00:33:00,750
Yeah, so what that mean?
600
00:33:00,833 --> 00:33:03,250
Oh, I ain't meant nothing.
I was just asking.
601
00:33:03,333 --> 00:33:05,250
Let's rehearse
so the boy can get it right.
602
00:33:05,333 --> 00:33:07,083
I ain't rehearsing nothing.
603
00:33:07,166 --> 00:33:08,750
Just wait till I get my band together.
604
00:33:08,833 --> 00:33:11,458
I'm gonna record that song
and show you how it's supposed to go.
605
00:33:11,541 --> 00:33:14,375
We can do it without Levee.
Sylvester, you remember your part?
606
00:33:14,458 --> 00:33:17,666
Yeah, I… I remember pretty g… good.
607
00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:20,958
Well, come on.
Let's do it then. All right?
608
00:33:24,041 --> 00:33:25,041
Levee.
609
00:33:30,583 --> 00:33:32,625
Good, you boys are rehearsing, I see.
610
00:33:32,708 --> 00:33:36,375
Yessir, we rehearsing.
We know them songs real good.
611
00:33:36,458 --> 00:33:39,041
Good. Say, Levee,
did you finish that song?
612
00:33:39,750 --> 00:33:41,750
Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant.
I got it right here.
613
00:33:42,333 --> 00:33:45,041
I wrote that other part
just like you say. It go like…
614
00:33:45,625 --> 00:33:48,125
♪ You can swing it
You can bring it ♪
615
00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:51,041
♪ You can dance at any hall ♪
616
00:33:51,125 --> 00:33:54,291
♪ You can slide across the floor
You'll never have to stall ♪
617
00:33:54,375 --> 00:33:56,250
♪ My jelly roll ♪
618
00:33:56,333 --> 00:33:58,413
Then I wrote that part
for the other people to dance,
619
00:33:58,416 --> 00:34:00,207
like you say, for them
to forget about their troubles.
620
00:34:00,208 --> 00:34:03,083
Good. I'll see about your songs
as soon as I get the chance.
621
00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:05,750
- I'll just take this.
- Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant.
622
00:34:06,416 --> 00:34:08,083
Soon as you get the chance.
623
00:34:11,333 --> 00:34:12,957
You hear Levee?
You hear this nigga?
624
00:34:12,958 --> 00:34:14,583
"Yessir, we's rehearsing, boss."
625
00:34:14,666 --> 00:34:17,583
I heard him.
Seen him too. Shuffling them feet.
626
00:34:17,666 --> 00:34:20,041
Yeah, well,
Levee can't help it none.
627
00:34:20,125 --> 00:34:24,291
He's spooked up by the white man.
Ain't had time to study 'em.
628
00:34:24,375 --> 00:34:27,125
I studies the white man,
I got him studied good.
629
00:34:27,208 --> 00:34:30,666
The first time one fixes on me wrong,
I'm gonna show him just how much I study.
630
00:34:30,750 --> 00:34:32,708
Come tell me
I'm spooked up by the white man.
631
00:34:32,791 --> 00:34:35,541
You let one mess with me,
I'll show you how spooked up I am.
632
00:34:35,625 --> 00:34:38,541
The man come in here, call you a boy,
633
00:34:38,625 --> 00:34:41,208
tell you to get up
off your ass and rehearse,
634
00:34:41,291 --> 00:34:43,458
and you ain't had
nothing to say except, "Yessir!"
635
00:34:46,166 --> 00:34:49,375
I can say "yessir" to whoever I please.
What you got to do with it?
636
00:34:49,458 --> 00:34:52,458
I know how to handle white folks.
I been handling them for 32 years.
637
00:34:52,541 --> 00:34:54,041
You gonna tell me how to do it?
638
00:34:54,125 --> 00:34:56,541
Just 'cause I say "yessir,"
don't mean I'm spooked up by him.
639
00:34:56,625 --> 00:34:59,000
I know what I'm doing.
Let me handle him my way.
640
00:34:59,083 --> 00:35:00,563
Well, go and handle it then.
641
00:35:00,583 --> 00:35:02,416
Toledo, you always messing with somebody.
642
00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:06,125
Always agitating somebody
with that old philosophy bullshit.
643
00:35:06,208 --> 00:35:08,541
You stay out of my way
about what I do and say.
644
00:35:08,625 --> 00:35:11,083
I'm my own person. Just let me alone.
645
00:35:11,166 --> 00:35:15,000
All right, all right.
Levee, you right. I apologize.
646
00:35:15,083 --> 00:35:17,791
Ain't none of my business
you spooked up by the white man.
647
00:35:17,875 --> 00:35:20,250
See, that's the shit I'm talking about.
648
00:35:20,333 --> 00:35:22,166
Y'all back up and leave Levee alone.
649
00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:24,833
Oh, come on, Levee.
We was all just having fun.
650
00:35:24,916 --> 00:35:27,207
Toledo ain't said nothing about you
he ain't said about me.
651
00:35:27,208 --> 00:35:28,368
You just taking it all wrong.
652
00:35:28,416 --> 00:35:29,625
I ain't meant nothing by it.
653
00:35:29,708 --> 00:35:31,500
Levee got to be Levee!
654
00:35:32,125 --> 00:35:35,041
He don't need nobody messing with him
about the white man!
655
00:35:35,875 --> 00:35:39,000
'Cause you don't know nothing about me.
You don't know Levee.
656
00:35:39,083 --> 00:35:41,333
You don't know nothing
about what kind of blood I got!
657
00:35:41,416 --> 00:35:43,375
What kind of a heart I got beating here!
658
00:35:46,125 --> 00:35:47,708
I was eight years old
659
00:35:48,291 --> 00:35:50,708
when a gang of white mans
come into my daddy's house
660
00:35:50,791 --> 00:35:53,208
and have to do with my mama
any way they want.
661
00:35:54,708 --> 00:35:59,291
We was living in Jefferson County,
about eight miles outside of Natchez.
662
00:35:59,375 --> 00:36:02,666
My daddy's name was Memphis.
Memphis Lee Green.
663
00:36:02,750 --> 00:36:07,041
Had him near 50 acres of good
farming land. I'm talking good land.
664
00:36:07,125 --> 00:36:08,708
Grow anything you want.
665
00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,500
He done gone off of shares
and bought this land
666
00:36:11,583 --> 00:36:14,125
from Mr. Hallie's widow woman
after he done passed on.
667
00:36:14,208 --> 00:36:17,166
Folks called him a uppity nigger
'cause he done saved and borrowed
668
00:36:17,250 --> 00:36:19,875
to where he could
buy this land and be independent.
669
00:36:21,125 --> 00:36:22,833
It was coming on planting time,
670
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:26,916
and my daddy went into Natchez
to get him some seed and fertilizer.
671
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,500
Called me, say, "Levee,
you the man of the house now."
672
00:36:33,333 --> 00:36:35,458
"Take care of your mama while I'm gone."
673
00:36:38,416 --> 00:36:39,958
I wasn't but a little boy.
674
00:36:41,541 --> 00:36:42,875
Eight years old.
675
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,083
My mama…
676
00:36:48,291 --> 00:36:51,416
was frying up some chicken
when them mans come in the house.
677
00:36:52,333 --> 00:36:54,125
Must have been eight or nine of 'em.
678
00:36:55,458 --> 00:36:59,875
She's standing there frying that chicken
when them mans come and took a hold of her
679
00:36:59,958 --> 00:37:04,541
just like you take hold of a mule
and make it do what you want.
680
00:37:08,541 --> 00:37:10,041
There was my mama…
681
00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:13,208
with a gang of white mans.
682
00:37:17,750 --> 00:37:19,666
She tried to fight 'em off.
683
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,750
I could see where
it wasn't gonna do her any good.
684
00:37:25,041 --> 00:37:27,125
I didn't know what they was doing to her,
685
00:37:27,208 --> 00:37:30,541
but I figured whatever it was,
they might as well do to me too.
686
00:37:32,666 --> 00:37:36,625
My daddy had a knife he kept around there
for hunting and working and whatnot.
687
00:37:36,708 --> 00:37:39,708
And I knew where he kept it.
I went and got it.
688
00:37:42,125 --> 00:37:47,125
I'm gonna show you
how spooked up I was by the white man.
689
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,875
I tried my damnedest
to cut one of them's throat.
690
00:37:53,208 --> 00:37:54,750
I hit him on the shoulder.
691
00:37:55,875 --> 00:37:57,595
He reached back,
grabbed hold of that knife,
692
00:37:57,625 --> 00:38:00,041
and whacked me across the chest with it.
693
00:38:05,833 --> 00:38:07,416
That's what made them stop.
694
00:38:08,833 --> 00:38:11,041
They was scared
I was gonna bleed to death.
695
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,791
My mama wrapped me in a blanket,
696
00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:18,000
carried me two miles
down to the Furlow place
697
00:38:18,083 --> 00:38:20,333
and they drove me up to Doc Albans.
698
00:38:20,416 --> 00:38:23,958
He was waiting on a calf to be born,
and he say he ain't had time to see me.
699
00:38:25,125 --> 00:38:27,375
They carried me to Miss Etta, the midwife,
700
00:38:28,541 --> 00:38:30,000
and she fixed me up.
701
00:38:32,333 --> 00:38:33,791
My daddy came back
702
00:38:34,791 --> 00:38:37,708
and acted like he done accepted
the facts of what happened.
703
00:38:38,208 --> 00:38:40,583
He got the names
of them mans from Mama.
704
00:38:41,708 --> 00:38:43,000
He found out who they was,
705
00:38:43,083 --> 00:38:45,333
and then we announced
we was moving out that county.
706
00:38:45,416 --> 00:38:47,916
We said goodbye to everybody,
all the neighbors.
707
00:38:50,375 --> 00:38:53,375
My daddy went and smiled
in the face of one of them crackers
708
00:38:53,458 --> 00:38:54,916
who had been with my mama.
709
00:38:57,125 --> 00:38:58,708
Smiled in his face…
710
00:38:59,958 --> 00:39:01,625
and sold him our land.
711
00:39:03,833 --> 00:39:06,500
We moved over with relations in Caldwell.
712
00:39:07,208 --> 00:39:09,000
He got us settled in,
713
00:39:09,708 --> 00:39:12,875
and then he took off one day.
I ain't never seen him since.
714
00:39:18,041 --> 00:39:19,375
He sneaked back.
715
00:39:21,125 --> 00:39:22,666
Hiding up in the woods,
716
00:39:23,541 --> 00:39:26,083
laying to get them eight or nine men.
717
00:39:29,083 --> 00:39:31,500
He got four of them before they got him.
718
00:39:39,666 --> 00:39:41,625
They tracked him down in the woods.
719
00:39:44,166 --> 00:39:45,625
Caught up with him, hung him…
720
00:39:47,166 --> 00:39:48,333
set him afire.
721
00:39:53,208 --> 00:39:56,875
My daddy wasn't spooked up
by the white man. No, sir.
722
00:39:57,958 --> 00:40:00,208
And that taught me how to handle them.
723
00:40:01,291 --> 00:40:05,791
I seen my daddy go up
and grin in this cracker's face.
724
00:40:08,375 --> 00:40:11,541
Smile in his face and sell him his land.
725
00:40:11,625 --> 00:40:15,208
All the while,
he's planning how he's gonna get him
726
00:40:16,083 --> 00:40:17,625
and what he's gonna do to him.
727
00:40:19,333 --> 00:40:21,208
That taught me how to handle them.
728
00:40:23,166 --> 00:40:27,000
So you all just back up
and leave Levee alone about the white man.
729
00:40:27,833 --> 00:40:31,416
I can smile and say "yessir"
to whoever I please.
730
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:33,458
I got my time coming to me.
731
00:40:36,791 --> 00:40:39,416
You all just leave Levee alone
about the white man.
732
00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:00,583
♪ Everybody ♪
733
00:41:03,375 --> 00:41:06,666
Everybody come
from different places in Africa, right?
734
00:41:06,750 --> 00:41:08,416
Different tribes and things.
735
00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:11,958
Soon awhile they began
to make one big stew.
736
00:41:12,666 --> 00:41:16,583
You had your, uh, carrots and your peas,
737
00:41:16,666 --> 00:41:18,541
and your potatoes over here.
738
00:41:18,625 --> 00:41:21,000
And over there,
you had your meat and nuts,
739
00:41:21,083 --> 00:41:23,208
uh, okra, corn.
740
00:41:23,291 --> 00:41:28,041
And you mix it up, cook it real good
to where the flavors flow through.
741
00:41:28,125 --> 00:41:29,875
And then you got one thing.
742
00:41:29,958 --> 00:41:32,041
You got a stew.
743
00:41:33,041 --> 00:41:36,041
Now you take and you eat that stew.
744
00:41:36,125 --> 00:41:40,541
You take
and you make your history with that stew.
745
00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:45,250
But you look around
and you see some carrots over there,
746
00:41:45,333 --> 00:41:48,083
and some peas over here.
747
00:41:48,875 --> 00:41:53,208
And… that stew is still there.
748
00:41:54,583 --> 00:41:58,708
Hmm. You done made your history
and it's still there.
749
00:42:00,708 --> 00:42:03,541
You can't eat it all.
750
00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:07,958
What you got?
751
00:42:08,916 --> 00:42:12,000
You got some leftovers. That's what it is.
752
00:42:15,583 --> 00:42:21,875
See, we's the leftovers.
The colored man, he is the leftovers. Huh.
753
00:42:36,166 --> 00:42:38,083
What's the colored man
gonna do with himself?
754
00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:42,708
That's what we're waiting to find out.
755
00:42:48,750 --> 00:42:53,875
But first he's got to know
that he's a leftover.
756
00:43:22,750 --> 00:43:23,750
Mr. Irvin.
757
00:43:27,416 --> 00:43:29,500
I ain't got nothing to do with it, but…
758
00:43:31,041 --> 00:43:32,541
the boy can't do the part.
759
00:43:32,625 --> 00:43:34,625
He stutters right through it every time.
760
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:38,875
It's a whole different bottom, though.
It's a whole different style.
761
00:43:38,958 --> 00:43:41,875
Relax and breathe,
and everything's gonna be all right.
762
00:43:41,958 --> 00:43:44,208
I'm just gonna cue you in…
763
00:43:44,291 --> 00:43:47,166
I know where the four is, man.
Don't got to tell me nothing.
764
00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:51,125
You're gonna smile and say
the line. Then we gonna get goin'.
765
00:43:51,208 --> 00:43:53,208
- Cutler.
- Ma'am?
766
00:43:53,291 --> 00:43:55,750
I know it's on the four…
767
00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:58,875
Levee got his eyes in the wrong place.
You better school him, Cutler.
768
00:43:58,958 --> 00:44:02,208
Come on, Levee. Let's get ready to play.
Keep your mind on your work.
769
00:44:02,291 --> 00:44:05,500
Okay, boys. Here we go.
Here we go. Here we go.
770
00:44:06,083 --> 00:44:09,000
"Moonshine Blues" first.
"Moonshine Blues," Ma.
771
00:44:09,083 --> 00:44:11,723
I ain't doing no moonshine nothing.
I'm doing "Black Bottom" first.
772
00:44:11,750 --> 00:44:13,583
Come on, Sylvester.
Where's Sylvester's mic?
773
00:44:13,666 --> 00:44:15,250
Irvin, get him a mic.
774
00:44:15,333 --> 00:44:18,833
Uh… Ma, the boys say he can't do it.
775
00:44:19,416 --> 00:44:22,958
Who? Who say he can't do it?
What boys say he can't do it?
776
00:44:24,125 --> 00:44:25,791
The band, Ma. The boys in the band.
777
00:44:27,916 --> 00:44:28,958
What band?
778
00:44:30,833 --> 00:44:31,958
Band work for me.
779
00:44:32,041 --> 00:44:34,625
He stutters, Ma.
They say he stutters.
780
00:44:34,708 --> 00:44:36,541
I don't care if he do.
781
00:44:36,625 --> 00:44:39,791
I promised the boy
he could do the part, so he gonna do it.
782
00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:43,458
And that's all there is to it.
He don't stutter all the time.
783
00:44:43,541 --> 00:44:45,166
Get a microphone down here for him.
784
00:44:45,250 --> 00:44:46,625
We don't have time. We can't...
785
00:44:46,708 --> 00:44:48,458
If you wanna make a record, find the time.
786
00:44:48,541 --> 00:44:51,125
I ain't playing with you.
I could walk out of here right now.
787
00:44:51,208 --> 00:44:53,458
Go back to my tour.
I don't need to go through all this.
788
00:44:53,541 --> 00:44:55,916
Go get the boy a microphone.
789
00:45:01,625 --> 00:45:04,208
Levee, I know you had something
to do with this. Watch yourself.
790
00:45:04,291 --> 00:45:05,291
It was Cutler.
791
00:45:05,375 --> 00:45:08,250
It was you.
You the only one…
792
00:45:08,333 --> 00:45:09,958
The boy stutter. He can't do the part.
793
00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:11,541
Can or can't, he gonna do it.
794
00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:13,791
- You ain't got nothing to do with it.
- I don't care.
795
00:45:13,875 --> 00:45:17,083
- He can sing the whole song.
- Well, all right. Thank you.
796
00:45:17,166 --> 00:45:19,125
He's only getting one chance.
The cost of this...
797
00:45:19,208 --> 00:45:21,750
Damn the cost.
You always talking about the cost.
798
00:45:21,833 --> 00:45:24,713
I make more money for this outfit
than anybody else you got put together.
799
00:45:24,791 --> 00:45:27,416
If he mess up,
he'll do it till he get it right.
800
00:45:30,875 --> 00:45:33,291
Come on, baby. Come on. Come.
801
00:45:33,916 --> 00:45:37,416
Stand right there. Hold your hands
like I told you to. Okay. Come on.
802
00:45:38,625 --> 00:45:40,541
All right. Don't worry about messing up.
803
00:45:40,625 --> 00:45:42,708
You mess up,
we'll do it till you get it right.
804
00:45:42,791 --> 00:45:44,958
All right. Play it for him, Cutler.
805
00:45:45,041 --> 00:45:45,999
All right.
806
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,583
One, two, you know what to do.
807
00:45:51,375 --> 00:45:52,375
All right, boys,
808
00:45:53,208 --> 00:45:57,041
you done seen the best.
809
00:45:57,833 --> 00:45:59,125
Now I'm gonna show you the rest.
810
00:45:59,750 --> 00:46:03,666
Ma Rainey's gonna
show you her b… b… b…
811
00:46:03,750 --> 00:46:06,041
black b… bottom.
812
00:46:06,583 --> 00:46:10,000
That's real good, baby.
You take your time. You'll get it right.
813
00:46:10,083 --> 00:46:12,083
Okay, Ma. We're ready to go.
814
00:46:12,166 --> 00:46:14,875
- Where's my Coke?
- "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," boys.
815
00:46:14,958 --> 00:46:18,750
Where's my Coke? I need a Coke.
Hot as it is. Shit. I need a Coke.
816
00:46:18,833 --> 00:46:19,832
What's the matter, Ma?
817
00:46:19,833 --> 00:46:21,916
Where's my Coke? I need a cold Coca-Cola.
818
00:46:22,458 --> 00:46:23,833
Uh, Ma, look…
819
00:46:24,875 --> 00:46:26,125
I forgot the Coke.
820
00:46:26,708 --> 00:46:29,416
Let's do it without it, huh?
Just this one song. What say, boys?
821
00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:33,083
Damn what the band say. You supposed
to have my Coca-Cola. You knew that.
822
00:46:33,166 --> 00:46:34,846
I ain't doing nothing
without my Coca-Cola.
823
00:46:35,416 --> 00:46:36,936
- Shit.
- Just a minute here, Ma.
824
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,375
You come in an hour late...
825
00:46:38,458 --> 00:46:40,958
Get out my face.
Irvin, I told you keep him away from me.
826
00:46:41,041 --> 00:46:43,124
I'm tired of her nonsense.
I'm not gonna put up with this.
827
00:46:43,125 --> 00:46:45,000
Let me. Ma, listen.
828
00:46:45,083 --> 00:46:48,375
I'll call down to the deli
and get you a Coke. But let's get started.
829
00:46:48,458 --> 00:46:51,291
Sylvester's standing there ready to go,
the band's all set up.
830
00:46:51,375 --> 00:46:52,833
Let's do this one song.
831
00:46:52,916 --> 00:46:55,000
Too cheap to buy me a Coca-Cola.
I'll buy my own.
832
00:46:55,083 --> 00:46:57,083
Slow Drag, Sylvester. Go on, baby.
833
00:46:57,166 --> 00:47:01,125
Get me three bottles of Coca-Cola,
ice cold. Get y'all something too.
834
00:47:01,208 --> 00:47:02,448
- Keep the change.
- Yes, ma'am.
835
00:47:03,208 --> 00:47:04,958
Irvin, get away from me. Shit.
836
00:47:05,041 --> 00:47:07,458
You can wait till I get my Coca-Cola.
Ain't gonna kill you.
837
00:47:07,541 --> 00:47:09,958
Okay, Ma. Get your Coke.
838
00:47:10,041 --> 00:47:11,500
Gentlemen, the band room.
839
00:47:12,083 --> 00:47:14,166
Christ sakes, get your Coke.
840
00:47:18,708 --> 00:47:19,875
Cutler.
841
00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:23,208
Come here a minute. I need to talk to you.
842
00:47:41,916 --> 00:47:45,125
What's all this shit about
"the boys in the band said"?
843
00:47:45,208 --> 00:47:47,166
I tells you what to do.
844
00:47:47,250 --> 00:47:50,625
I says what the matter is with the band.
I say who can and can't do what.
845
00:47:50,708 --> 00:47:52,250
We just say 'cause the boy stutter.
846
00:47:52,333 --> 00:47:54,416
I know he stutters.
Don't you think I know?
847
00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:55,833
This is what gonna help him.
848
00:47:55,916 --> 00:47:57,166
We thought it'd be easier...
849
00:47:57,250 --> 00:47:58,999
He gonna do the part. I don't
wanna hear any more of this shit
850
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,000
about what the boys in the band says.
851
00:48:05,916 --> 00:48:09,625
And I want you to find somebody
to replace Levee when we get to Memphis.
852
00:48:09,708 --> 00:48:11,333
Levee ain't nothing but trouble.
853
00:48:11,416 --> 00:48:12,666
Levee all right.
854
00:48:12,750 --> 00:48:15,250
He plays good music
when he puts his mind to it.
855
00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:17,500
- He know how to write music too.
- I don't care.
856
00:48:17,583 --> 00:48:18,707
He ain't nothing but bad news.
857
00:48:18,708 --> 00:48:21,166
Find somebody else.
He the ringtail leader.
858
00:48:21,250 --> 00:48:23,666
I know it was his idea
who to say who can do what.
859
00:48:23,750 --> 00:48:27,208
Dussie Mae! Sit your ass down
and stop flaunting yourself around.
860
00:48:27,291 --> 00:48:28,375
I ain't doing nothing.
861
00:48:28,458 --> 00:48:30,583
Just go somewhere and stay out of the way.
862
00:48:48,625 --> 00:48:51,458
♪ You can slide across the floor ♪
863
00:48:51,541 --> 00:48:54,916
♪ You'll never have to stall
My jelly roll ♪
864
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,833
♪ Oh, my jelly roll
My jelly roll ♪
865
00:48:59,916 --> 00:49:02,833
Hi. I just wanted to see
what it look like down here.
866
00:49:03,625 --> 00:49:04,958
Well, come on in.
867
00:49:05,791 --> 00:49:06,791
I don't bite.
868
00:49:09,125 --> 00:49:10,565
I didn't know you could write music.
869
00:49:10,625 --> 00:49:13,416
I just thought you was
jiving me at the club last night.
870
00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:15,666
No, baby. I knows how to write music.
871
00:49:15,750 --> 00:49:18,000
I done give some
of my songs to Mr. Sturdyvant.
872
00:49:18,083 --> 00:49:19,583
He say he gonna let me record 'em.
873
00:49:19,666 --> 00:49:21,375
I'm gonna have my own band.
874
00:49:21,458 --> 00:49:25,541
Hey, Toledo. Ain't I give
Mr. Sturdyvant some of my songs I wrote?
875
00:49:26,125 --> 00:49:27,916
Don't get Toledo mixed up in nothing.
876
00:49:29,708 --> 00:49:31,666
You gonna have your own band, sure enough?
877
00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:36,333
Levee Green and his Footstompers.
878
00:49:36,416 --> 00:49:39,791
A man what's gonna get his own band
need to have a woman like you.
879
00:49:39,875 --> 00:49:43,166
A woman like me need a man
to bring it and put it in my hand.
880
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,665
I don't need nobody
getting something for nothing
881
00:49:45,666 --> 00:49:47,458
and leave me standing in my door.
882
00:49:47,541 --> 00:49:51,041
That ain't Levee's style, sugar.
I knows how to treat a woman.
883
00:49:51,625 --> 00:49:54,625
Buy her presents and things.
Treat her like she want to be treated.
884
00:49:54,708 --> 00:49:57,833
That's what they all say till
it come time to be buying the presents.
885
00:49:57,916 --> 00:50:01,625
When we get down to Memphis,
I'm gonna take you out,
886
00:50:01,708 --> 00:50:03,375
show you a good time.
887
00:50:04,208 --> 00:50:06,291
Show you Levee know how to treat a woman.
888
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,000
Ma.
889
00:50:14,750 --> 00:50:18,916
This "Moonshine Blues," that's one of them
songs that Bessie Smith sangs, I believe.
890
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,000
Bessie what?
891
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:21,791
I ain't thinking about Bessie.
892
00:50:22,333 --> 00:50:24,973
Shit. I taught Bessie. Bessie ain't
doing nothing but imitating me.
893
00:50:25,041 --> 00:50:28,166
What I care about Bessie?
I don't care if she sell a million record.
894
00:50:28,250 --> 00:50:31,250
She got her people. I got mine.
I don't care what nobody else do.
895
00:50:31,333 --> 00:50:33,000
Ma was the first. Don't you forget it.
896
00:50:33,083 --> 00:50:34,483
Nobody said nothing about all that.
897
00:50:34,500 --> 00:50:36,624
- I'm saying that's the song she sang.
- I've been doing this a long time.
898
00:50:36,625 --> 00:50:39,666
Ever since I was a little girl.
I don't care what nobody else do.
899
00:50:39,750 --> 00:50:42,250
Shoot. That's what
get me so mad with Irvin.
900
00:50:43,583 --> 00:50:45,457
White folks try to be
put out with you all the time.
901
00:50:45,458 --> 00:50:47,750
Too cheap to buy you a damn Coca-Cola.
902
00:50:47,833 --> 00:50:50,291
I lets them know it, though.
Ma don't stand for no shit.
903
00:50:51,041 --> 00:50:52,083
Shoot.
904
00:50:52,166 --> 00:50:55,166
They wanna take your voice
and trap it in all them fancy boxes
905
00:50:55,250 --> 00:50:59,666
with all them buttons and dials,
and then too cheap to buy you a Coca-Cola.
906
00:51:00,250 --> 00:51:02,166
Don't cost but a nickel a bottle.
907
00:51:06,833 --> 00:51:08,791
They don't care nothing about me.
908
00:51:11,958 --> 00:51:15,083
All they want is my voice.
909
00:51:18,750 --> 00:51:20,083
Well, I done learned that.
910
00:51:22,125 --> 00:51:24,208
And they gonna treat me
the way I want to be treated
911
00:51:24,291 --> 00:51:25,916
no matter how much it hurt 'em.
912
00:51:29,666 --> 00:51:32,500
They back there right now
calling me all kinds of names.
913
00:51:32,583 --> 00:51:34,541
Calling me everything but a child of God.
914
00:51:35,166 --> 00:51:38,541
But they can't do nothing else 'cause
they ain't got what they wanted yet.
915
00:51:39,375 --> 00:51:43,000
As soon as they get my voice down
on one them recording machines,
916
00:51:43,750 --> 00:51:48,291
then it's just like I'd be some whore
and they roll over and put their pants on.
917
00:51:48,375 --> 00:51:50,125
They ain't got no use for me then.
918
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,083
I know what I'm talking about. You watch.
919
00:51:54,791 --> 00:51:57,500
And Irvin,
he right there with the rest of them.
920
00:51:57,583 --> 00:51:59,333
He don't care nothing about me either.
921
00:52:00,041 --> 00:52:03,250
He's been my manager for six years,
and the only time he had me over his house
922
00:52:03,333 --> 00:52:05,083
was to sing for some of his white friends.
923
00:52:05,166 --> 00:52:07,000
Huh. I know how they do.
924
00:52:07,083 --> 00:52:09,666
Yeah. Shit, you colored
and you can make 'em some money,
925
00:52:09,750 --> 00:52:14,041
then you all right with them,
otherwise you just a dog in the alley.
926
00:52:14,958 --> 00:52:16,666
I done made them
more money from my records
927
00:52:16,750 --> 00:52:19,208
than all them other
recording artists they got put together,
928
00:52:19,291 --> 00:52:23,125
and then they wanna balk about
how much this session is costing them.
929
00:52:23,208 --> 00:52:25,375
I can't see how
it's costing as much as they say.
930
00:52:25,458 --> 00:52:28,208
Shit, it ain't.
I don't pay that kind of talk no mind.
931
00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:35,000
- I already got my fellas picked out.
- Mmm-hmm.
932
00:52:35,083 --> 00:52:39,208
I'm getting me some good fellas.
Know how to play real sweet music.
933
00:52:39,291 --> 00:52:42,583
You get your own band,
we'll see about this stuff you talking.
934
00:52:43,208 --> 00:52:45,916
I just wanna show you
I knows what the womens like.
935
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,875
They don't call me
Sweet Lemonade for nothing.
936
00:52:48,958 --> 00:52:50,666
Stop it now. Somebody gonna come in here.
937
00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:51,750
No, they ain't.
938
00:52:53,166 --> 00:52:54,166
Look here, sugar.
939
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,666
What I wants to know is,
940
00:52:57,416 --> 00:53:02,250
can I introduce
my red rooster to your brown hen.
941
00:53:09,208 --> 00:53:13,000
You get your own band and we'll see
if your red rooster know how to crow.
942
00:53:21,708 --> 00:53:24,250
Mmm. Damn, baby.
943
00:53:24,333 --> 00:53:27,166
Now I know
why my grandpappy sat on the front porch
944
00:53:27,250 --> 00:53:30,375
with a straight razor
when my grandma hung out the wash.
945
00:53:30,458 --> 00:53:32,000
You crazy!
946
00:53:32,083 --> 00:53:34,250
Whoo!
947
00:53:36,958 --> 00:53:40,958
I bet you sound like
the midnight train to Alabama
948
00:53:41,041 --> 00:53:43,625
when it crosses the Mason-Dixon Line.
949
00:53:47,833 --> 00:53:50,083
How you get so crazy?
950
00:53:50,166 --> 00:53:53,333
It's women like you that drive me so…
951
00:53:54,958 --> 00:53:56,666
Good God.
952
00:53:57,250 --> 00:53:59,833
Happy birthday to the lady with the cakes.
953
00:54:13,208 --> 00:54:15,000
Sure done got quiet in here.
954
00:54:19,125 --> 00:54:21,208
I never could stand no silence.
955
00:54:22,333 --> 00:54:25,458
I always got to have some music
going on in my head somewhere.
956
00:54:26,250 --> 00:54:27,875
It keeps things balanced.
957
00:54:27,958 --> 00:54:30,125
Music will do that. It fills things up.
958
00:54:31,458 --> 00:54:34,875
The more music you have
in the world, the fuller it is.
959
00:54:34,958 --> 00:54:37,916
I can agree with that.
I got to have my music too.
960
00:54:38,541 --> 00:54:40,875
White folk
don't understand about the blues.
961
00:54:41,875 --> 00:54:44,541
They hear it come out,
but they don't know how it got there.
962
00:54:46,208 --> 00:54:49,041
They don't understand
that that's life's way of talking.
963
00:54:50,208 --> 00:54:51,750
You don't sing to feel better.
964
00:54:52,625 --> 00:54:55,500
You sing 'cause
that's a way of understanding life.
965
00:54:57,750 --> 00:55:00,208
The blues help you
get out of bed in the morning.
966
00:55:02,041 --> 00:55:04,250
You get up knowing you ain't alone.
967
00:55:05,958 --> 00:55:07,791
There's something else in the world.
968
00:55:09,208 --> 00:55:12,666
Something's been added by that song.
969
00:55:15,458 --> 00:55:16,458
Mmm.
970
00:55:19,541 --> 00:55:22,125
This be an empty world without the blues.
971
00:55:24,333 --> 00:55:25,249
Yeah.
972
00:55:25,250 --> 00:55:28,708
I try to take that emptiness
and fill it up with something.
973
00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:31,125
Ooh!
974
00:55:33,833 --> 00:55:37,208
I ain't started blues way of singing.
Blues always been there.
975
00:55:37,291 --> 00:55:39,082
But if they wanna
call me the Mother of Blues,
976
00:55:39,083 --> 00:55:41,208
that's all right with me.
It don't hurt none.
977
00:55:43,708 --> 00:55:46,500
Sure did take y'all a long time.
Sylvester, get Irvin.
978
00:55:46,583 --> 00:55:47,708
Tell him we ready to go.
979
00:55:47,791 --> 00:55:48,791
I'll grab Levee.
980
00:55:59,083 --> 00:56:00,083
Ah…
981
00:56:07,333 --> 00:56:09,708
Ma got her Coke, Levee.
We about ready to start.
982
00:56:09,791 --> 00:56:11,874
- Get this off me.
- Okay.
983
00:56:11,875 --> 00:56:15,833
- Okay, gotta go.
- Just go!
984
00:56:30,041 --> 00:56:33,583
Okay, boys.
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take one.
985
00:56:34,916 --> 00:56:37,625
Two, you know what to do.
986
00:56:40,125 --> 00:56:45,250
All right, boys,
you… you… d… done…
987
00:56:48,208 --> 00:56:49,333
Take two.
988
00:56:50,125 --> 00:56:51,208
All right, boys,
989
00:56:51,291 --> 00:56:54,458
you done seen the rest.
Now I'm gonna show you the best.
990
00:56:54,541 --> 00:56:58,208
Ma Rainey's gonna show you her…
B… B… B…
991
00:57:01,875 --> 00:57:03,000
Take…
992
00:57:05,250 --> 00:57:06,250
Hmm.
993
00:57:12,416 --> 00:57:15,208
Ma, can we just do it without the…
994
00:57:17,375 --> 00:57:18,458
Take six.
995
00:57:26,375 --> 00:57:27,500
Take seven.
996
00:57:30,875 --> 00:57:31,916
All right, boys,
997
00:57:32,625 --> 00:57:36,000
you done seen the rest.
Now I'm gonna show you the best.
998
00:57:36,708 --> 00:57:38,958
Ma Rainey's
gonna show you her black bottom.
999
00:57:39,583 --> 00:57:42,875
♪ Way down South in Alabamy ♪
1000
00:57:44,250 --> 00:57:47,541
♪ I got a friend they call Dancin' Sammy ♪
1001
00:57:48,791 --> 00:57:52,416
♪ Who's crazy
About all the latest dances ♪
1002
00:57:53,041 --> 00:57:57,333
♪ Black bottom stomps
And the new baby prances ♪
1003
00:57:57,416 --> 00:58:01,833
♪ The other night at a swell affair ♪
1004
00:58:02,416 --> 00:58:05,916
♪ Soon as the boys
Found out that I was there ♪
1005
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:10,541
♪ They said, "Come on, Ma
Let's go to the cabaret" ♪
1006
00:58:11,625 --> 00:58:15,208
♪ When I got there, they began to say ♪
1007
00:58:16,250 --> 00:58:19,916
♪ "I wanna see that dance
They call the black bottom" ♪
1008
00:58:20,958 --> 00:58:23,083
♪ "I wanna learn that dance" ♪
1009
00:58:24,916 --> 00:58:29,458
♪ "Wanna see the dance
They call your big black bottom" ♪
1010
00:58:30,166 --> 00:58:32,833
♪ It'll put you in a trance ♪
1011
00:58:34,500 --> 00:58:38,166
♪ All the boys in the neighborhood ♪
1012
00:58:38,250 --> 00:58:42,958
♪ They say
"Your black bottom is really good" ♪
1013
00:58:44,250 --> 00:58:48,041
♪ "Come on and show me
Your black bottom" ♪
1014
00:58:48,958 --> 00:58:52,208
♪ "I wanna learn that dance" ♪
1015
00:58:53,583 --> 00:58:57,583
♪ I wanna see the dance
They call the black bottom ♪
1016
00:58:58,416 --> 00:59:01,041
♪ I wanna learn that dance ♪
1017
00:59:02,750 --> 00:59:07,750
♪ Wanna see you do the dance
You call your big black bottom ♪
1018
00:59:07,833 --> 00:59:10,666
♪ It'll put you in a trance ♪
1019
00:59:12,208 --> 00:59:15,958
♪ Early one morning
'Bout the break of day ♪
1020
00:59:17,208 --> 00:59:21,041
♪ Grandpa told Grandma, I heard him say ♪
1021
00:59:21,916 --> 00:59:25,916
♪ "Get on up and show your old man
Your black bottom" ♪
1022
00:59:26,416 --> 00:59:30,416
♪ I wanna learn that dance
Yes, sir ♪
1023
00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:34,833
♪ I wanna learn that dance ♪
1024
00:59:38,583 --> 00:59:41,625
Okay, that's good, Ma.
That sounded great. Good job, boys.
1025
00:59:41,708 --> 00:59:43,625
See? I told you you could do it!
1026
00:59:43,708 --> 00:59:45,707
- He did good.
- All you gotta do is set your mind to it.
1027
00:59:45,708 --> 00:59:47,332
- He did better than I thought he would.
- My baby.
1028
00:59:47,333 --> 00:59:51,208
- Mwah. That's my baby.
- Hey, boy. Hey, boys, Ma.
1029
00:59:51,291 --> 00:59:55,416
- Yeah!
- Hey, let's do "Moonshine Blues" next?
1030
00:59:56,083 --> 00:59:57,125
"Moonshine Blues," boys.
1031
00:59:57,208 --> 01:00:00,958
Irv? Something happened
with the recording. Check that mic.
1032
01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:03,583
One, one, one, two, check, one...
1033
01:00:03,666 --> 01:00:05,375
No. The problem's with the kid's mic.
1034
01:00:06,791 --> 01:00:08,666
Oh, Christ Almighty!
1035
01:00:09,250 --> 01:00:11,000
- Ma, we didn't record the song.
- Shit!
1036
01:00:11,083 --> 01:00:12,707
What you mean you didn't record the song?
1037
01:00:12,708 --> 01:00:14,290
What were you
and Sturdyvant doing up there?
1038
01:00:14,291 --> 01:00:15,624
Levee must have
kicked the plug out.
1039
01:00:15,625 --> 01:00:16,624
I ain't kicked nothing.
1040
01:00:16,625 --> 01:00:18,333
If Levee had his mind
on what he was doing.
1041
01:00:18,416 --> 01:00:21,250
If it ain't one thing, it's another.
Straighten your black ass out.
1042
01:00:21,333 --> 01:00:23,208
Hell, it ain't my fault.
I ain't done nothing.
1043
01:00:23,291 --> 01:00:24,333
It's the cord, Mel.
1044
01:00:24,416 --> 01:00:26,333
The cord's all chewed up.
We need another cord.
1045
01:00:26,416 --> 01:00:28,041
- The most disorganized…
- Ma?
1046
01:00:28,125 --> 01:00:29,624
- Waste of my time.
- Where's she going?
1047
01:00:29,625 --> 01:00:31,083
- Shit.
- Ma? Ma!
1048
01:00:31,666 --> 01:00:32,582
Ma?
1049
01:00:32,583 --> 01:00:35,458
If you walk out of this studio,
you're through. You're washed-up.
1050
01:00:35,541 --> 01:00:37,291
Chrissakes, Mel! Ma!
1051
01:00:37,375 --> 01:00:40,250
Ma, come back here! Ma, please!
1052
01:00:43,083 --> 01:00:44,083
Listen, Ma.
1053
01:00:45,125 --> 01:00:46,833
These records are gonna be hits.
1054
01:00:47,541 --> 01:00:49,458
They are gonna sell like crazy.
1055
01:00:49,541 --> 01:00:51,416
Hell, even Sylvester will be a star.
1056
01:00:52,666 --> 01:00:53,833
Fifteen minutes.
1057
01:00:55,125 --> 01:00:58,583
That is all I am asking, Ma.
Just 15 minutes.
1058
01:01:03,333 --> 01:01:06,208
Fifteen minutes.
You hear me, Irvin? Fifteen minutes.
1059
01:01:06,291 --> 01:01:09,375
Then I'm gonna carry my black bottom
on back down to Georgia, you hear me?
1060
01:01:09,458 --> 01:01:11,208
Fifteen minutes.
1061
01:01:14,958 --> 01:01:17,166
You boys go ahead
and take a break.
1062
01:01:17,250 --> 01:01:19,541
Fifteen minutes. We'll be ready to go.
1063
01:01:20,500 --> 01:01:22,333
Don't make
no difference to me if she leave.
1064
01:01:22,416 --> 01:01:24,375
I'm ready to get on outta here, anyway.
1065
01:01:24,458 --> 01:01:25,583
If I was Mr. Irvin,
1066
01:01:25,666 --> 01:01:28,458
I'd go on and get them cords
and things hooked up right.
1067
01:01:28,541 --> 01:01:31,333
If Levee kept his mind on his work,
we wouldn't be in this fix.
1068
01:01:31,416 --> 01:01:32,625
We'd be up there finishing up.
1069
01:01:32,708 --> 01:01:35,041
Now we gotta see
if that boy can get that part right.
1070
01:01:35,125 --> 01:01:37,375
He got one eye on the gal
and the other on his trumpet.
1071
01:01:37,458 --> 01:01:39,207
Nigga,
don't you know that's Ma's gal?
1072
01:01:39,208 --> 01:01:42,208
I ain't done nothing to her. I just
talk to her like I talk to anybody else.
1073
01:01:42,291 --> 01:01:44,832
Your ass gonna be out there
scraping the concrete, lookin' for a job,
1074
01:01:44,833 --> 01:01:45,874
you keep messing around with her.
1075
01:01:45,875 --> 01:01:48,583
I ain't done nothing to the gal.
I just asked her her name.
1076
01:01:48,666 --> 01:01:51,066
If you sayin' I can't do that,
Ma'll just have to go to hell.
1077
01:01:51,083 --> 01:01:53,708
I'm through with it.
Try talking to a fool.
1078
01:01:53,791 --> 01:01:57,666
Some mens got it worse than others.
Some mens is excited to be a fool.
1079
01:01:59,458 --> 01:02:02,083
I knows about it.
The excitement is something else.
1080
01:02:02,166 --> 01:02:05,875
I done experienced it.
Make you feel good to be a fool.
1081
01:02:06,458 --> 01:02:07,791
But it don't last long.
1082
01:02:07,875 --> 01:02:11,083
Over in a minute, then you
got to tend with the consequences.
1083
01:02:11,166 --> 01:02:14,541
That's the best sense you made all day,
talking about being a fool.
1084
01:02:14,625 --> 01:02:17,833
That's the only sensible thing
you said today, admitting you was a fool.
1085
01:02:17,916 --> 01:02:21,375
Oh, I admits it, all right.
Ain't nothing wrong with it.
1086
01:02:21,458 --> 01:02:24,375
I done been
a little bit of everything.
1087
01:02:24,458 --> 01:02:27,166
Gonna be a bit more things
before I'm finished with it.
1088
01:02:27,250 --> 01:02:29,375
But I ain't never been
the same fool twice.
1089
01:02:29,458 --> 01:02:30,791
That's where we part ways.
1090
01:02:30,875 --> 01:02:33,208
But you been a fool. That's what counts.
1091
01:02:33,291 --> 01:02:35,416
Talking about I'm a fool
for asking the girl her name,
1092
01:02:35,500 --> 01:02:37,125
and here you is one yourself.
1093
01:02:37,208 --> 01:02:39,000
I married a woman. A good woman.
1094
01:02:39,083 --> 01:02:42,125
To this day,
I can't say nothing bad about this woman.
1095
01:02:42,208 --> 01:02:45,583
I married her with all the good intentions
and graces of being hooked up,
1096
01:02:45,666 --> 01:02:47,875
bound to her for the rest of my life.
1097
01:02:47,958 --> 01:02:49,833
Looking for this woman
to put me in my grave,
1098
01:02:50,416 --> 01:02:52,666
but she went out and joined the church.
1099
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:58,625
She got up there
and got to seeing them good Christian men
1100
01:02:58,708 --> 01:03:00,791
and wondering why I ain't like that.
1101
01:03:01,375 --> 01:03:04,125
Soon she figured
she hooked up to a heathen.
1102
01:03:04,208 --> 01:03:05,500
Couldn't live like that.
1103
01:03:06,750 --> 01:03:07,750
So she left.
1104
01:03:08,500 --> 01:03:09,625
Hmm.
1105
01:03:09,708 --> 01:03:14,416
I just sat down and I figured I was a fool
1106
01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:18,000
not to see that she needed
something that I wasn't giving her,
1107
01:03:18,083 --> 01:03:20,416
else she wouldn't have been
up there at the church.
1108
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:22,000
So, yeah…
1109
01:03:22,833 --> 01:03:25,041
Toledo been a fool about a woman.
1110
01:03:26,416 --> 01:03:27,791
That's part of making life.
1111
01:03:28,958 --> 01:03:31,041
Toledo, what you call a fool
1112
01:03:31,125 --> 01:03:33,416
and what I call a fool
are two different things.
1113
01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:37,666
A fool is responsible
for what happen to him.
1114
01:03:37,750 --> 01:03:40,291
A fool cause it to happen. Like Levee.
1115
01:03:40,791 --> 01:03:44,583
He keep messing around with Ma's gal,
his feet be out there scraping the ground.
1116
01:03:44,666 --> 01:03:46,750
- That's a fool.
- Nothing gonna happen to Levee.
1117
01:03:46,833 --> 01:03:48,499
Levee ain't gonna let
nothing happen to him.
1118
01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:51,457
Better not let Ma see you ask her.
That's what the man's trying to tell you.
1119
01:03:51,458 --> 01:03:53,208
I don't need nobody to tell me nothing.
1120
01:03:53,291 --> 01:03:55,958
Toledo, all I'm saying is,
from the looks of it,
1121
01:03:56,041 --> 01:03:58,375
from your story,
I don't think life treated you fair.
1122
01:03:58,458 --> 01:03:59,750
Oh, life's fair.
1123
01:03:59,833 --> 01:04:00,958
Life ain't shit.
1124
01:04:01,041 --> 01:04:03,290
You can put it in a paper bag
and carry it around with you.
1125
01:04:03,291 --> 01:04:05,500
It ain't got no balls.
1126
01:04:05,583 --> 01:04:08,333
Now death? Death got some style.
1127
01:04:08,416 --> 01:04:11,000
Death will kick your ass
and make you wish you never been born.
1128
01:04:11,083 --> 01:04:12,500
That's how bad death is.
1129
01:04:12,583 --> 01:04:14,791
But you can rule over life.
Life ain't nothing.
1130
01:04:14,875 --> 01:04:17,625
Nigga talking about life is fair
and ain't got a pot to piss in.
1131
01:04:17,708 --> 01:04:19,708
All right.
Now I'm gonna tell you something.
1132
01:04:19,791 --> 01:04:22,166
A nigga gonna be dissatisfied
no matter what.
1133
01:04:22,250 --> 01:04:24,250
Niggas got a right to be dissatisfied.
1134
01:04:24,333 --> 01:04:27,291
Is you gonna be satisfied
with a bone somebody done throwed you
1135
01:04:27,375 --> 01:04:29,458
when you done
seen them eating a whole hog?
1136
01:04:29,541 --> 01:04:32,625
You lucky they let you be an entertainer.
You're lucky and don't even know it.
1137
01:04:32,708 --> 01:04:36,458
I'm talking about being satisfied
with a bone somebody done throwed you.
1138
01:04:36,541 --> 01:04:40,125
That's what's the matter with y'all,
you're satisfied sitting in one place.
1139
01:04:40,208 --> 01:04:41,750
Soon as I get my band together
1140
01:04:41,833 --> 01:04:44,333
and record them songs
Mr. Sturdyvant done told me I can make,
1141
01:04:44,416 --> 01:04:47,500
I'm gonna be like Ma and tell
the white man just what he can do.
1142
01:04:48,083 --> 01:04:49,625
Ma tell Mr. Irvin she leaving?
1143
01:04:49,708 --> 01:04:53,125
Mr. Irvin get down on his knees
and beg her to stay.
1144
01:04:53,208 --> 01:04:56,333
That's the way I'm gonna be.
Make the white man respect me.
1145
01:04:56,416 --> 01:04:58,375
The white man don't care nothing about Ma.
1146
01:04:58,458 --> 01:05:00,625
The colored folks made Ma a star.
1147
01:05:00,708 --> 01:05:03,375
The white folks don't care
nothing about who she is
1148
01:05:03,458 --> 01:05:04,958
or what kind of music she make.
1149
01:05:05,041 --> 01:05:07,916
Let her go to one of them
white folks hotel and see how big she is.
1150
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,666
Hell, she can't even
get a cab up here in the North.
1151
01:05:10,750 --> 01:05:13,083
I'mma tell you something. Reverend Gates.
1152
01:05:13,166 --> 01:05:15,500
Slow Drag, you know
who I'm talking about. Reverend Gates.
1153
01:05:15,583 --> 01:05:19,333
Reverend Gates was, uh, coming up
from Tallahassee to Atlanta
1154
01:05:19,416 --> 01:05:22,875
to see his sister who was sick
at that time with the consumption.
1155
01:05:23,708 --> 01:05:26,583
The train come up
through Thomasville, then past Moultrie,
1156
01:05:26,666 --> 01:05:29,083
and then ended up
in this little town called Sigsbee.
1157
01:05:29,166 --> 01:05:31,166
You can stop telling that right there.
1158
01:05:31,250 --> 01:05:35,166
Ain't but one train come out
of Tallahassee headed north to Atlanta.
1159
01:05:35,250 --> 01:05:36,458
It don't stop at Sigsbee.
1160
01:05:36,541 --> 01:05:38,875
The only train
that stop at Sigsbee is the Santa Fe,
1161
01:05:38,958 --> 01:05:40,624
and you gotta transfer
at Moultrie to get it.
1162
01:05:40,625 --> 01:05:42,291
Maybe that's what he done. I don't know.
1163
01:05:42,375 --> 01:05:44,458
I'm just telling you
he got off at Sigsbee.
1164
01:05:44,541 --> 01:05:47,208
You telling it.
Tell it your way. Just make up anything.
1165
01:05:47,291 --> 01:05:49,125
Leave him alone and let him finish.
1166
01:05:49,208 --> 01:05:50,708
Go on, tell it your way.
1167
01:05:50,791 --> 01:05:54,000
Reverend Gates
got off this train in Sigsbee.
1168
01:05:54,083 --> 01:05:55,458
Figured he'd check the schedule
1169
01:05:55,541 --> 01:05:59,333
to make sure he arrived in time
for somebody to pick him up. All right?
1170
01:05:59,416 --> 01:06:03,791
While he's there, it come upon him
that he had to go to the bathroom.
1171
01:06:03,875 --> 01:06:05,875
Now, the only colored restroom they had
1172
01:06:05,958 --> 01:06:09,791
was an outhouse they had sitting way back,
200 yards or so from the train station.
1173
01:06:10,541 --> 01:06:13,916
While he's in the outhouse,
the train go off and leave without him.
1174
01:06:14,541 --> 01:06:17,833
Now, he don't know
where he is in this town.
1175
01:06:17,916 --> 01:06:19,875
In fact,
he ain't never heard of it before.
1176
01:06:19,958 --> 01:06:22,083
I heard of it,
and he ain't got off no train
1177
01:06:22,166 --> 01:06:24,208
coming outta Tallahassee in Sigsbee.
1178
01:06:24,791 --> 01:06:28,125
The man's standing there
trying to figure out what he gonna do,
1179
01:06:28,208 --> 01:06:30,500
where this train
done left him in this strange town.
1180
01:06:32,416 --> 01:06:33,625
It started getting dark.
1181
01:06:34,333 --> 01:06:36,708
He sees
where the sun's getting low in the sky,
1182
01:06:36,791 --> 01:06:39,166
and he's trying
to figure out what he gonna do,
1183
01:06:39,250 --> 01:06:40,832
when he noticed a couple of white fellas
1184
01:06:40,833 --> 01:06:42,875
standing across the street
from the station.
1185
01:06:42,958 --> 01:06:44,875
Just standing there, watching him.
1186
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,750
Then two or three more fellas
come up and join the other one.
1187
01:06:49,250 --> 01:06:53,250
Now he look around the station.
He don't see no colored folks nowhere.
1188
01:06:53,750 --> 01:06:55,665
He don't know
what's getting into these fellas' minds,
1189
01:06:55,666 --> 01:06:57,791
so he commence to walking.
1190
01:06:57,875 --> 01:07:01,000
He don't know where he walking.
He walking down the railroad tracks
1191
01:07:01,083 --> 01:07:03,416
when he hear, "Hey, nigger."
1192
01:07:04,833 --> 01:07:06,250
Just like that.
1193
01:07:07,041 --> 01:07:08,458
"Hey, nigger."
1194
01:07:10,041 --> 01:07:11,208
He keep walking.
1195
01:07:12,083 --> 01:07:15,125
They call him some more. He kept walking.
1196
01:07:16,291 --> 01:07:19,833
Then he heard a gunshot.
Yeah. He stopped then, you know.
1197
01:07:20,708 --> 01:07:21,916
They crowded around him.
1198
01:07:22,666 --> 01:07:23,791
He's standing there,
1199
01:07:24,583 --> 01:07:26,166
cross around his neck,
1200
01:07:26,250 --> 01:07:29,291
and the little Bible
that he keep with him all the time.
1201
01:07:30,458 --> 01:07:34,083
They ask who he was.
He said he was Reverend Gates
1202
01:07:34,166 --> 01:07:35,726
and he was on his way to see his sister
1203
01:07:35,750 --> 01:07:37,958
who was sick,
and the train went off and left him.
1204
01:07:38,041 --> 01:07:40,916
And they said, "Yeah, nigger?"
1205
01:07:41,500 --> 01:07:43,166
"But can you dance?"
1206
01:07:47,125 --> 01:07:48,416
He looked at them
1207
01:07:49,125 --> 01:07:50,583
and commenced to dancing.
1208
01:07:53,333 --> 01:07:56,416
One of them reached up
and tore his cross off his neck,
1209
01:07:56,500 --> 01:08:00,000
said he was committing heresy
by dancing with a cross and a Bible.
1210
01:08:02,375 --> 01:08:04,958
Took his Bible and tore it up,
1211
01:08:05,041 --> 01:08:07,833
and had him dancing
till they got tired of watching him.
1212
01:08:09,125 --> 01:08:13,708
- That's the only way that man...
- What I wants to know is, he a man of God.
1213
01:08:13,791 --> 01:08:16,416
Where the hell was God
when all this was going on?
1214
01:08:17,458 --> 01:08:19,458
Why didn't God strike down them crackers
1215
01:08:19,541 --> 01:08:21,666
with some of this lightning
you talking about to me?
1216
01:08:22,166 --> 01:08:23,958
Levee, you gonna burn in hell.
1217
01:08:24,041 --> 01:08:26,750
Why didn't God strike
some of them crackers down? Tell me that.
1218
01:08:26,833 --> 01:08:29,875
That's the question. Don't come
telling me this burning-in-hell shit.
1219
01:08:30,541 --> 01:08:31,958
He a man of God,
1220
01:08:32,041 --> 01:08:34,500
why didn't God
strike some of them crackers down?
1221
01:08:35,541 --> 01:08:38,666
I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you the truth.
1222
01:08:39,541 --> 01:08:41,875
God ain't never listened
to no nigga's prayers.
1223
01:08:41,958 --> 01:08:44,278
God take the nigga's prayers
and throw them in the garbage.
1224
01:08:44,333 --> 01:08:48,666
God don't pay niggas no mind.
In fact, God hate niggas.
1225
01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:51,583
Hate them with all the fury in his heart.
1226
01:08:51,666 --> 01:08:54,333
Jesus don't love you, nigga.
Jesus hate your black ass.
1227
01:08:54,416 --> 01:08:56,958
Come talking that shit to me.
Talking about burning in hell.
1228
01:08:57,041 --> 01:08:58,916
God can kiss my ass.
1229
01:09:00,333 --> 01:09:04,666
You wanna blaspheme my God!
That's my God! My God, you worthless...
1230
01:09:04,750 --> 01:09:06,125
Let him go!
1231
01:09:06,208 --> 01:09:07,416
- You worthless!
- Let him go!
1232
01:09:07,500 --> 01:09:10,541
- That's my God! Blaspheme my God.
- Let it go! It don't mean nothing!
1233
01:09:11,500 --> 01:09:13,000
It don't mean nothing!
1234
01:09:13,583 --> 01:09:16,125
It's your God, huh? Is that right?
1235
01:09:18,708 --> 01:09:21,083
All right,
I'm gonna give your God a chance.
1236
01:09:21,708 --> 01:09:23,583
I'm gonna give your God a chance.
1237
01:09:23,666 --> 01:09:25,916
I'm gonna give him
a chance to save your black ass.
1238
01:09:26,458 --> 01:09:28,916
- Put that knife up!
- Stay out of this, Toledo.
1239
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:30,249
- That's no way to solve nothing.
- Put that knife up!
1240
01:09:30,250 --> 01:09:33,166
I'm talking to Cutler's God! You hear me?
1241
01:09:33,250 --> 01:09:36,500
Cutler's God! I'm calling Cutler's God!
1242
01:09:37,708 --> 01:09:39,291
Come on and save this nigga.
1243
01:09:39,875 --> 01:09:42,125
Strike me down before I cut his throat.
1244
01:09:42,208 --> 01:09:45,041
- You gonna burn in hell, nigga.
- I'm calling your God.
1245
01:09:45,666 --> 01:09:49,416
I'm gonna give him a chance
to save you. I'm calling your God!
1246
01:09:50,166 --> 01:09:51,416
Cutler's God?
1247
01:09:51,500 --> 01:09:53,375
Come on and save this nigga.
1248
01:09:54,208 --> 01:09:56,416
Come on and save him like you did my mama.
1249
01:09:57,750 --> 01:10:00,000
Save him like you did my mama!
1250
01:10:02,541 --> 01:10:04,375
I heard her when she call you.
1251
01:10:06,083 --> 01:10:10,750
I heard her when she said,
"Lord have mercy. Jesus help me."
1252
01:10:11,750 --> 01:10:15,375
"Please, God, have mercy on me, Lord.
Jesus help me."
1253
01:10:16,958 --> 01:10:18,708
Did you turn your back?
1254
01:10:21,541 --> 01:10:24,083
Did you turn your back, motherfucker?
1255
01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:27,125
Did you turn your back?
1256
01:10:29,166 --> 01:10:30,166
Come on.
1257
01:10:31,375 --> 01:10:33,375
Come on and turn your back on me.
1258
01:10:35,416 --> 01:10:37,166
Turn your back on me!
1259
01:10:38,291 --> 01:10:39,625
Come on. Where is you?
1260
01:10:41,208 --> 01:10:43,333
Come on and turn your back on me!
1261
01:10:44,791 --> 01:10:48,625
Turn your back on me, motherfucker!
I'll cut your heart out!
1262
01:10:49,791 --> 01:10:53,166
Come on. What's the matter? Where is you?
1263
01:10:54,125 --> 01:10:56,041
Come on and turn your back on me.
1264
01:10:57,041 --> 01:10:59,166
Come on, what you scared of?
1265
01:11:00,666 --> 01:11:04,500
Turn your back on me! Come on!
1266
01:11:10,500 --> 01:11:12,333
Coward motherfucker!
1267
01:11:17,208 --> 01:11:18,833
Your God ain't shit, Cutler.
1268
01:11:22,208 --> 01:11:23,625
Your God ain't shit.
1269
01:11:39,916 --> 01:11:44,041
♪ Hello, central, give me 609 ♪
1270
01:11:44,750 --> 01:11:48,250
♪ What it takes to get it
In these hips of mine ♪
1271
01:11:48,333 --> 01:11:51,000
♪ Oh, you'll hear me talking to you ♪
1272
01:11:51,583 --> 01:11:54,625
♪ I don't bite my tongue ♪
1273
01:11:56,958 --> 01:11:59,416
♪ You wanna be my man ♪
1274
01:11:59,500 --> 01:12:03,041
♪ You better bring it with you
When you come ♪
1275
01:12:06,375 --> 01:12:08,916
♪ You wanna be my man ♪
1276
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:12,958
♪ Bring it with you when you come ♪
1277
01:12:23,916 --> 01:12:25,708
Wonderful. We got that, boys.
1278
01:12:25,791 --> 01:12:26,875
Whoo-hoo!
1279
01:12:26,958 --> 01:12:29,250
Good session, Ma.
We've got ourselves some winners!
1280
01:12:29,333 --> 01:12:31,333
Slow Drag,
where you learn to play that bass at?
1281
01:12:31,416 --> 01:12:33,250
I heard it singing. I heard you.
1282
01:12:33,333 --> 01:12:35,093
You had that bass
jumping all over the place.
1283
01:12:35,125 --> 01:12:36,291
I was following Toledo.
1284
01:12:36,375 --> 01:12:38,575
Nigga got them long fingers
striding all over the piano.
1285
01:12:38,583 --> 01:12:41,207
- I was trying to keep up with him.
- That's what you supposed to do.
1286
01:12:41,208 --> 01:12:42,999
- Play the music.
- Cutler, you hear Slow Drag
1287
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:44,875
on that bass
spanking like you spank a baby?
1288
01:12:44,958 --> 01:12:46,666
Boom!
1289
01:12:47,291 --> 01:12:49,666
Levee, what were you doing?
Why you playing all them notes?
1290
01:12:49,750 --> 01:12:52,958
Playing ten notes for every one you
supposed to play. Don't call for all that.
1291
01:12:53,041 --> 01:12:55,582
You're supposed to improvise
on the theme. That's what I was doing.
1292
01:12:55,583 --> 01:12:57,463
You're supposed
to play the song like I sing it.
1293
01:12:57,500 --> 01:12:59,625
The way
everybody else play it.
1294
01:12:59,708 --> 01:13:01,666
I was playing the song the way I felt it.
1295
01:13:01,750 --> 01:13:04,791
I'm trying to sing my song
and you messing up my ear.
1296
01:13:04,875 --> 01:13:07,750
- You call that playing music?
- Hey, I know what I'm doing.
1297
01:13:08,583 --> 01:13:10,583
Y'all back up and leave me alone
about my music.
1298
01:13:10,666 --> 01:13:13,458
I done told you it ain't about your music.
It's about Ma's music.
1299
01:13:13,541 --> 01:13:15,040
That's all right. I told you what to do.
1300
01:13:15,041 --> 01:13:17,000
What I care about what you and Cutler do?
1301
01:13:21,333 --> 01:13:24,583
Y'all gonna fire me. I don't care.
I'll go get my own band anyway.
1302
01:13:24,666 --> 01:13:27,083
- You keep messing with me...
- Nobody studying you.
1303
01:13:27,166 --> 01:13:29,000
All right, nigga. You fired.
1304
01:13:35,041 --> 01:13:37,666
You think I care about being fired?
I don't care.
1305
01:13:37,750 --> 01:13:39,791
- You doing me a favor.
- Cutler, Levee's out.
1306
01:13:39,875 --> 01:13:43,000
- He ain't playing in my band no more.
- I'm fired? Good!
1307
01:13:43,083 --> 01:13:45,166
Best thing that ever happened to me.
1308
01:13:46,500 --> 01:13:48,250
I don't need this shit.
1309
01:14:31,791 --> 01:14:33,041
Okay.
1310
01:15:12,833 --> 01:15:14,625
Mel will be out with your money
in a minute.
1311
01:15:14,708 --> 01:15:16,833
That's cash money. I don't want no check.
1312
01:15:17,375 --> 01:15:20,041
I'll see what I can do.
I can't promise you nothing.
1313
01:15:20,125 --> 01:15:22,625
As long as it ain't no check.
I ain't got no use for a check.
1314
01:15:22,708 --> 01:15:26,708
Listen, Ma.
I talked to Sturdyvant, and he said…
1315
01:15:26,791 --> 01:15:28,625
Now I tried to talk him out of it,
1316
01:15:28,708 --> 01:15:32,583
but he said the best he can do
is take $25 of your money
1317
01:15:32,666 --> 01:15:34,625
and give it to Sylvester.
1318
01:15:34,708 --> 01:15:36,166
Take what and do what?
1319
01:15:37,958 --> 01:15:41,583
If I wanted the boy to have
$25 of my money, I'd give it to him.
1320
01:15:42,791 --> 01:15:44,124
He's supposed to have his own money.
1321
01:15:44,125 --> 01:15:45,958
He's supposed to get paid
like everybody else.
1322
01:15:46,541 --> 01:15:48,666
You go on up there,
and you tell Sturdyvant
1323
01:15:48,750 --> 01:15:50,708
that he better pay the boy his own money.
1324
01:15:50,791 --> 01:15:53,416
- Yeah, I talked to him...
- Talk to him again.
1325
01:15:53,500 --> 01:15:55,207
Tell him if he don't
pay the boy his own money,
1326
01:15:55,208 --> 01:15:57,958
he'll never make another record
of mine again. Tell him that.
1327
01:15:59,250 --> 01:16:02,166
You supposed to be my manager.
Always talking about sticking together.
1328
01:16:02,250 --> 01:16:03,333
Start sticking.
1329
01:16:06,250 --> 01:16:08,500
- Get the boy his money!
- Okay.
1330
01:16:09,208 --> 01:16:10,375
I'll see what I can do.
1331
01:16:41,541 --> 01:16:42,666
Hey, Ma.
1332
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:45,416
Is there something wrong?
1333
01:16:45,500 --> 01:16:46,750
Is there a problem?
1334
01:16:47,416 --> 01:16:49,541
I want you to pay the boy his money.
1335
01:16:49,625 --> 01:16:51,166
Sure, Ma. I got it right here.
1336
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:55,208
It's, uh, 200 for you
and 25 for the kid, right?
1337
01:16:58,333 --> 01:16:59,500
Irvin misunderstood me.
1338
01:16:59,583 --> 01:17:01,708
It was all a mistake.
It was all a mistake.
1339
01:17:02,541 --> 01:17:05,125
- A mistake, huh?
- Sure, Ma. Made a mistake.
1340
01:17:05,791 --> 01:17:07,166
But he's paid, right?
1341
01:17:07,250 --> 01:17:08,541
The only mistake…
1342
01:17:09,541 --> 01:17:12,375
was when you found out
I hadn't signed the release forms.
1343
01:17:12,458 --> 01:17:13,541
That was a mistake.
1344
01:17:14,333 --> 01:17:16,208
Come on. Sign the forms, huh?
1345
01:17:16,291 --> 01:17:18,625
- Dussie Mae, Sylvester, come on.
- Ma, sign the forms.
1346
01:17:18,708 --> 01:17:20,458
Irvin, where's my car?
1347
01:17:20,541 --> 01:17:22,791
It's right out front.
I got the keys right here.
1348
01:17:22,875 --> 01:17:25,291
Come on and sign these forms, huh?
1349
01:17:31,166 --> 01:17:32,333
Irvin, give me my keys.
1350
01:17:33,250 --> 01:17:36,166
Sure, Ma. Just… sign these forms.
1351
01:17:43,250 --> 01:17:45,130
Send them to my address.
I'll get around to 'em.
1352
01:17:45,208 --> 01:17:47,916
Come on, Ma.
I took care of everything, didn't I?
1353
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:49,541
I straightened everything out.
1354
01:17:50,375 --> 01:17:51,375
Ma?
1355
01:17:55,208 --> 01:17:56,208
Please?
1356
01:18:15,875 --> 01:18:17,500
And you tell Sturdyvant,
1357
01:18:17,583 --> 01:18:20,500
any more mistakes
and I can make my records someplace else.
1358
01:18:47,416 --> 01:18:51,250
I ain't gonna stand for it.
Ain't gonna bring me no check down here.
1359
01:18:53,041 --> 01:18:54,801
Man give me a check last time.
What happened?
1360
01:18:54,833 --> 01:18:56,665
We had to go
all over Chicago to get it cashed.
1361
01:18:56,666 --> 01:18:59,500
See a nigga with a check,
first thing they think is he stole it.
1362
01:18:59,583 --> 01:19:01,375
I ain't had no trouble cashing mine.
1363
01:19:01,458 --> 01:19:02,916
I don't visit no whore houses.
1364
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:04,874
You don't know my business,
so don't start nothing.
1365
01:19:04,875 --> 01:19:08,333
I'm tired of you as it is. I ain't
but two seconds off your ass, noway.
1366
01:19:08,416 --> 01:19:09,625
Don't y'all start nothing now.
1367
01:19:09,708 --> 01:19:11,957
What the hell I care what you're tired of?
I wasn't talking to you.
1368
01:19:11,958 --> 01:19:14,208
- I was talking to this man.
- Boys, I've got your pay.
1369
01:19:15,250 --> 01:19:18,500
Mr. Irvin told me you boys prefer cash,
and that's what I have for you.
1370
01:19:19,083 --> 01:19:21,083
That was a good session you boys put in.
1371
01:19:21,166 --> 01:19:22,082
There's 25 for you.
1372
01:19:22,083 --> 01:19:24,958
Yes, sir, you boys really know
your business. Twenty-five for you.
1373
01:19:25,041 --> 01:19:28,166
We're gonna get you
back in here real soon. Twenty-five.
1374
01:19:28,250 --> 01:19:31,416
And have another session,
so you can make some more money.
1375
01:19:31,500 --> 01:19:32,708
And 25 for you.
1376
01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:35,125
Uh, Mr. Sturdyvant, sir?
1377
01:19:37,875 --> 01:19:39,416
About them songs I give you?
1378
01:19:41,041 --> 01:19:43,500
Oh, yeah. Oh, Levee.
Uh, I thought about it.
1379
01:19:43,583 --> 01:19:45,583
I don't think that people will buy them.
1380
01:19:45,666 --> 01:19:47,546
They're not the type of songs
we're looking for.
1381
01:19:47,625 --> 01:19:50,666
Mr. Sturdyvant, sir.
I done already got my band picked out.
1382
01:19:50,750 --> 01:19:54,291
I got some real good fellas.
They know how to play real good music.
1383
01:19:54,375 --> 01:19:57,083
I know if the peoples
hear the music, they'll buy it.
1384
01:19:57,166 --> 01:20:00,250
Uh, Levee, I'll be fair with you.
They're not the right songs.
1385
01:20:00,333 --> 01:20:03,250
Mr. Sturdyvant, peoples
is tired of hearing jug-band music.
1386
01:20:03,333 --> 01:20:06,291
The people in the big city?
They want something with some fire to it.
1387
01:20:06,375 --> 01:20:08,458
Harlem, Detroit, DC.
1388
01:20:08,541 --> 01:20:11,666
Okay, I'll tell you what.
I'll give you $5 apiece for 'em.
1389
01:20:11,750 --> 01:20:16,583
I don't want $5, Mr. Sturdyvant.
I wants to record them songs like you say.
1390
01:20:16,666 --> 01:20:18,832
Like I say, they're not
the kind of songs we're looking for.
1391
01:20:18,833 --> 01:20:21,250
Mr. Sturdyvant,
you asked me to write them songs.
1392
01:20:21,333 --> 01:20:23,791
Why didn't you tell me that
when I first give them to you?
1393
01:20:23,875 --> 01:20:25,791
You told me you was
gonna let me record them.
1394
01:20:25,875 --> 01:20:27,374
What's the difference
between then and now?
1395
01:20:27,375 --> 01:20:30,166
- I'll pay you for your trouble.
- What's the difference?
1396
01:20:30,250 --> 01:20:31,583
That's what I wanna know.
1397
01:20:32,166 --> 01:20:34,041
I had my fellas play your songs.
1398
01:20:34,125 --> 01:20:37,500
When I heard them, they didn't sound
like the kind I'm looking for right now.
1399
01:20:37,583 --> 01:20:39,541
You got to hear me play them.
1400
01:20:39,625 --> 01:20:42,666
You ain't heard me play them.
That's what's gonna make them sound right.
1401
01:20:42,750 --> 01:20:44,083
Levee, I don't doubt that.
1402
01:20:44,166 --> 01:20:47,125
It's just that, I don't think
they'd sell like Ma's records.
1403
01:20:48,458 --> 01:20:50,208
But I'll take 'em off your hands for you.
1404
01:20:51,916 --> 01:20:54,166
Mr. Sturdyvant, sir.
1405
01:20:55,041 --> 01:20:58,500
I don't know what fellas
you had playing them songs,
1406
01:20:58,583 --> 01:21:02,583
but if I could play them,
I'd set them down in the people's lap.
1407
01:21:02,666 --> 01:21:05,416
Now, you told me
I could record them songs.
1408
01:21:05,500 --> 01:21:06,958
There's nothing I can do about that.
1409
01:21:07,041 --> 01:21:10,666
Like I say, it's $5 apiece.
That's what I'll pay ya.
1410
01:21:10,750 --> 01:21:12,041
I'm doing you a favor.
1411
01:21:12,125 --> 01:21:15,541
If you write any more, I'll help
you out and take 'em off your hands.
1412
01:21:15,625 --> 01:21:18,750
The price is $5 apiece. Just like now.
1413
01:21:43,250 --> 01:21:44,458
Hey, watch it, now.
1414
01:21:45,041 --> 01:21:47,041
Shit. You stepped on my shoe.
1415
01:21:47,125 --> 01:21:48,375
Excuse me there, Levee.
1416
01:21:48,458 --> 01:21:49,458
Look at that.
1417
01:21:50,500 --> 01:21:52,375
Nigga, you stepped on my shoe.
1418
01:21:52,458 --> 01:21:54,916
- What you do that for?
- Said I'm sorry.
1419
01:21:55,708 --> 01:21:59,541
You gonna step on my goddamn shoe.
You done fucked up my shoe.
1420
01:22:00,875 --> 01:22:02,666
Look at what you done to my shoe, nigga.
1421
01:22:03,458 --> 01:22:05,958
I ain't step on your shoe.
What you wanna step on my shoe for?
1422
01:22:06,041 --> 01:22:07,040
Man said he was sorry.
1423
01:22:07,041 --> 01:22:10,125
How the hell he gonna be sorry
when he done ruined my shoe?
1424
01:22:10,791 --> 01:22:12,083
Come talk about sorry.
1425
01:22:12,166 --> 01:22:14,708
Nigga, you stepped on my shoe,
you know that?
1426
01:22:16,791 --> 01:22:20,708
- See what you done done?
- I said, "Excuse me." Now it's over.
1427
01:22:20,791 --> 01:22:23,666
- What you want me to do, huh?
- Wanna go and fuck up my shoe like that.
1428
01:22:23,750 --> 01:22:26,208
I ain't step on your shoe.
Huh? Look at this.
1429
01:22:26,291 --> 01:22:29,666
- Okay, come on, now.
- Naw, naw. Look at what you done.
1430
01:22:30,250 --> 01:22:32,541
Look at that. That's my shoe.
1431
01:22:32,625 --> 01:22:35,458
You did it. You did it!
1432
01:22:35,541 --> 01:22:37,000
You fucked up my shoe.
1433
01:22:37,666 --> 01:22:40,750
You stepped on my shoe
with them raggedy-ass clodhoppers.
1434
01:22:40,833 --> 01:22:43,833
Ain't nobody studying
about you and your shoe.
1435
01:22:44,375 --> 01:22:46,250
I said, "Excuse me."
1436
01:22:46,333 --> 01:22:49,333
If you can't accept that,
then the hell with it.
1437
01:22:50,958 --> 01:22:52,208
What you want me to do?
1438
01:22:54,041 --> 01:22:55,875
You stepped on my shoe.
1439
01:23:01,750 --> 01:23:04,500
He… He stepped on my shoe. He did.
1440
01:23:05,958 --> 01:23:08,833
Honest. Cutler, he stepped on my shoe.
1441
01:23:08,916 --> 01:23:11,375
What he do that for?
Toledo, what you do that for?
1442
01:23:14,083 --> 01:23:15,083
Cutler, help.
1443
01:23:16,166 --> 01:23:17,625
He stepped on my shoe.
1444
01:23:17,708 --> 01:23:18,708
Cutler!
1445
01:23:20,833 --> 01:23:22,625
It's okay, Toledo. I'll help you.
1446
01:23:23,208 --> 01:23:24,208
Come on, Toledo.
1447
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:36,000
Oh, no.
1448
01:23:47,625 --> 01:23:48,833
Don't…
1449
01:23:53,708 --> 01:23:55,708
Don't look at me like that.
1450
01:23:58,666 --> 01:24:00,250
Don't look at me like that.
1451
01:25:29,416 --> 01:25:32,583
♪ You can swing it, you can bring it ♪
1452
01:25:32,666 --> 01:25:35,791
♪ You can dance at any hall ♪
1453
01:25:35,875 --> 01:25:39,208
♪ You can slide across the floor ♪
1454
01:25:39,291 --> 01:25:42,291
♪ You'll never have to stall
Oh, my jelly roll ♪
1455
01:25:42,375 --> 01:25:43,833
♪ My jelly roll ♪
1456
01:25:43,916 --> 01:25:45,375
♪ Oh, my jelly roll ♪
1457
01:25:45,458 --> 01:25:47,041
♪ My jelly roll ♪
1458
01:25:47,125 --> 01:25:49,583
♪ Oh, my jelly roll ♪
1459
01:25:49,666 --> 01:25:52,333
♪ Please, baby, let me have it all ♪
1460
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:56,375
♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
1461
01:26:56,458 --> 01:27:00,750
♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
1462
01:27:04,250 --> 01:27:08,291
♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
1463
01:27:08,375 --> 01:27:12,291
♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
1464
01:27:15,541 --> 01:27:19,166
♪ I had the blues so bad ♪
1465
01:27:19,250 --> 01:27:23,875
♪ I sit right down on my floor ♪
1466
01:27:27,416 --> 01:27:30,916
♪ I felt like going on the mountain ♪
1467
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:35,166
♪ Jumping over in the sea ♪
1468
01:27:38,500 --> 01:27:42,041
♪ I felt like going in the mountain ♪
1469
01:27:42,125 --> 01:27:46,250
♪ Jumping over in the sea ♪
1470
01:27:49,208 --> 01:27:52,708
♪ When my daddy stay out late ♪
1471
01:27:52,791 --> 01:27:57,041
♪ He don't care a thing for me ♪
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