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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:15,949 --> 00:00:17,849 Once I had a pretty little girl 2 00:00:19,552 --> 00:00:22,020 I lose my baby, ain't that sad? 3 00:00:27,594 --> 00:00:30,654 Once I had a pretty little girl 4 00:00:32,565 --> 00:00:35,659 I lose my baby, ain't that sad? 5 00:00:40,707 --> 00:00:43,141 You know you can't Spend what you ain't got 6 00:00:45,645 --> 00:00:48,113 You can't lose what You ain't never had 7 00:00:53,987 --> 00:00:57,252 Well you know you can't Spend what you ain't got 8 00:00:58,992 --> 00:01:02,325 You can't lose what You ain't never had 9 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:23,038 Steal away 10 00:01:23,116 --> 00:01:30,386 Steal away to me 11 00:01:36,129 --> 00:01:39,587 Oh Lord, trouble so hard 12 00:01:39,866 --> 00:01:46,066 Don't nobody know my troubles But God 13 00:01:46,339 --> 00:01:50,400 Don't nobody know my troubles but God 14 00:01:50,677 --> 00:01:54,875 Yes indeed, I trouble so hard 15 00:01:55,148 --> 00:01:59,141 Yes indeed, I trouble so hard 16 00:01:59,219 --> 00:02:03,553 Oh Lord, trouble so hard 17 00:02:03,823 --> 00:02:07,850 Oh Lord, trouble so hard 18 00:02:08,027 --> 00:02:12,054 Wait and let me tell you What you took to me do 19 00:02:12,198 --> 00:02:16,328 Hold me safely I was in love With you 20 00:02:16,569 --> 00:02:20,665 Hiding back and lying in wait 21 00:02:20,907 --> 00:02:24,707 Just the same as bad blame 22 00:02:24,878 --> 00:02:28,609 Oh Lord, trouble so hard 23 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:32,580 Oh Lord, trouble so hard 24 00:03:12,825 --> 00:03:16,522 I was sent back down South as an eleven year old... 25 00:03:16,796 --> 00:03:21,130 to be saved from sin and to get baptized in my uncle's church. 26 00:03:21,734 --> 00:03:24,430 However, my other uncle, Buddy, a gambler and blues player... 27 00:03:24,504 --> 00:03:27,166 met me at the train station in New Orleans... 28 00:03:27,373 --> 00:03:31,275 and kidnapped me to show me what I'm getting saved from. 29 00:03:32,712 --> 00:03:34,543 I remember going back home to get saved... 30 00:03:34,814 --> 00:03:37,112 and Emmett Till went back and got murdered. 31 00:03:37,884 --> 00:03:41,547 I was going to where the Southern crossed the Dog and to the crossroads... 32 00:03:41,788 --> 00:03:44,120 where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. 33 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:47,783 I would become familiar with names like Ma Rainey... 34 00:03:48,127 --> 00:03:51,062 "The Devil's Son-in-Law", Mississippi John Hurt... 35 00:03:51,297 --> 00:03:52,992 Muddy Waters, Son House. 36 00:03:53,866 --> 00:03:57,927 Names and sounds like Dee Bellum, King Biscuit... 37 00:03:58,137 --> 00:04:00,571 Ferris Street and Bumble Bee Smith. 38 00:04:01,474 --> 00:04:04,466 Two people haunted me since I've been a grown man... 39 00:04:04,944 --> 00:04:07,469 Blind Lemon Jefferson and W.C. Handy. 40 00:04:08,681 --> 00:04:11,013 "W.C. Handy's, St. Louis Blues... 41 00:04:11,217 --> 00:04:14,653 was the first piece I learned to play on my trumpet. 42 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:16,517 The words to his song... 43 00:04:17,523 --> 00:04:20,890 'My man has a heart like a rock cast in the sea'... 44 00:04:21,361 --> 00:04:23,556 to this day bleeds in memory. 45 00:04:24,631 --> 00:04:28,692 When I get back on that KC road 46 00:04:30,003 --> 00:04:35,066 When I get back on that KC road 47 00:04:36,175 --> 00:04:41,613 When I get back on that KC road 48 00:04:42,548 --> 00:04:47,485 Gonna love my baby Like I never loved before 49 00:05:12,345 --> 00:05:15,178 Hey little man, I'm your Uncle Buddy. Remember me? 50 00:05:15,248 --> 00:05:16,476 I talk to you on the phone. 51 00:05:16,549 --> 00:05:18,483 You're too young to remember when you left. 52 00:05:18,551 --> 00:05:20,109 Give your uncle a hug, boy. 53 00:05:22,822 --> 00:05:25,791 You mama should have let you change trains and come up to Jackson... 54 00:05:25,858 --> 00:05:28,656 I could have pick you up without having to drive all the way down here and back. 55 00:05:30,463 --> 00:05:34,058 But your mama didn't want you riding on no segregated Jim Crow train. 56 00:05:34,867 --> 00:05:38,598 I don't know why she put you in the fire and expect you not to feel the heat. 57 00:05:38,805 --> 00:05:41,069 But even if you don't ride no in the Jim Crow train... 58 00:05:41,140 --> 00:05:42,937 you're down here now boy. 59 00:05:43,176 --> 00:05:45,303 And I'm gonna make sure you see plenty. 60 00:05:45,378 --> 00:05:48,370 - Where is Uncle Flem? - Where he always is, preaching. 61 00:05:48,581 --> 00:05:50,139 That why he didn't come pick you. 62 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:52,784 He has a whole bunch of sinners he has to pray over. 63 00:05:53,019 --> 00:05:56,386 That's why my grandma sent me down here, to get saved before I'm twelve. 64 00:05:56,656 --> 00:05:58,681 Get saved from what? Life? 65 00:05:59,092 --> 00:06:02,528 The best thing that happened to you is that I picked you. 66 00:06:02,628 --> 00:06:03,993 C'mon, boy. 67 00:06:16,476 --> 00:06:18,967 The ghost of Buddy Bolden walked these streets. 68 00:06:19,212 --> 00:06:21,407 My daddy named me after him... 69 00:06:21,481 --> 00:06:23,449 'cause he thought I was going crazy. 70 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:26,610 Great musicians came from this neck of the Woods. 71 00:06:26,819 --> 00:06:29,083 Armstrong, Jelly 'R oll Morton. 72 00:06:29,822 --> 00:06:31,847 Your granddaddy worked on a boat. 73 00:06:32,158 --> 00:06:33,955 He loved New Orleans. 74 00:06:34,327 --> 00:06:36,158 And he loved the women here too... 75 00:06:36,596 --> 00:06:40,430 until your grandmamma tamed him. She took his spirit! 76 00:06:48,775 --> 00:06:52,438 This is the place to get your feet wet if you were interested in Blues. 77 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:57,077 Out of every window and doorway came laughter, smoke... 78 00:06:57,283 --> 00:06:58,944 and a solid stream of music. 79 00:06:59,385 --> 00:07:02,013 In a city where witches are revered. 80 00:07:02,221 --> 00:07:04,951 Uncle Buddy paid respects to Marita Bowes tomb. 81 00:07:05,024 --> 00:07:08,016 I kept my grandmother's prayer book pinned to the inside of my t-shirt... 82 00:07:08,094 --> 00:07:09,618 next to my heart. 83 00:07:09,729 --> 00:07:14,166 Then Uncle Buddy gave me a quick tour where Storyville was years ago. 84 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,424 What used to be Congo Square... 85 00:07:47,633 --> 00:07:51,000 great unknown musicians who will never be known... 86 00:07:51,237 --> 00:07:52,898 used to play here, Junior... 87 00:07:53,372 --> 00:07:55,932 long before Louis Armstrong... 88 00:07:56,175 --> 00:07:59,110 or Sidney Buchet or Joe Olive or Jelly Roll Morton... 89 00:07:59,345 --> 00:08:01,142 this is where... 90 00:08:02,148 --> 00:08:04,048 our people used to come. 91 00:08:04,917 --> 00:08:08,648 It was the only place where they could play their music. 92 00:08:08,888 --> 00:08:10,150 Their music. 93 00:08:15,595 --> 00:08:17,222 Congo Square. 94 00:08:20,066 --> 00:08:22,227 Your roots run deep, boy. 95 00:09:27,867 --> 00:09:29,425 Make this right. 96 00:09:30,770 --> 00:09:32,533 Listen what I got. 97 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:43,271 I'm wild, babe, I'm wild 98 00:09:44,083 --> 00:09:46,347 A lot of blues singers came from Louisiana. 99 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:49,521 Lonny Johnson and Lead Belly come from this side of the river. 100 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:52,023 My uncle told me that he and a gang of boys would hop freights... 101 00:09:52,091 --> 00:09:54,787 going to New Orleans, St. Louis orjust going anywhere. 102 00:09:55,995 --> 00:09:59,590 The Scottsboro Boy's Rape Case put the skids to that. 103 00:09:59,799 --> 00:10:02,290 Everything my uncle told me had two sides to it... 104 00:10:02,368 --> 00:10:04,700 nothing could just be fun, this is the South... 105 00:10:05,104 --> 00:10:09,006 the South that created the Blues. You either laughed or cried. 106 00:10:12,044 --> 00:10:14,376 Boy, you in Mississippi now. 107 00:10:21,654 --> 00:10:23,178 Now I wished that 108 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:32,829 That's freedom. 109 00:10:33,499 --> 00:10:34,898 That's why I love the ocean. 110 00:10:36,002 --> 00:10:38,698 You damn sure can't pick cotton on no ocean. 111 00:10:40,206 --> 00:10:42,868 You're lucky. You're a city boy. 112 00:10:43,075 --> 00:10:45,669 Don't know nothing 'bout having' to work hard. 113 00:10:55,521 --> 00:10:57,455 - How'd you get this car? - What do you mean? 114 00:10:57,556 --> 00:10:59,649 Well, my mother said you never had a job. 115 00:10:59,892 --> 00:11:01,382 Never had a job? 116 00:11:01,627 --> 00:11:05,154 Your mama saw me pick cotton. Her and brother had a row to pick too. 117 00:11:05,631 --> 00:11:08,099 I stopped picking cotton when I turned fifteen. 118 00:11:08,401 --> 00:11:10,198 Started hopping' trains. 119 00:11:11,103 --> 00:11:13,196 But I got this car B149. 120 00:11:14,373 --> 00:11:18,173 Lesson number one, never believe nothing a woman tells you. 121 00:11:18,744 --> 00:11:20,541 Everybody was amazed that Buddy Taylor... 122 00:11:20,613 --> 00:11:24,344 never spent time in Parchman State Penitentiary or got lynched. 123 00:11:25,017 --> 00:11:26,678 Big Mama, my grandmother... 124 00:11:26,752 --> 00:11:30,483 was always afraid that someone was going to call her to tell her son... 125 00:11:30,556 --> 00:11:33,616 was killed 'cause Buddy acted like the devil... 126 00:11:33,693 --> 00:11:37,026 couldn't behave. He sho 'nough couldn't. Lord have mercy! 127 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:41,223 My mother is going to be mad at you if I don't get to church. 128 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:42,524 Boy... 129 00:11:43,669 --> 00:11:46,797 you're only on this earth once, so enjoy life. 130 00:11:47,907 --> 00:11:49,966 You got Mr. Charley always on your back... 131 00:11:50,109 --> 00:11:52,634 and the preacher man singing the blues about getting into heaven. 132 00:11:54,013 --> 00:11:56,106 One day you're gonna thank me. 133 00:12:05,858 --> 00:12:07,485 Tell Billy I'm gonna come up and see him. 134 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,695 Tell him I'm gonna bring Betty Murphy and Jill Brooks. 135 00:12:11,297 --> 00:12:14,789 They couldn't get enough of your boy when he was running the streets. 136 00:12:21,006 --> 00:12:22,439 He don't want no ride. 137 00:12:23,008 --> 00:12:26,910 He walks all the way from Eastabuchie just north of Hattiesburg... 138 00:12:27,146 --> 00:12:30,912 all the way to Parchman Prison to see his son, who won't even talk to him. 139 00:12:31,250 --> 00:12:35,209 He does it four times a year for the last five years. 140 00:12:46,398 --> 00:12:48,298 Put your luggage down, Junior. 141 00:12:48,367 --> 00:12:51,268 Pictures and posters of people like Muddy Waters... 142 00:12:51,504 --> 00:12:54,632 John Lee Hooker, Ma Rainy and Leroy Carr... 143 00:12:54,974 --> 00:12:58,501 and hundreds of other blues singers lived at his tiny shotgun house... 144 00:12:58,744 --> 00:13:02,180 which was the typical size and shape of a blue singers living quarters. 145 00:13:02,715 --> 00:13:05,548 I ain't got but one bed. So you gotta sleep at the bottom... 146 00:13:05,618 --> 00:13:06,744 I'm gonna sleep at the top. 147 00:13:07,019 --> 00:13:08,611 I want you to make yourself at home. 148 00:13:11,590 --> 00:13:14,889 I gotta to run by a lady friend of my and use her phone to call your momma... 149 00:13:15,094 --> 00:13:16,686 to let her know I got you. 150 00:13:21,267 --> 00:13:23,497 But I want you to make sure you leave the door closed... 151 00:13:23,736 --> 00:13:26,227 'cause them mosquitoes will run us out of here, boy. 152 00:13:26,438 --> 00:13:28,099 I'll be back in a minute, Slow. 153 00:13:33,245 --> 00:13:36,942 78's records were stacked in every corner of his shotgun house... 154 00:13:37,082 --> 00:13:41,143 and I was gonna hear every record over and over again. 155 00:13:41,921 --> 00:13:44,890 Some people wake up and have coffee or a shot of whiskey... 156 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:48,491 Buddy puts a 78 on and dances in underwear. 157 00:14:46,018 --> 00:14:47,349 Wake up, Junior! 158 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:49,885 Wake up, boy! 159 00:14:56,695 --> 00:14:58,560 This is my cut and run. 160 00:14:59,832 --> 00:15:03,029 In case I have to give a bad acting monkey a close shave. 161 00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:28,918 Home 162 00:15:29,528 --> 00:15:34,056 Baby, don't you want to go 163 00:15:37,202 --> 00:15:39,170 Home 164 00:15:39,838 --> 00:15:43,501 Baby, don't you want to go 165 00:17:22,408 --> 00:17:24,808 I got a letter this morning 166 00:17:25,077 --> 00:17:27,841 How do you reckon it read? 167 00:17:28,514 --> 00:17:30,675 Said hurry, hurry, the gal 168 00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:35,684 You love is dead I got a letter this morning 169 00:17:35,754 --> 00:17:39,155 I said How do you reckon it read? 170 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,620 Oh, I said hurry, hurry 171 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:47,524 Gal, you love is dead 172 00:17:50,803 --> 00:17:54,204 You know I grabbed my suitcase 173 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,670 I took on down the road 174 00:17:56,942 --> 00:17:58,842 When I got there 175 00:17:59,111 --> 00:18:01,375 She was laying On the cooling board 176 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:03,639 I grabbed my suitcase 177 00:18:03,882 --> 00:18:06,442 I said I took on down the road 178 00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:13,354 Blues it's not a play thing like people think it is... 179 00:18:13,559 --> 00:18:17,051 like the youngsters today that take anything... 180 00:18:17,296 --> 00:18:19,025 and make the Blues out of it. 181 00:18:19,264 --> 00:18:24,065 Any little something and they it's Blues. 182 00:18:24,436 --> 00:18:25,596 No, it's not. 183 00:18:26,572 --> 00:18:29,200 Ain't but one kind of Blues. 184 00:18:30,509 --> 00:18:33,444 And that consists between... 185 00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:37,282 male and female and St. Louis. 186 00:18:38,150 --> 00:18:41,677 Two people supposed to be in love... 187 00:18:41,854 --> 00:18:44,652 when one or the other... 188 00:18:44,990 --> 00:18:49,188 deceive the other. Hurt the love. 189 00:18:51,096 --> 00:18:53,656 Sometimes, that kind of Blues... 190 00:18:54,433 --> 00:18:57,834 will make them even kill one another... 191 00:18:58,403 --> 00:19:00,530 or do anything... 192 00:19:00,772 --> 00:19:04,105 that kind of love that goes here. 193 00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:06,107 On this side. 194 00:19:07,546 --> 00:19:11,642 That's where the Blues started. Not on this side, on this over here. 195 00:19:13,652 --> 00:19:16,883 That's the Blues. You know I don't feel so bad 196 00:19:17,022 --> 00:19:19,258 Tell that good Lord son without 197 00:19:19,258 --> 00:19:21,089 I didn't have a soul 198 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:23,419 To throw my arms around 199 00:19:23,695 --> 00:19:25,822 I didn't feel so bad 200 00:19:26,098 --> 00:19:28,896 Tell that good Lord son without 201 00:19:31,470 --> 00:19:34,530 I said I didn't have a soul 202 00:19:34,873 --> 00:19:37,967 To throw my arms around 203 00:19:40,479 --> 00:19:43,676 You know it's so hard to love 204 00:19:43,982 --> 00:19:46,143 Someone who don't love you 205 00:19:46,418 --> 00:19:48,477 Don't look like it satisfaction 206 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,585 Don't care what you do 207 00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:52,756 It's so hard to love 208 00:19:53,091 --> 00:19:55,855 Someone who don't love you 209 00:19:58,697 --> 00:20:01,666 Don't look like it satisfaction 210 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,867 Don't care what you do 211 00:20:21,787 --> 00:20:22,947 Where's the toilet? 212 00:20:23,322 --> 00:20:24,380 Out back. 213 00:20:37,202 --> 00:20:40,194 Buddy lived in a museum of blues memorabilia. 214 00:20:40,739 --> 00:20:44,903 I asked then why he was so worried about the blues passing away. 215 00:20:45,544 --> 00:20:49,071 I thought then that looking at these men and women that they got nothing... 216 00:20:49,314 --> 00:20:52,044 for this music and talent. While they, the record companies... 217 00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:54,344 made out like a fat rat. 218 00:23:10,155 --> 00:23:12,180 Up above my head 219 00:23:12,791 --> 00:23:15,259 I hear music in the air 220 00:23:15,594 --> 00:23:17,858 Up above my head 221 00:23:18,430 --> 00:23:20,660 I hear music in the air 222 00:23:21,299 --> 00:23:23,597 Up above my head 223 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:26,435 I hear music in the air 224 00:23:27,472 --> 00:23:29,804 I really do believe I really do believe 225 00:23:29,941 --> 00:23:31,909 There's a heaven somewhere 226 00:23:32,611 --> 00:23:34,636 Only in my room 227 00:23:35,814 --> 00:23:37,475 Music everywhere 228 00:23:38,116 --> 00:23:40,311 Only in my room 229 00:23:40,986 --> 00:23:43,181 There's music everywhere 230 00:23:43,855 --> 00:23:47,052 Only in my room 231 00:23:47,325 --> 00:23:49,122 Music everywhere 232 00:23:49,361 --> 00:23:52,455 I really do believe I really do believe 233 00:23:52,731 --> 00:23:54,358 There's a heaven somewhere 234 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:57,165 Up above my head 235 00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:00,302 I hear music in the air 236 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:03,603 Up above my head 237 00:24:03,875 --> 00:24:06,139 I hear music in the air 238 00:24:06,511 --> 00:24:09,708 Up above my head 239 00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:12,109 Music in the air 240 00:24:12,651 --> 00:24:15,017 I really do believe I really do believe 241 00:24:15,086 --> 00:24:16,713 There's a heaven somewhere 242 00:24:16,988 --> 00:24:19,821 Heaven somewhere 243 00:24:20,826 --> 00:24:23,386 He would play Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Precious Memory... 244 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:24,986 first thing in the morning. 245 00:24:25,397 --> 00:24:28,093 Sister Rosetta Tharpe sang in the church when she was a girl... 246 00:24:28,166 --> 00:24:31,294 and switched to Blues, and went back to singing Gospel. 247 00:24:41,112 --> 00:24:43,307 That is Sister Rosetta Tharpe. 248 00:24:46,451 --> 00:24:48,112 And that's Mammie Smith. 249 00:24:48,753 --> 00:24:52,416 God, so many women called themselves some kind of Smith or something... 250 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:55,722 Clara Smith, Trixie Smith, Bessie Smith, and so on. 251 00:24:56,561 --> 00:24:57,858 Mamie Smith. 252 00:24:57,996 --> 00:25:00,021 Lord, Lord 253 00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:04,100 Lord, Lord, Lord 254 00:25:04,469 --> 00:25:07,165 The first woman to record the blues. 255 00:25:07,706 --> 00:25:09,901 Lord, Lord 256 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:14,177 Lord, Lord, Lord 257 00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:26,723 It was the beginning... 258 00:25:27,425 --> 00:25:28,653 and the end. 259 00:25:30,996 --> 00:25:34,090 Record company got the blues out, then they started telling people... 260 00:25:34,165 --> 00:25:35,792 what they should like. 261 00:25:40,171 --> 00:25:43,766 But the women records were the first ones to really sell. 262 00:25:43,975 --> 00:25:47,069 They were doing real good for about ten years until the depression hit. 263 00:25:48,847 --> 00:25:52,214 Most of them came from Minstrel shows. 264 00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:53,883 Listen to Ma Rainey. 265 00:25:59,925 --> 00:26:03,224 I'm so unhappy 266 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:06,325 I feel so fool 267 00:26:07,165 --> 00:26:12,193 I'll always be so mad 268 00:26:14,372 --> 00:26:17,432 I made a See 269 00:26:17,909 --> 00:26:20,707 Right from the start 270 00:26:20,779 --> 00:26:26,877 Always been so hard to find 271 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,785 Although this letter 272 00:26:32,157 --> 00:26:34,853 That I'll write 273 00:26:34,926 --> 00:26:38,885 I hope you'll remember 274 00:26:39,331 --> 00:26:43,461 When you read it, See See 275 00:26:44,235 --> 00:26:47,068 See 276 00:26:47,138 --> 00:26:50,005 See Rider 277 00:26:51,343 --> 00:26:53,903 Ma Rainey wasn't a juke joint performer. 278 00:26:54,145 --> 00:26:57,273 She worked stages and dancehalls and vaudeville. 279 00:26:57,649 --> 00:27:00,482 The theater owners booking association, TOBA... 280 00:27:00,719 --> 00:27:03,210 booked black entertainers for a circuit of theaters... 281 00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:05,051 and variety show houses. 282 00:27:05,290 --> 00:27:09,090 Ma Rainey had the best musicians and writers supporting her... 283 00:27:09,327 --> 00:27:11,557 Louis Armstrong, Charlie Green. 284 00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:15,698 And writers like Thomas Dorsey, Perry Bradford, and Chris Smith. 285 00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:26,510 When you lose your money 286 00:27:27,612 --> 00:27:32,242 Don't lose your mind 287 00:27:33,718 --> 00:27:36,346 When you lose your money 288 00:27:37,455 --> 00:27:42,085 Don't lose your mind 289 00:27:43,595 --> 00:27:46,325 When you lose your good man 290 00:27:47,098 --> 00:27:51,000 Please don't mess with mine 291 00:27:51,069 --> 00:27:56,234 I don't hurt anymore 292 00:27:57,842 --> 00:28:01,539 All my teardrops are dried 293 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:07,007 No more walking' the floor 294 00:28:08,653 --> 00:28:13,181 With that burning' inside 295 00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:18,859 Just to think it could be 296 00:28:20,098 --> 00:28:23,590 Time has opened the door 297 00:28:25,136 --> 00:28:29,630 And at last I am free 298 00:28:30,675 --> 00:28:35,044 I don't hurt anymore 299 00:28:37,048 --> 00:28:40,711 No use to deny 300 00:28:41,019 --> 00:28:43,613 I wanted to die 301 00:28:44,622 --> 00:28:48,649 The day you said we were thru 302 00:28:49,327 --> 00:28:54,697 But now that I find You're out of my mind 303 00:28:55,033 --> 00:28:59,561 I can't believe that it's true 304 00:28:59,637 --> 00:29:03,596 I've forgotten somehow 305 00:29:04,409 --> 00:29:08,743 That I cared so before 306 00:29:10,048 --> 00:29:14,712 And it's wonderful now 307 00:29:15,019 --> 00:29:17,715 I don't hurt anymore 308 00:29:18,123 --> 00:29:20,455 Those were some mean women, boy. 309 00:29:20,525 --> 00:29:23,983 They could get low 'nough ta crawl unda a snake. 310 00:29:32,570 --> 00:29:36,028 I got nipples On my teats 311 00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:40,211 I know a girl that can fix us some breakfast. 312 00:29:41,112 --> 00:29:43,444 I pretend like I didn't hear it. 313 00:29:43,748 --> 00:29:46,649 Lucille Bogan was born Bessie Jackson. 314 00:29:46,851 --> 00:29:49,979 Her lyrics would make the Marquis de Sade blush. 315 00:29:50,221 --> 00:29:51,950 Gay and lesbian theme were expressed... 316 00:29:52,023 --> 00:29:54,924 in songs by Ma Rainy and Leroy Carr. 317 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,755 Later I would sneak to hear Red Foxx and Moms Mabley. 318 00:29:59,030 --> 00:30:01,191 I learned a lot about body parts. 319 00:30:04,435 --> 00:30:06,403 Boy, we got to get you a hat. 320 00:30:06,638 --> 00:30:08,936 You can't be walking around here bare headed like that. 321 00:30:09,174 --> 00:30:12,405 - What'd my mother say? - The usual fuss. 322 00:30:14,746 --> 00:30:16,145 Scoot on over. 323 00:30:33,798 --> 00:30:35,197 Come on, Junior. 324 00:30:50,315 --> 00:30:51,373 Junior... 325 00:30:53,551 --> 00:30:55,109 this is Peaches. 326 00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:59,020 The finest woman, Lord have mercy, God let walk this earth. 327 00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:01,754 This's my sister's boy. 328 00:31:01,993 --> 00:31:03,961 I remember your sister. 329 00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:06,026 He takes after his Daddy. 330 00:31:06,264 --> 00:31:07,288 Hi. 331 00:31:07,532 --> 00:31:09,659 Hi. You knew my daddy? 332 00:31:09,934 --> 00:31:13,802 Your father's cousin married my third cousin. 333 00:31:14,038 --> 00:31:16,370 That must make you something to me. 334 00:31:16,608 --> 00:31:19,076 In the South, everybody is related, Junior. 335 00:31:19,310 --> 00:31:22,746 That's why we call everybody, ain't no call? 336 00:31:23,615 --> 00:31:25,344 Sit down, boy. 337 00:31:27,018 --> 00:31:29,316 I known your mum has gone to work. 338 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,579 Why did you get that boy following you for? 339 00:31:31,823 --> 00:31:35,520 - To teach him bad habits? - I'm giving him wisdom. 340 00:31:35,860 --> 00:31:40,695 What do you know except promise a woman a whole bunch of lies? 341 00:31:41,099 --> 00:31:43,465 But he is learning from a master. 342 00:31:47,972 --> 00:31:50,805 If you cross your heart to someone 343 00:31:52,610 --> 00:31:55,272 You're not supposed to tell a lie 344 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:05,312 If you cross your heart to someone 345 00:32:07,125 --> 00:32:10,356 You're not supposed to tell a lie 346 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:18,732 Before you say a wrong 347 00:32:18,937 --> 00:32:20,837 Or either do wrong 348 00:32:21,072 --> 00:32:23,404 It have to be so long 349 00:32:23,574 --> 00:32:25,701 Or either goodbye 350 00:32:29,647 --> 00:32:32,912 I remember hearing Sonny Boy Williamson's song... 351 00:32:33,117 --> 00:32:34,641 "Cross my Heart". 352 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:38,945 I always thought that Sonny Boy had Uncle Buddy in mind. 353 00:32:39,223 --> 00:32:42,420 He couldn't be truthful around women and they knew it. 354 00:32:46,497 --> 00:32:47,794 Yes 355 00:32:48,232 --> 00:32:51,724 The first time I crossed my heart 356 00:32:52,270 --> 00:32:54,636 I was by your bedside 357 00:32:54,906 --> 00:32:56,931 Down on my knees 358 00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:00,371 Sure enough, may 359 00:33:03,948 --> 00:33:06,940 And I know the difference between 360 00:33:07,018 --> 00:33:09,646 I knew I'd have to beg you 361 00:33:09,887 --> 00:33:13,687 Please, darling' Help me please 362 00:33:33,711 --> 00:33:37,545 Uncle Buddy heard Sonny Boy when he was staying in Clarksdale... 363 00:33:37,749 --> 00:33:39,876 he would listen to Sonny Boy on "The King Biscuit Show"... 364 00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:41,578 broadcasting from Helena, Arkansas. 365 00:33:57,869 --> 00:34:01,862 Rice Miller took the real Sonny Boy Williamson's name. 366 00:34:02,106 --> 00:34:04,301 Both men were great harmonica players... 367 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:07,272 bluesmen would borrow lyrics and techniques... 368 00:34:07,512 --> 00:34:11,004 but to take another person's identity was certainly not the norm. 369 00:34:11,816 --> 00:34:14,216 The first Sonny Boy went up to Chicago... 370 00:34:14,452 --> 00:34:18,752 like Robert Johnson, he was killed supposedly by a jealous husband. 371 00:34:20,658 --> 00:34:23,149 It's raining outdoor darling 372 00:34:23,528 --> 00:34:25,621 So come on in this house 373 00:34:27,532 --> 00:34:30,228 You know it's raining outdoor, baby 374 00:34:30,535 --> 00:34:32,765 So come on in this house 375 00:34:34,772 --> 00:34:37,764 Because you know if you get wet Like gonna call you 376 00:34:38,009 --> 00:34:40,375 A daughter beautiful around this bunch 377 00:34:42,013 --> 00:34:43,571 You my baby 378 00:34:44,515 --> 00:34:47,177 I don't want my child to get wet 379 00:34:48,686 --> 00:34:51,177 You know you my baby 380 00:34:51,255 --> 00:34:54,088 I don't want my child to get wet 381 00:34:56,694 --> 00:35:01,188 I know the daughter is beautiful But I take care of 382 00:35:02,934 --> 00:35:06,461 Times like this, Buddy made me not like him. 383 00:35:06,704 --> 00:35:08,638 Or anything connected with him. 384 00:35:10,975 --> 00:35:13,034 I'm trying to be a near church here... 385 00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:16,713 and he comes with a guitar swinging on the shoulder... 386 00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:18,681 I got so mad... 387 00:35:18,916 --> 00:35:21,544 Hey we wish some God hearing' them kids. 388 00:35:21,819 --> 00:35:25,516 I said: What's that you looking on? Ain't that no one's kin... 389 00:35:25,756 --> 00:35:31,490 and spring but the old blues. Next day, I pray and I hear a sound... 390 00:35:31,729 --> 00:35:34,664 so good, I didn't want so much talk. 391 00:35:34,732 --> 00:35:37,895 I didn't want people to kiss me, I was trying to listen. 392 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,463 You'll find my text in the 14th chapter... 393 00:36:47,071 --> 00:36:49,039 of St. Luke. 394 00:36:49,307 --> 00:36:51,332 And than he did the book words... 395 00:36:51,642 --> 00:36:55,578 The words of the text. "And he sat with the servants... 396 00:36:55,846 --> 00:36:58,178 and warmed himself at the fire. 397 00:36:58,449 --> 00:37:01,714 Servant warming by the devil's fire. 398 00:37:01,953 --> 00:37:06,083 My friend, I want a piece upon your mind tonight... 399 00:37:06,357 --> 00:37:09,019 on the careless and unconcerned Christians... 400 00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:12,923 who are always taking sides in world affairs. 401 00:37:12,997 --> 00:37:13,861 Halleluiah! 402 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:16,957 I think it is a sin and a shame... 403 00:37:17,201 --> 00:37:20,466 when so many Christians that are not even born again... 404 00:37:20,738 --> 00:37:24,367 and are in sin, not saying anything for the Glory of Heaven. 405 00:37:24,842 --> 00:37:29,211 Then try to convince me that you've be born again. 406 00:37:29,847 --> 00:37:32,042 I declare you tonight... 407 00:37:32,350 --> 00:37:35,513 and pray to everyone that is born again... 408 00:37:35,786 --> 00:37:37,981 to let your light shine. 409 00:37:38,222 --> 00:37:42,420 You've got to be careful how you talk, how you act... 410 00:37:43,294 --> 00:37:46,752 and then be careful about the companies you keep. 411 00:37:47,365 --> 00:37:50,857 So many preachers come out here and are in sin. 412 00:37:51,602 --> 00:37:55,129 I have no doubt in my mind about you've been sent. 413 00:37:55,406 --> 00:37:58,000 But the question is: Who sent you? 414 00:37:58,075 --> 00:38:01,806 Everybody that was sent was sent on the word of God. 415 00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:04,138 They have been sent by my Lord. 416 00:38:04,348 --> 00:38:06,509 Because if you have been sent by my Lord... 417 00:38:06,751 --> 00:38:10,084 it makes you act right. It makes you live right. 418 00:38:10,588 --> 00:38:14,649 Then I declare you tonight that I think it is a shame... 419 00:38:14,959 --> 00:38:18,986 that someone here have been drinking more whisky than sinners. 420 00:38:19,263 --> 00:38:22,164 Something that a hypocrite sinner would do. 421 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,095 There a time to lead somebody. 422 00:38:24,168 --> 00:38:27,467 You have to get right yourself before you can lead anybody else. 423 00:38:27,705 --> 00:38:29,605 The blind can lead the blind. 424 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,900 But the blind leads the blind to the dark ditch. 425 00:38:33,177 --> 00:38:35,771 Before you try to get somebody right... 426 00:38:36,013 --> 00:38:37,571 get right yourself. 427 00:38:37,848 --> 00:38:40,715 Then when you get right, you can tell others to get right. 428 00:38:40,951 --> 00:38:44,011 If I were you, I would stop warming by the devil's fire. 429 00:39:19,290 --> 00:39:21,690 I'm aching' all over, baby Believe I got the pneumonia 430 00:39:21,759 --> 00:39:25,957 Blind Lemon Jefferson was born in Couchman, Texas in 1887. 431 00:39:26,731 --> 00:39:30,462 Deep Ellum to levee camps and all in between he traveled as a blind man... 432 00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:32,661 to support his wife and child. 433 00:39:32,903 --> 00:39:35,167 He recorded religious songs under another name... 434 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,173 didn't want to mix the two. 435 00:39:37,408 --> 00:39:41,003 After recording "Pneumonia Blues" he died in a snow storm... 436 00:39:41,078 --> 00:39:42,705 of a heart attack. 437 00:39:43,047 --> 00:39:45,379 Between 1926 and 1929... 438 00:39:45,649 --> 00:39:48,413 he recorded nearly a hundred songs. 439 00:39:59,463 --> 00:40:03,490 How did people like Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Snook Eaglin survive? 440 00:40:03,734 --> 00:40:07,898 There were many others like Willie Johnson, Pearly Brown and Gary Davis. 441 00:40:08,139 --> 00:40:11,233 Ever wonder why all the blind blues singers come from the Southeast? 442 00:40:11,375 --> 00:40:13,434 Sonny Terry, Lemon Jefferson... 443 00:40:13,677 --> 00:40:16,168 Sleepy Joe Estes, Blind Blake... 444 00:40:16,447 --> 00:40:19,416 Mc Tell, Fuller, Simmie Dooley, Ray Charles. 445 00:40:19,650 --> 00:40:22,517 Boy, I've been looking all over for you. 446 00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:24,778 Come on 'round this car and get 'n ' here. 447 00:40:46,310 --> 00:40:49,609 Wake up baby And get your big leg off of mine. 448 00:40:50,848 --> 00:40:54,545 Wake up baby And get your big leg off of mine. 449 00:40:55,352 --> 00:40:59,083 Say "hey baby", let the good man Change his mind. 450 00:41:02,393 --> 00:41:04,384 You can't be mad at me. 451 00:41:04,962 --> 00:41:07,089 They sho 'nough will 452 00:41:07,364 --> 00:41:09,992 They sho 'nough will 453 00:41:11,502 --> 00:41:12,969 Let's go see a movie. 454 00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:15,132 You know that movie "Shane"? 455 00:41:15,372 --> 00:41:18,239 I seen that and that movie High Noon about a dozen times. 456 00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:22,703 I like Shit Kickers better. They're for men. 457 00:41:24,248 --> 00:41:25,909 Why do you do bad things? 458 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,017 You'll be surprised who you find in heaven and who you find in hell. 459 00:41:51,942 --> 00:41:53,603 Come on and go with me, girl. 460 00:41:53,844 --> 00:41:56,506 Naw, you smell like you've been with another woman. 461 00:41:57,515 --> 00:41:59,710 Now, you know you're the only woman in my life. 462 00:41:59,950 --> 00:42:01,713 Buddy Taylor lie like a rug. 463 00:42:02,052 --> 00:42:05,044 You might be able to fool them other old country gals, but... 464 00:42:05,289 --> 00:42:07,450 I ain't paying you no mind. 465 00:42:07,925 --> 00:42:10,917 Then why don't you invite me over to dinner? 466 00:42:11,061 --> 00:42:13,359 I might be fixing' something. 467 00:42:13,731 --> 00:42:15,528 Maybe I'll call you over. 468 00:42:19,436 --> 00:42:24,169 Lord I'm sitting on top of the world 469 00:42:27,711 --> 00:42:30,578 Have been days 470 00:42:30,848 --> 00:42:33,339 I didn't know your name 471 00:42:34,985 --> 00:42:39,581 Why should I worry and cry in vain 472 00:42:39,857 --> 00:42:42,451 But now she's gone 473 00:42:42,726 --> 00:42:44,990 And I ain't worry 474 00:42:45,930 --> 00:42:50,890 Lord I'm sitting on top of the world 475 00:42:54,405 --> 00:42:57,033 I went to the station 476 00:42:57,308 --> 00:42:59,538 Down in the yard 477 00:43:00,110 --> 00:43:03,079 Gonna get me a freight train 478 00:43:03,347 --> 00:43:05,838 Worked and got to home 479 00:43:06,150 --> 00:43:08,846 But now she's gone 480 00:43:09,119 --> 00:43:11,781 And I ain't worry 481 00:43:12,122 --> 00:43:16,821 I'm sitting on top of the world 482 00:43:18,362 --> 00:43:22,162 This is Dockery plantation where Sam Chatmon and his brother Charlie Patton... 483 00:43:22,399 --> 00:43:23,696 worked the land. 484 00:43:23,968 --> 00:43:27,995 I saw Dockery plantation again years later when I was doing research. 485 00:43:28,238 --> 00:43:31,969 I imagined Charlie Patton growing' up out of the ground like cotton seed... 486 00:43:32,042 --> 00:43:34,169 and bursting' out with his guitar. 487 00:44:04,274 --> 00:44:08,176 I found this back in the old house that got flooded back in 1927. 488 00:44:11,048 --> 00:44:12,345 These letters? 489 00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:15,418 That's the book I'm writing. 490 00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,016 Is it done? 491 00:44:17,221 --> 00:44:18,210 No. 492 00:44:18,455 --> 00:44:20,480 I got the middle but no beginning and no ending. 493 00:44:22,059 --> 00:44:23,390 What's it about? 494 00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:26,926 It's about why the blues got started here in the South. 495 00:44:27,798 --> 00:44:30,323 It talks about its roots in Africa. 496 00:44:30,401 --> 00:44:33,097 Long before the renaissance took shape in Harlem... 497 00:44:33,337 --> 00:44:36,397 the blues emerged shortly after the end of reconstruction... 498 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,232 a period when former slaves... 499 00:44:38,308 --> 00:44:40,276 had experienced their greatest opportunity... 500 00:44:40,544 --> 00:44:42,239 to be in control of their own destiny. 501 00:44:42,446 --> 00:44:45,711 It was the time of Frederick Douglass, the elder statesmen... 502 00:44:45,983 --> 00:44:49,646 Aida B. Wells, and a young W.E.B. DuBois. 503 00:44:49,887 --> 00:44:53,050 You could order a three dollar guitar from a Sears 'n' Roebuck catalog. 504 00:44:53,323 --> 00:44:56,759 It's not strange how the guitar became the instrument of choice. 505 00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:00,157 It was similar to an African string instrument, the goje. 506 00:45:00,798 --> 00:45:04,632 This new American music started in areas of the South... 507 00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:06,499 where people worked the hardest. 508 00:45:06,737 --> 00:45:10,173 The delta produced a particular flavor and characteristic. 509 00:45:10,407 --> 00:45:13,467 Rough and less mellow like in the Southeast. 510 00:45:15,245 --> 00:45:18,078 Or as a folksier style in the Southwest. 511 00:45:20,551 --> 00:45:24,510 William Christopher Handy was born in Florence, Alabama... 512 00:45:24,755 --> 00:45:27,189 November 16, 1873. 513 00:45:27,624 --> 00:45:31,082 His father, a minister, wanted him to become one as well. 514 00:45:31,695 --> 00:45:34,960 But W.C. Handy was bent on becoming a musician. 515 00:45:36,100 --> 00:45:39,831 He was the first person to publish the blues and years later... 516 00:45:39,903 --> 00:45:43,771 after being cheated by a publisher, formed his own publishing company. 517 00:45:52,382 --> 00:45:57,479 I hate to hear that train Rolling on down the track 518 00:46:00,491 --> 00:46:06,123 I hate to hear that train Rolling on down the track 519 00:46:08,332 --> 00:46:12,462 He heard this new music that was being played by the poor working class... 520 00:46:12,703 --> 00:46:16,195 one night at the train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi. 521 00:46:16,507 --> 00:46:18,805 He heard a man playing the guitar... 522 00:46:19,042 --> 00:46:20,873 who was on his way to Moorhead, Mississippi... 523 00:46:20,944 --> 00:46:24,038 where two trains crossed each other, the Southern and the Dog. 524 00:46:24,915 --> 00:46:27,213 The haunting lyrics stayed with him. 525 00:46:27,484 --> 00:46:31,386 From this came W.C. Handy's "Yellow Dog Blues." 526 00:46:31,622 --> 00:46:33,089 The language of the blues... 527 00:46:33,357 --> 00:46:37,885 like the poetry of Poe Lawrence Dunbar and later Sterling Brown... 528 00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:40,426 was often looked down upon and criticized... 529 00:46:40,497 --> 00:46:42,727 by the more sophisticated black population. 530 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:47,302 One night, after leaving my office... 531 00:46:47,538 --> 00:46:53,033 I passed by PeeWees Saloon. Next to it was a barber shop. 532 00:46:53,610 --> 00:46:57,341 This barber shop was open 7 to about 2 o'clock in the morning', I said... 533 00:46:57,414 --> 00:46:59,006 "Come on, let's go home. 534 00:47:00,884 --> 00:47:04,342 Whatcha staying up so late for?" He says... 535 00:47:05,589 --> 00:47:08,456 "I haven't closed up cause ain't nobody got killed yet". 536 00:47:08,725 --> 00:47:12,217 And I struck myself and said: "That's it!" 537 00:47:12,496 --> 00:47:17,729 And I went home and wrote the words to The Beale Street Blues At Night. 538 00:47:26,877 --> 00:47:31,576 I've seen the lights of gay Broadway 539 00:47:35,219 --> 00:47:40,088 Old Market Street Down by the Frisco Bay 540 00:47:42,392 --> 00:47:44,690 I've strolled the Prado 541 00:47:45,662 --> 00:47:48,460 I've gambled on the Bourse 542 00:47:51,935 --> 00:47:57,271 The seven wonders Of the world I've seen 543 00:48:00,410 --> 00:48:04,972 And many are the places I have been 544 00:48:07,451 --> 00:48:08,975 Take my advice 545 00:48:09,052 --> 00:48:13,216 Folks And see Beale Street first! 546 00:48:15,993 --> 00:48:20,623 When you speak of the blues that carry 3 lines stanzas... 547 00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:23,492 and they want to tell the story of the blues. 548 00:48:23,734 --> 00:48:27,727 We can't tell it without the story of Joe Turner... 549 00:48:28,005 --> 00:48:30,803 who pressed negros into gambling... 550 00:48:31,041 --> 00:48:34,010 and took them down the Mississippi river to the farms. 551 00:48:34,311 --> 00:48:37,906 They had decoys that lured negros in Memphis... 552 00:48:38,148 --> 00:48:42,642 to crap games where they were arrested and put in prison. 553 00:48:43,020 --> 00:48:46,649 Women looking for their husbands who were late coming home would ask... 554 00:48:46,723 --> 00:48:50,352 "I wonder where my husband is. Then they'd be told... 555 00:48:50,427 --> 00:48:54,386 "Haven't you heard about Joe Turner? He's been here and gone". 556 00:48:55,065 --> 00:48:59,559 They tell me Joe Turner' Come and gone 557 00:48:59,836 --> 00:49:05,866 Oh, Lordy Tell me Joe Turner' Come and gone 558 00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:08,173 Oh, Lordy 559 00:49:08,312 --> 00:49:14,114 Got my man and gone 560 00:49:14,184 --> 00:49:18,587 He come with forty links of chain 561 00:49:18,655 --> 00:49:20,850 Oh, Lordy 562 00:49:21,124 --> 00:49:25,026 Come with forty links of chain 563 00:49:25,095 --> 00:49:27,063 Oh, Lordy 564 00:49:27,197 --> 00:49:32,999 Got my man and gone 565 00:49:35,172 --> 00:49:37,834 We going to Honey Boy's house. 566 00:49:38,075 --> 00:49:39,099 Come on. 567 00:49:42,079 --> 00:49:43,808 Look like it's going to rain. 568 00:49:48,652 --> 00:49:50,051 Honey Boy! 569 00:49:50,554 --> 00:49:52,954 Mr. Goodman, how you doing', sir? 570 00:49:54,491 --> 00:49:56,584 This is my nephew, Junior. He's eleven years old. 571 00:49:56,793 --> 00:49:59,421 This is Mr. Goodman, one of the greatest guitar players ever. 572 00:50:00,764 --> 00:50:02,925 He played with the Red Tops here in Vicksburg. 573 00:50:03,633 --> 00:50:06,864 That boy that you last mentored is playing tonight at the Blue Room. 574 00:50:09,673 --> 00:50:10,605 Honey Boy! 575 00:50:10,874 --> 00:50:13,240 I knew you wouldn't desert me. 576 00:50:13,677 --> 00:50:14,905 Who you got with you? 577 00:50:15,178 --> 00:50:17,703 This's my nephew. He's eleven years old. 578 00:50:17,948 --> 00:50:19,438 You from California. 579 00:50:20,984 --> 00:50:23,885 - Don't look at me like I'm crazy. - How did you know that? 580 00:50:24,321 --> 00:50:25,948 I know when you left from here. 581 00:50:26,023 --> 00:50:28,423 You was born across from the old train station. 582 00:50:28,492 --> 00:50:32,223 - How you know so much about me? - Boy, this is the south. 583 00:50:32,429 --> 00:50:35,728 I wish he could stay here long enough for you teach him how to play a guitar. 584 00:50:36,566 --> 00:50:40,024 He saw Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson and Son House play. 585 00:50:40,904 --> 00:50:43,304 He learned from the blues players. 586 00:50:44,241 --> 00:50:46,368 It'd be great if you can pass on down to him. 587 00:50:46,643 --> 00:50:50,909 It's a shame young people don't know anything about Patton or the other folk. 588 00:50:51,681 --> 00:50:54,707 All you young folk think about is rock n roll. 589 00:50:54,918 --> 00:50:57,512 It's your music and you're gonna lose it. 590 00:50:58,889 --> 00:51:03,019 I came to realize everyone had a guitar and was basically self-taught. 591 00:51:03,393 --> 00:51:05,987 They were masters and great artists. 592 00:51:06,263 --> 00:51:10,222 I looked at Blind Honey Boy and people like Mississippi John Hurt... 593 00:51:10,467 --> 00:51:12,594 and marveled at their artistry. 594 00:51:14,438 --> 00:51:16,463 Whoa, gal 595 00:51:17,574 --> 00:51:20,134 Please don't leave me alone 596 00:51:24,681 --> 00:51:30,142 Death never takes No vacation in this land 597 00:51:32,589 --> 00:51:36,525 He comes into your house And he won't stay long 598 00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,324 You look in the bed To find everybody gone 599 00:51:42,165 --> 00:51:47,467 Death never takes No vacation in this land 600 00:51:52,576 --> 00:51:55,204 Well all you ladies gather 'round 601 00:51:55,312 --> 00:51:59,214 That good sweet candy man's in town It's the candy man 602 00:51:59,549 --> 00:52:01,210 Candy man 603 00:52:07,224 --> 00:52:09,454 He likes a stick Of candy just nine inch long 604 00:52:09,559 --> 00:52:13,325 He sells as fast a hog can chew his corn It's the candy man 605 00:52:13,730 --> 00:52:15,220 Candy man 606 00:52:21,004 --> 00:52:23,336 All heard what sister Johnson said 607 00:52:23,607 --> 00:52:27,441 She always takes a candy stick to bed It's the candy man 608 00:52:27,744 --> 00:52:29,439 The candy man 609 00:52:33,683 --> 00:52:36,345 You know you can't spend What you ain't got 610 00:52:37,053 --> 00:52:40,386 Can't lose some new girl You never had 611 00:52:47,597 --> 00:52:49,360 Money in the bank 612 00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:53,726 But I got busted People ain't that bad? 613 00:53:00,911 --> 00:53:02,936 I had money in the bank 614 00:53:04,214 --> 00:53:07,342 But I got busted People ain't that bad? 615 00:53:14,090 --> 00:53:16,650 You know you can't spend What you ain't got 616 00:53:17,594 --> 00:53:20,722 Can't lose some new girl that You ain't never had 617 00:53:28,138 --> 00:53:29,765 Hey, baby 618 00:53:31,575 --> 00:53:34,772 Don't throw your love on me So strong 619 00:53:39,282 --> 00:53:41,250 Hey, baby 620 00:53:44,487 --> 00:53:47,888 Don't throw your love on me So strong 621 00:53:53,530 --> 00:53:56,522 You know your love is like a faucet 622 00:53:57,467 --> 00:54:00,868 You can turn it off and on 623 00:54:02,205 --> 00:54:06,301 To say you play the blues is a serious thing. 624 00:54:07,244 --> 00:54:10,543 Violence and self-destruction was part and parcel. 625 00:54:10,780 --> 00:54:13,078 Bessie Smith bled to death after a car accident. 626 00:54:13,383 --> 00:54:15,817 Leroy Carr died young of alcoholism. 627 00:54:16,386 --> 00:54:20,823 Leadbelly, Bukka White, and Son House took the life of another man. 628 00:54:21,091 --> 00:54:25,027 You get so mad you wanna cry or cut somebody's throat. 629 00:54:25,395 --> 00:54:28,887 I'd be scared to call myself the devil's son-in law... 630 00:54:29,165 --> 00:54:31,565 cause Lord don't like joking' about heaven or hell. 631 00:54:31,901 --> 00:54:35,098 When you get older, it's time to stop acting a fool... 632 00:54:35,372 --> 00:54:37,169 and act like you got some sense. 633 00:54:37,540 --> 00:54:42,375 I lost my sight drinking can hea and bad home brew. 634 00:54:42,612 --> 00:54:46,378 God gonna give you only so many times to stop acting a fool. 635 00:54:47,217 --> 00:54:49,583 I think I'm going to get this boy something to eat. 636 00:54:50,453 --> 00:54:52,045 I appreciate you stopping by. 637 00:54:53,456 --> 00:54:54,787 Come on, boy. 638 00:55:06,102 --> 00:55:10,266 John Henry was a steel driven' man 639 00:55:11,074 --> 00:55:13,133 Yeah he went down 640 00:55:13,643 --> 00:55:15,838 Well, he went down 641 00:55:17,947 --> 00:55:22,043 Take my hammer and carried it To my capt'n 642 00:55:22,886 --> 00:55:24,911 Oh, tell him I'm gone 643 00:55:25,322 --> 00:55:27,654 Won't you tell him I'm gone 644 00:55:30,593 --> 00:55:32,458 John Henry 645 00:55:32,729 --> 00:55:35,061 He left his hammer 646 00:55:35,565 --> 00:55:37,533 All paint' in red 647 00:55:38,101 --> 00:55:40,126 All shining' red 648 00:55:46,176 --> 00:55:50,272 When you know people like Bobbie and Love Grace... 649 00:55:52,248 --> 00:55:53,875 you know you're blessed to the bone. 650 00:55:54,150 --> 00:55:56,675 Only reason I'm feeding you is because you promised... 651 00:55:56,953 --> 00:55:59,581 to put me in your book. I sing. 652 00:55:59,823 --> 00:56:01,620 He only got all men in his book. 653 00:56:01,891 --> 00:56:04,553 I got everybody. He seen it. 654 00:56:05,829 --> 00:56:07,888 Is he really writing a book? 655 00:56:07,997 --> 00:56:09,328 Yes, ma'am. 656 00:56:09,566 --> 00:56:11,932 - What's your nickname? - Junior. 657 00:56:12,168 --> 00:56:14,329 Bobbie, we got to give him a name. 658 00:56:14,571 --> 00:56:17,597 He can't go around calling himself Junior. 659 00:56:17,841 --> 00:56:19,809 That don't sound like a man. 660 00:56:20,677 --> 00:56:23,168 He looks like a Sweet Daddy to me. 661 00:56:23,446 --> 00:56:26,574 - You like Sweet Daddy? - No. I like Junior. 662 00:56:26,983 --> 00:56:29,645 No. You can't have... 663 00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:30,981 Junior. 664 00:56:31,221 --> 00:56:33,121 The women used to call me Shave n Dry. 665 00:56:33,189 --> 00:56:35,521 - Shut up. - How about... 666 00:56:35,759 --> 00:56:36,885 Papa? 667 00:56:37,427 --> 00:56:38,894 How about... 668 00:56:39,429 --> 00:56:41,329 Sugar Stick? 669 00:56:42,599 --> 00:56:44,794 I was back sliding into darkness. 670 00:56:45,034 --> 00:56:47,400 All the names sounded sweet and sticky. 671 00:56:47,504 --> 00:56:49,665 I couldn't come home with any name other than Junior. 672 00:56:49,939 --> 00:56:52,874 My mother would make me pick a switch and whip me raw. 673 00:56:58,281 --> 00:57:00,613 Go on boy, and don't be rude. 674 00:57:09,993 --> 00:57:14,293 - I was between heaven and hell. - Dixie moonlight 675 00:57:14,564 --> 00:57:17,032 Swanee shore 676 00:57:17,901 --> 00:57:20,995 Headed homebound 677 00:57:21,371 --> 00:57:23,999 Just once more 678 00:57:24,774 --> 00:57:28,767 To my Mississippi 679 00:57:28,845 --> 00:57:33,578 Delta home 680 00:57:38,188 --> 00:57:43,490 Southland has that Grand garden spot 681 00:57:44,928 --> 00:57:50,662 Although you believe or not 682 00:57:51,601 --> 00:57:57,904 I hear those breeze a-whispering 683 00:57:58,141 --> 00:58:03,306 "Come on back to me" 684 00:58:04,948 --> 00:58:06,745 Muddy water 'round my feet 685 00:58:06,816 --> 00:58:09,307 I'm gonna wait until you grow up. 686 00:58:09,619 --> 00:58:12,486 Because you're gonna be my man. 687 00:58:14,190 --> 00:58:15,555 You're my... 688 00:58:16,459 --> 00:58:18,222 Sugar Daddy. My... 689 00:58:18,294 --> 00:58:22,993 - Sweet Drops. - Just God don't shelter 690 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:30,462 Down on the delta 691 00:58:31,608 --> 00:58:37,240 Muddy water in my shoes 692 00:58:37,747 --> 00:58:40,978 Reeling and rocking to them 693 00:58:41,251 --> 00:58:43,719 Lowdown blues 694 00:58:44,554 --> 00:58:47,387 They live in 695 00:58:47,657 --> 00:58:50,751 Ease and comfort Down there 696 00:58:50,860 --> 00:58:55,058 I do declare 697 00:58:55,532 --> 00:59:01,198 I'm a fool to want you 698 00:59:04,073 --> 00:59:08,976 I'm a fool to want you 699 00:59:12,482 --> 00:59:15,610 - To want a love - He would always be a head of us. 700 00:59:15,885 --> 00:59:19,286 He knew the trails and paths that the Underground Rail Road took. 701 00:59:19,856 --> 00:59:22,552 Instead of the trails leading him to freedom... 702 00:59:22,659 --> 00:59:25,822 the trails led him to his imprisoned son. 703 00:59:26,095 --> 00:59:31,260 I'm a fool to hold you 704 00:59:33,670 --> 00:59:38,869 Such a fool to hold you 705 00:59:42,312 --> 00:59:44,712 To seek a kiss 706 00:59:46,115 --> 00:59:48,640 Not mine alone 707 00:59:49,919 --> 00:59:52,479 To share a kiss 708 00:59:52,722 --> 00:59:56,920 That devil has known 709 01:00:00,229 --> 01:00:04,393 Time and time again 710 01:00:06,135 --> 01:00:11,072 I said I'd leave you 711 01:00:15,345 --> 01:00:19,076 Time and time again 712 01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:23,984 I went away 713 01:00:31,628 --> 01:00:35,257 I hate to go down I hate to go down this Ionesome road 714 01:00:38,401 --> 01:00:41,234 I hate to go down the Ionesome road By myself 715 01:00:44,841 --> 01:00:47,708 Yes, I hate to go down This Ionesome road 716 01:00:48,745 --> 01:00:51,680 I hate to go down this road By myself 717 01:00:54,951 --> 01:00:57,715 Yes, I guess I might've Used to make it 718 01:00:58,821 --> 01:01:01,483 Or Lightning' don't have nobody else 719 01:01:08,164 --> 01:01:10,689 Lightning' will keep on traveling' 720 01:01:13,736 --> 01:01:15,795 Till I find me someplace to go 721 01:01:19,242 --> 01:01:21,802 I'm gonna keep on traveling' 722 01:01:22,445 --> 01:01:24,413 Till I find me someplace to go 723 01:01:27,850 --> 01:01:30,819 You know you're Ionesome When you're traveling 724 01:01:31,054 --> 01:01:33,488 Down this road by yourself 725 01:01:41,831 --> 01:01:43,389 Just think... 726 01:01:43,833 --> 01:01:47,132 the water from the Mississippi overflowed all the way from... 727 01:01:47,437 --> 01:01:50,031 one end all the way to the other. 728 01:01:51,240 --> 01:01:55,939 All this was under five feet of water for as far as I can see. 729 01:01:57,914 --> 01:01:59,973 A lot of people lost their lives. 730 01:02:49,232 --> 01:02:50,961 1927. 731 01:02:52,835 --> 01:02:55,133 Your granddaddy worked on a levee. 732 01:02:56,072 --> 01:02:57,801 He was forced to. 733 01:03:07,550 --> 01:03:11,646 So many of our people worked so hard and had nothing to show for it. 734 01:03:14,524 --> 01:03:18,153 When I was young man I'd drive down through here afraid to stop. 735 01:03:20,429 --> 01:03:21,919 If you didn't have a job... 736 01:03:23,199 --> 01:03:24,962 you got arrested and they... 737 01:03:25,568 --> 01:03:27,502 they'd farm you out to work. 738 01:05:18,347 --> 01:05:20,372 Come on. 739 01:05:35,631 --> 01:05:37,189 Come on. 740 01:05:52,648 --> 01:05:53,842 Tell me. 741 01:06:03,092 --> 01:06:04,957 Coming to the crossroads... 742 01:06:05,161 --> 01:06:08,653 I found luck has nothing to do with God or the devil. 743 01:06:09,598 --> 01:06:11,589 It was a matter of fate. 744 01:06:14,437 --> 01:06:16,632 Some bluesmen played with fate. 745 01:06:16,872 --> 01:06:20,035 They acted as sort of tricksters associating with good and evil... 746 01:06:20,109 --> 01:06:22,509 but in the end, they searched for redemption. 747 01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:24,374 Tommy Johnson was one of the first to claim... 748 01:06:24,447 --> 01:06:27,177 that he sold his soul to the devil. That took nerve. 749 01:06:27,550 --> 01:06:29,848 Robert Johnson was rumored to have gone to the crossroads... 750 01:06:29,919 --> 01:06:32,615 to bargain his soul away for the artistry of the guitar. 751 01:06:32,822 --> 01:06:35,655 When he came back from the crossroads, his style was different. 752 01:06:35,725 --> 01:06:37,215 And he seemed to be another person. 753 01:06:37,860 --> 01:06:41,091 Petey Wheastraw claimed to be the devil's son-in-law. 754 01:06:43,699 --> 01:06:46,896 All died violently. Except for Tommy Johnson. 755 01:06:55,277 --> 01:06:58,405 We gonna wait to see if the devil comes. 756 01:06:59,415 --> 01:07:01,474 This is the crossroads... 757 01:07:01,717 --> 01:07:04,982 where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. 758 01:07:07,189 --> 01:07:10,181 - What devil? - The real devil. 759 01:07:32,114 --> 01:07:35,277 Music did bring me to the gutter. 760 01:07:35,484 --> 01:07:39,545 It brought me to sleep on the levy of the Mississippi river. 761 01:07:40,256 --> 01:07:43,692 On the cobblestones, broke and hungry. 762 01:07:44,026 --> 01:07:48,827 And if you've ever slept on cobblestones or had no where to sleep... 763 01:07:49,031 --> 01:07:52,865 you can understand why I began this song with... 764 01:07:53,102 --> 01:07:56,697 "I hate to see the evening sun go down". 765 01:08:00,743 --> 01:08:04,440 I hate to see 766 01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:09,811 The evening sun go down 767 01:08:12,154 --> 01:08:14,452 Hate to see 768 01:08:14,690 --> 01:08:20,026 The evening sun go down 769 01:08:20,096 --> 01:08:22,963 'Cause my baby 770 01:08:23,199 --> 01:08:27,192 Done left this town 771 01:08:28,637 --> 01:08:31,333 Feel tomorrow 772 01:08:31,574 --> 01:08:35,840 Like I feel today 773 01:08:37,646 --> 01:08:39,807 Feel tomorrow 774 01:08:39,882 --> 01:08:44,080 Like I feel today 775 01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:47,783 I'm gonna pack my trunk 776 01:08:48,023 --> 01:08:52,323 And make my getaway 777 01:08:52,628 --> 01:08:55,563 St. Louis woman 778 01:08:55,831 --> 01:08:59,927 With her diamond rings 779 01:09:00,803 --> 01:09:03,829 Pulls a man around 780 01:09:04,073 --> 01:09:07,873 By her apron strings 781 01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:12,777 If it wasn't for powder 782 01:09:13,115 --> 01:09:16,676 And her store-bought hair 783 01:09:18,754 --> 01:09:21,552 This man of mine 784 01:09:21,857 --> 01:09:24,553 Wouldn't go nowhere 785 01:09:24,827 --> 01:09:29,423 Nowhere 786 01:09:30,099 --> 01:09:32,624 I got those St. Louis blues 787 01:09:32,701 --> 01:09:34,794 Just as blue as I can be 788 01:09:35,437 --> 01:09:39,464 Oh, my man's got a heart 789 01:09:39,742 --> 01:09:46,648 Like a rock cast in the sea 790 01:09:46,916 --> 01:09:50,044 - Don't leave me. - Woman, get out of my face. 791 01:09:53,556 --> 01:09:55,251 Don't leave me! 792 01:09:58,627 --> 01:10:02,393 My man's got a heart 793 01:10:02,631 --> 01:10:09,093 Like a rock cast in the sea 794 01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:48,566 'Cause my baby 795 01:10:48,877 --> 01:10:51,345 He's done left this town 796 01:10:51,413 --> 01:10:56,146 My baby done left this town 797 01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:15,601 - Did ya saw anything? - I saw a ghost. 798 01:11:18,073 --> 01:11:19,973 Boy, boy... 799 01:11:22,544 --> 01:11:23,772 Boy, boy... 800 01:11:24,046 --> 01:11:27,140 I was only joking about that devil business. 801 01:11:27,383 --> 01:11:29,749 Can't nobody sell their soul to the devil. 802 01:11:30,085 --> 01:11:32,076 I did see a ghost. 803 01:11:36,759 --> 01:11:38,727 Okay, okay... 804 01:11:38,994 --> 01:11:40,018 okay... 805 01:11:40,262 --> 01:11:41,786 you saw a ghost... 806 01:11:44,967 --> 01:11:45,831 yeah. 807 01:11:48,070 --> 01:11:51,767 That couldn't have been W.C. Handy then, cause he was still alive. 808 01:11:52,241 --> 01:11:55,335 It could have been the devil playing tricks again. 809 01:12:01,950 --> 01:12:06,683 Freight train Freight train running' so fast 810 01:12:07,323 --> 01:12:11,783 Freight train Freight train running' so fast 811 01:12:12,795 --> 01:12:16,788 Please don't tell what train I'm on 812 01:12:17,066 --> 01:12:21,025 They won't know Where I've gone 813 01:12:22,237 --> 01:12:24,205 I worked and boarded. 814 01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:26,364 I'd go from door to door... 815 01:12:26,642 --> 01:12:29,736 and ask people if they didn't need someone to work for them. 816 01:12:30,145 --> 01:12:32,739 Sometime they would just look at me... 817 01:12:32,981 --> 01:12:35,541 sometime they shut the door, no we don't need nobody. 818 01:12:35,818 --> 01:12:40,255 I went to one lady's house and when she opened the door... 819 01:12:40,856 --> 01:12:43,222 after I got through tell her what I can do... 820 01:12:43,292 --> 01:12:45,624 she said: "What can a little girl like you do?" 821 01:12:45,928 --> 01:12:48,522 I said: Miss, I can help you with your vegetables... 822 01:12:48,764 --> 01:12:50,994 I can set you table, I can sweep your kitchen... 823 01:12:51,233 --> 01:12:53,701 I can help with your children, I can bring in your wood... 824 01:12:53,769 --> 01:12:57,068 I can make your fire, I had all of that on one string. 825 01:12:57,306 --> 01:12:59,866 So she says: "Well, come in". 826 01:13:00,109 --> 01:13:02,202 Then she opened the door and I went in. 827 01:13:02,878 --> 01:13:05,142 Then she hired me that day... 828 01:13:05,914 --> 01:13:09,680 and I started working for her and she paid me 75 cents a month. 829 01:13:10,352 --> 01:13:11,842 And after I worked awhile... 830 01:13:11,987 --> 01:13:16,185 I guess she could see that I could do exactly what I said I could do. 831 01:13:16,525 --> 01:13:20,655 But she says to me: "We gonna pay you more money"... 832 01:13:21,597 --> 01:13:24,259 she said "we gonna give you 25 cents more"... 833 01:13:24,500 --> 01:13:27,094 which made me get a dollar a month. 834 01:13:27,703 --> 01:13:31,434 I gave the money to my mother and ask her to buy me a guitar. 835 01:13:31,774 --> 01:13:33,674 My mother bought the guitar... 836 01:13:34,076 --> 01:13:37,068 and paid three dollars and seventy-five cents for it. 837 01:13:37,346 --> 01:13:41,214 And after momma bought the guitar it was to her sorrow... 838 01:13:41,283 --> 01:13:43,547 because she didn't get no more rest. 839 01:13:43,685 --> 01:13:46,779 Then I started banging on that trying to learn to play the guitar... 840 01:13:47,022 --> 01:13:49,354 because I didn't know what to do with all those strings. 841 01:14:05,174 --> 01:14:06,402 When my 842 01:14:06,642 --> 01:14:08,633 B- b-baby kiss me 843 01:14:10,045 --> 01:14:13,606 And she squeeze me real tight 844 01:14:15,551 --> 01:14:20,079 She l-l-Iook me In the eyes and say 845 01:14:20,923 --> 01:14:24,256 "Everything's alright 846 01:14:25,027 --> 01:14:27,723 But I get nervous 847 01:14:29,498 --> 01:14:32,626 Everybody have the blues, there's no doubt about it. 848 01:14:32,701 --> 01:14:33,895 Everybody have 'em... 849 01:14:34,169 --> 01:14:36,899 but everybody's blues aren't exactly the same... 850 01:14:37,105 --> 01:14:39,596 and everybody don't express it the same way. 851 01:14:39,675 --> 01:14:41,734 They express it according to the type of the... 852 01:14:41,810 --> 01:14:44,370 raising and the surrounding that they had been around. 853 01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:47,646 I love the blues and wanna play them, I was born with them. 854 01:14:47,716 --> 01:14:48,808 I couldn't help that. 855 01:14:49,051 --> 01:14:51,576 My momma had them and my daddy had 'em too. 856 01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:54,188 And the main thing is that I ain't ashamed, ain't that nice. 857 01:14:54,623 --> 01:14:56,614 The blues is the truth. 858 01:14:56,992 --> 01:14:59,256 If it's not the truth, it's not the blues. 859 01:14:59,795 --> 01:15:02,457 I remember down South we used to... 860 01:15:03,432 --> 01:15:06,765 be out on the plantation and various things... 861 01:15:07,135 --> 01:15:09,831 and you would hear a guy would get up early in the morning... 862 01:15:10,105 --> 01:15:14,508 and unconsciously he would just be thinking... 863 01:15:14,943 --> 01:15:20,313 and he's thinking about his condition and if he was some other place... 864 01:15:20,582 --> 01:15:21,879 or if he was up the road... 865 01:15:21,950 --> 01:15:25,477 down in the Southern states they always felt like the Northern states... 866 01:15:26,255 --> 01:15:31,557 would be a place where he could really enjoy and be himself and relax... 867 01:15:32,895 --> 01:15:36,592 and many times he been work hard all night, something like that... 868 01:15:36,832 --> 01:15:40,233 all day, went to bed at night, get up early in the morning... 869 01:15:40,502 --> 01:15:44,563 unconsciously he thinking and that's the way the blues are... 870 01:15:44,806 --> 01:15:49,175 unconsciously you think about the things that you would desire... 871 01:15:49,444 --> 01:15:51,878 in mind and you go to gradually singing them. 872 01:15:52,047 --> 01:15:54,845 That's why early in the morning you hear a guy going out there... 873 01:15:54,917 --> 01:15:57,181 to catch his news in the morning... 874 01:15:57,252 --> 01:16:01,746 going to pick cotton and he come up with a thing about... 875 01:16:08,697 --> 01:16:10,392 One of these days 876 01:16:10,632 --> 01:16:14,762 It won't be long 877 01:16:16,004 --> 01:16:19,872 You will look for me, captain 878 01:16:20,409 --> 01:16:22,673 I'll be gone 879 01:16:23,045 --> 01:16:26,606 Lonesome time will leave you feeling sad and blue. 880 01:16:26,815 --> 01:16:30,342 I'm talking about the Blues, nah I ain't talking about monkey junk. 881 01:16:30,586 --> 01:16:32,110 He go away... 882 01:16:32,387 --> 01:16:33,877 he sit down... 883 01:16:34,156 --> 01:16:36,647 and he cry, hang their head and cry. 884 01:16:36,925 --> 01:16:40,520 That kind of low what I'm talking about. What bring the Blues... 885 01:16:40,762 --> 01:16:42,696 B-L-U-E-S. 886 01:16:42,898 --> 01:16:46,959 Now that's the only thing what Blues is, this other stuff is that's no Blues. 887 01:16:49,504 --> 01:16:52,268 I'm a n-n-nervous man 888 01:16:52,341 --> 01:16:57,369 And I t-t-tremble all In my b-b-bones 889 01:17:10,092 --> 01:17:12,390 TB is killing me 890 01:17:16,999 --> 01:17:19,763 Why you can't just drop an apple pie? 891 01:17:19,835 --> 01:17:23,464 Lost in that deep blue sea? 892 01:17:28,010 --> 01:17:30,035 I was up on my feet 893 01:17:30,779 --> 01:17:33,646 I could not walk on this feet 894 01:17:34,049 --> 01:17:36,210 You must've looked at me 895 01:17:36,518 --> 01:17:38,713 From my head to my feet 896 01:17:38,787 --> 01:17:41,347 But now 897 01:17:43,158 --> 01:17:45,319 TB is killing me 898 01:17:50,032 --> 01:17:52,466 Why can't you just spare my apple pie? 899 01:17:52,567 --> 01:18:00,497 Lost in that deep blue sea? 900 01:18:13,455 --> 01:18:14,979 I woke up 901 01:18:15,791 --> 01:18:17,452 This morning 902 01:18:17,959 --> 01:18:21,053 But all my highway's you 903 01:18:21,663 --> 01:18:24,393 To take me belongs I 904 01:18:24,733 --> 01:18:26,894 At the highway blues 905 01:18:27,569 --> 01:18:29,161 Play that, boy 906 01:18:29,771 --> 01:18:31,363 I woke up 907 01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:33,769 On the highway 908 01:18:34,176 --> 01:18:37,270 That old Gray Hound bus had gone 909 01:18:37,879 --> 01:18:40,473 Standing about you, woman I love In California 910 01:18:40,782 --> 01:18:42,909 I show God we'll walk home 911 01:18:42,984 --> 01:18:45,919 Long, long way, man Walk it down 912 01:19:00,869 --> 01:19:02,336 Walk and ride 913 01:19:33,068 --> 01:19:35,536 Boom boom boom boom 914 01:19:36,104 --> 01:19:38,436 I'm gonna shoot you right down 915 01:19:39,207 --> 01:19:41,607 Right off your feet 916 01:19:42,210 --> 01:19:44,440 Take you home with me 917 01:19:45,247 --> 01:19:47,408 Boom boom boom boom 918 01:19:54,523 --> 01:19:56,491 I love to see you walk 919 01:19:57,459 --> 01:19:59,552 Up and down the floor 920 01:20:00,529 --> 01:20:02,827 When you talking' to me 921 01:20:03,431 --> 01:20:05,422 That baby talk 922 01:20:06,268 --> 01:20:08,168 I like it like that 923 01:20:09,204 --> 01:20:11,172 When you talk like that 924 01:20:12,274 --> 01:20:14,071 It knocks me dead 925 01:20:15,076 --> 01:20:16,976 Right off of my feet 926 01:20:17,913 --> 01:20:19,608 Hoo hoo hoo 927 01:20:20,816 --> 01:20:23,148 Whoa, baby 928 01:20:25,987 --> 01:20:28,012 When you walk, baby 929 01:21:32,187 --> 01:21:33,518 You know I'll never 930 01:21:34,956 --> 01:21:36,821 Whas happening, man? 931 01:21:37,726 --> 01:21:39,125 Hey, hey boy! 932 01:21:41,796 --> 01:21:42,990 Come on. Yeah! 933 01:21:44,399 --> 01:21:46,390 Whas happening? Hey, gal. 934 01:21:47,402 --> 01:21:48,562 Walter! 935 01:21:49,704 --> 01:21:50,898 Betty! 936 01:21:52,641 --> 01:21:53,801 Hey, Rose. 937 01:21:53,875 --> 01:21:55,172 - How you doing? - Alright. 938 01:21:55,243 --> 01:21:56,801 I called you last week, you wasn't there. 939 01:21:56,878 --> 01:22:00,370 - Buddy? - Walter! You want a drink, man? 940 01:22:00,615 --> 01:22:03,675 Are you crazy? Your brother's been here looking for this boy. 941 01:22:03,919 --> 01:22:06,217 His mother been calling from California. 942 01:22:06,421 --> 01:22:08,821 Now the police gonna arrest you for stealing your nephew. 943 01:22:09,057 --> 01:22:10,354 Sho nough! 944 01:22:10,625 --> 01:22:13,116 And don't you have enough sense to call home? 945 01:22:13,361 --> 01:22:15,226 You wanna get this man arrested just because of you. 946 01:22:15,297 --> 01:22:17,822 This is my doing. What kinda drink do ya want? I'm gonna get a drink. 947 01:22:18,099 --> 01:22:20,329 - Sit down. - Are you crazy? 948 01:22:20,969 --> 01:22:23,494 - Are you crazy? - Wanna a pop? 949 01:22:27,442 --> 01:22:28,670 I give up. 950 01:22:30,211 --> 01:22:32,236 Drinking black coffee 951 01:22:35,016 --> 01:22:38,452 And smoking cigarettes all night 952 01:22:44,693 --> 01:22:46,456 I can't sleep 953 01:22:51,733 --> 01:22:54,634 Now, Buddy, now you know you can't have that boy in here. 954 01:22:54,703 --> 01:22:57,171 - But Pearl, he's a little man. - You gonna have the law on me. 955 01:22:57,372 --> 01:22:58,600 - But listen, just one drink. - One drink! 956 01:22:58,840 --> 01:23:00,740 - Just one more drink. - One! And you got to go. 957 01:23:01,009 --> 01:23:02,476 Thank you, darling' 958 01:23:04,412 --> 01:23:06,710 She's crazy. Drink up, boy! 959 01:23:07,882 --> 01:23:09,372 Are you coming too? 960 01:23:10,251 --> 01:23:12,845 Get your hands out my pocket. What's wrong with you? 961 01:23:17,993 --> 01:23:19,255 What happened? 962 01:23:19,461 --> 01:23:22,191 Put his hands in my pocket. I told him about that. 963 01:23:30,872 --> 01:23:33,363 When I see he's got some sense, I'll give it back to him. 964 01:23:40,682 --> 01:23:42,149 Having fun? 965 01:23:42,617 --> 01:23:45,347 Now you've got a good reason to get saved. 966 01:23:46,488 --> 01:23:50,982 As Buddy would say: "The people who played the blues are my kinda people". 967 01:24:02,637 --> 01:24:05,663 Working up a sweat all night long 968 01:24:07,042 --> 01:24:09,670 And jumping over my bed 969 01:24:15,483 --> 01:24:18,611 Working up a sweat all night long 970 01:24:19,888 --> 01:24:22,254 And jumping over my bed 971 01:24:29,564 --> 01:24:31,293 He made me tell. 972 01:24:31,566 --> 01:24:33,966 I don't know what possessed him to bring that boy in here. 973 01:24:34,235 --> 01:24:35,429 Hey, brother. 974 01:24:39,007 --> 01:24:40,167 Are you okay? 975 01:24:40,408 --> 01:24:41,841 I'm fine. 976 01:24:42,744 --> 01:24:43,904 Are you crazy? 977 01:24:44,813 --> 01:24:46,713 What made you wanna say that? 978 01:24:46,948 --> 01:24:49,246 This is the devil at work here. 979 01:24:49,484 --> 01:24:52,817 What's gotten in to you? And what is he doing in this place? 980 01:24:53,822 --> 01:24:56,416 Good Lord, you are crazy. 981 01:24:57,125 --> 01:25:00,754 Mama called everybody. She got the police looking for you. 982 01:25:00,995 --> 01:25:03,862 I can't tell mama I found Junior in a juke joint. 983 01:25:04,099 --> 01:25:06,294 She'll never talk to you again. 984 01:25:06,534 --> 01:25:08,900 Now I got to be dishonest. 985 01:25:09,938 --> 01:25:11,872 This is how the devil works. 986 01:25:13,174 --> 01:25:15,574 Buddy, you wrong. 987 01:25:22,150 --> 01:25:25,313 I learned so much on that trip back home. 988 01:25:25,587 --> 01:25:27,953 I never forgot a second of it. 989 01:25:28,056 --> 01:25:31,355 I draw a lot from that time I spent with Buddy. 990 01:25:32,694 --> 01:25:35,026 For years, Buddy was Buddy. 991 01:25:35,396 --> 01:25:38,229 Years went by and Buddy left the book for me to finish. 992 01:25:38,466 --> 01:25:40,491 I did in my own way. 993 01:25:43,838 --> 01:25:46,068 Buddy ended up becoming a preacher... 994 01:25:46,307 --> 01:25:48,741 like so many of the blues players. 995 01:26:24,979 --> 01:26:28,244 I seen trouble 996 01:26:29,450 --> 01:26:32,476 And I seen sin 997 01:26:34,322 --> 01:26:37,621 I seen evil 998 01:26:38,293 --> 01:26:41,694 In the heart of a man 999 01:26:43,498 --> 01:26:47,264 I seen anger 1000 01:26:47,602 --> 01:26:51,265 In the eyes of a slave 1001 01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:56,542 I seen sorrow 1002 01:26:56,844 --> 01:27:00,336 At the side of a gray 1003 01:27:01,816 --> 01:27:05,547 I seen mother 1004 01:27:06,387 --> 01:27:09,618 Losing her child 1005 01:27:11,125 --> 01:27:14,754 I seen daughter 1006 01:27:15,230 --> 01:27:19,894 All broken divine 1007 01:27:20,368 --> 01:27:23,860 I seen lightning 1008 01:27:24,606 --> 01:27:28,565 From the hands of my Lord 1009 01:27:29,611 --> 01:27:33,547 I seen darkness come 1010 01:27:33,781 --> 01:27:37,615 From the edge of a soul 1011 01:27:38,987 --> 01:27:41,217 Give me freedom 1012 01:27:41,456 --> 01:27:43,515 Give me strength 1013 01:27:43,625 --> 01:27:47,686 - Give me freedom - So long and so many 1014 01:27:52,300 --> 01:27:55,565 I seen daughter 1015 01:27:56,404 --> 01:28:00,966 All broken divine 1016 01:28:01,776 --> 01:28:05,212 I seen lightning 1017 01:28:05,780 --> 01:28:09,773 From the hands of my Lord 1018 01:28:10,818 --> 01:28:14,618 I seen darkness come 1019 01:28:14,956 --> 01:28:18,483 From the edge of a soul 1020 01:28:20,228 --> 01:28:22,355 Give me freedom 1021 01:28:22,630 --> 01:28:24,689 Give me strength 1022 01:28:24,766 --> 01:28:26,791 Give me freedom 1023 01:28:27,068 --> 01:28:29,298 So long and so many 1024 01:28:29,537 --> 01:28:31,630 Give me freedom 1025 01:28:31,706 --> 01:28:33,901 Take my hand 1026 01:28:34,175 --> 01:28:36,109 Give me freedom 1027 01:28:36,344 --> 01:28:38,335 So long and so many 1028 01:28:38,579 --> 01:28:40,877 Give me freedom 1029 01:28:41,115 --> 01:28:43,310 Take my hand 1030 01:28:43,618 --> 01:28:47,054 On the highway To the promised land 1031 01:28:48,690 --> 01:28:53,684 I like music ever since I was a boy. I just like music. 84336

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