Robert Pete Williams - Scrap Iron Blues

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  • Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
  • Robert Pete Williams, bluesman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, captured here in the process of improvising a new composition, Scrap Iron Blues, in 1971. Not only does he describe his current job, but he also explains the circumstances that led to his arrest for murder and incarceration in the notorious Angola Penitentiary.

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  • @jhonnybladez
    @jhonnybladez 16 лет назад +9

    Black, White, Jewish, Latino, Philipino, and Indian, At some point or time everybodies got to have the blues. Humanity. Emotions.

  • @Stevoblues
    @Stevoblues 17 лет назад +8

    RPW is my guitar hero. His soulful style looks so easy but I've never heard and player like him. It just seems to flow from this guy. Truly amazing. He's a musical treasure.

  • @chrisdrummond8893
    @chrisdrummond8893 2 года назад +3

    His style is so doggone good.

  • @hilmarwensorra1215
    @hilmarwensorra1215 2 года назад +4

    In very loving memory of Mr. Robert Williams (1914 - 1980 R.I.P. // gone but NOT forgotten).

  • @kidcalabria
    @kidcalabria 16 лет назад +16

    This guy was great. It's perhaps the most African type of Blues, like all Delta Blues. Listen to Ali Farka Toure', from Mali, it's very similiar to some West African music, that's where it comes from, in a very underground, subterranean, genetic kinda way. When it comes to real feeling thru music it beats any pop music any day.

    • @alejandroabreha4516
      @alejandroabreha4516 10 месяцев назад +1

      Dis not no African music boa. Dis black folk music. Ion know who you is but ain’t no African put nun down like disya. Dem traditional music is not like disya son.

  • @russellsmith3567
    @russellsmith3567 3 года назад +4

    Those fingers are flying, this is music!!!!!

  • @Natedorny
    @Natedorny 11 лет назад +20

    Good luck finding someone that can play it like that

    • @gabecarter
      @gabecarter 9 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/f18_FyUGSqw/видео.htmlsi=eP2C84dGOWf7PCG6

  • @larryhoffmanmusic9285
    @larryhoffmanmusic9285 4 года назад +3

    Sam Charters characterizes Robert Pete as "the definition of the country bluesman - a poet of his own experience, his language and idiom coming from the hard country background that shaped him.”

  • @nubbins40
    @nubbins40 3 года назад +4

    Such an inventive player!

  • @LenaRiess
    @LenaRiess 16 лет назад +4

    Almost feel that Africa is so near when hearing that wonderful blues singer and player. Thanks Dave for the post!

    • @alejandroabreha4516
      @alejandroabreha4516 10 месяцев назад

      😂di hell is wrong wit chu white folks. Dis not no African music

  • @AikiJoKen
    @AikiJoKen 10 лет назад +7

    Rare to hear absolutely authentic blues. Brilliant.

  • @darryld9719
    @darryld9719 Год назад +1

    Priceless recording.....so thankful for the people that had the foresight to do such a thing.....preserving history and at the time they probably didn’t realize they were....you tube is amazing for these type videos...thanks to all the posters!

  • @8sun52
    @8sun52 3 года назад +3

    Everybody, go easy on the four down thumbs. They're huge Archies fans who idolize the deep/ heavy bad-ass music of "The Archies".

  • @TransiberianTube
    @TransiberianTube 4 года назад +2

    The 4 people who downvoted this have no idea what they are listening to or the significance of real blues and roots music... and the impact of musiciams like RPW... or John Lee Hooker had on some of the greatest guitar players of all time.. stevie ray, Steve vai, hendrix, clapton... bb king... smh... if you down voted this, you're clueless.

  • @MikeSchmitz-ht5rq
    @MikeSchmitz-ht5rq 4 месяца назад

    Moved me so much!

  • @AndrewHepworth-si9ty
    @AndrewHepworth-si9ty 29 дней назад

    Feel the passion man

  • @geden1729
    @geden1729 7 месяцев назад

    I love his comment on not knowing how it sounds.

  • @patriciakimbrell3734
    @patriciakimbrell3734 2 года назад

    Great Blues 💙 Love your Music 💙🎸💙🎸💙🎸💙💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙💙

  • @whawkins8636
    @whawkins8636 3 года назад +1

    One of my favorites

  • @Richard-pt4vf
    @Richard-pt4vf 3 месяца назад

    Th ROOTS OF ROCK N Roll❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @bliesboi
    @bliesboi 6 лет назад +12

    if u like RW try a guy named belton sutherland sounds alot like this (lonely blues) my favorite musician by far

    • @knowmoore5536
      @knowmoore5536 6 лет назад +5

      David Schulze Jr Sam Chatmon is another lonesome bluesman with timelessness on his side!!!

    • @bliesboi
      @bliesboi 5 лет назад

      Very true

    • @pena.3302
      @pena.3302 4 года назад

      @@bliesboi yes.thanks..

  • @Roqu3Quinc0t
    @Roqu3Quinc0t 5 лет назад +2

    damn... this is pure gold

  • @cvlngnrr
    @cvlngnrr 10 лет назад +2

    I heard Jimmy Page list Robert Pete Williams as one of his influences in an interview once but have not been able to find it in RUclips.

  • @tmsphere
    @tmsphere 11 дней назад

    This is avantgarde.

  • @collinsterry0208
    @collinsterry0208 5 лет назад +5

    He's from Maringouin, La not Baton Rouge. A small town in Iberville Parish not far from Baton Rouge

    • @JakobSeidl
      @JakobSeidl 4 года назад +3

      Isn’t he from Zachary

    • @toddanderson4299
      @toddanderson4299 4 года назад +1

      @@JakobSeidl I thought he was from Zachary, too.

    • @MalxaAza
      @MalxaAza 3 года назад +2

      Maringouin?... Isn't it the cajun word for mosquito? I have heard this word from canadian french before.

    • @collinsterry0208
      @collinsterry0208 3 года назад +2

      Galliane fait ce qu'elle peut 🎯 Yes it is

    • @MalxaAza
      @MalxaAza 3 года назад +1

      @@collinsterry0208 Thanks....

  • @likesingjamesloublank839
    @likesingjamesloublank839 9 лет назад +2

    scrap iron blues .... YEEEHHH !!!!!!

  • @chrisszeliga1425
    @chrisszeliga1425 6 лет назад +2

    As he notes in the closing comments, he was prone to making songs up right on the spot. The next time he played the same song, it might very well evolve further.

  • @busessuck1
    @busessuck1 13 лет назад +2

    @Stevoblues that's the case with most of these guitarists, you can play the same notes in the same tuning... it'll never sound as good

  • @johnmatthews304
    @johnmatthews304 8 месяцев назад

    Oh yes!

  • @plutoohno
    @plutoohno 16 лет назад +9

    his voice is really reminiscent of a lot of african music.

  • @JamesShelton59
    @JamesShelton59 4 года назад +1

    Oh mercy ❤️

  • @G8GT364CI
    @G8GT364CI 2 года назад

    Alan Wilson of the band 'Canned Heat' really liked him.

  • @AusDavid12
    @AusDavid12 8 лет назад +1

    A few years back someone had some clips up on RUclips of Robert Pete Williams performing on TV shows from 1966 and 1969(?). There were 3 songs from what I remember and they were long songs. They were soon taken down and I have never seen them posted anywhere again. Anyone know about these clips?

  • @BordiniBlues85
    @BordiniBlues85 13 лет назад +2

    real blues deal

  • @nicolaskozapi9671
    @nicolaskozapi9671 8 лет назад

    voice of fact dream notes !

  • @loulout9554
    @loulout9554 11 месяцев назад

    Superbe

  • @ClutchzMuch
    @ClutchzMuch 12 лет назад +2

    RAW IS GOOD

  • @NatureBeastDick
    @NatureBeastDick Год назад

    I've been in love with this video for years. Never gets old. He totally does a metal riff in there lol. Listen for it.

  • @prutissbartlow8835
    @prutissbartlow8835 4 года назад

    Amen...and that now it was

  • @UnclePutte
    @UnclePutte 10 лет назад

    Wow. That's one bad town to live in. But the song that came of it ain't bad.

  • @umilityjpm-one5478
    @umilityjpm-one5478 9 лет назад +1

    SCRAP IRON BLUES

  • @likesingjamesloublank839
    @likesingjamesloublank839 9 лет назад +1

    le blues de la ferraille ...... "why not"......

  • @plutoohno
    @plutoohno 16 лет назад

    oh... just wow. whats the name of the movie this is from?

    • @gabecarter
      @gabecarter 9 месяцев назад

      Out of the Black's into the Blues

  • @GoogleSuckMyCockk
    @GoogleSuckMyCockk 13 лет назад +1

    he is sooooo zajebisty;p

    • @rvz77
      @rvz77 3 года назад

      Kurwa no tak!

  • @bba219
    @bba219 9 лет назад +1

    this was obviously cut from a larger piece, does anyone know the source?

    • @JnOProductions
      @JnOProductions 9 лет назад +1

      Trevor Clifford It's taken from a Documentary...French as I remember, maybe called "En remontant le Mississippi". If my memory is incorrect this should at least point you in the right direction

    • @busessuck1
      @busessuck1 8 лет назад +1

      ireland.onlinefilm.org/en_en/film/28528
      www.imdb.com/title/tt0402160/

    • @bba219
      @bba219 8 лет назад +1

      +busessuck1 this guy was one serious fan of les blank, or maybe the other way around...either way they are remarkably similar

    • @collinsterry0208
      @collinsterry0208 7 лет назад

      Trevor Clifford it's my uncle. #maringouin, La

    • @wheninroamful
      @wheninroamful 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/3ZG8KhGmf5Y/видео.html

  • @QuintinPenola
    @QuintinPenola 12 лет назад

    wonder what his tuning is

    • @adamgledhill4752
      @adamgledhill4752 5 лет назад +2

      I have a friend in the states that used to hitch hike around and got to know a lot of these old blues guys, he was very good friends with people like son House, David Edwards and was mostly mentored by John Jackson for many years. As well as Paul Geremia. But he told me that when he met RPW he used all sorts of weird tunings. He had apparently first started playing as a way of begging and didn't know you were meant to even tune a guitar. It was some time before he learned that. But he could apparently just pick a guitar up however it was tuned and re adjust his fingering in accordance to how it happened to be tuned at the time. He said it mate his work very hard to work out. He often didn't bother to tune at all he said. Thr man was a bit of a genius and certainly doesn't get the credit he diserves. He had one hell of a tough life about as blue as it gets.

  • @jamesreger2431
    @jamesreger2431 11 лет назад

    This made me ad...apt into something far away from what i was assuming @ the time when ole Robert here said turn that page now ya hear...thank you

  • @MarkBiedron
    @MarkBiedron 11 лет назад +1

    jes hi is

  • @experimentalel7
    @experimentalel7 4 года назад

    anyone know what tuning hes in?

  • @tonybelleo1895
    @tonybelleo1895 4 года назад +1

    Grandma smoking.. Cigarette

  • @rustywenzlawe6287
    @rustywenzlawe6287 24 дня назад

    Think this is open g?

  • @klmullins65
    @klmullins65 7 лет назад

    that emblem on his hat looks like the stick figures from "Blair Witch Project "!

  • @AndrewHepworth-si9ty
    @AndrewHepworth-si9ty 29 дней назад

    Fuck the x factor no passion

  • @shantolog
    @shantolog 15 лет назад

    He brought a knife to a gun fight...
    its honestly a sad but all to common situation.