HONKY TONK ~ RL Burnside
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Saturday Night" in a north central Mississippi 'Tonk' called the Brotherhood Sportsmen's Lodge. We hear the blues expounded in its most volatile form. Hill country Blues player Rural (RL) Burnside and friends clearly delineate the honky tonk in rural black life.
(White boy in the room is Arkansas, poet and raconteur, Randall Lyon).
Como, Mississippi
September 28, 1974
1/2" 0pen-reel video original B/W 17-min.
Produced by the TeleVista art-action group, Memphis.
FRENZI FILMS Int'l., Ltd.
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Guitar, amp, vocals. No mics, no PA, no stage, no system nothing. A house party just the way it's s'posed to be.
Use what you got at hand. Best policy.
Точно!Но это вечеринка людей с интелектом и с культурой!Это не алкаши у метро выкобениваются!Тут духовность наличествует!!!Никакой похабщины!!!У меня тоска по таким людям.Спасибо за это видео,оно делает душу добрее.
One man with one guitar. That was a party.
Naked soul.
@@TavFalcoFilm 4 Realz! Amen!
Jeebus Xmas. Is his soul for sale like Charles Bradley?
@TavFalcoFilm Hey buddy. Good luck with your project. Let me know how it goes. I'm excited to see th end result. Be well.
And one chord lmao
Whoever filmed and recorded this was brilliant for documenting. This…is real as it gets, stripped down to nothing. Fantastic.
Only the essentials. I filmed what the lens was seeing - nothing more.
Thank you for watching.
Burnside!
The real. Real folk. Real ancient rhythm roots call and response blues. Real juke. Real south. Real soul.
I don't hear any call and response going on, but yeah, genuine. RL Burnside was the real deal.
@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 it wasn't happening with the folks in the joint but it was happening in the west African rhythm of the music. It's a style even without participation.
And real-real lame compared to the origional
Great song HONKEY TONK
by Bill Dogget and his great musical artists in his band--- sax,guitar,drums,
Bill on organ. That HONKEY TONK big hit in the late 50's will live on forever❗👍👌🎯
Not so much THIS ms.delta roadhouse boogie verson of honkey tonk--- oh it's good boogie, just not the same level as Bill Dogget's great verson❗😖 🤚👳♂️
Yes!!!!
Juke joint ramble.
Not even a microphone, dude just singin out. How beautiful.
This man did not need a microphone. Neither did Bessie Smith.
@@TavFalcoFilm I saw a great bluesman in Pittsburgh..singer..band with full pa system.. he walked into the crowd, no mic, belting away clear as the day is long! Billy Price! Obviously he was later in the game than the great artists you speak of.. probably early 80's. God bless him. Btw liked and subscribed!
@@cthulholmhastur5317 Thanks for sharing this. I can only admire those born with golden pipes.
I am pretty sure he has a mic clipped to his shirt
@@StUdLySOXfan You are right. That lavalier mic was connected to an open reel tape deck, which had a big surveillance-type production camera attached. For most of that footage, that big camera was mounted on a tripod. The camera I was shooting was a Sony Portapak utilizing the internal mic - as you can see & hear, sound & picture was captured handheld.
This is fantastic, one electric guitar, no stage, playing on the flor and everybody happy… I can feel where Canned Heat found the inspiration
Vestine was a fan.
Bob Hite used to travel around Mississippi to places like this. Sometimes he’d buy records from the jukeboxes. His brother, Richard, told me this.
Yes Canned Heat inspired by this wonderful music 🤜🏾👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Absolutely love love this doc 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I loved Canned Heat's take on Delta Blues, because their sincerity and love for the music was obvious.
I never did like Eric Clapton though, not him as a person or his boring music. Yeah, he plays guitar very well, but I never thought he FELT this music in his soul the way it's intended. He just heard music he could steal to make money from.
Maybe I dislike him because he broke up George Harrison's marriage, and then after he stole George's wife, he got tired of her and dumped her.😉
Clapton just always seemed disingenuous to me. IMO, he ruined "Crossroads" by overdoing the electric guitars and making it into a jangly mess that ruined the true spirit of the song. The song should be "haunt-y", not jaunty.
Eric Clapton's version (with Cream) of "I'm So Glad" is so cringey that I hated the song, until I heard the 1931 original by the man who wrote it, Skip James. At least the band Cream paid Skip James royalties for stinking up his great song, but I think James was the better guitar picker, and vocalist.
Canned Heat understood, and they kept that spooky kind of swamp-voodoo spirit simplicity of the blues songs, with the harmonica, falsetto voice, and rhythm guitar.
Thank you, from those of us who never made it to a jukejoint!
Now you known...
White people went to honky tonks, hence the name. Black people went to juke joints or juke houses. Take it from someone raised in the Mississippi Delta in the 1950-60s. What few juke houses in Mississippi (now) are sanitized for your protection - tourist attractions.
I’m sorry…💙
One of the coolest adventures to understand real diversity.
I grew up on Hank Williams, Fats Domino, and anything else with a solid groove.
As a result, Not only do I play in this genre, but many others as well.
This is the very base of most American Music.
And more than A Lot came from Mississippi and the rest of the delta area.
I have many relatives down that way.
It's in the Soul.
We still have a few honky tonks left in Austin tx but they’ll be gone at some point. Take advantage while you can.
So cool, so much groove, so much alcohol, so much fun, so much polyester dancing clothes!
High fashion, but only Schlitz beer & back room action with the girls.
Lots of hep cats having a good ol'time ~
@@TavFalcoFilm I'm concerned about the sister the camera zoomed in on @ 13:05. She looks so sad for being in such a happening place! She looks like somebody stole her man, stepped on her foot, kicked her dog, and talked trash about her momma.
Girl, listen to the advice of Kool and the Gang:
"… How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance
By standing on the wall?
(Get your back up off the wall) tell me, baby
How you gonna do it if you really won't take a chance
By standing on the wall?"😃
The woman shown at 14:00 is gorgeous and having a great time, though! I love her blouse with ruffled collar and sleeves and her perfectly coiffed hair. That blouse she's wearing would still look elegant and stylish today.
@@LazyIRanch The bules comfort the wall flower while giving agency to the stylish.
@@TavFalcoFilm That is beautiful! And so very true. I'm so much of a wallflower that I'm actually a hermit who only goes to town once a month.
Indeed, the Blues and other great music is a comfort to me. My mother was born in 1920, and she loved jazz and swing music from the 30s and 40s. Now that I can look up music I remember her singing, I've discovered that she was a huge Louis Jordan fan, because she knew and sang his music. Now that I can hear the original LJ and his Tympany Five, I'm a big fan too! IMO, his very funny song, "Saturday Night Fish Fry" is very early Hip Hop!
The Mississippi hill blues will put you in a trance!!!
Totally tranced-out since I heard 1st note of it.
@@TavFalcoFilm Reminds me of the album called Trance that Reebop Kwaku Baah recorded with the Ganoua tribe.
@@geoffreypiltz271 I can only imagine.
I'm still tranced out.
One of Mississippi Hill Blues' main nicknames is "the hypnotic boogie" - google it, it's true.
Damn, Mr. Burnside was the grooviest guitarist ever! Shit had me in a trance.
He was a conjurer.
Check out Junior Kimbrough🔥🔥🔥😵💫🔥🔥🔥
Love that blues dancing. Many decades before anything was "standardized". Proves that it's as old as the hills.
Old as the hills and deeper than the swamps.
I worked with Cheri at the archive that once repped these tapes, this blew my mind back then and remains one of the greatest things I've ever seen on videotape. I tried in vain to get some labels interested in releasing it but nobody ever bit, thank you so much for making it available here.
Contact Single Lock Records. We’ll do it.
@@thepollies I'm out of that loop now, that's up to Tav -- thanks for offering....
Fat Possum recorded the remaining North Mississippi blues players. Check their website.
Cool!
@@TJNorton Gianni Marcucci recorded the best for Albatross Records. Fat Possum tried to follow in his footsteps, but never really matched it because Gianni slept on those blues men's floors.
White people went to Honky Tonks (hence the name), black people went to juke joints or juke houses. We had one in my hometown, Farrell, Mississippi, about 8 miles west of Clarksdale, called the Wagon Wheel. Robert Nighthawk, Elmore James, Sonny Boy and Little Walter all played there. When I was a little white boy, I used to go up there and peek in the window. It looked a lot like this - nothing fancy. When I was in my late teens up until I was in my 30s, I used to hang out in juke joints around Clarksdale. What few there are in Mississippi now are all tourist traps, sanitized for your protection. Back in the 50-60s a lot of the patrons carried guns. It was pretty rough. I knew several people who were shot or stabbed in them. Great film. Pretty raw alright. Not sanitized…💙
Nothing sanitary about The Brotherhood Sportsmen's Club. Outside of Bobby Rae Watson & Kenny Brown, who were hardly honkies, few white folks tipped into this tonk. We also called it a juke joint. You're right though, hillbillies spoke of their joints as honky tonks - some stylish music in those, too.
@@TavFalcoFilmThere is nothing like American music.
@@matthewatwood8641 Unique, yet a mixture of many ingredients & influences.
@@TavFalcoFilm yes, and free-spirited, restless, and wild
Definitely some honking going on! And people let it go and groove, not afraid to move
Salt of the world over will feel this...beautiful
World Boogie !
Love those African vibes; RL Burnside will live for ever;
Immortal soul.
Reminds me so much of the trance music from Africa. Just wonderful.
Can’t wait to see Cedric in a couple of weeks!!
@@christinefisher1438 Yeah, that's a good African name, LOL!
Me too! Radio Mali and Ali Farka Toure❤❤
Same, same essentially. Especially in Tate & Panola counties.
Никакая не транс!Она наоборот выводит из танса!Для каждого порядочного человека,с менталитетом ,с душой это не транс!!!Я бы даже сказала:это ,в соём роде,Скрябин!Спасибо за Доброе утро!
this is golden footage
Golden tones & golden voices.
@@TavFalcoFilmМенталитет у них золотой!Люблю их!
@@user-of9wg9tj6t Самые свободные и легкие ритмы американской музыки для веселья!
the blues in it's purest form
Purely rarified.
I can listen to RL Burnside grooving on Goin Down South all day long!!! Thank you for uploading this great footage. Man! this is so good!!
Anything RL touched was totally hypnotic.
Love how the groove will sag a little then Speeds😂 up reminds me a little of the ocean tide..
Oceanic is the word !
Gotdamn! That's as pure as it gets there. That was a REAL party. AMEN!
HEY DON'T CUSS THE SENATE'S ISSUE WITH STENNIS' NOBE
MUSIC IS GREAT AND LOVED BY MANY NOT THEIR PROB
Sorry now. What? Steniss's Nobe? Be specific. I try to ignore politics.
Thanks for watching. There is a purity of expression here, but watch your language. Ladies are present.
What’s amazing to me is people back then had so little, all they needed was a guitar and a voice and maybe a little moonshine, rot gut, bath tub gin, grandpa’s hooch or a simple beer to dance and have a good time. Now they need an entire spectacle of singers, dancers, drill team routine, pyrotechnics, pre - recorded music with pitch correction, pharmaceutical drugs etc… people listen with their eyes now instead of with their ears, heart and soul. It make me sad… and at the same time it makes me happy that I’m not one of those people
You are one of us. Overkill is mere sensation. Nothing about country blues is sensational - it's all about trance.
I have been listening to RL for a long time. This is the real deal. Not for the trendy "fake rockers".
Nobody faking in that room.
We gone all ways fix our lips a certain way and raise our arms and pop our fingers. that's how you know the groove is groovin.
Finger poppin' daddies.
Here in North Mississippi this still rings true.....
This is from heaven. Thank you.
Blues in the hills, whoops in the hollows.
Looks like heaven to me... 🎸
Kinda was. 😯
R.L Burnside is one of the GREATEST, look up more of his music with accompaniment. ALSO one of his sons is in North Mississippi All Stars where this and more music is made ATOMIC.
Atomic rampage.
This made my mother freakin day
This to me is priceless
Yes, some things money can't buy, motherelm.
JUST CLARIFY ABOUT LOU ANN SHELLY BEHIND 007 WHAT YA MEAN
1974….everyone looks slim….
Slim & trim from dancing & hunching.
They smoked three packs a day
right. y'all know these folks worked hard every single day, no business sittin bein lazy
Hard day's work. Warm nights. Gotta head on down there to let loose and boogie.
THAT's the credo!
I just watched four major rock concerts from the 60s 70s on RUclips and this is by far better music than any of them !
At this point, my sensibilities are fried with rock.
Faut bien s'amuser , très bon documentaire . Le vrai blues du Mississippi Queen . Les Rollings stones avaient compris , l' inspiration vient de là . Pour bien jouer de la guitare 🎸 c'est le bon endroit . Voilà l'endroit idéal le blues du delta . Beaucoup de musiciens noirs célèbres , ont appris se rythme saccadé . Une danse entraînante simple .❤❤❤❤I GOT Blues Very Version Good 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
C'est vrai. Une dance hypnotique.
i saw burnside at buddy guy's legends back in the 90s and was blown away by his music. much respect to you for showing this.
Saw Buddy Guy twice on stage with Junior Wells. Glad to hear RL was supported by Mr. Guy.
Amazing, those riffs will put you in a trance
Still tranced out from that night.
OWN GANNET SOOOO WHAT YOU GONNA DO NOW
I wish I wish I just wish I was there that night. The connection I feel as an African to this sound is simply emotional. Wonderful feeling. ❤❤❤❤❤
Same ❤❤❤❤❤
It is a tribal thing.
Holy Moly, this man is a one man rave
There was a 2nd guitarist at some points & sing-alongs.
Even though I was 5 years old in 1974, I remember eras like this. Some people who had a shack or a building on their property, they would call it a (Hold In The Wall) where they will party , sell food and have a great time without any violence 🌹👏🖤🤎✊
House party.
Man I need this in my life
Now you have it.
When I lived in Austin RL was big on the alternative video channel and his music was on the radio all the time. This around 2008, I think. Awesome
Yes, there was huge appreciation of him.
I’ve experienced a good bit but it doesn’t come any more real than this.
Thank you for your documenting!
Really the blues.
I love this so much. Thank you for sharing ❤
My pleasure.
so wish i was there ...
Wish you were, too.
North Mississippi Hill Country Blues ❤❤❤
More lyrical than Delta Blues.
I had tears of joy in my eyes, when i saw this video for the first time. I have no words to tell how wonderful this is! It's so raw, authentic, hypnotic, ecstatic, erotic ... Thank you for this video!!
Anytime, TK. It was also quite moving to capture these heightened moments.
@@TavFalcoFilm How's your doc coming along?
Making a movie - not a doc. All done as of last week. www.uraniadescending-themovie.com/
@@joshuadowling8778
When I was a teenager. All the places to eat were closed. The driver said I know where? When we got to our destination. It was place like this. It was the first time I put hot sauce on my chicken. Oh the days of misspent youth is what a night that was.
Night ride!
It was meant to be.
Con solo una guitarra y su voz se armo el fieston, un ritmo contagioso y hermoso 💓
One guitar is all you need to have a party!
I see where rock n roll got its rock n roll from💪🏾
Where R&R should go back.
"The blues had a baby and they named it rock'n'roll". It's true.
@@olaclaesson8074the blues had a lot of babies😊
@@rickmerritt128 For sure. Was just quoting Muddy Waters there.
Watch how the people respond to the guitar. This video tells you all you need to know about why and what blues guitar is. This video tells you all you need to know about where music itself comes from.
The Blues come from where the sun don't shine.
@@TavFalcoFilm Pretty much all music came from that. It's with the country Blues that you can see humans stripped back down to their bare essentials, creating music from scratch again.
Dam man. This brother Burnside putten me through the roof!
Prepare for the duration spent on the rooftops!
I'm Houston. Sadly, the pandemic killed the last of the old school juke joints.
Real pity. Disease is a hard act to follow.
This is just a treasure to have, music at its basic roots. I've seen this many times and keep watching from the music to the crowd, this is just special.
this becomes my new Gold Standard. So Cool!
Golden throated & silver stringed!
That was "Fucking Kool!" R.L in his true element. Nitty fucking gritty!
An elemental artist in his own element.
Tav Falco, i thank you for showing me this historical event.
Thank you for watching.
You can hear Mississippi Fred's influence on RL. Most don't know that McDowell would take a young RL Burnside to play with him at fish fries n house parties. So that timeline puts it about 1942 ish.
Where did you read this about Fred mentoring R.L. ?Makes sense as they both lived and worked around, Como MS.
Thanks for the background article.
There’s such great value in the fact someone recorded this. We should all be grateful!
It was a long, yet cosmic night.
@@TavFalcoFilmthis is ,....'tttttt, ....IT,.......
@@EikeMariaHochmuth-jz9gw Wicked.
Brilliant this, it don't get better
Thanks for watching.
I'm a Burnside from Mississippi! I'm really going to have to look up the Ancestry site.
Research your distinguished lineage.
Wow, real trance!
Still in a trance myself.
I mean, reaching full groove in the dance hall without drums and bass, total respect!
This is the most magical thing I’ve ever seen and heard. This is my first time hearing of RL Burnside and now I’m hooked! This is the kind of artist D’Angelo is to me.
The music on D'Angelo's album, Voodoo, is also melodically & rhythmically mesmerizing. In that regard, not unlike the secular dance music of RL.
Wow I feel like I am there, that's how great this guy was. And the people are just having so much fun. I would do anything to go back in time and just be there.
It was truly a rarified all nighter.
Memento mori - there is no going back.
Pure....real... original....no sound special effects needi....wow....
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Gives me the chills! I love the whole atmosphere!
The blues is nothing but a good man feeling bad.
The blues walking like a man
Or a bad man feeling good. 😎
I have never seen an atmosphere like this one, it's amazing
Unique to the territory.
🙌 Teleport me to that Juke. It's about the trance.
Deep trance hoodoo.
Vic the Book used to love to listen to R.L. Burnside sing See My Jumper Hanging On the Line while hauling a big load of Cowhide's "cawn lick-her whisk-key" down Highway 7 in his Toyota Supra from Dennis to Oxford to resell to the kiddies at Ole Miss after Vic laced it with a special blend of psilocybin mushroom grown and harvested out in the Holly Spring National Forest in Marshall and Lafayette Counties.
RL inspired quite a trippy concoction for the progeny of Ole Miss.
WOW! Great little story...thought those Ole Miss kids were supposed to be well behaved? 🙃
@@xaspirate8060 They like to party. So ole Vic and Todd the Toller accommodated their needs.
this is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, made my year.
Amazing to capture it as well.
@@TavFalcoFilm @tav did you record this?? regardless, thank you for the film.
@@mwpalmgmailcom Most of what you see here - esp., the handheld material was recorded by me. The edits were also made by me. This is the result of a mission by the art-action video group I co-founded with Randall Lyon - TeleVista Projects, Memphis.
Old white woman here, thank you for this video. Looks like a good time❤
It was a hoot ! Wish you were there.
Thanks for this, I always liked his music.
I also drank those 16 oz Schlitz beers back in the day..😎
Nothing but Schlitz in those joints.
Oh hell yeah 🎯👏👏
Wicked, but watch your language... there are ladies present.
Oh yes! This was a groove!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Have mercy - a stone grove.
This is some of the rawest shit ive ever seen online. Thank you for putting this on youtube.
Bruh!!!! I'm melting.💪🏾🎸
Tear ass.
Glad you got into it, but watch your language. There are ladies present,
Love the guy at 1:00 dancing with his 16 oz Schlitz. I grew up on Schlitz.
Beverage of choice in the juke joints.
Wrinkled old celt here - learning some jive talk! Much appreciated. Closest this little scots kid got was Earliest Dr John ….this I get ..thanks
Dr. John cut from same cloth, but that of the big city.
@@TavFalcoFilm ah - i was still at school when they came out- clean living catholic kid - I could hear it but not get it! A step beyond beyond xx
@@naradaian Stay clean.
I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Truly, so did I.
Lots of good guitarists, lots of good singers, but not THAT MANY great (unique) players and amazing vocalists all in one... i dig his music but his singing/timing is where he shines the most (in my opinion)
True, RL was among the best singer/guitarists.
Doesn't get any better than this
Nice one Tav. I saw RL Burnside a few times down here in Australia in the late 90s and he left an indelible memory.
RL was a snake charmer.
Been in a few of those in my life. Good times.
All nighters.
I’m headed to Mississippi next month, so I did some research and discovered Hill Country blues - I’m speechless!
How was the trip?
Priceless....simply wonderful.
It's all about the Brotherhood.
The only thing worth watching on RUclips.
There are 5 hours of uncut material.
@@TavFalcoFilm Wait, what? Can I see the rest anywhere?
Wowwwwww, fantastic!!!!
What a Guitar!!!!!!
His Taiwanese guitars had a tone like no others.
Blues, The Best,
From The Best,
For The Best!
Robert Lee Burnside (1926 - 2005)
Video Track List
* Going Down South
* See My Jumper Hanging On The Line
* Poor Boy Long Way From Home
RL HAD THE MOJO LIKE NO OTHER.
Amen buddy ! Isn't his real name Reural ?
I know that he was born as Robert Lee Burnside... Ι have never heard anything else...
Good 'nuf. Where'd Reurel come from?
This is the original Rave...
Backwoods style.
Of course, the "powers that be" destroyed this form of black music that basically created every other form of music.
Nothing more destructive for music than the marketplace.
Não só para a música!@@TavFalcoFilm
Precious video bro, this a true bluesman, I like this a lot...
Really the blues, goodbuddy.
amazing footage. thank you for this
Thank you for watching.
09:02 I can hear Keith's rhythm guitar parts to "Midnight Rambler" when Stones speed it up live. Gotta love blues when it's rocked out 🤘🏽
PARTIED WITH NIX SOOOOO
@@carolyngordin6091 who's "Nix"?
Yes, he had done a lot of this delta riffs
@@SullenMorbiusDandy Don Nix
A Great and Holy Throwdown!
Holy throwdown to be sure.
Fantastic, the world is full of great wonder and we are all blessed to be able to see this masterpiece. Thank you so much for sharing this!
This was a wonderous happening.
When I was a young fellow back in the 50’s, there were Juke Joints like this all and around. Even in the sticks. There was good opportunity to sale your bootleg We put tires on runners Saturday afternoons, which had rear and trunks cleared for liquid cargo. By five-six, fellow driving that old Plymouth had made a Honky Tonk delivery. Plymouth want fast, but cheap and has great internal volume. Actually all 40’s-early 50 cars had great capacity to haul. I know a girl, who at 14 hauled shine out of the mountains, and met another hauler who took cargo into G town.
"I can tell the story, I can tell it all - about the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol - thunder was his engine & white lightning was his load".
I love to imagine my favorites in the same environment. BB. Muddy. Wolf.
Saw each one on them in Memphis - on the same bill upon occasion.
This is the core of great live music: stripped back ,raw, danceable rhythm, and an audience that feeds the vibe right back to the musician.
Total throw-down immersive.
wonderful !!! Let's Boogie !!!
It reminds me of some of the
John Lee Hooker stuff on Fortune particularly 609 boogie
amazing
There is a story that when those two met at an airport or somewhere public, Hooker advised Burnside to stop making a mockery of his music.
THIS IS WHERE THE
PRESENT GENERATION
NEEDS TO GET BACK TO
FOUNDATIONAL FUNK
WHICH WAS CREATED
FOR US TO FOLLOW
COULD CREATE A BRAND
NEW MUSICAL ERA
IT’S SO SIMPLE
AND EASY
ALL THE FUNK
IN THE WORLD
The FUNK down at the foundational bottom is an UNDERcurrent hurled into the future re-creating itself over & over.
@TavFalcoFilm yep. The rural south still exists. It's like nowhere else. It's a bit more hidden in plain sight with all the tech and modernity but it's there. Nothing like it.
@@davidhutchison3952 Vestiges of the gothic south are immutable.
@TavFalcoFilm currently listening to Mississippi kite screaming from the tall pines in my backyard in the Lowcountry GA.
@@davidhutchison3952 In the lonesome pines where the sun never shines.
Absolutely brilliant. Love RL
This is a find. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching. 👍
One hell of a night.