Jerry, you need to do a video on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, she had a really interesting life--the Godmother of Rock and Roll. She started out singing gospel music and she was the first black lady that I have known who could really play an electric guitar and bend the strings so much that Johnny Cash, Elvis and Carl Perkins took notice and tried to imitate. She was from my hometown of Cotton Plant, Ar. and in my opinion has not got the recognition that she deserves, she was such a great entertainer and person...
+BLAST ZONE 2015 yeah ,I do believe you are right about mr. jerry. class act from a old school southern man. but I love the way the old timers say Chicago...lol they say it chCAR go..my grand parents all said it the same way. when I would catch them and call them out on it I was told they are older than me and they knew howto talk..lol
"When the Levee Breaks" was on Led Zeppelin 4 (along with "Stairway to Heaven") which was released on November 8, 1971. Zep's version was great but nothing beats the original.
@@lfctech5093 What a useless thing to say. There is no comparing the two. One is a simple folk song and the other is one of the most celebrated as a hugely spectacular take on a simple blues song. There is a place for both, but don't even try to rate one over the other.
oddly enough I found out about Lizzie Douglas by coming across her grave while exploring Mississippi backroads around where I live. amazing amount of history in such a small area
This was great! How about doing Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf. (I heard Wolf's own mother turned against him when she found out he was playing the blues--the Devil's music, she said.)
Thank you Jerry, this was great. There's so little info out there about Memphis Minnie, can't believe I've been that close to her grave site without knowing it. I've always been curious about her. SIDE NOT TO DIANE SCHUH'S COMMENT: In the late 70's early 80's I lived in Caddo Parish Louisiana. At that time Bonnie Raitt was spending a lot of time in Shreveport, to the point where it wasn't unusual to run into her at a party on the weekend there. Everyone pronounced her name the way Jerry does. It's a southern way of talking, not as flat. Most names do have a lot more music in them when you hear them in the south. I believe she probably preferred it. I know she was from the north east somewhere, but she seemed to be in love with all things southern.
thank you MR. SKINNER for doing this bio on memphis minnie i really enjoyed it i never knew she existed until now because of your bio i was able to do some more research an hear some of her music i love be my chauffeur its my favorite please do move black american bios this one for sure has been an real learning experience
Fantastic as usual Mr. Skinner! I'm a big Blues fan, especially the older classics, like to play them on my guitar also,and you did your research. Very informative! Thank you so much! Keep up the good work.
I search and LOVE my searches. My dad played for a famous vocalist for years. It took him away from us for 6 mths to a year at a time. But Sir, it is an HONOR to hear this from YOU SIR. We Love You!
I really enjoyed watching your videos on these different celebrities. Great job!!!! I have a request could you do a video about billie holiday and judith garland I would really love that lol
She out-drank and out-played Big Bill Broonzie. Lizzie never died. The music never died. The music lives on for all time. Her guitar was a National. So nice to see her resting place.
Agreed. Why wouldn’t you use some of Memphis Minnie herself. She her own great songs like Lonesome Shack and In My Girlish Days plus played innovative blues guitar she’s still known for.
Minnie is a blues legend, and rightly so. Any time you hear Led Zeppelin's magnificent "When the Levee Breaks," just remember that they were covering the very talented Memphis Minnie.
Thanks for putting this together. Something though doesn't seem to make sense .. if she was out on her own performing around 13-15 y.o. in Memphis, this would have been around 1910-1912. Seems she would have had to be performing ragtime or early jazz .. Were the blues even around that early?
Yes but it's hard to find a recording before 1923. WC Handy heard Henry Sloan playing slide in Tutwiler Station in 1903. The song was Yellow Dog Blues. Blues dates to Emancipation if not earlier. International tours have been going on for hundreds of years.
I'm not sure where you got your information but Led Zepplin released When The Levee Breaks long before Katrina hit. Other than that and the mispronunciation of Bonnie Raitt's name (sounds like rate) all very interesting.
Jerry, if you haven't done so, please do a bio on Big Mama Thornton. She was the original singer of "Hound Dog", which would be more famously recorded by Elvis Presley. Her version has some different lyrics, but it is the one that Elvis would record. Her version is a great one.
Lizzie was a beautiful woman. What a great talent to break into blues for women. It's not surprising that she became something great...leaving home at 13 and taking care of herself as a African American child. Nothing but amazing.
Why do people have to put a political, and a decades later political sexist tag on her and events this way? She did it because it was natural for her to do it, not because she figured she needed to strike a point for women.
Correction: Led Zeppelin recorded & released their version of this song back in 1971. As popular as the song was, especially when covered by led Zeppelin, decades later, it once again gained even more prominence when hurricane Katrina hit.
Hey Jerry, correction- Led Zep released "when the levee breaks" in about 1970 on their 4th. record, same album as "stairway to heaven" not aftre hurricane Kartina. just for the record.
Hey BLAST, since you seem to be a Zepplin fan, can you help me out with some info? We are wondering which album has the song," Bron-U-R," ( not sure on the spelling) I think it's called? It's a neat instrumental.Thank you if you can help. :)
The Zeppelin release of "When the Levee Breaks" in 1972 would have corresponded more closely with the timing of Hurricane Camille which was in 1969. The storm laid waste to much of the Gulf Coast from NOLA to Pensacola, Florida with the eye passing over Biloxi Ms. I remember both the song, and the storm well...
Thanks for putting this together. I would suggest you skip the background rock and roll music, it is distracting IMHO. Maybe you could add a soundtrack that features some of MM's music to give people a sample of the great music she created.
But not Zepparella's version, which she might have preferred, you know? Sort of like imagining Lady Day-Billie Holiday hearing Janis Joplin on the radio one cold rainy night.
I enjoy jerry skinners videos, but i had to scratch my head and try to figure out who "bunny rit" was. I THINK he might have meant Bonnie Raitt was the person who paid for Memphis Minnie's headstone.
Minnie was known as a polished professional and an independent woman who knew how to take care of herself. She presented herself to the public wearing expensive dresses and jewelry, but she was aggressive when she needed to be and was not shy when it came to fighting. According to the blues musician Johnny Shines, "Any men fool with her she'd go for them right away. She didn't take no foolishness off them. Guitar, pocket knife, pistol, anything she get her hand on she'd use it". (Wikipedia)
Jerry, I love your videos and I know you must do extensive research but Led Zeppelin recorded and released "When The Levee Breaks" more than 30 years prior to hurricane Katrina
I love History all of it and music but we are missing out on a lot of an American History Jewish Asian American and let’s not forget native Americans just to name a few thank you for sharing light back on her I’m going to find some of her music today
Jerry, you need to do a video on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, she had a really interesting life--the Godmother of Rock and Roll. She started out singing gospel music and she was the first black lady that I have known who could really play an electric guitar and bend the strings so much that Johnny Cash, Elvis and Carl Perkins took notice and tried to imitate. She was from my hometown of Cotton Plant, Ar. and in my opinion has not got the recognition that she deserves, she was such a great entertainer and person...
Sister Rosetta was much loved in Europe
yeah!!!! a Jerry Skinner video- his videos are simply great, and Jerry is a Southern Gentleman.
+BLAST ZONE 2015 yeah ,I do believe you are right about mr. jerry. class act from a old school southern man. but I love the way the old timers say Chicago...lol they say it chCAR go..my grand parents all said it the same way. when I would catch them and call them out on it I was told they are older than me and they knew howto talk..lol
I have watched several of your videos Mr. Skinner and I really appreciate the time and effort and your research that you put into each video.
+Gordon Neal Thank you Gordon. Jerry
A talented young lady.Thanks, Mr. Skinner.🎶
I think I am learning more history from you than I did in school
Thank you for this informative piece on Memphis Minnie
I made it to the cemetary. It was such a spiritual experience.
Led Zeppelin remade "when the levee breaks" way before Katrina hit... in fact Minnie was still alive to have been able to have heard it in 1971.
@@WhiskeyStillsTumbleweeds It's absolutely Joe McCoy singing.
@@WhiskeyStillsTumbleweeds incorrect
"When the Levee Breaks" was on Led Zeppelin 4 (along with "Stairway to Heaven") which was released on November 8, 1971. Zep's version was great but nothing beats the original.
@@lfctech5093 What a useless thing to say. There is no comparing the two. One is a simple folk song and the other is one of the most celebrated as a hugely spectacular take on a simple blues song. There is a place for both, but don't even try to rate one over the other.
I've been to Memphis on Beale St several times. Absolutely the greatest street musician's and performers anywhere. I love the Memphis area.
Thank you Mr Skinner!
A Great Piece On This Great Unknown Artist. Thank You Mr Skinner.
I once saw a movie called "Ghost World" and in the movie they played one of her records
Thank you for making this video!! I will certainly look into the works of Memphis Minnie as a result of your efforts ;)
Thanks Mr Skinner.....for this Black History. I never heard of her.
Thank you for watching. Jerry
Jerry Skinner Thank you for all your videos
Thank you for this. Your videos are always interesting.
oddly enough I found out about Lizzie Douglas by coming across her grave while exploring Mississippi backroads around where I live. amazing amount of history in such a small area
This was great! How about doing Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf. (I heard Wolf's own mother turned against him when she found out he was playing the blues--the Devil's music, she said.)
+alex hidell Thank you Alex, Howlin Wolf is a very interesting person. Thank you. Jerry
Thank you Jerry, this was great.
There's so little info out there about Memphis Minnie, can't believe I've been that close to her grave site without knowing it.
I've always been curious about her.
SIDE NOT TO DIANE SCHUH'S COMMENT:
In the late 70's early 80's I lived in Caddo Parish Louisiana.
At that time Bonnie Raitt was spending a lot of time in Shreveport, to the point where it wasn't unusual to run into her at a party on the weekend there.
Everyone pronounced her name the way Jerry does.
It's a southern way of talking, not as flat. Most names do have a lot more music in them when you hear them in the south. I believe she probably preferred it. I know she was from the north east somewhere, but she seemed to be
in love with all things southern.
thank you MR. SKINNER for doing this bio on memphis minnie i really enjoyed it i never knew she existed until now because of your bio i was able to do some more research an hear some of her music i love be my chauffeur its my favorite please do move black american bios this one for sure has been an real learning experience
Thank you Jewel, Jerry
Jerry, I just love all your documentaries.
Fantastic as usual Mr. Skinner! I'm a big Blues fan, especially the older classics, like to play them on my guitar also,and you did your research. Very informative! Thank you so much! Keep up the good work.
Thank you Rick. Jerry
I lived in that little trailor park there next to old abandoned white gas station on the main Highway through there/
I search and LOVE my searches. My dad played for a famous vocalist for years. It took him away from us for 6 mths to a year at a time. But Sir, it is an HONOR to hear this from YOU SIR. We Love You!
Thank you for your kind words Ryver Hyker. Jerry
I'm sorry it took so long to find your channel,it is very informative and entertaintaining.
I really enjoyed watching your videos on these different celebrities. Great job!!!! I have a request could you do a video about billie holiday and judith garland I would really love that lol
She out-drank and out-played Big Bill Broonzie.
Lizzie never died.
The music never died.
The music lives on for all time.
Her guitar was a National.
So nice to see her resting place.
LOVED your documentary.
Interesting video. Thankyou for informing us.
Thank you, Brother Jerry ⭐😎⭐😎
Why the heavy electric blues background music... incongruous.
Agreed. Why wouldn’t you use some of Memphis Minnie herself. She her own great songs like Lonesome Shack and In My Girlish Days plus played innovative blues guitar she’s still known for.
Very Informative Thanks !
Thank you so much..interesting..enjoyed.
Awesome thanks !
Keep; up the good work Jerry.
who was memphis minnie? the queen of the blues, that's who.
Awesome love it
Didn't realize that she was also quite a looker, but that last photo of her shows that she was quite fetching back in the day.
Great bio, thanks!
You should do a podcast about Billie Holiday and Bob Wills.🎵
Thank You 😊
Minnie is a blues legend, and rightly so.
Any time you hear Led Zeppelin's magnificent "When the Levee Breaks," just remember that they were covering the very talented Memphis Minnie.
Nice bio, thanks.
2 years later....i'm showing your video to another 1 of my friends and he says thanks for the black history
Thanks for putting this together. Something though doesn't seem to make sense .. if she was out on her own performing around 13-15 y.o. in Memphis, this would have been around 1910-1912. Seems she would have had to be performing ragtime or early jazz .. Were the blues even around that early?
Yes but it's hard to find a recording before 1923. WC Handy heard Henry Sloan playing slide in Tutwiler Station in 1903. The song was Yellow Dog Blues. Blues dates to Emancipation if not earlier. International tours have been going on for hundreds of years.
Never heard of her but god rest her soul! And a telling of her history
I absolutely loved this story I knew abt Beale St I heard that is where Elvis hung out too??
I'm not sure where you got your information but Led Zepplin released When The Levee Breaks long before Katrina hit. Other than that and the mispronunciation of Bonnie Raitt's name (sounds like rate) all very interesting.
Memphis Minnie was a genius....No mistake or doubt. Loved ya XXXxx :-)
Beautiful Lay RIP
I love the local history
Jerry, if you haven't done so, please do a bio on Big Mama Thornton. She was the original singer of "Hound Dog", which would be more famously recorded by Elvis Presley. Her version has some different lyrics, but it is the one that Elvis would record. Her version is a great one.
Thank you Farrah. Jerry
Lizzie was a beautiful woman. What a great talent to break into blues for women. It's not surprising that she became something great...leaving home at 13 and taking care of herself as a African American child. Nothing but amazing.
Why do people have to put a political, and a decades later political sexist tag on her and events this way? She did it because it was natural for her to do it, not because she figured she needed to strike a point for women.
Wow! Bonnie Rait paid for her tombstone! Cool!
Can you post the GPS, for her grave,? I'm thinking about a road trip this summer
America, this is your legacy,rejoice !
Another good ☝Jerry😉
Correction: Led Zeppelin recorded & released their version of this song back in 1971. As popular as the song was, especially when covered by led Zeppelin, decades later, it once again gained even more prominence when hurricane Katrina hit.
Jerry Led Zeppelin put out Led Zeppelin four in December of 1971 that’s when the song when the Levy Breaks
Came out not 2005 when Katrina hit
I think Katrina happened many many years after Led Zeppelin recording when the levee breaks, lol!
Hey Jerry, correction- Led Zep released "when the levee breaks" in about 1970 on their 4th. record, same album as "stairway to heaven" not aftre hurricane Kartina. just for the record.
+BLAST ZONE 2015 Yea. I was going to bring that to his attention, too. The song was out just a little bit before Katrina hit. lol.
Hey BLAST, since you seem to be a Zepplin fan, can you help me out with some info? We are wondering which album has the song," Bron-U-R," ( not sure on the spelling) I think it's called? It's a neat instrumental.Thank you if you can help. :)
yes, led zep's 3rd. album..2nd. side
The Zeppelin release of "When the Levee Breaks" in 1972 would have corresponded more closely with the timing of Hurricane Camille which was in 1969. The storm laid waste to much of the Gulf Coast from NOLA to Pensacola, Florida with the eye passing over Biloxi Ms. I remember both the song, and the storm well...
Thanks for putting this together. I would suggest you skip the background rock and roll music, it is distracting IMHO. Maybe you could add a soundtrack that features some of MM's music to give people a sample of the great music she created.
MINNIES SHOULDERS IS " FULLY FILLED !..A PRETTY WOMAN A GREAT MUSICIAN !
Jerry, Youre a true Historian!
Interesting but inappropiate music playing in the background I feel. Thankfully it wasn't too loud.
So, I'm thinking Minnie lived long enough to maybe have heard led zeppelin version of the levee!!
But not Zepparella's version, which she might have preferred, you know? Sort of like imagining Lady Day-Billie Holiday hearing Janis Joplin on the radio one cold rainy night.
*Memphis Minnies second husband* “Kansas City Joe” *would be another excellent person of interest to explore*
cant understand why you did not focas on the front of her headstone but you did on the back of it. seemed strange
I enjoy jerry skinners videos, but i had to scratch my head and try to figure out who "bunny rit" was. I THINK he might have meant Bonnie Raitt was the person who paid for Memphis Minnie's headstone.
She was obviously mixed race. That rather proves the mixed influences of the blues, which is rich in backwoods Scots-Irish ballading.
"Preformed as a lady." How beautiful
Minnie was known as a polished professional and an independent woman who knew how to take care of herself. She presented herself to the public wearing expensive dresses and jewelry, but she was aggressive when she needed to be and was not shy when it came to fighting. According to the blues musician Johnny Shines, "Any men fool with her she'd go for them right away. She didn't take no foolishness off them. Guitar, pocket knife, pistol, anything she get her hand on she'd use it". (Wikipedia)
lolled so hard at "Zeppelin released when the levee breaks when Katrina hit"
GOD BLESS THE BLUES
Regarding Memphis Minnie!😛
Jerry, I love your videos and I know you must do extensive research but Led Zeppelin recorded and released "When The Levee Breaks" more than 30 years prior to hurricane Katrina
Algiers is apart of New Orleans.
Memphis Minnie being "ladylike" is news to me, unless your idea of a lady is a woman with tobacco spit running down the side of her chin.
I love History all of it and music but we are missing out on a lot of an American History Jewish Asian American and let’s not forget native Americans just to name a few thank you for sharing light back on her I’m going to find some of her music today
Was wonder Mr skinner why you always leave out the denominations of your chosen people?
al meggs does it matter?🤷♀️
great woman she was sexe to