As a 21 year old kid from New Zealand I had the pleasure and experience of going to Juniors Juke joint in the late 90s. I was living in Memphis at the time and a local friend took me on a drive one Sunday night across to the Mississippi. I had no clue where we were going but he and his friend told me that it would be special. We stopped in a gravel carpark , purchased some moonshine from the back of a truck and entered into a life changing experience. People welcomed me in, spoke to me even though I struggled to understand their accents. The music was so powerful that women were wailing and instruments were breaking. I was thrust into the blues belly of the delta and it changed my musical radar forever. I am forever grateful for that experience .
Ah man that's an awesome memory! Fellow Kiwi here! I had no such luck in the 90s and only discovered this amazing music in the past couple of years, but I'm trying to catch up. I think a lot of us can thank the Black Keys for shining a light!
@rustyshackleford3872 I'm from North Mississippi. The Delta is totally different. I'm in the hills, the delta is more southern flatland where the cotton fields are.
I had the incredible pleasure of doing two tours all over Europe with RL, his son-in-law the late Calvin Jackson on drums and myself on harp as the R.L.Burnside Trio. I sure miss playing with them. Thanks for posting this!
Any advice for how to play Jumper on the line. I can't seem to figure it out. Rythmn etc. R.L. was a genius. What he did with a simple chord was amazing. To me, anyway.
Born in Mississippi in 1949 and been around live blues music all my life. I was drinking in black juke joints when I was 13 years old. Blessed to grow up like that. The racism and hate is on TV not here.
The racism and hate is from a single side, and in the cities. In places like these, whites and blacks grow up together, and there's no color to be looked at, contrary to popular belief. You're a lucky man.
I've lived, worked, went to prison, and got married, all in Mississippi, my entire life. I used to not appreciate it. We all know whats wrong with the south. but our environment and circumstances are huge in making us who we are. And I would hate to be any body else than who I am now.
I happened across this movie when I was working in New Mexico in 2009. The video room in the staff activity center had a bunch of VHS tapes, and one day I walked in to find this movie just playing to an empty room. I sat down and watched it from that point to the end. I was so inspired, I went to the office where my guitar was, and played what I still think is the best guitar I've ever played. I'm a much better player now, but my hands were doing things in those few minutes I still can't figure out. Like they were moving of their own accord. A few years ago, my aunt (by chance) got me this on DVD without knowing about that experience, and I quickly realized that it was that same movie. So this one has a lot of meaning to me.
was literally about to comment the same thing - the timing of this doc is perfect just catching these guys at the end of there lifes. In terms of what these men mean to music not just the blues cannot be overstated, their influence runs through all modern recorded music.
Regarding Cedell Davis: "It sounds out of tune to begin with because you're not used to hearing that tuning. But when you listen to it for 5 or 10 minutes, all of a sudden it sounds like it's in tune". I used to try to figure out that Cedell Davis effect, finally concluded maybe it's because the world isn't exactly in tune, so maybe "out of tune" can be "in tune".
Imagine you gave a guitar to some indigenous tribe that had never been exposed to the modern world. You play one song and walk away without giving them any insight on how to play/tune. Would they develop their own tunings/ genre/ techniques?
The strings are in tune with eachother. You can tune by matching pitch if one string is a note. So you can be in tune, way flat or way sharp, but not the typical hertz frequency youre used to so it sounds weird, then get less weird as you go because the strings are in tune with eachother ane you get used to the tuning. Before tuners, thus us just how instruments sounded. People would tune to a piano that had been tuned to a tuning fork who knows when, or just by ear.
@@ET-TheExtraTesticle Genre and techniques, yes. But I believe they would find their way to the same intervals eventually. Like mathematics, the building blocks of music are discovered, not invented.
There is ataggering amount of music around the world played with microtones, or more accurately micro intervals which work outside of the fixed western semitone system. Heck the blues uses 'blued notes" which only sound good because we're used to them. "Out of tune" for us is "in tune" for others, as you say.
11:20 This man sounds better than most of the noise you hear on the radio these days, and he's doing it with an out of tune guitar, a thumb, and a butter knife. Mind Blown!
Junior Kimbrough, "he did not want to play covers and would not play covers" Thats quite an accomplishment for back then. Covers were basically mandatory, to grow the fan base. Junior Kimbrough is legendary
I remember the days kickin' up dust on the Marshall County backroads. My parents owned a juke joint & honky-tonk in Waterford, MS just outside of Holly Springs. As a young man, I had the pleasure of growing up in the blues rich culture the area provided. I credit every musical aspect from there for my own musicianship. I'll always call Holly Springs my home. Thanks for turning around in my parent's parking lot (10:07) and giving me nostalgic reminders from which I came. What a jewel of a find this video is for me.
I get goosebumps every time I listen to R.L. Burnside. Such an incredible talent, wish I could've been around in hid time and day just to witness his greatness.
I remember seeing this documentary years ago on PBS. I was blown away. It was my introduction to old school blues! Have loved this style of music ever since. Thank you Fat Possum Records for introducing these men to the world and recording their music so that we can have it forever. Now they will live on in history as it should be.
In the early 70’s i was a kid in Massachusetts late at night lying under the covers w my battery operated am radio hearing Blues out of the deep south - deep wailing hill town blues. Wasnt even ten yrs old yet 😅 that stuff hit me hard, been a fan ever since. Fat Possum did us all a solid with this cultural and musical gem, truly.
One thing I think people miss is how much of blues is in the strumming hand. Peoples learning all into pentatonic scales in stuff, these folks can use 1-2 strings make it come alive.
I've played guitar for 40 years. The picking hand is just as important if not more than the fretting hand. Tone comes from the fingers. You'll never master the instrument but these gentlemen have gotten damn close.
For me it is Junior Kimbrough....love his stuff. We are going to miss these guys. I am old enough that this was music that was playing in the juke joints on the outskirts of towns across the south when I was a kid....it is all about gone now. Many have gone that nobody remembers them now.
This brought back memories. I was lucky enough to see Kimbrough at his juke joint in the early 90s! That was an experience that indelibly changed my approach and appreciated. And Cedell Davis was something else! Man, raw and real - both things lacking in a lot of today's stuff. The last of their kind indeed.
Reminds me of the days my grand dad would play the guitar and harmonica on the corner outside the liquor store .. man I luved the blues since a child .. my grand dad took you to the south rite here in Detroit with his music .. rip Dave 🙏
Watching from Ireland, love this to bits, real people real music straight from the soul, well done on taking the time and effort recording these guys for posterity. This should never be lost.
Our family is from Ireland way back and I've done a lot of studying, and what the true Irish culture shares with black folks culture in the American South is that suffering... and while The Irish didn't directly, although sometimes but not directly, suffer literal steel shackles.. They're definitely was an evil overreaching oppression that caused great suffering and death for hundreds and hundreds of years. The Irish also had the blues... from this... but that's way before the term was coined. I wonder what they call that feeling in Ireland? And oddly enough England invaded and conquered Ireland about the same time as the transatlantic slave trade began. #unitedIreland
Watching this all the way from Malaysia 🇲🇾. Thank you for such good youngman memories. Be listening to this again insyaAllah a couple of years down the road. Blues bug bit me in 1979. Had the fever ever since. Alhamdulillah. Thank you 🙏✌️
“You can’t tell some people. They look at it with their own eyes…”. -- The man, minimally educated, was channeling Shakespeare- “Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it….”….🙏🎶🎭
I'm glad I happened upon this. What a treasure. Real music. Remind me of my youth and my father's interest in blues. You can't get no better than this. Wish the old man was here to see this... it'll slay him in a different way.
When that guy from Possum records said at the start of the video...so I saw some old guys,55 ,60 years old...I thought what? I’m a 68 year old drummer still playing. Thanks for this great video.
I know right…. I’m 54 years old and still playing the drums and I really want to play guitar 🎸 but I’m too lazy lol ! This video gives me hope and inspiration every time I watch it! ✊🏾🥁😎
The blues, IS the blues. Respect the Bluesmen. Young people must learn what the blues means and Respect It. RIP for ALL Bluesmen that are no more, and a "keep playing" for the bluesmen Alive, till you die.
One of the best purest guitar, blues guitarist documentaries I've watched. Absolutely love the back story ot the time place and people. So cool you recorded them for history.
I bet I have watched this 20 times. The music is amazing , the history is amazing and all of the blues men are amazing. Thank you Fat Possum for documenting arguably what could be the end of an era. I sure hope these men are able to look down and see what a wonderful impact and inspiration their music has had on the world. RIP fellas !!!
This is one of the best fucking docs i've ever seen. As lover of music since I was a kid, and someone that had a guitar and gave up playing just cause one terrible teacher, I see now none that matters. If you got this in your heart and soul, none of it matters. Doesn't matter who you play for. But I see how rough of lives these guys lived but they are legends. Any music today that uses any kind of guitar, can be traced back to the blues. This is the roots of all that. This doc though just makes me wanna pick up a guitar again and start playing. I used to draw and do art, just cause I loved it, I feel like they always felt the same.
The music again has that simplicity,natural bluesy origin,rooted in the people who worked the lands share cropped it not much wealth being made but a life love for a music based on daily experience,it had to done to survive life,a family,sharing,teaching,loving
my two favorite genre's of music are blues and punk... and it just occurred to me that both are very similar in that one expresses sadness and one expresses anger... and both can be done with minimal amounts of singing or playing ability and still be excellent, relevant... and i fantasize, cathartic... because i want to do both... i want to play blues and punk... i imagine there's quite a release...
Thank you for all you do for these brothers. We need to keep this music alive and get Them paid while they can enjoy it. And that's as well. God bless you
Fat Possum are one of my favourite Record Labels. What-with all the fantastic HillSide Blues they release. And having the amazing Spiritualized signed to them too, how fitting...
This is such a great slice of history regarding American Blues music that still influences today's musicians. If you've been to a Blues festival in the last ten years, and you loved it, this documentary will explain WHY you loved it.
I see that I'm #556 commenter & I want to get my Gibson Thunderbird BASS out & play w/ Junior Kimbrough!! Amazing video. Thanks much for the inspiration!
A lot of people are talking about the blues and what it means to have the blues. And I think most people probably think "The blues is happy music. Why is it called the blues?" But back when it first came out, in the 20's is when it really took off in popularity. Before then, people probably heard it down south, maybe mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi. But anyway, during that time, a lot of music was exceedingly happy. "California Here I Come" was very popular for example. There were some sad songs too but the blues is generally considered to be in a major key but it uses a minor scale. So at the time, it had a sadness to it even though it is generally basically happy music. Now days we're used to that sound. Even someone who doesn't like the blues has heard that sound over and over their whole life. But back then it was basically new. The sound of the blues itself, no one really knows for sure but it might go all the way back to the slave days. And that's some real blues. Those cats weren't singing any happy music. Actually that might not be true. But that's another story. Before radios were common and record players were cheap enough for the average person, music would've been a real treat. We hear music everywhere we go now but then, if you were 20 years old, it's conceivable you may have heard music 20 times. Or more or less. It all depends on who you are and where. Many people's experience with music might have come mainly from Nickelodeons or player pianos. In some small towns, people might have only ever heard one single band their whole life. Maybe only square dances. Lol. So that makes for quite a different perception of music. That's not to say there weren't people who would hear music all the time. But it gives you some idea when you learn that when radios did finally become commonplace, people would sometimes travel for miles to hear it. So it seems likely that the sadness in the blues may have been very apparent to someone hearing it for the first time.
I’ve heard different opinions on whether these films were exploitative. They are so historically important, and it’s just hard to tell if the artists profited in the way they deserved. I love this film regardless, but if you’re privileged enough to enjoy some disposable income and you loved this film as much as I do, consider donating to non-profits that contribute to the communities that fostered this music. A good recommendation would be the Mississippi Blues Trail. They have a fund which goes towards the preservation of blues history and current/future projects, as well as a fund that supports actual blues musicians, many of whom still live in poverty (100% of donations go directly to the musicians). I love this community in the comment section and I absolutely love the stories that this film helped illuminate. Just thought it would be worth it to promote some positive actions we could all take for this amazing music and it’s history!
Not really sure how I stumbled onto the fat possum comps in the early 2000’s while shopping for my punk records, but I was hooked on these guys from day one.
ikr? similar for me, I was way into punk and worked at a car wash. someone left a bunch of CDs on one of the vacuums and one of the CDs was RL Burnside "Come on In" I was hooked instantly
This brings back memories of my adolescence. I learned so much in such a short time with guys like this. Our band leader, and my blues Mentor, would devise ways for the audience to hear me drumming for a minute or so before they saw that I was both young and white.
I listen to all types of music from many different genres,from country to heavy metal and everything in between , but I always go back to my true love.. The blues gives me the goosebumps more than anything ever has..
Great Video. A real History lesson about American Icons of whom most, if not all are sadly now all Gone. Hopefully the White adopted Son, the Slide Guitarist and the Blood Grandson of RL Burnside will keep it going and hand it down to an even Younger Generation!! God Bless these Bluesmen and their Families. God Bless 🇺🇸 America!! Jimmy in NC....
When I was younger my brother and I would take the tunnel bus from Windsor to Detroit to watch the Bluesfest. We were there from the time it started till the time it ended. Those were some great weekend
RIP Mr Burnside, I love this man's playing and that infectious winning smile. Your Grandson can really play drums I love this, thank you for the video Matthew! Legend mate, love from Australia
Delta and hill country blues are so insular and separated from modern music. Back then at least. They got their guitars tuned to their voice and nothing else. Everything is off and raw but it's so beautiful.
The blues is my blood...blues is on my soul...i ave bin on clarksdale...my nody is on italy bad my soul is on clarksdale...dont forghet the blues...🤟🦋🎸
I know I done gave this a thumbs up a few years back. Then I saw its a repost. Anyhoo, It's The Fat Possum it's self. Rightly so if you ask me. Good fuckern documentary. Love your taste too. Great bands yall done helped. Keep up the great work!!!
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YES ⚡⚡
The roots, the source! 🔥
I can't wait to hear Delta Kream.
Love The Black Keys!
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Black Keys turned me onto delta blues...happy they are getting back to that direction
As a 21 year old kid from New Zealand I had the pleasure and experience of going to Juniors Juke joint in the late 90s. I was living in Memphis at the time and a local friend took me on a drive one Sunday night across to the Mississippi. I had no clue where we were going but he and his friend told me that it would be special. We stopped in a gravel carpark , purchased some moonshine from the back of a truck and entered into a life changing experience. People welcomed me in, spoke to me even though I struggled to understand their accents. The music was so powerful that women were wailing and instruments were breaking. I was thrust into the blues belly of the delta and it changed my musical radar forever. I am forever grateful for that experience .
Ah man that's an awesome memory! Fellow Kiwi here! I had no such luck in the 90s and only discovered this amazing music in the past couple of years, but I'm trying to catch up. I think a lot of us can thank the Black Keys for shining a light!
yes indeed!
This your experience merece a short filme. Fantástica e Magic change for life,you foi bless for Kings of Delta Mississipi Blues. Parabéns.
That’s the power of the blues! Cool story.
I'm in Palmy and wanting to run blues radio.. looking for ideas..
Here because of my Grandfather Jr. Kimbrough and Mr. RL ayeeee!!
@rustyshackleford3872 I'm from North Mississippi. The Delta is totally different. I'm in the hills, the delta is more southern flatland where the cotton fields are.
@@rustyshackleford3872 Jr. KIMBROUGH my lineage.
That's so cool man. I'd love to meet and chop it up with you and Dwayne Burnside if I ever came that way again.
I had the incredible pleasure of doing two tours all over Europe with RL, his son-in-law the late Calvin Jackson on drums and myself on harp as the R.L.Burnside Trio. I sure miss playing with them. Thanks for posting this!
Many of these muso videos get a "hey, I was with them!" Comment. I enjoy seeing that.
That must have been quite an experience.
Any advice for how to play Jumper on the line. I can't seem to figure it out. Rythmn etc. R.L. was a genius. What he did with a simple chord was amazing. To me, anyway.
You are such a liar!!
@@claychandler3468 Pardon?
Born in Mississippi in 1949 and been around live blues music all my life. I was drinking in black juke joints when I was 13 years old. Blessed to grow up like that. The racism and hate is on TV not here.
Amen, brother.
The racism and hate is from a single side, and in the cities. In places like these, whites and blacks grow up together, and there's no color to be looked at, contrary to popular belief. You're a lucky man.
Verity
I've lived, worked, went to prison, and got married, all in Mississippi, my entire life. I used to not appreciate it. We all know whats wrong with the south. but our environment and circumstances are huge in making us who we are. And I would hate to be any body else than who I am now.
Like the saying "I complained about not having any shoes until I met a man who didn"t have any feet..."
PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THIS VIDEO!! I watch this all the time!!🙏✌
change yourtube to yourtubepp in the url and you can download it
Just remove Bono out of it.
You can download it using Tubemate app on your smartphone
Amen
Aguante el Blues por siempre!
I happened across this movie when I was working in New Mexico in 2009. The video room in the staff activity center had a bunch of VHS tapes, and one day I walked in to find this movie just playing to an empty room. I sat down and watched it from that point to the end. I was so inspired, I went to the office where my guitar was, and played what I still think is the best guitar I've ever played. I'm a much better player now, but my hands were doing things in those few minutes I still can't figure out. Like they were moving of their own accord.
A few years ago, my aunt (by chance) got me this on DVD without knowing about that experience, and I quickly realized that it was that same movie.
So this one has a lot of meaning to me.
It's amazing how that happens. Me too It just carries you away
Yup, I know what you are saying, I play mostly original blues style stuff, I love it !!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️🎵🎵😎
Could you imagine going to a house party with RL Burnside and Fred McDowell playing till 3:00 in the morning? That's heaven on Earth.
Couldn't get any better than that
I'm a white woman and I LOVE ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ the BLUES and went and seen BUDDY GUY in Syracuse N.Y. for the Blues Festival
Saw him at Doheny Blues Festival in California, awesome
The days when Bono was in every music documentary for no reason
Probably one of the most important documentaries of the time. Salute to fat possum and the last source of that Mississippi delta blues
was literally about to comment the same thing - the timing of this doc is perfect just catching these guys at the end of there lifes. In terms of what these men mean to music not just the blues cannot be overstated, their influence runs through all modern recorded music.
@@stockmanager amen!
Agreed. Perhaps you have checked 'Rural Blues' documentary, a beautiful piece from 89/ 90 from north Missippi ... l
Thats hill country blues!
Hill country blues...one is from the delta..t model ford
Regarding Cedell Davis: "It sounds out of tune to begin with because you're not used to hearing that tuning. But when you listen to it for 5 or 10 minutes, all of a sudden it sounds like it's in tune". I used to try to figure out that Cedell Davis effect, finally concluded maybe it's because the world isn't exactly in tune, so maybe "out of tune" can be "in tune".
Imagine you gave a guitar to some indigenous tribe that had never been exposed to the modern world.
You play one song and walk away without giving them any insight on how to play/tune.
Would they develop their own tunings/ genre/ techniques?
The strings are in tune with eachother. You can tune by matching pitch if one string is a note. So you can be in tune, way flat or way sharp, but not the typical hertz frequency youre used to so it sounds weird, then get less weird as you go because the strings are in tune with eachother ane you get used to the tuning. Before tuners, thus us just how instruments sounded. People would tune to a piano that had been tuned to a tuning fork who knows when, or just by ear.
@@ET-TheExtraTesticle Genre and techniques, yes. But I believe they would find their way to the same intervals eventually. Like mathematics, the building blocks of music are discovered, not invented.
There is ataggering amount of music around the world played with microtones, or more accurately micro intervals which work outside of the fixed western semitone system. Heck the blues uses 'blued notes" which only sound good because we're used to them. "Out of tune" for us is "in tune" for others, as you say.
11:20 This man sounds better than most of the noise you hear on the radio these days, and he's doing it with an out of tune guitar, a thumb, and a butter knife. Mind Blown!
Folk instrument s will do that to a man when he hears the echo of a projected soul.
he's also playing the guitar upside down, a lefty using a right-handed guitar, without changing around the strings - high E at the top lol amazing
Yeah he died at 91. Fucking legend though. All these guys are.
He’s not out of tune, the rest of us are out of tune.
Nah, man... he's doing it with his heart and soul...
Junior Kimbrough, "he did not want to play covers and would not play covers"
Thats quite an accomplishment for back then. Covers were basically mandatory, to grow the fan base.
Junior Kimbrough is legendary
Man...I LOVE the Blues. Need to make the pilgrimage to Mississippi before I die.
I lived in Mississippi BEFORE I found the blues 🥺
Best barbecue too
The Blues is the roots and the rest is the fruits 🍎🎶💙‼️💯
Oh wow, you said it so well,
Yippie Yep!
I remember the days kickin' up dust on the Marshall County backroads. My parents owned a juke joint & honky-tonk in Waterford, MS just outside of Holly Springs. As a young man, I had the pleasure of growing up in the blues rich culture the area provided. I credit every musical aspect from there for my own musicianship. I'll always call Holly Springs my home. Thanks for turning around in my parent's parking lot (10:07) and giving me nostalgic reminders from which I came. What a jewel of a find this video is for me.
Waterford police had a good gig in the early 80's. They clock d me speeded the n a hairdryer wrapped in electrical tape. Lol😅
Of all the African American music the blues is one of the graters!!! in the history of the USA!!! 🤘🤘🤘🙏🙏🙏
This is the greatest documentary I’ve seen.
But for the love of god, edit Bono out of it.
We all know what he gets up to.
I get goosebumps every time I listen to R.L. Burnside. Such an incredible talent, wish I could've been around in hid time and day just to witness his greatness.
I have seen Cedell Davis performing with his guitar and knife in the 1990's.. so incredibly soulful and warm.. great respect to him! RIP Cedell...
I remember seeing this documentary years ago on PBS. I was blown away. It was my introduction to old school blues! Have loved this style of music ever since. Thank you Fat Possum Records for introducing these men to the world and recording their music so that we can have it forever. Now they will live on in history as it should be.
This kind of music comes to you real easy. It doesn't take any effort at all to have it grab you by the soul.
Fred McDowell Live at the Gaslight….. you’re welcome
In the early 70’s i was a kid in Massachusetts late at night lying under the covers w my battery operated am radio hearing Blues out of the deep south - deep wailing hill town blues. Wasnt even ten yrs old yet 😅 that stuff hit me hard, been a fan ever since. Fat Possum did us all a solid with this cultural and musical gem, truly.
One thing I think people miss is how much of blues is in the strumming hand.
Peoples learning all into pentatonic scales in stuff, these folks can use 1-2 strings make it come alive.
I've played guitar for 40 years. The picking hand is just as important if not more than the fretting hand. Tone comes from the fingers. You'll never master the instrument but these gentlemen have gotten damn close.
So inspiring that I keep pausing it to go play guitar 🎸 and come back to watch some more 😅
For me it is Junior Kimbrough....love his stuff. We are going to miss these guys. I am old enough that this was music that was playing in the juke joints on the outskirts of towns across the south when I was a kid....it is all about gone now. Many have gone that nobody remembers them now.
Thank you Fat Possum Records for this magic!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for giving our treasures of music that built me a soul
please, please, PLEASE keep this video up! this is a crucial part of history
Re-Upload it yourself so you don’t have to worry, I just did so hopefully it helps if it comes to that
This brought back memories. I was lucky enough to see Kimbrough at his juke joint in the early 90s! That was an experience that indelibly changed my approach and appreciated. And Cedell Davis was something else! Man, raw and real - both things lacking in a lot of today's stuff. The last of their kind indeed.
Reminds me of the days my grand dad would play the guitar and harmonica on the corner outside the liquor store .. man I luved the blues since a child .. my grand dad took you to the south rite here in Detroit with his music .. rip Dave 🙏
If what Cedell and T Model Ford went through doesn't make you stop feeling sorry for yourself, I don't know what will. "Tough as onions"!
With garlic, leeks, and some hot ass peppers thrown in.😉🙈🙉🙊
Goddamn. I’ve low key searched and waited for a proper true entrance into Blues because I love LOVE it. I’ve FINALLY found it ❤
Every so often, the RUclips Gods gives. Thanks Fat Possum
Loved this documentary. Real men, real music.
These guys are national treasures!
Watching from Ireland, love this to bits, real people real music straight from the soul, well done on taking the time and effort recording these guys for posterity. This should never be lost.
Our family is from Ireland way back and I've done a lot of studying, and what the true Irish culture shares with black folks culture in the American South is that suffering... and while The Irish didn't directly, although sometimes but not directly, suffer literal steel shackles.. They're definitely was an evil overreaching oppression that caused great suffering and death for hundreds and hundreds of years. The Irish also had the blues... from this... but that's way before the term was coined. I wonder what they call that feeling in Ireland? And oddly enough England invaded and conquered Ireland about the same time as the transatlantic slave trade began. #unitedIreland
You mean drunk
@@Lemonarmpitsgo shite
How come Black professionals are not investing in our natural gift? There is no wonder the colonizers come in and take over.
Watching this all the way from Malaysia 🇲🇾. Thank you for such good youngman memories. Be listening to this again insyaAllah a couple of years down the road. Blues bug bit me in 1979. Had the fever ever since. Alhamdulillah. Thank you 🙏✌️
The best best music in the world! Iggy is right on place in this documentary about real authentic music.
Haven't seen this in years. Was fortunate to get to meet RL and Junior.
“You can’t tell some people. They look at it with their own eyes…”. -- The man, minimally educated, was channeling Shakespeare- “Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it….”….🙏🎶🎭
This is the real raw deal ..blues as its pure and best it can be..
I bought five of the DVDs and gifted them to friends. It’s amazeballs. Thank you so much for capturing this incredible history.
I haven't heard the phrase amazeballs since 2009
Hypnotic sound rollin rollin rollin...blues till the end of the times
4ever
I'm glad I happened upon this. What a treasure. Real music. Remind me of my youth and my father's interest in blues. You can't get no better than this.
Wish the old man was here to see this... it'll slay him in a different way.
The most felt music on earth
R.l. is my main man. I love jamming at work to that man's music. This is a beautiful documentary yall. Thank you for this
When that guy from Possum records said at the start of the video...so I saw some old guys,55 ,60 years old...I thought what? I’m a 68 year old drummer still playing. Thanks for this great video.
😂 yes...I thought wait til you get to 50 and see if you still think it's 'old'!!
I know right…. I’m 54 years old and still playing the drums and I really want to play guitar 🎸 but I’m too lazy lol ! This video gives me hope and inspiration every time I watch it! ✊🏾🥁😎
The blues, IS the blues. Respect the Bluesmen. Young people must learn what the blues means and Respect It. RIP for ALL Bluesmen that are no more, and a "keep playing" for the bluesmen Alive, till you die.
One of the best purest guitar, blues guitarist documentaries I've watched. Absolutely love the back story ot the time place and people. So cool you recorded them for history.
I bet I have watched this 20 times. The music is amazing , the history is amazing and all of the blues men are amazing. Thank you Fat Possum for documenting arguably what could be the end of an era. I sure hope these men are able to look down and see what a wonderful impact and inspiration their music has had on the world. RIP fellas !!!
This is one of the best fucking docs i've ever seen. As lover of music since I was a kid, and someone that had a guitar and gave up playing just cause one terrible teacher, I see now none that matters. If you got this in your heart and soul, none of it matters. Doesn't matter who you play for. But I see how rough of lives these guys lived but they are legends. Any music today that uses any kind of guitar, can be traced back to the blues.
This is the roots of all that. This doc though just makes me wanna pick up a guitar again and start playing. I used to draw and do art, just cause I loved it, I feel like they always felt the same.
The music again has that simplicity,natural bluesy origin,rooted in the people who worked the lands share cropped it not much wealth being made but a life love for a music based on daily experience,it had to done to survive life,a family,sharing,teaching,loving
my two favorite genre's of music are blues and punk... and it just occurred to me that both are very similar in that one expresses sadness and one expresses anger... and both can be done with minimal amounts of singing or playing ability and still be excellent, relevant... and i fantasize, cathartic... because i want to do both... i want to play blues and punk... i imagine there's quite a release...
A real music has the power to move people in it. It's the Blues.
Fab Docu THANK YOU❤❤❤❤
They sing about life's hardships and love🎉 I like his style of playing his guitar
Thank you for all you do for these brothers. We need to keep this music alive and get Them paid while they can enjoy it. And that's as well.
God bless you
Thank you for this masterpiece. Total recognition to these men ... immense.
Immensely so
Fat Possum are one of my favourite Record Labels.
What-with all the fantastic HillSide Blues they release.
And having the amazing Spiritualized signed to them too, how fitting...
☘🇮🇪☘
Excellent label,cat head and broke and hungry records have also released some interesting stuff.
Indispensable piece of music history. Thank you Fat Possum for capturing this (just in time) and making it available for all.
I fuckin love R.L. Music, sense of humour. One of the pioneers.
REAL BLUES
These guys had something else. Can't be taught. Never be surpassed.
Real sound of the Blues. Great 👍
This is such a great slice of history regarding American Blues music that still influences today's musicians. If you've been to a Blues festival in the last ten years, and you loved it, this documentary will explain WHY you loved it.
This is going straight into favorites!
The best blues history documentary I've seen. Great performances and back stories.
I am so honored that this hit my algorithms!!
so much pain, of all natures, continousely transformed into something so beautiful : that's pure genius !
I see that I'm #556 commenter & I want to get my Gibson Thunderbird BASS out & play w/ Junior Kimbrough!! Amazing video. Thanks much for the inspiration!
A lot of people are talking about the blues and what it means to have the blues. And I think most people probably think "The blues is happy music. Why is it called the blues?" But back when it first came out, in the 20's is when it really took off in popularity. Before then, people probably heard it down south, maybe mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi. But anyway, during that time, a lot of music was exceedingly happy. "California Here I Come" was very popular for example. There were some sad songs too but the blues is generally considered to be in a major key but it uses a minor scale. So at the time, it had a sadness to it even though it is generally basically happy music. Now days we're used to that sound. Even someone who doesn't like the blues has heard that sound over and over their whole life. But back then it was basically new. The sound of the blues itself, no one really knows for sure but it might go all the way back to the slave days. And that's some real blues. Those cats weren't singing any happy music. Actually that might not be true. But that's another story. Before radios were common and record players were cheap enough for the average person, music would've been a real treat. We hear music everywhere we go now but then, if you were 20 years old, it's conceivable you may have heard music 20 times. Or more or less. It all depends on who you are and where. Many people's experience with music might have come mainly from Nickelodeons or player pianos. In some small towns, people might have only ever heard one single band their whole life. Maybe only square dances. Lol. So that makes for quite a different perception of music.
That's not to say there weren't people who would hear music all the time. But it gives you some idea when you learn that when radios did finally become commonplace, people would sometimes travel for miles to hear it. So it seems likely that the sadness in the blues may have been very apparent to someone hearing it for the first time.
Fantastic work in capturing the raw musical essence of this region and the unique voices and characters from there. Truly a documentary gem! 🎶🎸
I’ve heard different opinions on whether these films were exploitative. They are so historically important, and it’s just hard to tell if the artists profited in the way they deserved. I love this film regardless, but if you’re privileged enough to enjoy some disposable income and you loved this film as much as I do, consider donating to non-profits that contribute to the communities that fostered this music.
A good recommendation would be the Mississippi Blues Trail. They have a fund which goes towards the preservation of blues history and current/future projects, as well as a fund that supports actual blues musicians, many of whom still live in poverty (100% of donations go directly to the musicians).
I love this community in the comment section and I absolutely love the stories that this film helped illuminate. Just thought it would be worth it to promote some positive actions we could all take for this amazing music and it’s history!
You lost me at "privileged".
@@philip6502 didn’t mean it in the political way. Really just meant if you have disposable income at all* Just trying to suggest a good cause!
@@e_scrogg7346 correct
Not really sure how I stumbled onto the fat possum comps in the early 2000’s while shopping for my punk records, but I was hooked on these guys from day one.
ikr? similar for me, I was way into punk and worked at a car wash. someone left a bunch of CDs on one of the vacuums and one of the CDs was RL Burnside "Come on In" I was hooked instantly
Good lord, this is the best thing I ever saw on RUclips.
This brings back memories of my adolescence. I learned so much in such a short time with guys like this. Our band leader, and my blues Mentor, would devise ways for the audience to hear me drumming for a minute or so before they saw that I was both young and white.
R.L Legendary Burnside & Junior King Kimbrough!! Awesome Doc!!! Thanks @Fat Possum Records!!!
I listen to all types of music from many different genres,from country to heavy metal and everything in between , but I always go back to my true love.. The blues gives me the goosebumps more than anything ever has..
Great Video. A real History lesson about American Icons of whom most, if not all are sadly now all Gone. Hopefully the White adopted Son, the Slide Guitarist and the Blood Grandson of RL Burnside will keep it going and hand it down to an even Younger Generation!!
God Bless these Bluesmen and their Families.
God Bless 🇺🇸 America!!
Jimmy in NC....
R.L. Burnside - это лучшее, что я слышал в блюзе, а может быть и в музыке вообще. Царство ему небесное!
Absolutely brilliant thank you
Amazing. Keep this around FOUR EVER 🎸🕺🏾💃👍🏾
I love the sweetness, I hear in the men. 🍯🪅
Had a blissful experience in Holly Springs last year unfortunately missed Mr. Caldwell at the shop. Love this documentary.
Excellent! Enjoyed this a lot. Thanks for putting giving these guys a platform Fat Possum!
When I was younger my brother and I would take the tunnel bus from Windsor to Detroit to watch the Bluesfest. We were there from the time it started till the time it ended. Those were some great weekend
When you enter Mississippi you know that you have left America behind!
Raw and beautiful. True art 🎶
Been listening to rl Burnside for years and never got to see him play. Cool video thank you for hangin out with all these legends.
RIP Mr Burnside, I love this man's playing and that infectious winning smile. Your Grandson can really play drums I love this, thank you for the video Matthew! Legend mate, love from Australia
Legendary piece of art.
Yes! Thank you. I lost my DVD of this when I moved to Sweden 10 years ago. Great to watch it again.
This could go on for hours
If it goes on for days, you just might have the blues. If it just goes on, you need a guitar 😃
@@randykalish7558 oh I've got a few of those
Delta and hill country blues are so insular and separated from modern music. Back then at least. They got their guitars tuned to their voice and nothing else. Everything is off and raw but it's so beautiful.
Wonderful!! Real sound of the Blues. Great documentary!
It gets no better than this, this is the real deal, Brilliant.
This is it ! A life changing event !
The blues is my blood...blues is on my soul...i ave bin on clarksdale...my nody is on italy bad my soul is on clarksdale...dont forghet the blues...🤟🦋🎸
What a wonderful documentary these guys are legends
I know I done gave this a thumbs up a few years back. Then I saw its a repost. Anyhoo, It's The Fat Possum it's self. Rightly so if you ask me. Good fuckern documentary. Love your taste too. Great bands yall done helped. Keep up the great work!!!
One of the greatest documentaries ever