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- Worked on
a farm all of my life
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until I finished the
eighth grade in school.
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Knocking down beds and
rows for to plant cotton.
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I tell everybody I was
growed up in the Blues.
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There's a whole lifetime
story I could tell you,
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but I guess I better
break it off like that.
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One time, I tried to get
an audition with B.B. King,
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but he couldn't put up no
room for me to stay nowhere.
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So I just went back
home and went to work.
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Rattlin' round in the fields and
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started working in the woods.
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Out in the woods, I cut timber
off of the Mississippi River.
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And that was some hard work.
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$5 a day.
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If I worked five days,
I had $30 that week.
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Sometimes we had it hard,
and sometimes we had it good.
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All the good days
wasn't but bad days.
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All the bad days wasn't but
good days, but anyways...
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I'm still here a-pluckin'.
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Pluckin', pluckin'.
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Anything can give you the blues.
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I heard a preacher say
that, and I believe it too.
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You maybe go to work on Monday.
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"Ooh, it's a blue
Monday, I feel so bad."
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That's the blues.
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Don't you think so?
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Tre, don't you be like that.
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My birth name was
Jimmy Charles Holmes.
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Or Jimmy C. Holmes.
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And it sound a lot
better blues-wise
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to call me Jimmy "Duck" Holmes,
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the Bentonia blues musician.
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I've been running the Blue
Front myself for 43 year.
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This was the place
in my younger days.
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This time of year, this
time of day on Saturdays,
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the black guys or the ladies,
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they got through with the
field work this time of week,
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they would come
to the juke-joint,
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likes to drink, dance, have fun.
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And they called it juke.
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At one time, the place
was full of musicians.
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And you didn't have
to schedule nothing.
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They'd be standing
sometime in line
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with a guitar on their back
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or a harmonica in their pocket.
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And they play it well.
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Sometimes they made
a little tip money,
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and sometimes they play
for a drink of liquor.
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Just depend.
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And then Muddy had stolen one of
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Howlin' Wolf's guitar players.
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I know about it.
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And Howlin' Wolf told him,
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"You ever steal anything else
from me again, I'll kill you.
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"That day, you dead!
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I say, "What? "
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Let me tell you something
about Howlin' Wolf.
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I played with him.
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Howlin' Wolf was a mean man.
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You know who was meaner?
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Howlin' Wolf was
scared of Jimmy Reed.
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Oh, he was?
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They got into it all the time.
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- Oh, okay.
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I'm glad I wasn't in all that--
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I been through some stuff.
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I could sit down and tell it.
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- I hear you.
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You see that truck
sitting yonder?
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That truck ain't gonna
run unless it's in time.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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You the truck driver.
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It get out of time,
what's it gonna do?
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It's gonna miss and jerk.
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Come on and talk to me.
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If it get too bad
it ain't gonna run.
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Every piece of music that
you got got to be in time,
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and I kept my music
in time for 40 year.
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First song I learnt,
you know what it was?
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Y'all feel like
playing a little bit?
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What?
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Man, are you, I ain't never...
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Let's go hit a chord, if
you want to hit a chord.
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I wanna hear you play.
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No, I wanna hear you play.
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Come on, step into
the thing, man.
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But this have always
been a juke-joint.
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- It
ain't been nothin' else.
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Nothin' else but that.
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There wasn't
nothin' before that.
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It was a juke-joint.
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We talkin' about the
Chitlin' Circuit.
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This was the Chitlin' Circuit.
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I'm gonna tell y'all something.
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If you come to hear
anything but the blues,
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you got time to leave.
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That's all I'm gonna play.
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It's the last of a kind.
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When I say last of a kind,
I do mean last of a kind.
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Because the young people got
the same thing we have now.
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They have the blues.
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They got police brutality
and all the gangs and what.
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They're still havin' the blues.
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But it's another form or
fashion they're havin' it.
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They still have some hard
times, but in their way.
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- I
can learn from you.
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My name is Emmett Ellis.
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I changed my name to Bobby Rush.
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I said, "That
sounds good because
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"it sound like one syllable."
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Nobody call me Bobby.
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Nobody call me Rush.
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Everybody call me Bobby Rush.
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Let me tell you something.
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The road is my company.
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The road is the best thing
that ever happened to me.
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Because I create 90%
of my writing alone,
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on the road, when I'm driving.
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Especially when I don't
have no pen or paper.
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Everythings come.
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But this is where I write
at, this where I create.
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When I'm alone, I'm driving.
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I listen to some records.
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Very seldom I listen to radio.
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But I listen to records.
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Some old records,
some new records.
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You know, everything
I wanna listen to,
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everything I think I wanna hear.
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I find it in records,
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and I play it and I
reminisce and wish and hope.
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And this where I get my
ideas from, you know.
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This one, the best thing could
happen to me is the road.
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The road is my thing.
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I'm doing some taping.
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I can't talk now.
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I'll call you back
when I get through.
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Grandchildren, grandchildren.
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When I first started to play
in Chicago in the early '50s,
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I had a job at the Squeeze Inn,
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what paid me three
dollars a night.
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And at the Cotton Club
in Argo, Illinois,
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I would get six
dollars a weekend.
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Six dollars for Friday,
Saturday, Sunday.
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Six dollars.
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That's two dollars a night.
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And I was paying the
band about eight dollars.
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I'm talking about
the whole band.
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I was paying Freddie King
a dollar 50 cent a night.
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- He was your
guitar player back in the day?
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Oh, yeah.
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First night, how we got the
gig, we did an audition.
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We played for the sandwiches.
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The man would fix
us four sandwiches.
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And that's a hamburger.
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We played for a hamburger.
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And I would give the
guys 50 cent apiece.
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Then we got so good, the guy
would give us eight hamburgers.
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I would sell three of
them and eat the others.
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And I got so good, he would
give 12 hamburgers a night.
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We would eat four and sell
the others, for 20 cent.
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That's our money.
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So we were workin' for, The
Chitlin' Circuit wasn't no joke!
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That was the Chitlin' Circuit.
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Now we had moved up from
chitlin' to hamburgers.
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I ain't gonna pay for that.
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- Yeah!
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Yeah.
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I was born in a little place
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called Homer, Louisiana,
Haynesville, Louisiana.
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But my people's
from Mississippi.
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I left my hometown in 1947.
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Went to Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
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with my father who
was a preacher,
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pastor of a church.
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1951, I moved to Chicago
and I stayed there
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for 47 and a half years.
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I've been recording
this year for 60 years.
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I have 326 records.
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This coming November
10, I'm 81 years old.
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- From
Alligator, Mississippi,
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recently back from Mexico,
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here is Robert "Bilbo" Walker.
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We're goin' way back.
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Something I recorded years ago.
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We're goin' way
back to it tonight.
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Since I'm a one-man band,
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I gotta go back to
the one-man stuff.
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I wouldn't mind
having that thing.
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I used to play right up
the street there years ago.
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Right around that corner there.
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Tutwiler, Mississippi.
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Hey, buddy.
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What's goin' on,
everything good?
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Holla before you leave, now.
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I'm-a holla before you leave.
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Sweet!
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- Tutwiler
just a few miles
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from Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
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Tutwiler and Mound Bayou is
a combination of two town
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that were dominated
and controlled
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and run by black peoples...
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and blues peoples.
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It's got a great history
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especially for the blues
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and the black people who
played the blues in this area.
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You migrated all across,
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because you come here to
be free and play the blues.
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Because when you played
the blues for the club,
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it was black people
playing the blues
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and black people
owned the clubs.
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And the black people
were the mayor
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of the town who run the town.
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Including the gambling
games and the whole bag.
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You come here to, to be free!
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Just like escape from something
that you was tied up in
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and come here to be free.
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Free at last!
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I'm across the border line.
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I can do what I want to do.
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But tomorrow, you go
back across that line
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and you go back to
the cotton fields
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where the white people own them.
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You got to work
and slave for them.
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But Mound Bayou was a place,
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Tutwiler was a place that
was pretty much owned
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and operated by black people,
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with their own land.
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Is it all right?
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See, that's my band.
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When it hit me, it hit me.
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I don't hold mine.
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See what I mean?
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Come on.
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I get movin', man.
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I can't hold it.
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I get movin', man.
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I been here
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all of my life.
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What I got, nobody give me.
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I mean nobody.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Here we come.
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I played with Bobby Bland,
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Albert King, Little Milton.
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I was overseas when
Little Milton passed.
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I was way away from here.
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I played with Jessie
Mae Hemphill a lot.
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I was Jessie Mae's
drummer back then.
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I try to do what I can.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Anytime y'all come
down through here,
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this is where we party.
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Right down through
the trailer park.
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Everybody around through
here, we know each other.
258
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You know, all of us get along.
259
00:22:53,894 --> 00:22:54,721
How about it, buddy?
260
00:22:58,246 --> 00:23:00,683
What you doin', Buddy Brown?
261
00:23:00,770 --> 00:23:02,946
Break it down, brother.
Okay!
262
00:23:03,033 --> 00:23:04,383
The dog is out!
263
00:23:23,576 --> 00:23:24,751
Let me tell y'all something.
264
00:23:24,838 --> 00:23:25,795
When I do my blues,
265
00:23:25,882 --> 00:23:26,970
it come from my heart.
266
00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:31,105
I go home every
night of my life--
267
00:23:32,759 --> 00:23:35,805
I don't want nobody, I
mean nobody, to bother me.
268
00:23:37,285 --> 00:23:39,026
When I go home and get into
my bed, I drink my whiskey.
269
00:23:41,289 --> 00:23:43,596
I sit down, I say, "Lord,
270
00:23:43,683 --> 00:23:45,946
"will you give me
one more chance
271
00:23:47,382 --> 00:23:48,731
"to get up in the morning?"
272
00:23:55,999 --> 00:23:58,349
- All right.
273
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,595
You know, that's
what they want now.
274
00:25:09,682 --> 00:25:10,944
They want you to go to,
275
00:25:12,032 --> 00:25:16,210
bring back the sounds
of way yesteryear.
276
00:25:16,297 --> 00:25:17,559
Right.
277
00:25:17,646 --> 00:25:19,387
When you was in
the cotton field,
278
00:25:19,474 --> 00:25:22,477
with one britches leg
rolled up when you come out
279
00:25:22,564 --> 00:25:24,784
and one britches leg down.
280
00:25:24,871 --> 00:25:26,568
And I'll come to your house
281
00:25:26,655 --> 00:25:29,440
and sit on your porch till
11 o'clock at night singing--
282
00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:30,746
Right.
283
00:25:30,833 --> 00:25:32,052
With my own guitar.
284
00:25:32,139 --> 00:25:33,880
And you get yours.
That's right.
285
00:25:33,967 --> 00:25:36,622
Then maybe another fellow will
come up from over the hill.
286
00:25:36,709 --> 00:25:37,623
That's the way it went.
287
00:25:37,710 --> 00:25:39,276
That's right.
288
00:25:39,363 --> 00:25:40,756
And the next morning,
they'd be in the field early
289
00:25:40,843 --> 00:25:42,192
and they didn't think
about no sleep much.
290
00:25:42,279 --> 00:25:44,020
But they were singing
them songs about--
291
00:25:50,070 --> 00:25:51,027
That's right.
292
00:25:51,114 --> 00:25:52,551
That's right.
293
00:25:56,467 --> 00:25:57,817
That's right.
294
00:25:57,904 --> 00:25:59,427
They would always go
in the evening time
295
00:25:59,514 --> 00:26:00,950
to one another's
house and meet up.
296
00:26:01,037 --> 00:26:02,386
That's right.
297
00:26:02,473 --> 00:26:03,257
People loved one another then.
298
00:26:03,344 --> 00:26:04,954
That's the truth.
299
00:26:05,041 --> 00:26:09,219
You get on the porch and
you may sing a church song.
300
00:26:09,306 --> 00:26:10,481
Exactly.
301
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,528
That's right.
302
00:27:15,111 --> 00:27:16,765
Boy, them women like that!
303
00:27:16,852 --> 00:27:18,549
They be cooking all-night long!
304
00:27:19,986 --> 00:27:21,683
That's the truth.
Most of 'em.
305
00:27:22,597 --> 00:27:23,554
- Amen.
306
00:27:29,517 --> 00:27:31,171
Okay, there it is.
307
00:27:54,107 --> 00:27:55,586
A lot of people say I
had my own style, too,
308
00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,414
'cause I created...
309
00:27:57,501 --> 00:27:59,329
See, I let my thumb do my bass.
310
00:27:59,416 --> 00:28:02,768
Years ago, that's
how I was born to...
311
00:28:02,855 --> 00:28:05,422
Not to say born, but that's
how I ended up doing it.
312
00:28:08,382 --> 00:28:10,558
A lot of guitarists,
a player would ask me,
313
00:28:11,864 --> 00:28:12,952
"How do you do that?"
314
00:29:55,837 --> 00:29:57,926
When I first started out,
I had a right-hand guitar,
315
00:29:58,013 --> 00:30:00,233
and I had to strung
it up backwards.
316
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,365
In fact, male
musicians would help me
317
00:30:02,452 --> 00:30:05,412
and show me how to
string up my guitar.
318
00:30:05,499 --> 00:30:08,458
So I was playing upside
down for a long time.
319
00:30:10,199 --> 00:30:11,505
Yeah, I was a young girl.
320
00:30:11,592 --> 00:30:15,944
I guess I was about,
I think about 20.
321
00:30:16,031 --> 00:30:19,339
My dad said, "I don't
think Barbara is ready.
322
00:30:19,426 --> 00:30:21,820
"She's still green
behind the ears.
323
00:30:21,907 --> 00:30:25,475
"Even though she's got
this hit record going. "
324
00:30:25,562 --> 00:30:28,043
He said, "I think you
should travel with her.d"
325
00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:30,437
So my mother quit her job.
326
00:30:30,524 --> 00:30:33,919
She quit her box factory
job to travel with me.
327
00:30:34,006 --> 00:30:35,094
That's right.
328
00:30:35,181 --> 00:30:36,617
I'll never forget.
329
00:30:36,704 --> 00:30:39,098
She came and met me at
the Apollo in New York.
330
00:30:39,185 --> 00:30:41,665
And she took the
Greyhound bus there.
331
00:30:41,752 --> 00:30:45,104
She finally got there
on the Greyhound bus.
332
00:30:45,191 --> 00:30:47,323
Ever since then, she
started traveling with me.
333
00:30:47,410 --> 00:30:49,238
And she went everywhere.
334
00:30:49,325 --> 00:30:50,631
People like B.B.,
and all of them,
335
00:30:50,718 --> 00:30:52,328
was calling her "Mother dear"
336
00:30:52,415 --> 00:30:54,635
'cause they'd hear me
call her "Mother dear. "
337
00:30:54,722 --> 00:30:55,941
Yes, indeed.
338
00:30:56,028 --> 00:30:58,944
Oh, that song took
me everywhere.
339
00:31:33,413 --> 00:31:34,893
My mom sent me to the store.
340
00:31:36,068 --> 00:31:37,112
She said, "Sonny, go
to the store for me."
341
00:31:37,199 --> 00:31:39,593
She called me Sonny for short.
342
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:40,724
"Go to the store for Mama."
343
00:31:40,811 --> 00:31:41,987
I said, "Okay."
344
00:31:42,074 --> 00:31:43,727
So I go to the store and get
345
00:31:45,077 --> 00:31:47,340
butter or sugar,
whatever she sent me for.
346
00:31:47,427 --> 00:31:50,778
After I went to the store
and I was on my way back...
347
00:31:50,865 --> 00:31:52,519
There was two big
shots had passed
348
00:31:52,606 --> 00:31:55,565
by in a great big
Fleetwood Cadillac,
349
00:31:55,652 --> 00:31:59,526
and they throwed something
out the window into the ditch.
350
00:31:59,613 --> 00:32:00,701
I said, "I wonder
what that was."
351
00:32:00,788 --> 00:32:02,050
I see them throw something out.
352
00:32:02,137 --> 00:32:05,401
So when I walked on
and got near where
353
00:32:05,488 --> 00:32:07,447
at the spot where
they throwed it out,
354
00:32:07,534 --> 00:32:09,101
I looked down in the ditch.
355
00:32:09,188 --> 00:32:10,493
It was a cigar box.
356
00:32:11,625 --> 00:32:13,496
I said, "Wow, that might
be just what I need.
357
00:32:13,583 --> 00:32:15,672
"Maybe I can make me
a guitar out of it."
358
00:32:19,633 --> 00:32:21,417
So I brought the box on home.
359
00:32:22,549 --> 00:32:25,291
Cut me a hole in
it and glued it up.
360
00:32:25,378 --> 00:32:27,423
Took me some rosin
and melt it and
361
00:32:27,510 --> 00:32:28,947
got some soot out the chimney
362
00:32:30,122 --> 00:32:32,385
and stirred it up, and
that made it black.
363
00:32:32,472 --> 00:32:34,996
So I painted my little
cigar box black.
364
00:32:36,302 --> 00:32:38,043
I said,
365
00:32:38,130 --> 00:32:39,958
"Now I done made that part,
what I'm-a do for a keyboard?"
366
00:32:41,133 --> 00:32:43,439
So I go out there
to the picket fence
367
00:32:43,526 --> 00:32:46,094
and snatch one of
the pickets off
368
00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:48,096
the fence and makes
me a keyboard.
369
00:32:48,183 --> 00:32:50,055
And after I made the keyboard,
370
00:32:50,142 --> 00:32:52,274
I said, "I don't have
any tuners on that."
371
00:32:54,146 --> 00:32:57,062
So I went and got me some
small pieces of hickory wood.
372
00:32:57,149 --> 00:32:59,107
And I hewed it down with glass.
373
00:32:59,194 --> 00:33:01,022
I didn't have
tools to work with,
374
00:33:01,109 --> 00:33:04,634
so I used broken
glass to hew it down.
375
00:33:33,794 --> 00:33:36,710
So around 12:00,
there come my daddy.
376
00:33:36,797 --> 00:33:40,583
He always come home at
12:00 to eat his lunch.
377
00:33:40,670 --> 00:33:42,716
So he tied the horse
to the gatepost.
378
00:33:44,631 --> 00:33:46,633
I hear the sound
that his tail made
379
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,983
going through the air
when he's swishing it.
380
00:33:49,070 --> 00:33:50,506
So I said, "Well, maybe,
381
00:33:50,593 --> 00:33:51,942
"it made a sound like that,
382
00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:53,466
"maybe it'll make a
sound on my guitar."
383
00:33:53,553 --> 00:33:55,120
I goes out there and
pull out one strand.
384
00:33:55,207 --> 00:33:56,773
The horse looked around at me.
385
00:33:56,860 --> 00:33:58,645
I said, "I ain't
gonna bother you.
386
00:33:58,732 --> 00:33:59,689
"I just want one
strand of your hair
387
00:33:59,776 --> 00:34:01,387
"out your tail, Mr. Horse."
388
00:34:02,562 --> 00:34:04,303
I put it on there
and played a little.
389
00:34:04,390 --> 00:34:05,217
Well, it popped.
390
00:34:05,304 --> 00:34:06,348
It gone.
391
00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:07,741
So I go back and I pull another.
392
00:34:07,828 --> 00:34:09,525
And I pull another
and I pull another.
393
00:34:09,612 --> 00:34:12,398
I wind up pull a great big
bald spot in that horse's tail.
394
00:34:12,485 --> 00:34:13,921
I said, "Well, now
I know I gonna get
395
00:34:14,008 --> 00:34:15,749
"another whuppin' about that."
396
00:34:15,836 --> 00:34:19,187
But my dad had got a couple
shots of that old corn liquor.
397
00:34:19,274 --> 00:34:22,016
It went straight to his
head, and he went out there
398
00:34:22,103 --> 00:34:24,410
and jumped up on its
back like Roy Rogers
399
00:34:24,497 --> 00:34:26,325
and went out through
the woods wide open.
400
00:34:26,412 --> 00:34:27,674
He didn't pay no
attention to him,
401
00:34:27,761 --> 00:34:29,719
so that's the only reason why
402
00:34:29,806 --> 00:34:30,807
I didn't get no
whuppin' that day.
403
00:35:21,162 --> 00:35:22,468
I dreamed about this.
404
00:35:22,555 --> 00:35:25,558
I used to pick cotton,
plow the mules.
405
00:35:26,820 --> 00:35:30,258
I would be doing what
I'm doing in the fields,
406
00:35:30,345 --> 00:35:32,608
and I would be
looking up in the sky,
407
00:35:32,695 --> 00:35:35,176
dreamin' about me
being on the stage
408
00:35:35,263 --> 00:35:38,701
when I was seven,
eight years old.
409
00:35:38,788 --> 00:35:42,575
I could see myself on the
stage with Chuck Berry,
410
00:35:42,662 --> 00:35:44,359
on the stage with Cab Calloway,
411
00:35:44,446 --> 00:35:47,101
whoever it was I was thinking
about at that moment.
412
00:35:47,188 --> 00:35:49,712
I could see myself with them.
413
00:35:50,931 --> 00:35:52,237
And my mother would
come up, say, "Boy!"
414
00:35:52,324 --> 00:35:53,542
Hit me front of the head, say,
415
00:35:53,629 --> 00:35:54,891
"Pick that cotton!
416
00:35:54,978 --> 00:35:56,589
"What you lookin'
up in the sky for?"
417
00:35:56,676 --> 00:35:58,591
But she didn't know
I was looking up,
418
00:35:58,678 --> 00:36:00,897
dreaming about
what I wanted to be
419
00:36:00,984 --> 00:36:02,203
when I got of age.
420
00:36:03,987 --> 00:36:06,686
I could just see myself on
the stage with Muddy Waters.
421
00:36:36,542 --> 00:36:37,804
It's a little big.
422
00:36:37,891 --> 00:36:38,631
You have to cut him in half.
423
00:36:38,718 --> 00:36:39,980
You want to?
424
00:36:40,067 --> 00:36:41,460
Yeah, I'll just
grab that, you know.
425
00:36:41,547 --> 00:36:42,852
Break it in half.
426
00:36:42,939 --> 00:36:43,766
I got it.
427
00:36:53,733 --> 00:36:56,562
Thanks for the worm.
No problem.
428
00:37:09,009 --> 00:37:12,665
I do a lot of
writing right here.
429
00:37:12,752 --> 00:37:14,188
There is always
something to write about.
430
00:37:14,275 --> 00:37:15,537
The alligators, the birds.
431
00:37:16,625 --> 00:37:18,410
Big old turtles
usually come out too.
432
00:37:25,025 --> 00:37:26,896
I just sit down and...
433
00:37:28,115 --> 00:37:29,116
let it roll.
434
00:37:56,839 --> 00:37:58,450
Solo on the guitar?
435
00:37:59,625 --> 00:38:01,279
If I had to teach you,
I can't teach you that.
436
00:38:01,366 --> 00:38:02,323
You gotta hear that.
437
00:38:02,410 --> 00:38:03,585
Like you know.
438
00:38:27,653 --> 00:38:29,394
You see what I played?
439
00:38:29,481 --> 00:38:31,352
I can't play it again.
440
00:38:31,439 --> 00:38:32,701
I don't feel it no more.
441
00:38:32,788 --> 00:38:34,312
I'm feeling something
else, you see.
442
00:38:35,487 --> 00:38:37,097
You say, "Do that
same thing again."
443
00:38:37,184 --> 00:38:38,794
I never do it.
444
00:38:38,881 --> 00:38:40,100
You can give me all the
money, I can't do it no more.
445
00:38:40,187 --> 00:38:41,319
Once I played it, that's it.
446
00:38:41,406 --> 00:38:43,495
Something else will come up.
447
00:38:57,509 --> 00:38:58,336
That's it.
448
00:38:59,815 --> 00:39:01,426
- So
there's love involved?
449
00:39:01,513 --> 00:39:02,775
Yeah, yeah.
450
00:39:02,862 --> 00:39:03,645
You gotta feel it in the heart.
451
00:39:03,732 --> 00:39:04,516
You gotta feel it.
452
00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:07,954
If you got a bass line goin'...
453
00:39:13,263 --> 00:39:16,397
That's the stomping
ground of America, man.
454
00:39:16,484 --> 00:39:17,790
The blues.
455
00:39:17,877 --> 00:39:19,487
That's where it's all at, brah.
456
00:39:19,574 --> 00:39:21,663
You got all kinds
of music, you know.
457
00:39:21,750 --> 00:39:24,013
But the blues touches
people's heart
458
00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:26,407
because there's always
a story behind the song.
459
00:39:26,494 --> 00:39:30,629
Like that guy singing,
he lost his family.
460
00:39:31,804 --> 00:39:33,849
Walkin' around, ain't
got nothing to eat.
461
00:39:34,763 --> 00:39:36,635
On the earth and
under the earth.
462
00:39:36,722 --> 00:39:37,940
Got the blues.
463
00:39:39,942 --> 00:39:41,727
That's where they at.
464
00:39:41,814 --> 00:39:43,337
Some blues singers
be under the earth.
465
00:39:43,424 --> 00:39:44,469
They got the blues there.
466
00:39:44,556 --> 00:39:45,252
They got the blues up here too.
467
00:39:46,296 --> 00:39:47,994
And I'm part of the blues.
468
00:39:49,561 --> 00:39:50,518
The blues made me,
469
00:39:50,605 --> 00:39:51,693
and I'm making blues now.
470
00:39:53,042 --> 00:39:53,869
I love it.
471
00:39:56,437 --> 00:39:57,395
I gotta feel it.
472
00:39:57,482 --> 00:39:58,918
I just pick it up and just,
473
00:40:01,050 --> 00:40:03,096
I just pick up the
guitar and I might start
474
00:40:03,183 --> 00:40:04,924
with this first, my foot,
475
00:40:05,011 --> 00:40:05,838
with the rhythm.
476
00:40:08,275 --> 00:40:10,277
Y'all just do that
with y'all foot.
477
00:40:12,148 --> 00:40:13,672
Keep it like.
478
00:40:13,759 --> 00:40:14,673
A little faster there.
479
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:15,500
Come on.
480
00:40:45,094 --> 00:40:48,881
I feel real good, cause I'm
back on my home ground now,
481
00:40:48,968 --> 00:40:50,665
the state that I was born in.
482
00:40:50,752 --> 00:40:53,886
Looking forward to
being with my friends.
483
00:40:53,973 --> 00:40:56,062
So, Lil' Buck, we're on our way.
484
00:40:56,149 --> 00:40:57,324
We gonna have some fun.
485
00:40:57,411 --> 00:40:59,500
Crawfish boil, here we come!
486
00:41:00,501 --> 00:41:02,895
We're in Louisiana now.
487
00:41:15,821 --> 00:41:17,170
All these musicians,
all of my friends,
488
00:41:17,257 --> 00:41:19,999
they be coming by to
celebrate with us.
489
00:41:20,086 --> 00:41:22,915
We're gonna boil
crawfish, play music
490
00:41:24,177 --> 00:41:25,483
and talk some junk.
491
00:41:27,963 --> 00:41:29,704
Because with Lazy Lester around,
492
00:41:29,791 --> 00:41:31,489
there gonna be a
lot of junk-talkin'.
493
00:43:10,457 --> 00:43:12,198
Hey, buddy, hey Henry.
494
00:43:12,285 --> 00:43:14,809
Hey, what you doin'?
495
00:43:14,896 --> 00:43:16,071
Hey, buddy.
496
00:43:16,158 --> 00:43:17,812
How you doing, baby?
497
00:43:18,944 --> 00:43:20,728
Man, it make me feel
good to see you.
498
00:43:20,815 --> 00:43:23,296
I feels pretty
good, too, so far.
499
00:43:23,383 --> 00:43:24,689
You know, B.B.
500
00:43:24,776 --> 00:43:25,994
I talked to B.B. day
before yesterday.
501
00:43:26,081 --> 00:43:28,083
His right-hand man
died yesterday.
502
00:43:28,170 --> 00:43:28,910
You know that, don't you?
503
00:43:28,997 --> 00:43:29,824
No, I didn't.
504
00:43:31,391 --> 00:43:33,219
He'd been with him all his life.
505
00:43:33,306 --> 00:43:34,655
He was from Mobile.
506
00:43:34,742 --> 00:43:37,005
But he passed yesterday
afternoon at 3:00.
507
00:43:37,092 --> 00:43:38,441
I didn't hear nothin'.
Yeah.
508
00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:41,401
He'd been with
him, and he was 86.
509
00:43:41,488 --> 00:43:42,750
Yeah, I'm 89.
510
00:43:43,969 --> 00:43:45,144
You're older than
B.B., aren't you?
511
00:43:45,231 --> 00:43:46,058
Yeah, three years.
Three years.
512
00:43:46,145 --> 00:43:47,276
Yeah.
513
00:43:47,363 --> 00:43:49,975
All of them gone
now and left me.
514
00:43:50,062 --> 00:43:51,324
Well, I'm here.
515
00:43:52,281 --> 00:43:53,718
And still buying pussy.
516
00:43:59,898 --> 00:44:00,986
Boy, oh, boy.
517
00:44:20,962 --> 00:44:23,486
- We got a crawfish
boil going on out here!
518
00:44:25,010 --> 00:44:28,274
This is what we call
Louisiana crawfish.
519
00:44:32,844 --> 00:44:34,019
Lazy Lester!
520
00:44:34,106 --> 00:44:35,760
What's up, boy!
521
00:44:35,847 --> 00:44:39,807
I'm traveling by instinct,
my eyes are so bad.
522
00:44:58,217 --> 00:45:00,915
Don't get any better than this.
523
00:45:14,886 --> 00:45:15,669
Yeah, you right.
524
00:45:15,756 --> 00:45:16,670
Dead right.
525
00:45:18,150 --> 00:45:20,500
- You
need a harmonica, boy?
526
00:45:25,113 --> 00:45:27,115
You saw Barbara
Lynn, didn't you?
527
00:45:27,202 --> 00:45:28,160
Oh, yeah.
528
00:45:30,597 --> 00:45:31,990
Okay, it's so good to be here,
529
00:45:32,077 --> 00:45:33,818
to get together with
a lot of old friends.
530
00:45:33,905 --> 00:45:36,821
People I have not seen in years.
531
00:45:49,007 --> 00:45:51,009
I'm gonna do this song
for all the ladies.
532
00:45:51,096 --> 00:45:53,838
'Cause them ladies know what
I'm talking about, honey!
533
00:45:53,925 --> 00:45:56,275
Oh, yeah.
534
00:47:16,007 --> 00:47:16,921
- You still got it.
535
00:47:17,008 --> 00:47:18,792
You still got it.
536
00:47:18,879 --> 00:47:20,272
Yeah, you still got it.
I'm 72!
537
00:47:20,359 --> 00:47:22,752
But you sure don't look it.
538
00:47:24,145 --> 00:47:27,322
I just love the way you sing
and can play the guitar.
539
00:47:27,409 --> 00:47:29,542
All right, Let's thank
once again Lil' Buck
540
00:47:29,629 --> 00:47:31,587
for all his help
putting this together.
541
00:47:34,503 --> 00:47:36,201
Lazy Lester, where are you?
542
00:47:37,637 --> 00:47:38,725
Lester.
543
00:48:15,588 --> 00:48:16,328
What?
544
00:48:20,114 --> 00:48:20,941
Hello?
545
00:48:22,943 --> 00:48:23,770
Yes?
546
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:27,513
Ain't nobody makin'
no noise back here.
547
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,123
We quiet as church mouses.
548
00:48:31,082 --> 00:48:34,259
If you hear any noise,
I'll kiss you, okay?
549
00:48:36,435 --> 00:48:37,610
Okay.
550
00:48:37,697 --> 00:48:38,524
Merci.
551
00:48:42,571 --> 00:48:43,790
You know what,
552
00:48:43,877 --> 00:48:46,227
that's a powerful voice I have,
553
00:48:46,314 --> 00:48:50,014
you could hear that fucker
through this bullshit roof.
554
00:48:57,630 --> 00:49:01,895
Right now, .
555
00:49:01,982 --> 00:49:03,810
This morning, we'd like to share
556
00:49:03,897 --> 00:49:07,466
just a few of these
stories the museum tells.
557
00:49:07,553 --> 00:49:09,903
Ladies and gentlemen,
it is my honor
558
00:49:09,990 --> 00:49:11,426
to introduce the president
559
00:49:11,513 --> 00:49:15,213
of the United States of
America, Barack Obama.
560
00:49:27,094 --> 00:49:28,835
What is it that
you got there, man?
561
00:49:28,922 --> 00:49:31,577
That's what you do when you're
doing your acoustic stuff?
562
00:49:31,664 --> 00:49:32,970
I'm talking about that board.
563
00:49:33,057 --> 00:49:35,233
That's your drums?
564
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:36,669
That's his drum.
565
00:49:36,756 --> 00:49:38,410
That let me know my
feet is still there.
566
00:49:40,325 --> 00:49:41,108
You got good rhythm, man.
567
00:49:43,067 --> 00:49:44,111
I got that from my mother, man.
568
00:49:44,198 --> 00:49:45,591
Got good rhythm.
569
00:49:45,678 --> 00:49:48,333
My mother had that
and she gave it to me,
570
00:49:48,420 --> 00:49:50,074
and I kept it.
571
00:49:50,161 --> 00:49:52,598
Bad drums you got there.
572
00:49:52,685 --> 00:49:54,295
I heard them drums.
573
00:49:55,688 --> 00:49:57,864
You know something,
besides the country,
574
00:49:57,951 --> 00:49:59,257
you a bluesman.
575
00:49:59,344 --> 00:50:00,606
That's the blues there, man.
576
00:50:00,693 --> 00:50:01,955
All of that is blues.
577
00:50:02,042 --> 00:50:04,088
You got the BBB and the WBB.
578
00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:07,874
You know the difference?
579
00:50:07,961 --> 00:50:09,267
I don't know what the W.
580
00:50:09,354 --> 00:50:10,355
I know what the BB
is but not the W.
581
00:50:10,442 --> 00:50:11,269
BBB is the Black Boy Blues,
582
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:13,575
and WBB is the White Boy Blues.
583
00:50:13,662 --> 00:50:15,099
It's the same old same old.
584
00:50:15,186 --> 00:50:18,450
Just a little twist to it.
585
00:50:18,537 --> 00:50:19,277
A little twist to it.
586
00:50:19,364 --> 00:50:20,365
Yes, like...
587
00:50:21,540 --> 00:50:23,281
Now look at this one.
588
00:50:27,024 --> 00:50:28,851
This is a real blues.
589
00:52:05,165 --> 00:52:08,299
- Now that's the blues.
590
00:52:08,386 --> 00:52:12,085
Oh, you gonna open
my door for me?
591
00:52:12,172 --> 00:52:14,783
'Cause I have my hands full.
592
00:52:32,018 --> 00:52:33,237
- It feel good in here.
593
00:52:33,324 --> 00:52:35,630
You think so?
What you doin' here?
594
00:52:35,717 --> 00:52:38,416
Long way from third grade.
595
00:52:38,503 --> 00:52:39,939
I tell you.
596
00:52:40,026 --> 00:52:41,114
Come on, have a seat.
597
00:52:41,201 --> 00:52:42,594
I have to watch where I sit.
598
00:52:42,681 --> 00:52:45,118
Because if I sit too
low, I can't get up.
599
00:52:45,205 --> 00:52:47,990
I'll get you a chair.
I'll sit right here.
600
00:52:48,077 --> 00:52:49,688
- There's
one for you right here.
601
00:52:52,995 --> 00:52:53,909
I'm following you.
602
00:52:54,954 --> 00:52:56,521
Sit here, pretty baby.
603
00:52:56,608 --> 00:52:57,565
I'm gonna sit down.
604
00:52:57,652 --> 00:52:59,263
Mama gonna sit in your lap.
605
00:53:49,051 --> 00:53:49,878
Yeah.
606
00:54:07,113 --> 00:54:08,245
Play it, man.
607
00:54:50,156 --> 00:54:51,288
Rock me now!
608
00:54:56,336 --> 00:54:58,077
My man, my man.
609
00:54:58,164 --> 00:55:00,949
I was born in Kenner, Louisiana.
610
00:55:02,299 --> 00:55:03,082
1925.
611
00:55:04,823 --> 00:55:06,128
- And you
played with Wolf for 14 years.
612
00:55:06,215 --> 00:55:08,479
What was Howlin' Wolf like?
613
00:55:08,566 --> 00:55:10,611
He was all right with me.
614
00:55:10,698 --> 00:55:14,354
Everybody said he was
mean, but he wasn't.
615
00:55:15,790 --> 00:55:17,705
Howlin' Wolf was
the type of person,
616
00:55:17,792 --> 00:55:20,012
when you go on the bandstand,
617
00:55:20,099 --> 00:55:22,841
no cigarettes, number one.
618
00:55:22,928 --> 00:55:25,104
No drinking, number two.
619
00:55:25,191 --> 00:55:26,845
And you're gonna
be dressed alike.
620
00:55:28,020 --> 00:55:30,675
Before you get on
that bandstand,
621
00:55:30,762 --> 00:55:32,807
he would drink with you,
he'd shoot marbles with you,
622
00:55:32,894 --> 00:55:34,635
he'd gamble with you,
he'd do anything.
623
00:55:34,722 --> 00:55:36,507
Before you get on
that bandstand.
624
00:55:37,943 --> 00:55:40,206
But when you get on that
bandstand, it's different.
625
00:55:41,599 --> 00:55:42,687
He was just strict.
626
00:55:44,689 --> 00:55:47,692
We all of an age now.
Oh, yeah.
627
00:55:47,779 --> 00:55:51,435
But you is the daddy
of all of us now.
628
00:55:51,522 --> 00:55:54,438
I believe, if not the one,
629
00:55:55,917 --> 00:55:59,486
you're the only man of your
age that come from my area,
630
00:55:59,573 --> 00:56:01,619
and all of us areas,
that's living today.
631
00:56:02,881 --> 00:56:04,622
If you don't wanna,
632
00:56:04,709 --> 00:56:08,452
if you don't wanna die young,
you're gonna be old like us.
633
00:56:22,553 --> 00:56:24,250
I had one somewhere.
634
00:57:20,698 --> 00:57:21,307
Do it again.
635
00:57:33,624 --> 00:57:36,453
Sunshine Sonny Payne
broadcasting live.
636
00:57:37,628 --> 00:57:40,413
Program number 16,782
of the original
637
00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:42,633
King Biscuit Time program.
638
00:57:44,112 --> 00:57:46,724
Sponsored by the Shack Up
Inn over in Clarksdale.
639
00:57:46,811 --> 00:57:49,596
Hey, here's one we
can't leave out.
640
00:57:49,683 --> 00:57:51,685
Miss Carol Fran.
641
00:57:51,772 --> 00:57:54,079
Carol, how about it?
642
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,316
Guitar Slim.
643
00:58:14,403 --> 00:58:17,755
He was famous for not
showing up on his gigs.
644
00:58:17,842 --> 00:58:18,669
They were playing here.
645
00:58:18,756 --> 00:58:20,409
We had a place called
646
00:58:20,497 --> 00:58:22,586
the Immaculate Heart of Mary
gym at the Catholic school.
647
00:58:22,673 --> 00:58:25,806
They were gonna play
that Sunday night, and...
648
00:58:26,851 --> 00:58:28,243
he didn't ever show up.
649
00:58:30,419 --> 00:58:31,464
There was a couple
of guys that knew me.
650
00:58:31,551 --> 00:58:33,335
One of the guys was Miller Sam.
651
00:58:34,685 --> 00:58:36,469
He said, "She can sing."
652
00:58:38,297 --> 00:58:39,994
But I wasn't sure
I could make it.
653
00:58:40,081 --> 00:58:41,256
He said, "Oh, yeah,
you can sing."
654
00:58:41,343 --> 00:58:42,649
He bought be a Coca-Cola.
655
00:58:42,736 --> 00:58:45,870
I drank my Coke and
sang my heart out.
656
00:59:00,754 --> 00:59:01,755
We had a new club here
called the Birdcage.
657
00:59:01,842 --> 00:59:03,452
It was just a little lounge.
658
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:06,151
I didn't want to go home
'cause it's early at night,
659
00:59:06,238 --> 00:59:09,676
so I go to the lounge and I
met this guy named Emmitt Lee.
660
00:59:09,763 --> 00:59:11,722
He was from New Orleans,
661
00:59:11,809 --> 00:59:15,639
working for McGregor
men's fashion.
662
00:59:15,726 --> 00:59:17,031
He was selling clothes.
663
00:59:18,076 --> 00:59:19,904
In fact, he was working
with a salesman.
664
00:59:21,296 --> 00:59:22,646
I met him in the
club that night.
665
00:59:22,733 --> 00:59:25,170
Oh, man, we had
such a good time.
666
00:59:25,257 --> 00:59:25,997
I never forgot it.
667
00:59:26,084 --> 00:59:26,911
I got drunk.
668
00:59:27,781 --> 00:59:29,174
I went home.
669
00:59:29,261 --> 00:59:31,437
3:00 in the morning,
I made up Emmitt Lee.
670
00:59:32,917 --> 00:59:34,527
He said, "I got to go."
671
00:59:34,614 --> 00:59:36,137
He said, "When you wake up
tomorrow, I'll be gone."
672
00:59:36,224 --> 00:59:38,662
I said, "Oh, my goodness."
673
00:59:38,749 --> 00:59:39,619
I had had so much fun.
674
00:59:39,706 --> 00:59:40,489
I didn't want him to go.
675
01:00:11,608 --> 01:00:13,044
- Did you
ever see Emmitt Lee again?
676
01:00:13,131 --> 01:00:13,914
Yes.
677
01:00:15,437 --> 01:00:18,397
I was working with Joe Tex.
678
01:00:18,484 --> 01:00:20,617
And we played the
20 Grand in Detroit.
679
01:00:21,966 --> 01:00:23,402
A lady came to me
680
01:00:23,489 --> 01:00:24,838
and said, "Ma'am, your
husband is out there. "
681
01:00:24,925 --> 01:00:25,926
One of the girls that
worked there said,
682
01:00:26,013 --> 01:00:26,927
"Your husband is out there."
683
01:00:27,014 --> 01:00:27,885
Husband?
684
01:00:27,972 --> 01:00:28,668
I don't have a husband.
685
01:00:28,755 --> 01:00:29,538
I'm not married.
686
01:00:31,062 --> 01:00:32,585
He opened the door and
said, "Yeah, you do.
687
01:00:32,672 --> 01:00:35,588
"Carol Lee, come on
here to Emmitt Lee."
688
01:00:35,675 --> 01:00:38,460
I saw him then, and I
never saw him again.
689
01:00:38,547 --> 01:00:39,940
He died two weeks later.
690
01:01:12,364 --> 01:01:13,974
Keep on singin', boy.
691
01:01:19,284 --> 01:01:21,634
Oh, that's that old-timey beat.
692
01:01:29,381 --> 01:01:30,382
I studied that.
693
01:01:30,469 --> 01:01:31,905
I'm a teacher, I teach music.
694
01:01:31,992 --> 01:01:33,254
I got to stay up on it.
695
01:01:33,341 --> 01:01:35,779
I know so many
chords on this thing,
696
01:01:35,866 --> 01:01:37,781
it's just a pity and a shame.
697
01:01:37,868 --> 01:01:40,609
I can tell you how
many notes on a guitar.
698
01:01:43,047 --> 01:01:45,266
I can tell you what
every one of them mean.
699
01:01:45,353 --> 01:01:46,615
This guitar's a Bible.
700
01:01:48,879 --> 01:01:50,315
From Genesis to Revelation.
701
01:01:50,402 --> 01:01:51,882
That's tellin'!
702
01:01:51,969 --> 01:01:54,623
I ain't never been
a fan of a gun.
703
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,627
I say give me that
guitar string.
704
01:01:58,715 --> 01:01:59,803
I'm gonna kill him with that.
705
01:02:02,675 --> 01:02:03,458
- I don't
know if he can do all that.
706
01:02:03,545 --> 01:02:04,416
They pretty hard.
707
01:02:04,503 --> 01:02:05,373
The bullets pretty hard.
708
01:02:05,460 --> 01:02:06,374
I got shot five times.
709
01:02:08,507 --> 01:02:09,943
- You must
have been in the army.
710
01:02:10,030 --> 01:02:12,511
I'm lucky to be alive.
Were you in the army?
711
01:02:12,598 --> 01:02:13,991
No, no.
712
01:02:14,078 --> 01:02:15,906
This happened at my
house with my own gun.
713
01:02:15,993 --> 01:02:17,821
My own wife shot me.
714
01:02:17,908 --> 01:02:21,999
Boy, I would have been
gone away from there.
715
01:02:22,086 --> 01:02:23,652
Never would have
come back no more.
716
01:02:23,740 --> 01:02:25,306
- Man, I hear you.
717
01:02:25,393 --> 01:02:26,220
- Mean!
718
01:02:27,308 --> 01:02:29,571
Mean as a black snake.
719
01:02:29,658 --> 01:02:31,008
Junkyard dog.
That's right.
720
01:02:32,618 --> 01:02:34,533
You sure got that right.
721
01:02:34,620 --> 01:02:35,752
Man, oh, boy.
722
01:03:35,986 --> 01:03:37,552
Back in those days,
723
01:03:37,639 --> 01:03:40,599
when you and your old
lady was havin' problems,
724
01:03:40,686 --> 01:03:41,905
they had to fault somebody.
725
01:03:41,992 --> 01:03:43,820
They gonna fault the devil.
726
01:03:43,907 --> 01:03:45,299
The devil got blamed
for a lot of stuff
727
01:03:45,386 --> 01:03:47,084
he didn't have
nothin' to do with.
728
01:03:48,389 --> 01:03:51,436
The way it's tuned,
they call it cross note.
729
01:03:51,523 --> 01:03:53,438
Every little string
is tuned the same.
730
01:03:58,965 --> 01:04:00,314
The music professional
said to get that
731
01:04:00,401 --> 01:04:03,361
particular tuning,
you'd have to chord it.
732
01:04:05,667 --> 01:04:06,712
But them guys didn't.
733
01:04:09,236 --> 01:04:13,980
They say what makes the
Bentonia style so unique
734
01:04:14,067 --> 01:04:16,678
is what those guys
did with the G string.
735
01:04:16,765 --> 01:04:17,505
They didn't bend it.
736
01:04:17,592 --> 01:04:18,898
They slid.
737
01:04:26,384 --> 01:04:27,864
Muddy Waters and they bent it.
738
01:04:29,082 --> 01:04:30,867
Hear the difference in it?
739
01:04:32,999 --> 01:04:35,523
But that slide, it takes
time to learn that technique.
740
01:05:15,215 --> 01:05:16,521
- So what's
gonna happen when you,
741
01:05:16,608 --> 01:05:17,914
when you eventually pass on,
742
01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:20,090
is this style of
music gonna die?
743
01:05:20,177 --> 01:05:22,005
As far as I know.
744
01:05:22,092 --> 01:05:23,876
There's nobody sitting
around here that seem
745
01:05:23,963 --> 01:05:26,052
interested in doing it.
746
01:05:26,139 --> 01:05:27,749
As far as somebody sitting
here watching me play it
747
01:05:27,836 --> 01:05:29,708
or telling me to show
'em how to play it--
748
01:05:29,795 --> 01:05:31,536
They say it's too complicated.
749
01:05:33,625 --> 01:05:34,713
I don't know.
750
01:06:28,723 --> 01:06:31,857
That harp right
there, a good harp.
751
01:07:40,230 --> 01:07:41,144
Yeah.
752
01:07:41,231 --> 01:07:43,059
My name is Bud Spires.
753
01:07:45,191 --> 01:07:47,672
My right name Benjamin Spires.
754
01:07:48,542 --> 01:07:50,501
All over the world right now,
755
01:07:50,588 --> 01:07:53,852
you ask some of these
blues guys that over there,
756
01:07:53,939 --> 01:07:57,377
ask do they know Benjamin
Spires, they'll say no.
757
01:07:57,464 --> 01:07:59,249
Why?
758
01:07:59,336 --> 01:08:03,383
'Cause when I started out, I
put my name out as Bud Spires.
759
01:08:23,838 --> 01:08:26,841
My daddy was a harmonica blower.
760
01:08:26,928 --> 01:08:29,931
He brought me a harmonica
when I was five years old.
761
01:08:30,018 --> 01:08:33,065
He made Santa Claus
bring it to me.
762
01:08:33,152 --> 01:08:36,764
A harp wouldn't cost
you over a quarter.
763
01:08:36,851 --> 01:08:37,722
Oh, boy.
764
01:08:38,636 --> 01:08:40,899
You buy one now like I got,
765
01:08:42,292 --> 01:08:45,425
you'll see how many quarters
you got to pay, brah.
766
01:08:45,512 --> 01:08:48,515
A harp like I got,
best in the West.
767
01:08:52,302 --> 01:08:53,216
Mercy!
768
01:08:53,303 --> 01:08:54,826
That's the poison.
769
01:08:56,001 --> 01:08:58,743
Blues is my, it's
a friend to me.
770
01:09:00,571 --> 01:09:05,141
When I get lonesome, I stay
in and sing the blues and...
771
01:09:06,838 --> 01:09:08,492
have me a drink.
772
01:09:08,579 --> 01:09:09,406
You know.
773
01:09:11,103 --> 01:09:12,235
I get lonesome.
774
01:09:12,322 --> 01:09:14,150
I be here by myself.
775
01:09:14,237 --> 01:09:18,806
I go and grab me some
raggly harp and blow it.
776
01:09:18,893 --> 01:09:20,591
By myself, you know.
777
01:09:20,678 --> 01:09:21,505
Yeah.
778
01:09:23,333 --> 01:09:27,902
A lot of the older blues guys
is slowly passing away, boy.
779
01:09:29,295 --> 01:09:30,122
Sure is.
780
01:09:31,471 --> 01:09:34,909
All these older
blues guys die out
781
01:09:34,996 --> 01:09:37,608
and you can forget
the blues, brah.
782
01:09:37,695 --> 01:09:38,913
Sure can.
783
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,567
Oh, here it is.
784
01:09:40,654 --> 01:09:44,745
That mean the blues .
785
01:09:46,660 --> 01:09:50,882
It'll be here till the last
old man sing the blues,
786
01:09:52,231 --> 01:09:53,363
shut his eyes.
787
01:10:21,347 --> 01:10:22,435
- Provide
them a witness.
788
01:11:15,445 --> 01:11:16,837
Got Jesus
789
01:11:22,843 --> 01:11:25,368
People, Christian peoples don't
790
01:11:25,455 --> 01:11:28,371
accept the blues in the church
791
01:11:28,458 --> 01:11:33,289
because a lot of
peoples feel like that,
792
01:11:33,376 --> 01:11:36,204
when you're singing the
blues, you're lying.
793
01:11:36,292 --> 01:11:38,946
In different areas of the
song, you might be lying.
794
01:11:39,033 --> 01:11:41,166
That's when they call
it the devil music.
795
01:11:41,253 --> 01:11:44,430
You know, because the devil
is the father of lying,
796
01:11:44,517 --> 01:11:47,781
and they don't
accept that in music.
797
01:11:47,868 --> 01:11:49,348
But this morning,
798
01:11:49,435 --> 01:11:52,395
we had some of this same
kind of stuff going on.
799
01:11:52,482 --> 01:11:54,135
It depends on what
you're doing with it
800
01:11:54,222 --> 01:11:55,441
and how you're doing it.
801
01:11:57,051 --> 01:11:59,140
Well, it's the same music.
802
01:11:59,227 --> 01:12:00,707
It's very the same music.
803
01:12:00,794 --> 01:12:01,534
Yeah.
804
01:12:03,144 --> 01:12:03,928
You know.
805
01:12:21,511 --> 01:12:23,774
Okay, the gospel side.
806
01:13:35,933 --> 01:13:38,196
That's a snapping turtle.
807
01:13:39,371 --> 01:13:40,372
He's a pet, he won't
bite your fingers.
808
01:13:40,459 --> 01:13:42,026
Stick it in there and see.
809
01:13:47,814 --> 01:13:49,903
All right, you're saved, buddy.
810
01:13:49,990 --> 01:13:50,817
You're safe.
811
01:13:54,342 --> 01:13:57,128
My daddy was a
deacon of a church.
812
01:13:58,303 --> 01:14:00,871
Upright man even before
he were a preacher.
813
01:14:00,958 --> 01:14:04,614
My daddy was a straight-up,
straight-up, upright man.
814
01:14:06,137 --> 01:14:10,533
My mother, blue-eyed,
blonde hair.
815
01:14:10,620 --> 01:14:12,622
You couldn't tell was
she white or black.
816
01:14:13,579 --> 01:14:15,059
Kind woman.
817
01:14:15,146 --> 01:14:18,758
My daddy was a kindhearted
man, real gentle.
818
01:14:20,107 --> 01:14:23,546
But his sister and
brothers, rough and tough.
819
01:14:24,764 --> 01:14:29,116
Cut you, fight you,
bite you, kick you.
820
01:14:29,203 --> 01:14:32,555
Whatever they had to do to
get you to back off of them.
821
01:14:32,642 --> 01:14:33,469
Rough, rough.
822
01:14:34,818 --> 01:14:35,645
Rough.
823
01:14:37,429 --> 01:14:39,562
I guess maybe that's why I
don't drink or smoke, because
824
01:14:39,649 --> 01:14:42,216
my peoples drunk enough for me.
825
01:14:43,653 --> 01:14:46,699
They fought enough for
me, cussed enough for me.
826
01:14:46,786 --> 01:14:48,440
Yeah.
827
01:14:48,527 --> 01:14:50,834
I got some aunties that'll
cuss you, make you ashamed.
828
01:14:51,965 --> 01:14:54,925
They call you everything
but a child of God.
829
01:15:12,551 --> 01:15:17,208
I knowed this was gonna, I'm
gonna play it without it.
830
01:15:20,646 --> 01:15:22,474
- Oh, Lord,
here's Big Nancy.
831
01:15:22,561 --> 01:15:23,301
Hello, R.L.
832
01:15:23,388 --> 01:15:24,128
How y'all?
833
01:15:24,215 --> 01:15:24,955
Ooh-whee!
834
01:15:27,827 --> 01:15:29,046
- Hey, Travis!
835
01:15:29,133 --> 01:15:30,482
You got the stuff?
I got mine.
836
01:15:30,569 --> 01:15:31,396
Well, come on.
837
01:15:31,483 --> 01:15:32,179
Let's hear something.
838
01:15:32,266 --> 01:15:34,312
Come on, Travis.
839
01:15:40,187 --> 01:15:41,014
Oh!
840
01:15:43,582 --> 01:15:44,409
Oh!
841
01:16:06,910 --> 01:16:09,913
Where at?
842
01:16:44,991 --> 01:16:47,428
Hit 'em up, more, more, more!
843
01:16:52,651 --> 01:16:54,697
Watch what happens!
Never!
844
01:16:58,744 --> 01:16:59,745
- The goddamn door!
845
01:17:07,448 --> 01:17:08,667
- I'm
gonna get that bitch!
846
01:17:13,803 --> 01:17:15,326
Y'all all right?
847
01:17:20,026 --> 01:17:21,811
Sometimes it's water.
848
01:17:46,183 --> 01:17:48,664
You ain't get in no trouble.
849
01:17:56,454 --> 01:17:58,630
Let me tell you something.
850
01:17:59,849 --> 01:18:02,025
Let me put it to you hard.
851
01:18:02,939 --> 01:18:04,375
A lot of the time
852
01:18:06,899 --> 01:18:08,074
it ain't good,
853
01:18:10,598 --> 01:18:11,687
it ain't bad.
854
01:18:13,732 --> 01:18:15,212
It's what you got.
855
01:19:16,534 --> 01:19:19,537
The train was a separation.
856
01:19:19,624 --> 01:19:20,930
It was like the Dixie line.
857
01:19:21,844 --> 01:19:23,062
North and south.
858
01:19:24,237 --> 01:19:25,586
The train track
was a separation.
859
01:19:25,673 --> 01:19:27,763
Community.
Community was the black side
860
01:19:27,850 --> 01:19:29,329
or the white side.
861
01:19:29,416 --> 01:19:30,983
Exactly.
862
01:19:31,070 --> 01:19:32,506
At one time, you couldn't
be caught on the north
863
01:19:32,593 --> 01:19:33,551
side of the tracks.
864
01:19:34,944 --> 01:19:36,554
North side of the
track was considered
865
01:19:36,641 --> 01:19:37,947
where white people lived.
866
01:19:38,904 --> 01:19:40,776
They had that all over.
867
01:19:40,863 --> 01:19:41,951
It wasn't just here.
It wasn't just here.
868
01:19:42,038 --> 01:19:44,040
But the bottom line was...
869
01:19:44,127 --> 01:19:45,084
That was the way of life.
870
01:19:45,171 --> 01:19:46,216
You was conditioned to it.
871
01:19:46,303 --> 01:19:47,130
That's what you had to expect.
872
01:19:48,305 --> 01:19:49,741
W- hen I went to Chicago,
873
01:19:49,828 --> 01:19:51,787
I was gonna leave the
South and go to Chicago
874
01:19:51,874 --> 01:19:53,876
'cause I wanted to
have my freedom.
875
01:19:54,877 --> 01:19:58,489
And I run into a brick wall.
876
01:20:00,186 --> 01:20:02,275
The second club I went to,
I went to Argo, Illinois.
877
01:20:02,362 --> 01:20:05,583
Next club I went to was
a suburb of Chicago.
878
01:20:06,976 --> 01:20:08,368
Harvey, Illinois.
879
01:20:08,455 --> 01:20:10,893
Or Robbins, Illinois.
I know where that is.
880
01:20:10,980 --> 01:20:13,330
We worked on a stage.
881
01:20:14,766 --> 01:20:17,160
And when we start to playin',
they closed the curtain.
882
01:20:17,247 --> 01:20:19,118
We played all night long.
883
01:20:19,205 --> 01:20:20,511
They listened to our music,
884
01:20:20,598 --> 01:20:23,035
but they didn't want
to see our face.
885
01:20:23,122 --> 01:20:24,907
I believe that.
Yeah.
886
01:20:24,994 --> 01:20:25,864
I believe that.
887
01:20:25,951 --> 01:20:27,561
Day in and day out.
888
01:20:27,648 --> 01:20:28,867
Night in and night out.
889
01:20:30,434 --> 01:20:32,784
So finally, I got so
good the guy said,
890
01:20:32,871 --> 01:20:34,917
"We're gonna introduce
the band tonight."
891
01:20:35,004 --> 01:20:36,788
They introduced the band.
892
01:20:36,875 --> 01:20:38,268
I took a bow.
893
01:20:38,355 --> 01:20:40,444
They opened the curtain
up, I took a bow.
894
01:20:40,531 --> 01:20:42,620
Closed the curtain
right back up.
895
01:20:42,707 --> 01:20:44,056
But the band was behind me.
896
01:20:44,143 --> 01:20:45,449
The guy said, "We're
gonna do this again,
897
01:20:45,536 --> 01:20:48,191
"but we got to put
another curtain."
898
01:20:48,278 --> 01:20:50,802
They put the band
behind another curtain.
899
01:20:50,889 --> 01:20:53,936
So I'm standing in front of
the band, can't see the band.
900
01:20:54,023 --> 01:20:55,459
When they open it up,
901
01:20:55,546 --> 01:20:57,026
I take a bow so they
wouldn't see the band.
902
01:20:57,940 --> 01:20:59,245
I take a bow.
903
01:20:59,332 --> 01:21:01,030
Close it back up.
904
01:21:01,117 --> 01:21:02,901
All night long we played,
'cause it was a white audience.
905
01:21:02,988 --> 01:21:04,294
They want to hear our music,
906
01:21:04,381 --> 01:21:06,209
but they didn't want
to see our face.
907
01:21:06,296 --> 01:21:07,601
Day in and day out.
908
01:21:07,688 --> 01:21:09,560
Myself, Muddy Waters
and all the guys.
909
01:21:09,647 --> 01:21:11,605
- But they
didn't know any better.
910
01:21:11,692 --> 01:21:14,695
We played, .
911
01:21:14,782 --> 01:21:16,045
It was a way of life.
912
01:21:16,132 --> 01:21:17,133
We expected that.
913
01:21:19,048 --> 01:21:20,397
We have come a long ways.
914
01:21:35,064 --> 01:21:37,196
I always was a musician.
915
01:21:37,283 --> 01:21:40,460
From 13, 14 years old.
916
01:21:41,592 --> 01:21:45,291
I don't believe I
worked under 200 dates
917
01:21:46,423 --> 01:21:47,641
for 58 years.
918
01:21:49,252 --> 01:21:50,296
This all right to you, baby?
919
01:21:50,383 --> 01:21:51,167
Hey, Bobby.
920
01:21:52,255 --> 01:21:53,517
Not bad, get it on, Bobby.
921
01:21:56,737 --> 01:21:58,522
Not bad, Bobby.
922
01:21:58,609 --> 01:21:59,436
You clean up well.
923
01:22:00,524 --> 01:22:01,264
Bobby, turn around.
924
01:22:01,351 --> 01:22:02,134
I gotta see.
925
01:22:03,353 --> 01:22:05,007
I like that.
I like that.
926
01:22:05,094 --> 01:22:07,009
Now that's class.
927
01:22:07,096 --> 01:22:08,184
You rockin' it, Bobby.
928
01:22:09,968 --> 01:22:10,926
- You
can come back here, Bobby.
929
01:22:13,102 --> 01:22:15,713
What day they say that?
930
01:22:20,109 --> 01:22:22,024
I don't feel any different now
931
01:22:22,111 --> 01:22:24,156
than I felt when
I was 20, really.
932
01:22:24,243 --> 01:22:26,071
But I think a little
bit different.
933
01:22:27,943 --> 01:22:31,033
But I think a little
bit different.
934
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:35,951
But you have to realize
and be fair with yourself.
935
01:22:37,343 --> 01:22:39,737
What you did when you were 20,
you can't do when you're 80.
936
01:22:41,391 --> 01:22:43,262
And I know when I was younger,
937
01:22:43,349 --> 01:22:47,832
I had some bad-feeling
days because I was so tired
938
01:22:47,919 --> 01:22:49,790
trying to make a living,
939
01:22:49,877 --> 01:22:51,749
trying to make a hustle,
940
01:22:51,836 --> 01:22:54,491
trying to go from town to town
941
01:22:54,578 --> 01:22:57,755
and trying to bust my brains
to figure out what I should do
942
01:22:59,148 --> 01:23:02,020
when I didn't know there
wasn't nothin' to figure out.
943
01:23:02,107 --> 01:23:03,195
'Cause what you can
do is what you can do.
944
01:23:03,282 --> 01:23:04,631
Ain't nothing to figure out.
945
01:23:04,718 --> 01:23:06,329
'Cause all you can
do is all you can do.
946
01:23:07,678 --> 01:23:10,159
So as you get older,
you find out that...
947
01:23:11,334 --> 01:23:14,554
You find out what it's
not, not what it is.
948
01:23:16,034 --> 01:23:19,864
And most of the time, what
it's not overrides what it is.
949
01:23:25,870 --> 01:23:27,393
That's probably a
little fuzzy to you,
950
01:23:27,480 --> 01:23:29,395
to understand that one, but
951
01:23:30,962 --> 01:23:33,225
what it is is what it is.
952
01:23:35,010 --> 01:23:36,272
Seven, eight...
953
01:23:38,839 --> 01:23:41,059
- Hey, Bobby, .
954
01:23:41,146 --> 01:23:42,104
- 10.
955
01:23:43,018 --> 01:23:44,497
That's a thousand.
956
01:23:45,585 --> 01:23:47,152
That's a thousand.
957
01:23:47,239 --> 01:23:49,285
Thought it was short.
958
01:23:49,372 --> 01:23:51,069
- How short are we?
959
01:23:51,156 --> 01:23:53,724
- About $2,000.
960
01:23:56,553 --> 01:23:58,468
You don't want to
take partial payment?
961
01:23:58,555 --> 01:24:01,427
No, I need 2,800 to
pay the band off.
962
01:24:04,996 --> 01:24:08,347
- What are we gonna do?
963
01:24:08,434 --> 01:24:10,219
I don't know how much I
can get out of an ATM.
964
01:24:10,306 --> 01:24:12,177
I don't know what kind
of limits they've got,
965
01:24:12,264 --> 01:24:13,787
but we can go try.
966
01:25:18,635 --> 01:25:21,377
I'd like to ask the question
this morning, who are we?
967
01:25:21,464 --> 01:25:22,291
- Amen!
968
01:25:22,378 --> 01:25:24,031
Who are we?
969
01:25:24,119 --> 01:25:27,774
As a people, we should always
know the answer to that.
970
01:25:27,861 --> 01:25:29,124
- Amen!
971
01:25:29,211 --> 01:25:33,215
We are Americans
of African descent.
972
01:25:34,781 --> 01:25:37,262
We are the black hands
that carved stones.
973
01:25:37,349 --> 01:25:42,354
We are a nation of slaves
who survived two centuries.
974
01:25:43,268 --> 01:25:44,835
Are y'all praying with me?
975
01:25:44,922 --> 01:25:47,577
We are the people that
have been called niggers,
976
01:25:47,664 --> 01:25:48,752
coon, jigaboo.
977
01:25:50,493 --> 01:25:54,018
We all have called
ourselves colored.
978
01:25:54,105 --> 01:25:55,802
Y'all ain't praying with me.
979
01:25:55,889 --> 01:25:56,716
Negroes!
980
01:25:58,501 --> 01:25:59,328
Afro-Americans.
981
01:26:00,807 --> 01:26:02,113
And black.
982
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,855
We are offsprings
of proud people
983
01:26:06,030 --> 01:26:09,468
that have withstood the
stings and the whips
984
01:26:09,555 --> 01:26:13,777
and the spits that this
world has given us.
985
01:26:13,864 --> 01:26:17,259
We are still
producing great music.
986
01:26:17,346 --> 01:26:21,524
However, we are in danger
of losing our capacity
987
01:26:22,699 --> 01:26:27,051
to build upon the
greatness of the past.
988
01:27:08,353 --> 01:27:09,441
I remember well
989
01:27:11,530 --> 01:27:13,576
when I was seven years old
990
01:27:15,142 --> 01:27:17,362
my daddy taking me out of school
991
01:27:18,494 --> 01:27:20,800
out of all of my
sisters and brothers
992
01:27:22,759 --> 01:27:25,675
so I could go into a gin
993
01:27:27,154 --> 01:27:31,115
and get information about
what they were gonna sell
994
01:27:31,202 --> 01:27:33,639
and what they were gonna
take from black peoples.
995
01:27:35,467 --> 01:27:37,382
As I walked in the gin,
996
01:27:37,469 --> 01:27:39,732
there was these white
guys sitting around.
997
01:27:41,212 --> 01:27:43,214
They were saying what the
cotton was gonna sell for,
998
01:27:43,301 --> 01:27:45,260
what they were gonna
sell the peanuts for,
999
01:27:45,347 --> 01:27:47,784
what they were gonna
sell the potatoes for,
1000
01:27:47,871 --> 01:27:49,525
how much they were
gonna sell them for.
1001
01:27:49,612 --> 01:27:51,048
And I was a little boy.
1002
01:27:52,310 --> 01:27:54,443
They didn't pay
me any attention.
1003
01:27:54,530 --> 01:27:56,053
But I could listen.
1004
01:27:56,140 --> 01:27:58,316
And when I couldn't hear as well
1005
01:27:59,752 --> 01:28:01,711
I had sand in one pocket
and a rag in another pocket.
1006
01:28:01,798 --> 01:28:03,756
I would throw a little
sand on the table,
1007
01:28:03,843 --> 01:28:05,236
and sometimes on their shoes.
1008
01:28:05,323 --> 01:28:07,978
So I could wipe
the men's shoes off
1009
01:28:08,065 --> 01:28:09,632
and listen to the conversation.
1010
01:28:11,373 --> 01:28:13,288
And I would hear what
they were saying.
1011
01:28:15,377 --> 01:28:17,074
I would hear what
they were saying
1012
01:28:18,380 --> 01:28:19,903
and bring it back to my daddy.
1013
01:28:21,774 --> 01:28:23,254
Bring it to my daddy
1014
01:28:25,082 --> 01:28:27,954
and tell him what they said
and what they were gonna sell.
1015
01:28:29,391 --> 01:28:33,830
I was sitting yesterday, and
I understood how he felt.
1016
01:28:35,484 --> 01:28:36,354
I'm a blessed man.
1017
01:28:37,486 --> 01:28:39,575
Not that he wasn't blessed.
1018
01:28:39,662 --> 01:28:41,968
But I'm blessed to be in the
position I can make a living
1019
01:28:42,055 --> 01:28:46,233
without being obligated to a
manager or a record company.
1020
01:28:47,496 --> 01:28:48,540
Don't nobody own me.
1021
01:28:49,585 --> 01:28:50,890
I'm in jail, but I'm free.
1022
01:28:53,415 --> 01:28:54,241
I'm a free man.
1023
01:28:57,549 --> 01:28:58,724
I'm free.
1024
01:30:54,884 --> 01:30:55,754
- Y'all
don't go anywhere.
1025
01:30:55,841 --> 01:30:57,626
Bobby Rush is coming up.
1026
01:30:59,279 --> 01:31:00,542
- They said get ready.
1027
01:31:00,629 --> 01:31:02,369
I'm ready, tell
them straight up.
1028
01:31:02,457 --> 01:31:03,675
Tell them hey, tell the guy
1029
01:31:04,633 --> 01:31:05,808
PA ain't shit.
1030
01:31:07,113 --> 01:31:09,551
You gotta keep it
down to the ground.
1031
01:31:09,638 --> 01:31:10,639
Ready to roll.
1032
01:31:15,948 --> 01:31:17,297
Ready to roll.
1033
01:31:17,384 --> 01:31:19,082
- Must say.
1034
01:31:30,223 --> 01:31:32,225
Ladies and gentlemen,
once again,
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the 2015 inductee of the
Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame
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my friend, Mr. Bobby Rush!
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What's going on, baby?
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01:32:57,963 --> 01:32:59,182
Y'all working pretty good, baby?
1039
01:32:59,269 --> 01:33:00,357
- Oh, yeah.
1040
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We all gettin' old, honey.
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I'm 72 now.
1042
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I'm 80.
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I'm hurtin' with my back.
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Thank you.
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I'm gonna play a number here for
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"Mean" Carol Fran's
my niece over there.
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She always...
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We used to work together,
but something happened.
1049
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But I always would play
a number for Carol.
1050
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Let's hear it, Henry.
1051
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My Uncle Henry.
1052
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This is a family affair.
1053
01:36:23,734 --> 01:36:25,649
Ooh, lordy, and say
when I'm all done.
1054
01:36:25,736 --> 01:36:27,172
Rock me, yeah.
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01:36:28,652 --> 01:36:31,046
I wanna thank the fellas
who helped me get there.
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Lil' Buck.
1057
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And, Lord have
mercy, Lazy Lester.
1058
01:36:36,747 --> 01:36:39,402
Would you believe we worked
together as a duo at one time?
1059
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I know.
1060
01:36:40,359 --> 01:36:41,883
Damn you, sit down.
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01:36:41,970 --> 01:36:42,884
You jive turkey.
1062
01:36:43,972 --> 01:36:45,408
I might harm you.
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Come over here.
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Did not think I would be
around long enough to do this.
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- How are you
feeling these days?
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I'm 76 years old.
1067
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I'm 81.
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Oh, shit.
1069
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You look good for your age, man.
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Take care, man, and I'll see ya.
1071
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But you ain't gonna get it.
1072
01:37:21,313 --> 01:37:22,227
You'll get over it.
1073
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I ain't gonna get over
that until I get you.
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Crazy fool.
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01:37:27,798 --> 01:37:30,801
I ain't gonna get
over till I get you.
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01:37:30,888 --> 01:37:32,281
You done got too
old to get me now.
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01:37:32,368 --> 01:37:34,936
She say I got too old.
1078
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Don't nothin' get
old but clothes.
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You're just an old
bag of laundry.
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She say I'm an old
bag of laundry.
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01:37:41,203 --> 01:37:42,639
Well, I can be washed out.
1082
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That's what you are.
1083
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You're washed out.
I'm not washed out.
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I'm starched,
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Viagra'd up and ready!
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01:37:54,216 --> 01:37:55,695
Girl, I love you.
1087
01:37:55,782 --> 01:37:57,306
You're nothing but some poison.
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- Smell of the rose!
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Yeah, all right!
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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- I guess musicians
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don't really retire, right?
1095
01:39:10,292 --> 01:39:12,990
- No, they
never stop, man.
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'Till you're dead,
that's when you retire.
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01:39:14,513 --> 01:39:16,211
When you close your
eyes, it's over with.
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01:39:16,298 --> 01:39:17,125
Other than that?
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If they gotta go with
one leg, no legs,
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they're gonna jam,
they're gonna play.
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You wake up with
that on your mind,
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you go to sleep with
that on your mind.
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Music.
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- What's it mean to you?
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It mean my life to me.
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01:39:46,110 --> 01:39:48,243
It means everything to me.
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That's right, I
can't do without it.
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Blues.
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At one time, in the
black community,
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it was like a plum tree
on the side of the road.
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Everywhere you went,
you heard blues music.
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Now my thing is,
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I think where we're
missing the bucket on it.
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Somebody need to learn it enough
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so like you say, it won't
get lost in the shuffle.
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Know how to play it
and know what it means.
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Not just here in
the black community.
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What it means to
America, period.
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The blues.
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That's you right there.
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Which one you wanna find?
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C., .
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C.
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What you doin'?
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Yeah.
1126
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Why was that?
Let me change them up.
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- Come on,
talk to me about it.
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- Come on, Bobby.
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Ah, Jimmy.
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Oh, man.
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That's the blues.
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