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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:15,715 --> 00:00:17,706 Once I had a pretty little girl 2 00:00:19,352 --> 00:00:21,820 I lose my baby,ain't that sad? 3 00:00:27,327 --> 00:00:30,694 Once I had a pretty little girl 4 00:00:32,399 --> 00:00:35,664 I lose my baby, ain't that sad? 5 00:00:40,540 --> 00:00:43,008 Well, you know you can't Spend what you ain't got 6 00:00:45,578 --> 00:00:47,944 You can't lose What you ain't never had 7 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,211 Well, you know you can't Spend what you ain't got 8 00:00:58,858 --> 00:01:02,089 You can't lose What you ain't never had 9 00:01:17,777 --> 00:01:21,645 I can't imagine my life or anyone else's... 10 00:01:21,915 --> 00:01:23,212 without music. 11 00:01:24,150 --> 00:01:27,381 It's like a light in the darkness that never goes out. 12 00:02:25,345 --> 00:02:28,746 The Blues takes you back to the place where it first came to life. 13 00:02:29,415 --> 00:02:33,044 There's an old African saying that the roots of a tree cast no shadow. 14 00:02:33,119 --> 00:02:35,087 That's how deep the blues goes. 15 00:02:35,922 --> 00:02:39,085 When you really listen to the music you understand... 16 00:02:39,292 --> 00:02:43,092 this is the one thing they could never take away from Black people. 17 00:02:45,131 --> 00:02:48,294 - Well, he Long John - He Long John 18 00:02:48,535 --> 00:02:51,595 - He long gone - He Long John 19 00:02:51,838 --> 00:02:54,864 - He long gone - He Long John 20 00:02:55,108 --> 00:02:58,305 - He long gone - He Long John 21 00:02:58,478 --> 00:03:01,709 - Brother John said - Brother John said 22 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:04,884 - In the Chapter 14 - In the Chapter 14 23 00:03:05,185 --> 00:03:08,245 - lf a man live - lf a man live 24 00:03:08,488 --> 00:03:11,651 - Let his sin be seen - Let his sin be seen 25 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:26,836 I won't be here long 26 00:03:35,048 --> 00:03:39,314 Dark gonna catch me here 27 00:03:39,519 --> 00:03:42,044 Dark gonna catch me here 28 00:03:43,256 --> 00:03:44,723 You're listening to songs... 29 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:47,851 that were recorded for the Library of Congress in the 1930's. 30 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:51,095 John Lomax, who worked for the Library... 31 00:03:51,164 --> 00:03:53,462 called himself a 'ballad hunter' 32 00:03:54,167 --> 00:03:57,728 He and his son, Alan, drove all across America... 33 00:03:57,937 --> 00:04:00,531 and made literally thousands of recordings. 34 00:04:01,107 --> 00:04:04,406 They were doing one of the most important things anyone could do... 35 00:04:04,844 --> 00:04:09,076 they were preserving the past before it disappeared forever. 36 00:04:11,217 --> 00:04:15,745 Irene goodnight 37 00:04:15,989 --> 00:04:19,152 Irene goodnight 38 00:04:19,859 --> 00:04:24,023 Goodnight Irene 39 00:04:24,264 --> 00:04:28,291 I'll get you in my dream 40 00:04:30,303 --> 00:04:34,637 It was John Lomax who first recorded Lead Belly in 1933... 41 00:04:34,907 --> 00:04:36,772 in a Louisiana prison. 42 00:04:37,010 --> 00:04:38,272 After Lead Belly was released... 43 00:04:38,611 --> 00:04:42,570 he went to Philadelphia with the Lomaxes and he gave a series of concerts. 44 00:04:42,649 --> 00:04:46,050 Don't you see me coming 45 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:50,983 With both two hands on your man? See me coming 46 00:04:51,257 --> 00:04:54,488 With your man alone 47 00:04:54,594 --> 00:04:57,085 Northern audiences responded to Lead Belly... 48 00:04:57,297 --> 00:04:59,492 and they loved the songs he performed. 49 00:05:00,033 --> 00:05:02,695 As Lead Belly became famous around the world... 50 00:05:02,935 --> 00:05:05,199 a different kind of musician was reworking the blues... 51 00:05:05,271 --> 00:05:06,795 down in the Mississippi Delta... 52 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,203 in a way that would eventually reach an even wider audience. 53 00:05:54,921 --> 00:05:56,354 When I learned to play the Blues... 54 00:05:56,422 --> 00:06:00,381 I knew I was connecting with my ancestors and my history. 55 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,025 Every song tells another part of the story. 56 00:06:04,397 --> 00:06:07,992 It was through playing the music I began to understand... 57 00:06:08,434 --> 00:06:11,665 to know yourself you have to know the past... 58 00:06:11,938 --> 00:06:15,271 to know where you're going you have to know where you've been. 59 00:06:17,009 --> 00:06:19,204 Oh, Lordy Lord 60 00:06:20,713 --> 00:06:22,544 Oh, Lordy Lord 61 00:06:23,983 --> 00:06:26,645 It hurts me so bad 62 00:06:28,454 --> 00:06:32,356 John Lee Hooker, that sound, that feeling... 63 00:06:32,625 --> 00:06:36,288 my great-grandmother used to call it 'knocking at the back door music'... 64 00:06:36,529 --> 00:06:38,429 other people call it the devil's music. 65 00:06:38,664 --> 00:06:43,158 You listen to it and you feel the mud and the blood of the Mississippi Delta. 66 00:06:43,369 --> 00:06:45,803 This journey begins in Mississippi because... 67 00:06:45,872 --> 00:06:48,102 this is the land where the Blues was born. 68 00:07:00,887 --> 00:07:05,051 Sam Carr's father was Robert Nighthawk, a blues legend... 69 00:07:05,291 --> 00:07:09,352 and Sam played drums with Big Jack Johnson and Frank Frost... 70 00:07:09,429 --> 00:07:11,021 in the Jelly Roll Kings. 71 00:07:11,330 --> 00:07:13,423 - Come on. - My name is Corey Harris. 72 00:07:13,699 --> 00:07:15,530 - Sam Carr. - Nice to meet you, Sam 73 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:18,532 - Same to you. - I'm a big admirer of your music. 74 00:07:18,604 --> 00:07:20,697 Well, do it man, you just did catch me. 75 00:07:20,773 --> 00:07:23,139 Alright, I'm glad I caught you. 76 00:07:24,577 --> 00:07:28,673 I been sick about a year taking part of my music and... 77 00:07:28,981 --> 00:07:32,280 everything and just kinda easily coming back this way. 78 00:07:32,585 --> 00:07:36,419 I first started playing guitar... I met a dude who played harmonica... 79 00:07:36,556 --> 00:07:40,652 and one day it came up: I know, let's call ourselves the Jelly Roll Kings... 80 00:07:40,726 --> 00:07:43,126 and we were so proud: "That's a great name"... 81 00:07:43,229 --> 00:07:44,924 and we thought we were the first ones to think... 82 00:07:44,997 --> 00:07:46,589 of that then we went to the record store. 83 00:07:48,768 --> 00:07:51,999 - So we changed it. - Somebody beat you to it. 84 00:07:52,238 --> 00:07:54,399 Beat us to it by many years. 85 00:07:56,342 --> 00:08:00,540 That's some of the best blues records ever made that you all was on. 86 00:08:00,813 --> 00:08:01,745 Really. 87 00:08:02,381 --> 00:08:05,908 So I understand your father was Robert Nighthawk. 88 00:08:06,152 --> 00:08:08,848 - Yeah, yeah, he was. - Very famous musician. 89 00:08:09,055 --> 00:08:12,821 What can you tell us about Mr. Nighthawk and his music? 90 00:08:13,025 --> 00:08:16,153 I was around him all the time. I got to see a lot of old music... 91 00:08:16,229 --> 00:08:19,164 old musicians, I can't think of their names now... 92 00:08:20,233 --> 00:08:21,757 but they was good. 93 00:08:21,968 --> 00:08:23,959 I listen to some of that old music now. 94 00:08:24,203 --> 00:08:26,535 I and Frank started playing together in '55. 95 00:08:26,606 --> 00:08:28,096 Frank Frost? 96 00:08:28,641 --> 00:08:33,669 So we played all through the country, all overseas and everywhere else... 97 00:08:33,913 --> 00:08:36,575 as we, you know, got known. 98 00:08:36,749 --> 00:08:40,845 Yeah, so. We got the chance to go a lot of places I never'd go... 99 00:08:42,321 --> 00:08:45,722 places I never would see, if I hadn't been playing music. 100 00:08:46,592 --> 00:08:47,490 Yeah, well... 101 00:08:47,793 --> 00:08:50,159 he just ain't... you know. As we die out... 102 00:08:51,097 --> 00:08:52,564 the music died right along with us... 103 00:08:52,798 --> 00:08:54,060 most of it. 104 00:08:55,334 --> 00:08:56,631 You take... 105 00:08:57,136 --> 00:09:00,299 a guy forty-five years old... 106 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:05,739 he can't play what we was playing back yonder. 107 00:09:06,746 --> 00:09:09,476 Now, the instruments do the playing. 108 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:11,876 Then you had to play. 109 00:09:11,951 --> 00:09:14,181 Every string for string, you had to play. 110 00:09:28,134 --> 00:09:29,692 That's it, that's it. 111 00:09:30,202 --> 00:09:33,729 Do it, till you do it, I want you do it with your eyes close, do it till when... 112 00:09:33,806 --> 00:09:37,037 when you can feel comfortable that you can close your eyes and do it. 113 00:09:49,455 --> 00:09:50,581 Oh, man, yeah... 114 00:09:50,823 --> 00:09:53,417 let's give him a nice round of applause, y'all. 115 00:09:53,693 --> 00:09:57,527 I celebrate my heritage and my culture with my blues festival. 116 00:09:58,197 --> 00:09:59,824 From all walks of life... 117 00:10:00,066 --> 00:10:02,193 - they come down to Freedom Creek. - Oh, man. 118 00:10:02,468 --> 00:10:03,059 Yeah, you know. 119 00:10:03,336 --> 00:10:08,296 Last one we had nearly everybody thought it was gonna be hot because it was June. 120 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:11,668 And man it was so cool and pleasant down here... 121 00:10:11,877 --> 00:10:15,040 and had the wind kind of blowing through the trees and... 122 00:10:15,281 --> 00:10:19,149 I just felt the spirit of old Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters... 123 00:10:19,385 --> 00:10:23,151 John Lee Hooker, and all Son House and all them old Blues brothers... 124 00:10:23,222 --> 00:10:24,917 Johnny Shines. 125 00:10:25,157 --> 00:10:27,887 I just felt all of them down here, you know, as one. 126 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:29,894 The spirit I just felt them... 127 00:10:30,162 --> 00:10:31,129 that spirit was... 128 00:10:31,197 --> 00:10:33,961 was close at hand, believe me. 129 00:10:35,368 --> 00:10:36,596 Now look it here. 130 00:10:37,803 --> 00:10:40,169 That was too late 131 00:10:40,673 --> 00:10:42,937 To stand up for their rights 132 00:10:43,609 --> 00:10:48,273 Just because they was black They had to put up a hell of a fight 133 00:10:48,514 --> 00:10:50,539 In Picken's County 134 00:10:52,518 --> 00:10:54,577 In Picken's County 135 00:10:57,556 --> 00:11:01,390 When a little sheriff Came out and rescued them 136 00:11:01,627 --> 00:11:07,088 DA called out the town Said good sheriff will tear you down 137 00:11:07,967 --> 00:11:11,903 And penetrate you down In Picken's County 138 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:16,335 Come out of cotton fields with no money... 139 00:11:17,209 --> 00:11:21,043 or just a little food at home to eat, children crying... 140 00:11:21,347 --> 00:11:24,214 at the edge of suicide. 141 00:11:25,685 --> 00:11:26,845 So... 142 00:11:27,253 --> 00:11:30,347 the good Lord and the Spirit had to send something down... 143 00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:32,580 to the people... 144 00:11:32,792 --> 00:11:35,420 to help ease the worried mind... 145 00:11:35,661 --> 00:11:38,858 and this's where the music come in at what you're working... 146 00:11:38,931 --> 00:11:41,422 at what you're trying to do, at what you're striving for... 147 00:11:41,634 --> 00:11:46,537 to help give you a vision of a brighter day way up ahead... 148 00:11:46,605 --> 00:11:50,371 to help you get your mind off of what you are in right now. 149 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:53,438 And they'd use a lot of these of songs... 150 00:11:53,746 --> 00:11:56,340 which they were talkin' about their woman... 151 00:11:56,749 --> 00:11:59,115 but they was telling you about the boss man. 152 00:12:00,019 --> 00:12:03,978 Them old blues songs talking about their woman... my baby, she's so mean... 153 00:12:04,223 --> 00:12:06,350 she just won't treat me right... 154 00:12:06,826 --> 00:12:09,989 she take all my money, well, you talking about the boss man... 155 00:12:10,229 --> 00:12:15,724 but that's the way that they have to get the message undercover. 156 00:12:16,168 --> 00:12:19,934 So they couldn't just come out and say the boss man ain't treating me right. 157 00:12:20,072 --> 00:12:21,699 - And his name is such and such. - Yeah. 158 00:12:21,774 --> 00:12:23,002 - He lives at... - Right, right. 159 00:12:23,275 --> 00:12:26,142 They finding you hanging from one of them trees in the morning. 160 00:12:26,345 --> 00:12:27,676 Dead before day in the morning. 161 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,015 Lord, if you rise 162 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:33,142 And the blues just survival. 163 00:12:33,352 --> 00:12:35,654 John Lee Hooker say: "It's a healer." 164 00:12:46,632 --> 00:12:51,365 It was 1941 when Alan Lomax arrived in the Mississippi Delta... 165 00:12:51,604 --> 00:12:55,301 with John Work and an integrated team from Fisk University. 166 00:12:55,641 --> 00:12:58,201 The old way of life was disappearing fast. 167 00:12:58,444 --> 00:13:01,504 Many of the jobs on the old plantations were being phased out... 168 00:13:01,747 --> 00:13:04,978 and people were leaving in droves. Everything was changing. 169 00:13:05,918 --> 00:13:08,546 So Alan Lomax figured the music had to be changing, too. 170 00:13:09,054 --> 00:13:11,079 - Did you go on, girl? - Yes, ma'am 171 00:13:11,323 --> 00:13:13,086 - Did you go on town? - Yes, ma'am 172 00:13:13,325 --> 00:13:15,122 - Did you see my brown? - Yes, ma'am 173 00:13:15,361 --> 00:13:18,194 - Which way did he go? - Choo, choo, all night long 174 00:13:18,464 --> 00:13:20,557 Choo, choo, all night long 175 00:13:20,833 --> 00:13:24,325 Hell is a place and not a state. 176 00:13:26,172 --> 00:13:27,662 Can you here me, my brother Lomax? 177 00:13:28,541 --> 00:13:30,566 Hell is a place... 178 00:13:31,977 --> 00:13:33,410 and not a state. 179 00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:38,382 Name: McKinley Morgansfield nickname: Muddy Waters... 180 00:13:38,651 --> 00:13:40,915 Stovall's famous guitar picker. 181 00:13:41,187 --> 00:13:45,317 How long have you lived out here on the Stovall plains? 182 00:13:45,391 --> 00:13:47,222 17 year. 183 00:13:47,293 --> 00:13:49,989 - Working in the same place? - Same place all the time. 184 00:14:16,288 --> 00:14:20,918 Well, I just felt blue and the song veer into my mind and... 185 00:14:21,293 --> 00:14:24,353 it come to me just like that song and I start to singing it and went on. 186 00:14:24,597 --> 00:14:29,227 Do you know is that tune, the tune from any other blues that you know? 187 00:14:29,468 --> 00:14:33,268 This song from the cotton field and the boy went and put the record out... 188 00:14:33,539 --> 00:14:36,337 Robert Johnson, he put out "Walking Blues". 189 00:14:36,575 --> 00:14:38,440 Did you know the tune before you heard it the record, though? 190 00:14:38,510 --> 00:14:41,001 Yes, sir I knew the tune before I heard it on the record. 191 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,548 - Who'd you learn it from? - I learn it from Son House. 192 00:14:43,749 --> 00:14:46,274 So how did you learn to play with this bottle? 193 00:14:46,485 --> 00:14:49,977 Picked it up from Son House, I call it a slide. 194 00:15:06,538 --> 00:15:11,874 Some people say the world Muddy Waters and Son House were born into is gone. 195 00:15:12,511 --> 00:15:16,242 I drive down these roads, I visit these places... 196 00:15:16,482 --> 00:15:18,279 and I hear the music... 197 00:15:19,051 --> 00:15:21,178 as if it were in the air. 198 00:15:21,353 --> 00:15:25,653 Blues is not a plaything like people think they are. 199 00:15:25,724 --> 00:15:31,026 Like youngsters today, they take anything and make the Blues out of it... 200 00:15:31,230 --> 00:15:34,199 just any little old jump something or other say... 201 00:15:34,266 --> 00:15:36,359 this is the such and such a blues... 202 00:15:36,635 --> 00:15:38,432 no it's not. 203 00:15:38,671 --> 00:15:41,504 There ain't but one kind a blues... 204 00:15:42,641 --> 00:15:45,769 and that consisted between... 205 00:15:46,478 --> 00:15:49,641 male and female that's in love. 206 00:15:50,582 --> 00:15:53,016 In love, male and female. 207 00:15:53,152 --> 00:15:56,417 Now I been married five times... 208 00:15:56,622 --> 00:15:59,716 with my jerky self. Five times... 209 00:16:00,025 --> 00:16:06,726 and I had a good experience of what that mean. 210 00:16:07,333 --> 00:16:08,231 Blues. 211 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:10,825 B-L-U-E-S. Blues. 212 00:17:36,922 --> 00:17:41,188 This is a bit dark. This is Son House with his eyes closed... 213 00:17:41,427 --> 00:17:45,591 and the sweat pouring off of him and he is just gone. 214 00:17:45,831 --> 00:17:49,232 He's left this point in time. He's just gone somewhere else. 215 00:17:49,401 --> 00:17:53,269 He went to 1928 and 1935... 216 00:17:53,539 --> 00:17:57,202 he went to Lula, he went to Clarksdale, he went to Tunica... 217 00:17:57,443 --> 00:17:59,434 he just went somewhere else. 218 00:17:59,812 --> 00:18:04,181 How did you meet Son House? How'd your association with him begin? 219 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:08,546 I promoted a week of John Hurt shows in February of '64... 220 00:18:08,787 --> 00:18:12,553 and that was successful. Then I brought in Booker White... 221 00:18:12,791 --> 00:18:14,782 who was a great Mississippi bluesman... 222 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:17,852 and he came in and played in April of '64. 223 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:21,828 In talking to him he said he had seen Son House... 224 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:23,765 in Memphis, seen him in a movie theater. 225 00:18:24,002 --> 00:18:27,563 We were just flipping out because he had vanished in '42... 226 00:18:27,973 --> 00:18:29,736 after recording for Lomax. 227 00:18:29,975 --> 00:18:33,342 So we went down to Memphis and saw Booker... 228 00:18:33,612 --> 00:18:34,840 and Booker basically said... 229 00:18:34,913 --> 00:18:37,643 "Well, maybe I was wrong, I guess I really didn't see Son House". 230 00:18:38,150 --> 00:18:40,778 Some of my old favorite boys... 231 00:18:41,019 --> 00:18:43,579 at least I love them all so far as that. 232 00:18:43,822 --> 00:18:47,656 Charlie Patton, Willie Brown, and Robert Johnson... 233 00:18:47,826 --> 00:18:52,820 well, they died one right after the other... 234 00:18:53,065 --> 00:18:55,090 and you know, and we played together. 235 00:18:55,367 --> 00:18:57,665 So out of them three... 236 00:18:57,803 --> 00:19:02,866 these gone on back to the mother's dust from whence they came... 237 00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:05,133 and then that scared me. 238 00:19:05,978 --> 00:19:09,311 Lemon Jefferson he done gone too. 239 00:19:09,615 --> 00:19:12,083 Then that scared me and I said: Well, maybe... 240 00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:14,051 Lord, I'm next... 241 00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:17,311 and I got scared and quit playing for 16 years... 242 00:19:17,556 --> 00:19:20,957 until Mr. Dick Waterman found me... 243 00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:24,219 and gave me nerve enough to try it again. 244 00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:29,228 He had been retired from the railroad. So he said: "Okay"... 245 00:19:29,468 --> 00:19:30,799 he'd come back to playing... 246 00:19:30,936 --> 00:19:36,431 not because he had any great musical motivation or financial motivation. 247 00:19:36,742 --> 00:19:40,234 He just wasn't doing anything so he said "Okay" he'd try it. 248 00:20:30,929 --> 00:20:34,763 Son was interesting because Son descended from a preaching clan... 249 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,560 and that's one of his tunes. He was... 250 00:20:37,769 --> 00:20:40,829 was: "Well, I be religion and I know all religious stuff... 251 00:20:40,906 --> 00:20:44,205 but then all that corn liquor just taste so good... 252 00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:47,310 and that girl's behind is just so good looking. 253 00:20:48,146 --> 00:20:49,670 I believe I'm gonna go over here". 254 00:20:49,815 --> 00:20:54,582 And then he'd get over there, and then he'd start feeling remorseful about it. 255 00:20:54,820 --> 00:20:56,754 And then he'd have to go over there, you know... 256 00:20:56,822 --> 00:20:59,222 and the whole thing was like... 257 00:20:59,658 --> 00:21:01,683 that song... I used to sing that... 258 00:21:01,893 --> 00:21:04,259 I'm gonna get me religion, I do believe... 259 00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:06,229 I'm gonna join the Baptist church, you know... 260 00:21:06,465 --> 00:21:07,557 I'm gonna get me religion I do believe... 261 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:08,622 I'm gonna join the Baptist church... 262 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:11,635 so I can be a Baptist preacher and I will not have to work. 263 00:21:13,705 --> 00:21:15,502 In the 1960's, when I was starting out... 264 00:21:15,574 --> 00:21:17,235 there was a folk revival going on... 265 00:21:17,309 --> 00:21:21,268 and many of these bluesmen were invited to perform at concerts. 266 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,013 Me and many people from my generation had access... 267 00:21:25,250 --> 00:21:29,311 to the artistry and wisdom of a wonderful older generation. 268 00:21:30,822 --> 00:21:33,848 One of the things I did when I hung out with the older players... 269 00:21:33,925 --> 00:21:34,550 Yes. 270 00:21:34,626 --> 00:21:38,528 Was to talk to them about what life was like for them at that time. 271 00:21:38,764 --> 00:21:42,165 Who were they as a much young crazy boys, talking about and thinking about. 272 00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:44,859 So how did these cats like Son House come about... 273 00:21:44,936 --> 00:21:49,498 like how did the music come out of this place, this area? 274 00:21:49,574 --> 00:21:52,008 3,000 acres of cotton. 275 00:21:52,177 --> 00:21:54,372 I mean, if you ran 3,000 acres of cotton... 276 00:21:54,446 --> 00:21:57,506 seventy, eighty years ago, you had a lot of folks working there. 277 00:21:57,749 --> 00:21:59,979 You know, I mean, that's a lot of land to be trying deal. 278 00:22:00,185 --> 00:22:03,018 If that was something I was doing back in the day... 279 00:22:03,188 --> 00:22:05,782 that's a lot of mules and men... 280 00:22:07,092 --> 00:22:09,993 you know, that's a lot of mules and men... 281 00:22:10,062 --> 00:22:12,360 that's a lot of people washing clothes... 282 00:22:12,431 --> 00:22:14,922 that's a whole bunch of biscuits and cobbler. 283 00:22:15,267 --> 00:22:17,565 That type of life, you know... 284 00:22:18,203 --> 00:22:20,398 coupled with the way people live... 285 00:22:20,472 --> 00:22:22,406 and the intensity of the times, you know... 286 00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:27,441 the delta you know, produced a real strong hard-driving music. 287 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,943 Charley Patton's "Highwater Everywhere", he's really kicking the doors down. 288 00:23:06,218 --> 00:23:08,277 And harmonically the instrument's in tune. 289 00:23:08,353 --> 00:23:11,220 They must have kept the liquor away from him so he didn't get drunk. 290 00:23:11,456 --> 00:23:15,290 He's really in tune good and he's singing so great, you know. 291 00:23:22,801 --> 00:23:27,295 See, that song you get the feeling of where he is and where he can go... 292 00:23:27,506 --> 00:23:29,838 and where he will go, and where the water's gonna go... 293 00:23:30,108 --> 00:23:33,077 and what the word is from cross town and... 294 00:23:33,311 --> 00:23:35,905 how far he's getting the word coming back to his ear... 295 00:23:36,114 --> 00:23:38,344 because sometimes the Blues gotta talk about... 296 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,647 he's talking about somebody you don't ever meet. 297 00:23:40,886 --> 00:23:45,186 I'm talking about my baby, never met her, you know... 298 00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:47,688 and she's fine as she can be I still never met her. 299 00:23:47,893 --> 00:23:50,088 Patton's thing, that's what I like about he does is that... 300 00:23:50,328 --> 00:23:53,525 he includes you way up inside his mind... 301 00:23:53,598 --> 00:23:55,759 as to what's going on and what's he's thinking and... 302 00:23:55,967 --> 00:23:57,628 what it's like at that time. 303 00:24:17,656 --> 00:24:19,647 What is this place? Where are we at right now? 304 00:24:19,724 --> 00:24:23,182 We're at the epicenter of a musical revolution. 305 00:24:23,428 --> 00:24:26,556 This is where McKinley Morgansfield, better known as Muddy Waters... 306 00:24:26,765 --> 00:24:28,357 worked and played his music. 307 00:24:28,633 --> 00:24:31,602 And this is where Alan Lomax made that great recording of... 308 00:24:31,837 --> 00:24:33,737 "Down on Stovall's Farm" with Muddy. 309 00:24:34,039 --> 00:24:39,136 Here we are, what 100 years later or whenever the this farm started... 310 00:24:39,511 --> 00:24:44,141 and then it's within a hundred year span we're talking that Muddy was out here... 311 00:24:44,349 --> 00:24:48,718 and went on to Chicago and eventually out to the rest of the world. 312 00:24:56,862 --> 00:24:59,558 When Muddy Waters got his first record in the mail... 313 00:24:59,631 --> 00:25:02,794 he put on a suit and tie and went to a photographer studio... 314 00:25:02,868 --> 00:25:04,529 to have his picture taken. 315 00:25:04,769 --> 00:25:06,737 He thought about leaving the plantation before... 316 00:25:06,805 --> 00:25:08,830 but now he knew he could do it. 317 00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:50,837 - What's up brother? - I ain't seen you in God knows when... 318 00:26:51,109 --> 00:26:52,770 man how you doing? 319 00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:55,739 It's been a long time since I seen you. 320 00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:59,643 - You gonna play the blues, brother? - I gotta crawl tonight, I gotta do it. 321 00:26:59,818 --> 00:27:01,581 You gonna play the blues tonight? 322 00:27:01,653 --> 00:27:04,816 I got that whup. That's the whup over there, hey whup. 323 00:27:06,791 --> 00:27:07,951 Check. One, two. 324 00:27:08,393 --> 00:27:10,486 Alright, check one, two. 325 00:27:13,798 --> 00:27:14,958 Check... 326 00:27:15,033 --> 00:27:17,467 check, check, check, check, check. 327 00:27:29,214 --> 00:27:31,978 Could fill a spoon full of coffee 328 00:27:33,018 --> 00:27:35,646 Could fill a spoon full of tea 329 00:27:36,721 --> 00:27:40,122 Just a little spoon Of your precious love 330 00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:42,824 Is that enough for me 331 00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:45,222 It been lied about 332 00:27:46,598 --> 00:27:49,362 Some of them dies about it 333 00:27:50,435 --> 00:27:52,562 Some of them dies 334 00:27:55,907 --> 00:27:57,238 About it 335 00:27:57,609 --> 00:28:01,010 That spoon, that spoon That spoonful 336 00:28:01,246 --> 00:28:04,044 That spoon, that spoon That spoonful 337 00:28:04,249 --> 00:28:06,444 Good God, about it Tell me about it 338 00:28:06,551 --> 00:28:07,643 How about that? 339 00:28:58,903 --> 00:29:02,031 Son House was more stable... 340 00:29:02,707 --> 00:29:04,174 him and... 341 00:29:04,409 --> 00:29:06,877 Charley Patton, Willie Brown... 342 00:29:07,112 --> 00:29:11,071 they're more stable because these guys, I think they worked on a farm... 343 00:29:11,683 --> 00:29:14,777 and played on a Saturday night for the get backs. 344 00:29:15,053 --> 00:29:19,922 Where as me, I wanted to go somewhere I wanted to see some places. 345 00:29:20,191 --> 00:29:22,887 See, there's a lot of things that I wanted to learn about... 346 00:29:23,094 --> 00:29:25,528 I was curious about, you know. 347 00:29:26,097 --> 00:29:27,894 Like, when I was a kid... 348 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,194 my parents used to tell me what they was taught... 349 00:29:31,736 --> 00:29:33,260 about the white people. 350 00:29:35,073 --> 00:29:39,533 My parents used to tell me if you go to Chicago, St Louis and New York... 351 00:29:40,111 --> 00:29:42,841 you walk along, you see the little things with the holes in 'em... 352 00:29:42,914 --> 00:29:44,211 you can look down through there. 353 00:29:44,415 --> 00:29:47,578 Don't step on those things because those are student traps. 354 00:29:47,886 --> 00:29:51,083 If you step on those things, you'll fall down in those traps... 355 00:29:51,322 --> 00:29:54,485 and students jumps you and cut you up and see how you were made. 356 00:29:55,026 --> 00:29:56,493 All this crap. 357 00:29:56,561 --> 00:29:57,550 If you go to Canada... 358 00:29:57,629 --> 00:30:00,792 the Canadians didn't have but one big eye in the center of their head. 359 00:30:00,932 --> 00:30:03,162 Everywhere you went a big eye'd be following you around... 360 00:30:03,234 --> 00:30:04,826 that's a scary feeling you know. 361 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,731 I don't know, maybe I'm just a hard believer. 362 00:30:12,143 --> 00:30:13,872 I just didn't believe all that stuff. 363 00:30:14,112 --> 00:30:17,912 About that traps, you know, being there. I jumped down on many traps... 364 00:30:18,149 --> 00:30:21,141 I guess folks thought I was crazy, to see if it break in... 365 00:30:21,352 --> 00:30:23,820 but I'd walk over one, I'd jump up and down... 366 00:30:24,556 --> 00:30:25,921 see if it was gonna break in. 367 00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:31,420 I gotta keep moving 368 00:30:32,197 --> 00:30:34,927 Blues falling down like hail 369 00:30:35,133 --> 00:30:37,829 Blues falling down like hail 370 00:30:47,111 --> 00:30:52,014 That high haunting voice pitched on the razor's edge between joy and pain. 371 00:31:08,399 --> 00:31:09,627 Dead at 27. 372 00:31:09,701 --> 00:31:14,104 Twenty-nine songs and just two known photographs. 373 00:31:14,305 --> 00:31:18,207 We'll never have more than just a few scattered memories and details... 374 00:31:18,276 --> 00:31:19,903 about the life of Robert Johnson. 375 00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:22,303 In the 65 years since he died... 376 00:31:22,413 --> 00:31:25,849 his shadow's only grow longer as musician continue to... 377 00:31:26,084 --> 00:31:28,348 sing his words and play his music. 378 00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:36,954 That something that I associate with Robert Johnson. 379 00:31:37,195 --> 00:31:39,686 He's one of the first guys I know to do that. 380 00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:43,662 Whereas, you know, with Son House it's like when Son House does "Jinx Blues"... 381 00:31:47,639 --> 00:31:49,766 you know, he's like banging on it. 382 00:31:51,175 --> 00:31:53,200 You know, I think Son House was... 383 00:31:53,478 --> 00:31:56,379 I don't know, to me, he sounds more country, more rural. 384 00:31:56,614 --> 00:32:00,414 Robert Johnson is like between that and something uptown or more urbane. 385 00:32:00,852 --> 00:32:02,410 Baby 386 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,315 Baby, don't you want to go? 387 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,860 Baby 388 00:32:11,629 --> 00:32:15,121 Baby, don't you want to go? 389 00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:23,499 Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago 390 00:32:26,644 --> 00:32:31,104 One and one is two Two and two is four 391 00:32:31,416 --> 00:32:34,817 Heavy loaded, baby And I got to go 392 00:32:35,186 --> 00:32:36,551 Baby 393 00:32:37,655 --> 00:32:40,886 Baby, don't you want to go? 394 00:32:43,528 --> 00:32:49,125 Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago 395 00:32:52,270 --> 00:32:57,037 Two and two is four Four and two is six 396 00:32:57,375 --> 00:33:01,334 Keep on mocking, my friend And you'll get pity, you'll see 397 00:33:01,412 --> 00:33:03,175 Baby 398 00:33:03,514 --> 00:33:07,211 Baby, don't you want to go? 399 00:33:09,287 --> 00:33:15,055 Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago 400 00:33:18,596 --> 00:33:21,429 Where did you and Johnson travel together? 401 00:33:21,632 --> 00:33:24,294 Well, through Missouri, Arkansas... 402 00:33:24,802 --> 00:33:26,531 Tennessee... 403 00:33:26,904 --> 00:33:30,772 Illinois, Michigan, Ohio... 404 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:36,109 on up into Canada, New York, places like that. 405 00:33:37,081 --> 00:33:39,379 And you found an audience everywhere you went? 406 00:33:39,617 --> 00:33:41,710 Yes, audience, a ready audience waiting on us. 407 00:33:41,953 --> 00:33:46,287 You get the feeling that this was a guy who was in some kind of trouble... 408 00:33:46,491 --> 00:33:50,120 or running from something, or afraid of something. 409 00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:52,522 Well, I'll tell you what his life was like. 410 00:33:53,398 --> 00:33:57,994 If we played somewhere tonight and probably got off at four o' clock... 411 00:33:59,103 --> 00:34:02,539 and got into our hotel room and went to sleep... 412 00:34:03,074 --> 00:34:06,100 and a train waking me up at 6:30h... 413 00:34:06,344 --> 00:34:08,608 I say Robert I hear a train you wanna catch it? 414 00:34:08,846 --> 00:34:11,815 Never say a word, get right up, start putting his clothes on. 415 00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:14,817 Didn't make no difference what way it was going. 416 00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:18,454 Going back the way we just come from, or where we was headed. 417 00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:21,987 Just didn't make him any difference, just so... 418 00:34:22,226 --> 00:34:23,557 he just didn't care. 419 00:35:03,935 --> 00:35:09,396 Some folks tell me Old blues ain't bad 420 00:35:09,607 --> 00:35:13,873 I got the worst of feeling I ever had 421 00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:16,072 Some people tell me 422 00:35:19,050 --> 00:35:21,575 Old blues ain't bad 423 00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:27,614 I got the worst of feeling 424 00:35:29,026 --> 00:35:31,494 That I ever had 425 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,466 One thing that's remarkable with, about Robert Johnson... 426 00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:42,799 for me is that he was one of the first cats I can tell... 427 00:35:43,007 --> 00:35:46,534 who was really like listening to records of cats outside of his region. 428 00:35:46,944 --> 00:35:50,812 He definitely had traces in his playing that let you know he had big ears. 429 00:35:51,048 --> 00:35:52,538 He was definitely listening. 430 00:35:52,783 --> 00:35:55,343 We get most of our information from CD's records... 431 00:35:55,586 --> 00:35:58,749 I mean, we talk to other musicians and we learn stuff from gigs... 432 00:35:58,823 --> 00:36:01,417 but I think most of the development for most people... 433 00:36:01,659 --> 00:36:03,320 now is listening to records and stuff. 434 00:36:03,394 --> 00:36:06,852 And I think he was one of he first people to really do that, you know. 435 00:36:07,031 --> 00:36:09,329 - He was more of a like a crooner. - Yeah. 436 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,391 He was really kinda, he had a kinda croon. 437 00:36:11,636 --> 00:36:12,660 He did, he did. 438 00:36:12,803 --> 00:36:15,363 But I was, I guess, about 19... 439 00:36:15,673 --> 00:36:19,131 I got my hand on a Led Zeppelin eight track. 440 00:36:19,377 --> 00:36:23,575 I was listening to this Led Zeppelin record probably for 2 years straight... 441 00:36:24,048 --> 00:36:29,213 in the car, just like listening to it and this line 'you can squeeze my lemon'. 442 00:36:29,453 --> 00:36:31,148 And I said uh-oh. Bee! 443 00:36:31,289 --> 00:36:33,484 Profane! What's he talking about? 444 00:36:33,624 --> 00:36:35,785 Mother, that came from this, it was on the Led Zeppelin. 445 00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:39,387 Then it was like all of a sudden... "that came from Robert Johnson"... 446 00:36:39,630 --> 00:36:42,190 something about his music that keeps awaking people up 'cause... 447 00:36:42,266 --> 00:36:42,925 he was such a rebel... 448 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,491 and such a person that was himself, kind of like a James Dean. 449 00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:47,333 To be like well-dressed. 450 00:36:47,605 --> 00:36:51,302 To be able to just wander around and play. Always had ready money. 451 00:36:51,542 --> 00:36:52,873 Had a car... 452 00:36:53,110 --> 00:36:56,944 that's like, you know, that's a rebel, like you say, really breakin' loose. 453 00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:27,036 You never seen that picture before, huh? 454 00:37:27,111 --> 00:37:29,011 No, I never seen this one before. 455 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:32,838 Is that how he would dress up in those days? He looks... 456 00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:34,718 awfully fancy. 457 00:37:34,885 --> 00:37:37,217 Well, yes if you felt like it... 458 00:37:37,989 --> 00:37:39,115 because... 459 00:37:40,191 --> 00:37:42,659 I can tell you this. I'm glad my wife isn't here. 460 00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:47,160 If a broad likes you well enough, she's going to put some clothes on you. 461 00:37:48,799 --> 00:37:52,394 You know, just to have you around. Play the blues for her. 462 00:37:58,743 --> 00:38:03,476 People are looking at blues like it's like the Shakespearean canon. 463 00:38:03,714 --> 00:38:06,114 And I've even heard people do remakes of tunes... 464 00:38:06,183 --> 00:38:08,310 and they'll duplicate all the vocal asides. 465 00:38:08,386 --> 00:38:10,183 - Yeah, yeah. - That's not the point. 466 00:38:10,254 --> 00:38:12,415 - You know, just like verbatim. - That's not the point. 467 00:38:12,690 --> 00:38:15,386 - And the mistakes... - And the mistakes, too, yeah. 468 00:38:17,561 --> 00:38:20,962 You gotta make it your own, because it's all about personal expression. 469 00:39:28,566 --> 00:39:33,833 John Lee Hooker started making records in Detroit, in the late '40's. 470 00:39:34,071 --> 00:39:37,302 Hooker's music was born in the Delta and it cut right to the bone. 471 00:39:39,076 --> 00:39:41,840 For the tens of thousands who had left the plantations... 472 00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:45,914 this down home music was nostalgic, but it was something else too... 473 00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:49,414 something mysterious, haunting. 474 00:39:53,257 --> 00:39:55,418 I know I'll never, I'll never 475 00:39:59,797 --> 00:40:02,857 Come out of this blues alive 476 00:40:07,872 --> 00:40:10,705 There was also a new audience for Hooker's sound... 477 00:40:10,775 --> 00:40:14,211 who knew little if anything about where it came from. 478 00:40:14,545 --> 00:40:16,604 Living 479 00:40:17,314 --> 00:40:19,680 I ain't coming back 480 00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:24,983 Living 481 00:40:26,290 --> 00:40:28,656 I ain't coming back 482 00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:34,322 Woke up this morning, baby 483 00:40:34,532 --> 00:40:37,933 His music sounded old and new at the same time. 484 00:40:38,602 --> 00:40:42,265 And you could dance to it. It was a different kind of groove. 485 00:40:53,951 --> 00:40:55,543 In the hills of North Mississippi... 486 00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:58,179 life was never as brutal as it was in the Delta. 487 00:40:58,389 --> 00:41:01,187 Many black people owned and worked their own land. 488 00:41:03,894 --> 00:41:05,623 On a picnic in the hill country... 489 00:41:05,696 --> 00:41:08,392 along with the traditional fiddling and ballads... 490 00:41:08,933 --> 00:41:14,166 Alan Lomax heard music which he believed to have truly ancient origins. 491 00:41:23,881 --> 00:41:26,714 Traditions, stretching back to Africa... 492 00:41:27,251 --> 00:41:29,082 had taken root here. 493 00:41:40,965 --> 00:41:42,694 - What was that? - I don't know. 494 00:41:42,933 --> 00:41:44,400 Don't know. 495 00:41:45,603 --> 00:41:48,538 I heard the voice of Jesus sing 496 00:41:48,606 --> 00:41:50,506 - Okay. - I 497 00:41:51,308 --> 00:41:53,799 Heard 498 00:41:54,078 --> 00:41:56,137 It 499 00:42:05,256 --> 00:42:08,487 This cane get so dry sometime you gotta get some moisture in it. 500 00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:09,389 That's right. 501 00:42:09,627 --> 00:42:11,891 How long you been had this one? Is this an old one? 502 00:42:11,962 --> 00:42:15,625 I been made this cane I reckon about three years, living on this cane. 503 00:42:15,833 --> 00:42:19,496 - I made this cane. I sell cane. - Ok, I'm a buy one from you. 504 00:42:19,603 --> 00:42:23,733 Yeah, put a little water in it, you can get it to sound off. 505 00:42:24,241 --> 00:42:27,608 And it ain't got but two whistles to a cane. 506 00:42:28,012 --> 00:42:29,809 That's high and low. 507 00:42:30,481 --> 00:42:32,642 You make the cane do what you want it to do. 508 00:42:33,317 --> 00:42:36,411 I'm gonna show you. I tell people that I back my tongue off when I talk. 509 00:42:36,487 --> 00:42:38,045 You have to do that. 510 00:43:08,352 --> 00:43:10,684 Glory, glory 511 00:43:10,754 --> 00:43:13,052 Hallelujah 512 00:43:13,290 --> 00:43:17,192 When I lay in my burial ground 513 00:43:18,228 --> 00:43:22,756 Will be glory Hallelujah 514 00:43:23,033 --> 00:43:27,436 When I lay in my burial ground 515 00:43:27,805 --> 00:43:30,273 I'm going home to 516 00:43:30,507 --> 00:43:32,771 Little baby Jesus 517 00:43:33,010 --> 00:43:37,106 When I lay in my burial ground 518 00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:40,083 I'm going home to 519 00:43:40,351 --> 00:43:42,478 Little baby Jesus 520 00:43:42,553 --> 00:43:46,819 When I lay in my burial ground 521 00:43:47,858 --> 00:43:50,383 Anything wrong with it, I don't see! 522 00:43:51,028 --> 00:43:53,622 I think it works. It's working all right. 523 00:43:53,697 --> 00:43:55,289 It's working all right, yes sir. 524 00:43:55,366 --> 00:43:56,424 I come up the hard way. 525 00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:59,560 I had worked for three white... y'all don't know nothing about that. 526 00:43:59,837 --> 00:44:02,397 I worked for three white quarters a day. 527 00:44:02,573 --> 00:44:06,031 My payday on a Saturday was eight dollars. I'm living. 528 00:44:06,276 --> 00:44:09,609 I picked cotton right across the bridge right down there for L.P. Buford... 529 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,707 for twelve, fourteen, fifteen cents a hundred, and I lived like that. 530 00:44:13,984 --> 00:44:15,349 That's right. 531 00:44:15,619 --> 00:44:18,713 Yes, but foodstuff now you can't make it like that now... 532 00:44:18,922 --> 00:44:23,052 but everybody raised their own food, just like them out there on the pen... 533 00:44:23,127 --> 00:44:25,721 every year I raised my hog, you have two to three hog... 534 00:44:25,929 --> 00:44:28,898 and everybody done the thing a garden and green, milking' cows... 535 00:44:29,133 --> 00:44:31,328 sorghum, glass on the table, plenty of food... 536 00:44:31,568 --> 00:44:34,867 then had to buy some corn or coffee, something like that, to get you by. 537 00:44:35,139 --> 00:44:38,438 Yeah, we raised our food, pretty darn far from that now... 538 00:44:38,976 --> 00:44:40,603 so it's gone you can't bring it back... 539 00:44:40,678 --> 00:44:43,112 it's gone, it's tightening down, getting' worse and worse. 540 00:44:44,114 --> 00:44:45,945 When I first started blowing a cane momma said... 541 00:44:46,016 --> 00:44:47,278 "Put that danged thing down. 542 00:44:47,351 --> 00:44:49,979 I'm tired of you keep up a whole lot of noise all of the time. 543 00:44:50,054 --> 00:44:52,215 If I catch you with it again I'm gonna whup you". 544 00:44:52,423 --> 00:44:55,449 I put it down when she'd go off, I'd get my cane, I'd start again... 545 00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:57,251 "y'all come off". I'd run and hide it again... 546 00:44:58,262 --> 00:45:01,891 but I kept on. When I learned she said: "Son, you sure surprised me". 547 00:45:02,566 --> 00:45:04,227 You got to make the cane do what it do. 548 00:45:04,301 --> 00:45:05,791 Cane'll lay all day you lay down on the floor... 549 00:45:05,869 --> 00:45:07,803 if you don't pick it up, it'll be right there. 550 00:45:07,871 --> 00:45:10,465 But when you pick it up, put something in it. 551 00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:12,073 And it's up here. 552 00:45:12,609 --> 00:45:15,510 If you got it in your brains up, in your head, then try it, you can do it... 553 00:45:15,579 --> 00:45:16,739 but if you don't you can't. 554 00:45:18,282 --> 00:45:22,218 Then why do you think people so excited about your music? 555 00:45:22,286 --> 00:45:25,653 - Why they so attracted to what you do? - Well, 'cause they like it. 556 00:45:26,790 --> 00:45:29,623 You take that drum music... 557 00:45:30,027 --> 00:45:32,655 is known for... Now I ain't heard nothing like it... 558 00:45:32,896 --> 00:45:34,761 and I been a heap of places. 559 00:45:34,998 --> 00:45:38,092 B.B. King, Albert King, all them guys play... 560 00:45:38,402 --> 00:45:40,393 but when they've announced me to go on the stage... 561 00:45:40,471 --> 00:45:43,167 and they realize I gonna come in there, all them stop. 562 00:45:43,607 --> 00:45:45,404 - Yeah. - Drum music... 563 00:45:45,609 --> 00:45:48,976 if you get together like it's supposed to be, it's hard to beat. 564 00:45:49,179 --> 00:45:50,908 That's right, it's hard to beat. 565 00:45:51,148 --> 00:45:53,412 What do you think, is your music like the blues, or? 566 00:45:53,650 --> 00:45:55,743 Some of it is, some of it ain't. 567 00:45:55,953 --> 00:45:58,888 Some people don't want the blues, they want to hear something else, so... 568 00:45:59,089 --> 00:46:01,216 in the business, you gotta do that to satisfy them. 569 00:46:01,291 --> 00:46:01,814 Right. 570 00:46:01,892 --> 00:46:04,190 That's the way it is, you can't just pick what you want all the time... 571 00:46:04,261 --> 00:46:05,922 - you got to change up. - Unfortunately. 572 00:46:05,996 --> 00:46:07,759 That's right. That's the way that is. 573 00:46:07,831 --> 00:46:10,629 So when I'm out there, I try to satisfy them. 574 00:46:10,701 --> 00:46:13,636 The old boys say "when I get through I want some meat and bread". 575 00:46:15,906 --> 00:46:18,807 You really then the last person left doing that then, right? 576 00:46:18,876 --> 00:46:20,605 It's just you playing cane now, ain't nobody else. 577 00:46:20,677 --> 00:46:21,609 That's right, yes. 578 00:46:21,845 --> 00:46:24,040 Who else is gonna do it after? 579 00:46:24,248 --> 00:46:28,275 My little daughter, she learn pretty good, but I don't know. 580 00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,346 To tell you the truth, I don't know. 581 00:46:30,554 --> 00:46:34,217 I been a heap a places, but I ain't seen it and I ain't heard it. 582 00:46:34,491 --> 00:46:38,120 It may be some cane blowers but I ain't run up on them. 583 00:46:38,629 --> 00:46:39,891 I sho' ain't. 584 00:47:38,522 --> 00:47:40,547 It's a miracle that Otha's fife and drum... 585 00:47:40,624 --> 00:47:42,888 ever made it all the way to North Mississippi. 586 00:47:43,627 --> 00:47:45,288 Because before the Civil War... 587 00:47:45,495 --> 00:47:48,157 slave drums were banned throughout the South... 588 00:47:48,398 --> 00:47:51,697 and if you were caught with a drum you could be put to death. 589 00:47:59,309 --> 00:48:04,645 This music was recorded by Arthur S. Alberts, in West Africa, in the 40's. 590 00:48:05,048 --> 00:48:07,141 Roughly about the same time that Alan Lomax... 591 00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:08,878 was recording in Mississippi. 592 00:48:09,386 --> 00:48:13,516 When you listen to the fife and drum, the presence of Africa is unmistakable. 593 00:48:14,191 --> 00:48:16,625 Something was kept alive in this music. 594 00:48:16,860 --> 00:48:19,454 These rhythms were carefully preserved and passed down... 595 00:48:19,529 --> 00:48:20,826 generation after generation... 596 00:48:21,031 --> 00:48:24,626 through slavery, through Jim Crow, right up to the present. 597 00:48:25,602 --> 00:48:27,570 It was an act of survival. 598 00:48:28,605 --> 00:48:31,631 The rhythms are layered in Otha's fife and drum... 599 00:48:31,975 --> 00:48:34,842 just like the rhythms of African drumming. 600 00:48:35,812 --> 00:48:38,144 Interwoven polyrhythms. 601 00:48:38,682 --> 00:48:41,082 Try keeping one rhythm with one hand... 602 00:48:41,318 --> 00:48:43,479 and a different rhythm with the other. 603 00:48:44,054 --> 00:48:46,386 Because drums were banned over here... 604 00:48:46,623 --> 00:48:49,524 other instruments took on the role of percussion. 605 00:48:50,594 --> 00:48:54,360 This is one of the key elements that connects Africa... 606 00:48:54,431 --> 00:48:56,160 all the way to the blues. 607 00:48:57,034 --> 00:49:00,162 You love is dead, hurry, hurry 608 00:49:00,470 --> 00:49:03,030 Oh, hurry, gal You love is dead 609 00:49:06,076 --> 00:49:08,169 You know I grabbed my suitcase 610 00:49:09,112 --> 00:49:10,948 Many people have gone to Africa... 611 00:49:10,948 --> 00:49:13,576 searching for musical links with the blues. 612 00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:24,189 When you listen to these recordings now... 613 00:49:24,394 --> 00:49:27,727 you feel that Africa was always just a heartbeat away. 614 00:49:47,751 --> 00:49:48,945 I live in Virginia, man. 615 00:49:49,219 --> 00:49:52,188 You know that's gonna turn your head, you hear that over here. 616 00:49:52,556 --> 00:49:56,549 Brother, brother! Come over here, please. 617 00:49:56,626 --> 00:49:58,355 Come over here, please. 618 00:50:10,874 --> 00:50:13,274 Mali, West Africa. 619 00:50:14,111 --> 00:50:18,172 I travel here from time to time and play with the musicians. 620 00:50:18,515 --> 00:50:21,143 This is where everything began. 621 00:50:27,758 --> 00:50:31,524 I'll never forget the first time I came to West Africa. 622 00:50:31,762 --> 00:50:35,994 The faces looked just like the faces I knew from back home. 623 00:50:36,566 --> 00:50:41,697 Everything felt familiar and completely new at the same time. 624 00:50:48,111 --> 00:50:50,204 This is a land of kings. 625 00:50:51,148 --> 00:50:54,515 The country may be poor but the culture is rich. 626 00:50:55,352 --> 00:50:57,684 The griot or the jali... 627 00:50:57,921 --> 00:51:01,254 are a special caste of musical storytellers. 628 00:51:02,092 --> 00:51:07,155 Music and history are intertwined here right at the heart of the culture. 629 00:52:28,145 --> 00:52:30,545 What are the words saying? 630 00:53:00,410 --> 00:53:03,106 - Yes, it's the Northern climate. - Yes, this is it. 631 00:55:25,488 --> 00:55:28,082 Yes, yes. 632 00:56:36,726 --> 00:56:41,595 The people who live here 633 00:56:44,667 --> 00:56:49,104 The people who live here 634 00:57:28,711 --> 00:57:32,044 Alan Lomax traveled all over the world... 635 00:57:32,582 --> 00:57:36,313 and he found and recorded music... everywhere he went. 636 00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:42,157 It was always there, close to the heart of every culture. 637 00:57:42,492 --> 00:57:47,156 He came to realize that music was as essential as human speech... 638 00:57:47,430 --> 00:57:49,295 and just as precious. 639 00:57:57,774 --> 00:58:00,538 Your cousin She Kamallah told me once... 640 00:58:00,710 --> 00:58:05,704 that when a jali dies, he said it's like a whole library is burned up. 641 00:58:05,782 --> 00:58:07,249 Exactly. 642 00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:10,009 And when he told me that, it's like... 643 00:58:10,253 --> 00:58:12,653 - I understood a lot from that phrase. - It is true. 644 00:59:14,150 --> 00:59:16,482 You know, I mean, myself I think about... 645 00:59:18,087 --> 00:59:21,614 all the struggles my ancestors went through so that I could live. 646 00:59:21,858 --> 00:59:23,325 I think we all do, you know... 647 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,654 but I think about, you know, my ancestors... 648 00:59:26,896 --> 00:59:30,297 they were in the bottom of a ship for three or for months... 649 00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:33,569 coming from Africa, chained together. 650 00:59:33,803 --> 00:59:35,236 You know, I mean, and myself... 651 00:59:35,305 --> 00:59:37,432 I'm a strong man, but I'm not that strong. 652 00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:39,938 I'm sure many people went crazy and died. 653 00:59:40,176 --> 00:59:43,043 So it's really a miracle that we made it that far. 654 00:59:43,112 --> 00:59:44,044 That's right. 655 00:59:55,758 --> 00:59:57,123 Is that them over there? 656 00:59:58,227 --> 01:00:00,092 Ok. Ok. 657 01:00:08,938 --> 01:00:10,997 - Welcome to Niafunk? - Thank you, sir. 658 01:00:11,140 --> 01:00:13,165 - This... - Thank you, sir. 659 01:00:13,376 --> 01:00:15,901 My people is here. 660 01:00:15,979 --> 01:00:18,174 Niafunk?is very nice. 661 01:00:18,247 --> 01:00:20,772 - It's good. - It's very good. 662 01:01:29,585 --> 01:01:32,315 - Welcome. - Yeah, welcome. 663 01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:46,735 Nice seeing you. Nice seeing you. 664 01:03:01,010 --> 01:03:03,171 Ok, his second wife. 665 01:05:19,148 --> 01:05:21,139 At the beginning of this movie... 666 01:05:21,617 --> 01:05:22,709 Corey said... 667 01:05:23,152 --> 01:05:26,315 to know yourself you have to know the past... 668 01:05:27,490 --> 01:05:31,392 and I believe that once you lose the past, you lose yourself. 669 01:05:32,194 --> 01:05:36,290 Toward the end of his life Alan Lomax wrote these words... 670 01:05:37,300 --> 01:05:40,827 " When the whole world is bored with automated... 671 01:05:40,903 --> 01:05:43,167 mass distributed video music... 672 01:05:43,239 --> 01:05:45,867 our descendants will despise us... 673 01:05:46,108 --> 01:05:48,440 for having thrown away the best of our culture". 674 01:06:06,996 --> 01:06:10,955 All the roots. 675 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:19,840 Science. 676 01:06:23,946 --> 01:06:25,345 Is there any seed inside? 677 01:06:35,791 --> 01:06:39,852 One summer day You went away 678 01:06:40,663 --> 01:06:44,656 You're gonna left me You're gonna stay 679 01:06:47,803 --> 01:06:49,293 - Thank you very much. - Thank you, sir. 680 01:08:17,893 --> 01:08:21,886 Well I wish I was a catfish 681 01:08:22,631 --> 01:08:26,863 Swimming in the old deep blue sea 682 01:08:27,503 --> 01:08:30,836 I have all you good-Iooking women 683 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,572 Fishing after me 684 01:08:33,709 --> 01:08:35,540 Showing up after me 685 01:08:35,945 --> 01:08:37,936 Showing up after me 686 01:10:35,331 --> 01:10:39,461 When there's two Two trains running 687 01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:43,998 They ain't never going my way 688 01:10:44,907 --> 01:10:47,740 While one run for the midnight 689 01:10:48,344 --> 01:10:50,312 The other one runs for day 690 01:10:50,679 --> 01:10:52,408 Just for a day 691 01:10:52,982 --> 01:10:54,745 Just for a day 692 01:10:55,284 --> 01:10:57,218 Just for a day 693 01:12:14,396 --> 01:12:16,023 Is it true? 694 01:13:49,958 --> 01:13:53,485 My babe, don't dance Don't dance, my babe 695 01:13:54,863 --> 01:13:58,458 Don't, don't dance My babe 696 01:14:00,068 --> 01:14:04,232 Don't, don't dance, my babe Don't, don't mess 697 01:14:04,506 --> 01:14:08,875 My babe, don't dance Don't you hear my babe 698 01:14:10,179 --> 01:14:13,706 My babe, I know she had 699 01:14:15,050 --> 01:14:18,816 Yes, I know she'll love you My babe 700 01:14:20,222 --> 01:14:25,250 Yes, I know she loves me Don't you love me 701 01:14:25,527 --> 01:14:28,724 My babe, sing and dance My babe 702 01:15:10,973 --> 01:15:12,270 Thank you. 703 01:15:25,420 --> 01:15:26,614 Alright. 704 01:15:32,861 --> 01:15:36,661 Well, now it getting' late on into The evening' and I feel like 705 01:15:37,466 --> 01:15:39,798 Like blowing' my home 706 01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:43,232 When I woke up this morning' all I 707 01:15:43,705 --> 01:15:46,469 I had was gone Now it getting' 708 01:15:46,942 --> 01:15:49,968 Late on into the evening' Man now 709 01:15:50,212 --> 01:15:53,375 I feel like, like blowing' my home 710 01:15:57,686 --> 01:16:01,986 Well now, woke up this morning' 711 01:16:02,424 --> 01:16:05,587 All I had was gone 712 01:16:10,198 --> 01:16:14,658 Well, brooks run into the ocean The ocean run in 713 01:16:14,937 --> 01:16:17,098 Into the sea 714 01:16:17,940 --> 01:16:20,932 If I don't find my baby Somebody gonna 715 01:16:21,209 --> 01:16:24,076 Sure bury me 716 01:16:24,313 --> 01:16:27,180 Brooks run into the ocean, man That ole 717 01:16:27,449 --> 01:16:30,350 Ocean run into the sea 718 01:16:34,823 --> 01:16:39,089 Well now If I don't find my baby 719 01:16:39,394 --> 01:16:42,522 Somebody sure gonna bury me 720 01:16:47,569 --> 01:16:50,367 Tell me who's that writing' 721 01:16:50,639 --> 01:16:54,439 John the Revelator Tell me who's that writing' 722 01:16:54,710 --> 01:16:58,077 John the Revelator Tell me who's that writing' 723 01:16:58,413 --> 01:17:03,316 John the Revelator wrote The book of the seven seals 724 01:17:03,585 --> 01:17:09,046 Who's that writing', John the Revelator Tell me who's that writing' 725 01:17:09,358 --> 01:17:13,294 John the Revelator Who's that writing' 726 01:17:13,562 --> 01:17:18,465 John the Revelator wrote The book of the seven seals 727 01:17:18,700 --> 01:17:22,898 Now God walked down In the cool of the day 728 01:17:23,171 --> 01:17:26,402 And called Adam by his name 729 01:17:26,475 --> 01:17:30,104 But he refused to answer 730 01:17:30,345 --> 01:17:33,610 Because he was naked and ashamed 731 01:17:33,915 --> 01:17:39,615 Who's that writing', John the Revelator Who's that writing' 732 01:17:39,921 --> 01:17:43,721 John the Revelator Who's that writing' 733 01:17:43,792 --> 01:17:48,661 John the Revelator wrote The book of the seven seals 734 01:17:48,830 --> 01:17:52,391 You know Christ had 12 apostles 735 01:17:52,734 --> 01:17:56,568 And three he laid away 736 01:17:56,838 --> 01:18:00,740 Said "Watch for me one hour 737 01:18:01,009 --> 01:18:03,807 'Til I go yonder and pray" 738 01:18:04,079 --> 01:18:07,708 Tell me who's that writing' John the Revelator 739 01:18:07,849 --> 01:18:13,947 Tell me who's that writing' John the Revelator, who's that writing' 740 01:18:14,256 --> 01:18:18,716 John the Revelator Wrote the book of the seven seals 741 01:18:18,994 --> 01:18:22,122 Who's that writing' John the Revelator 742 01:18:22,397 --> 01:18:26,197 Tell me who's that writing' John the Revelator 743 01:18:26,468 --> 01:18:29,767 Who's that writing' John the Revelator 744 01:18:29,905 --> 01:18:33,466 Wrote the book of the seven seals 745 01:18:33,842 --> 01:18:37,539 Christ came on Easter morning' 746 01:18:37,813 --> 01:18:41,374 Mary Margaret was there to see 747 01:18:41,616 --> 01:18:44,915 Go tell my disciples 748 01:18:45,187 --> 01:18:48,020 To meet me in Galilee 749 01:18:48,256 --> 01:18:51,282 Tell me who's that writing' John the Revelator 750 01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:55,018 Tell me who's that writing' John the Revelator 751 01:18:55,297 --> 01:18:58,824 Tell me who's that writing' John the Revelator 752 01:18:59,101 --> 01:19:02,070 Wrote a book of the seven seals 753 01:19:02,337 --> 01:19:05,568 Who's that writing' John the Revelator 754 01:19:05,807 --> 01:19:08,833 Who's that writing' John the Revelator 755 01:19:09,077 --> 01:19:12,478 Tell me who's that writing' John the Revelator 756 01:19:12,748 --> 01:19:16,343 Wrote the book of the seven seals 65858

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