This is a really cool video, but I've always had a fondness for the Cosmos Factory album...it was one of the first albums I ever owned...definitely one of the first five...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...
Mississippi Fred McDowell was actually born in 1904 in Rossville, TN but later settled in Mississippi when he got a job picking cotton...legend has it he started playing slide guitar using a pocket knife and a beef rib bone...here he shows us a few things he learned along the way in this 1966 video...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...
OK now Stories Space Cadets..."cut out that off the wall jive...You know you gotta treat me better, if you don't it gotta be Your Funeral and My Trial"...alright, if you don't believe me, I'll just let Sonny Boy tell ya'...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...
A different kind of flavour..... one of my all time fave South African songs...
“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”
I don't think it would be wrong to say that Jackie Wilson was indeed a "natural" performer...watching his videos always leaves little doubt in my mind...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...
Sam Cooke doing "Blowing In The Wind"...supposedly he had said that he wished he wrote this song, and "A Change Is Gonna Come" was his answer to this song...at least that's how the legend goes...
I once knew a drinker who had a moderating problem...