Sonny Boy Nelson: How You Want Your Rolling Done? (1978)

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Sonny Boy Nelson (Eugene Powell), vocal and guitar, shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in Greenville, Mississippi, August 31, 1978. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit culturalequity.org. [02.15.07]

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@DownBYOB 4 жыл бұрын

The man was 70! and he went on to live 20 more years! cheers to healthy stuff!

@bluesdrmr2 3 жыл бұрын

We all owe Allan Lomax an incredible debt for preserving so much great music for us to treasure.

@barristanselmy2758 Жыл бұрын

Anyone know tuning?

@LukeMaynard 9 ай бұрын

@@barristanselmy2758 It looks like standard tuning to me. Watch his thumb; the root is the open A string, the 4 is the open D string, and the 5 is the open E string. So it's standard tuning played in A I think. There's a couple of tracks on here recorded at the same time in the same outfit, and they match up.

@KatKrueger Жыл бұрын

Props to the brotha dancing living his best life. 💙

@saifulrimkeit296 8 жыл бұрын

We owe so much to artists like Sonny Boy Nelson and recorders like Alan Lomax and friends. Thank you Alan Lomax. Without this recording we would have missed out.

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 5 жыл бұрын

Saiful Rimkeit well said.

@djwsam575 5 жыл бұрын

💙

@caseylait7667 3 жыл бұрын

some of sonny boy nelsons music is on spotify!

@mns8732 3 жыл бұрын

thank FDR and WPA who initiated the seed money for this work. yes, that's correct, the govt one worked.

@alicebowen1018 3 жыл бұрын

Remembing it take me back it hits home real deep it took all had hold tears back after 5mins I couldn't stop crying I miss my Grandpa he play in clubs he played to guitar like had own mind he played harmonica like train coming I could listen as long as play

@rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh Alice now I miss him too!🎸

@SocialVoiceProject 4 жыл бұрын

For more than two decades I've been a serious student and performing enthusiast of acoustic blues, specifically from the Mississippi Delta--what many musicologists call the roots of rock and roll, R&B, and many forms of popular music. It's a raw, folksy, but sophisticated artform flavored from Africa significantly filtered through the rich life experiences of African Americans of the Deep South. In my opinion, the best of the Delta bluesmen (and women) can be heard not in the recording studio but on back porches, at Friday night fish frys, and emanating from seedy juke joints. But we'd never have such an appreciation if it weren't for ethnographic recordists such as the legendary Alan Lomax. He traveled the backwaters of America for nearly seventy years capturing, preserving, and sharing the sounds of Americana. "Alan was one of those who unlocked the secrets of this kind of music," Bob Dylan wrote. "So if we've got anybody to thank, it's Alan." I encourage all of you to appreciate these unique music makers and the preservationists who recorded them for the sake of history.

@russelljackson5625 3 жыл бұрын

That ain't got nothing to do Africa that's original music from here in North America from Aboriginal black men and who we call today African Americans

@yantheyam5622 2 жыл бұрын

Feels like I'm sitting there with them. Quite an honor.

@p61guy 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing, Most people could not play a simple tune on thta warped worn out guitar! He has the talent to make it ring. Wonderful. Thanks for posting. Proves that you do not have to have much money to sound like a million bucks.

@joelwilson1344 4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanishkonk3446 Still, those strings looked like they were a mile above the fretboard, don't know how he ever managed to play it. Must of been some kind of superfingers he had to play that well.

@michaellorah9051 3 жыл бұрын

@@joelwilson1344 probably just low gauge old worn out strings. I've played some really messed up guitars with stings like that and it worked.

@GuitarEvenings Жыл бұрын

True that

@earldarnell5221 Жыл бұрын

On the other hand, the sounds can't be replicated unless you find one of these remaining guitars.

@douglashammann1987 4 жыл бұрын

We should all be like dude dancing in bell-bottoms 😂😂 great song, thank you

@nathaniel.7172 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if everyone stepped outdoors an hit the streets

@jimmycain8669 5 жыл бұрын

Still going on right now, right here in Mississippi. It’s been like that all my life and before as I was born in 1949. I love the Delta blues.

@poppinoffgamers1543 5 жыл бұрын

Post some videos.man!

@loisknight2570 5 жыл бұрын

Right on! Mississippian ALLmy life!

@itsspec-u-lay-tionyall5564 5 жыл бұрын

Where would be the best places to see authentic delta blues? I live in Alabama but I'm from Memphis. Planning to take a delta trip from Memphis next time I'm there

@sleepybear38 4 жыл бұрын

@@itsspec-u-lay-tionyall5564 Go to Clarksdale Mississippi. Red's Lounge

@mississippisnowplow Жыл бұрын

@@itsspec-u-lay-tionyall5564 Look up Mississippi Blues Trail. It will take you to a lot of juke joints that are still in operation. Just be careful, I know some can be kinda sketchy.

@garyyeigh6098 3 жыл бұрын

Our American heritage, the very best.

@normc8169 4 жыл бұрын

This is so awesome. Today's music would have never be the same without those great bluesmen. Pillars of all those great artists following. RESPECT.

@robknibb 8 жыл бұрын

I love how many dead notes he managed to hit and still sounds amazing!

@longliverocknroll8261 7 жыл бұрын

haha yeah even with that hes still one of the best players on these 78 archives hes all up and down that fret board bit around 3 mins with quick slides is great

@carlhoffman3867 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, too bad some of these guys probably couldn't afford new strings, much less new(er) guitars. Even though the old ones are a huge part of the awesome sound.

@CountryHouseGent 7 жыл бұрын

Rob Knibb It's the dead notes that make it the blues. 'Feel' before 'Precision'. :)

@jacksparrow-zj4jj 6 жыл бұрын

you loved dead living notes...but...you, stupid being....you did not loved the sadness & misfortune of those people...

@millerezra8 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect imperfections

@pawekawinski8470 3 жыл бұрын

I love that dancing man!

@235buz 4 жыл бұрын

This is a precious part of American history and should never be forgotten.

@alundavies8402 3 жыл бұрын

Never forget what our elders can teach us even if we learn how to paint and decorate from the elderly we carry on their traditions our traditions and these gentlemen are carrying it and new people are picking up the torch to carry it in traditions are a beautiful thing providing people can still do modern things as well.

@alundavies8402 3 жыл бұрын

I meant to write that musical traditions are important too and if young people don’t carry it along oft times this sort of thing people music dies and it must not do that.

@sydneydwoskin4950 3 жыл бұрын

i want you to roll my belly like you roll my dough. i love how these old songs always make the food a woman makes kinda sexual. that's grown man shit right there! when did we stop doing that? love these men

@sauzanneupane5665 7 жыл бұрын

this is awesome ... just fucking awesome!!!!!

@OrangeAlienStatus 6 жыл бұрын

a legend. no other way to put it, who knows how many hits he had that never made it on tape

@cvolume 12 жыл бұрын

god bless alan lomax for all these treasures. that old $20 guitar sounds like a million dollars in mr.nelson's hands, honest, soul stirring music right here! chris salt lake

10 жыл бұрын

i have seen a lot of comments talking about the quality of the guitar, fuck that¡¡ that's heart, that's soul , that's music.

@vicouschild92 6 жыл бұрын

vozarrón el griton agreed! I have plenty of modern equipment but I always find myself playing my 64 silvertone bobkat through an old crate 20w with the gain knob broken off and stuck at 10

@squirrelnutcased 7 жыл бұрын

You can't say you've learned to play this song until you've played it on one of those cheap old Sears archtops. Takes a lot of soul to push down that high action!

@12bar145ne 4 жыл бұрын

True, but it sucks playing a shitty playing guitar.

@dante666jt 4 жыл бұрын

@@12bar145ne no

@nathanael8612 2 жыл бұрын

@@12bar145ne put some new strings on wear em in an play at a lower pitch a bit an it makes id imagine any old guitar play well, I play a stella now as my main an only guitar until I maybe get a new guitar but I been playing this stella for years now

@sonjadietz5297 4 жыл бұрын

So tanze ich auch dazu....und es ist sooo ehrlich !!!!!!!!!!!! DANKE

@ManewBlewww 5 жыл бұрын

And with a dance performance!!! I won't forget it next time (-; thanks for this other jewel (:

@violetnewcomb1195 4 жыл бұрын

Ican listen to this all day !!cut a step too !!

@pmf598 6 ай бұрын

Well that was just lovely . . .anyone said its not , they wrong . . .😎

@spoonful1018 4 жыл бұрын

Saw him at the Chicago Blues festival do a version of Sitting on Top of the World - my brain left the top of my head and began rising to the sky - funny thing is, on its way up there were about a half dozen other ones

@RobertJohnson-pf9dz 2 жыл бұрын

Is that Little Hat Jones I see on your profile pic? He was also a wonderful blues musician. :•)

@spoonful1018 2 жыл бұрын

@@RobertJohnson-pf9dz yeah - love Kentucky Blues

@larryslemp9698 6 жыл бұрын

That's gotta be one of the greatest videos of all time!!

@theswampfox9584 Жыл бұрын

Nah but it’s cool

@mirekchance 7 жыл бұрын

Now thats blues for me, awesome guitar work and good singing. No bar jazzy electric guitar, etc for me. And amazing what this kind of music started or rather how it inspired many. I guess it was like Rap of previous generation. And this guy is awesome,guitar work and singing...

@johnnysvno6560 4 жыл бұрын

Original blues

@TBrewer64 8 жыл бұрын

holy crap. this guy is a fucking blues Mozart.

@sauzanneupane5665 7 жыл бұрын

you must check out some of Big Bill Broonzy's videos by Lomax... if Sonny Boy is Mozart... Big Bill is Bach

@spacebrain1991 12 жыл бұрын

i love his laugh around 4:00 min! AlanLomaxArchive is a treasure trove!

@justinbradfield6499 5 жыл бұрын

I heard my bed springs poppin and my woman cryin!!!!!! I love it!!!!!

@dennisdistant 3 жыл бұрын

The old guy laughing lol. It cracks me up every time.

@destinjohnny007 10 жыл бұрын

eugene powell his real name used to play for prisoners at parchmen when he was 9. They would cry as he played so beautiful. He taught robert johnson how to play and was thought of in that region to be the greatest musician that ever lived by all the heavy weight players

@ryanishkonk3446 4 жыл бұрын

I thought Robert Johnson came before his time period

@thomasmacmanus9913 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah his solos are really good but its a subtle trick. The sign of a true master!

@Funz2022 4 жыл бұрын

@@ryanishkonk3446 no this man is older than Robert Johnson. The older Blues musicians who were rediscovered and recorded and played live again - Son House, Skip James, Mississippi John hurt, Big Joe Williams were older and recorded before Robert Johnson. Johnson's importance and history have been mistold and exaggerated by music fans.

@homesickclifford1966 6 жыл бұрын

😯Love that bluesy flatfoot strutin' dude , I put on piece n roll like that in my living room, sometimes with mama,this music just makes you want to dance, 😁

@nickwadesbluesandgospelcha9072 6 жыл бұрын

That dude walkin round is really feelin the music

@shirleybrakefield5081 3 жыл бұрын

Saw him and Jack Owens in Clarksdale in '96. Both sounded great.

@miccajames 8 жыл бұрын

Is that Honeyboy Edwards, just chillin....hanging out? Jesus so awesome

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 5 жыл бұрын

miccajames yes. I think so.

@barristanselmy2758 Жыл бұрын

Im back here 8 years later. What a banger of a tune.

@andydavis9696 7 жыл бұрын

they played what was in their soul....

@mickycockerill9922 4 жыл бұрын

Just like Sam's pallet on your floor... this song has an exchange in notes that purely slide into one another perfectly ha 50 second mark until 1 minute mark!

@martinellicock6577 4 жыл бұрын

Finding this channel has made me feel like giving up playing on one hand, amd on the other, has made me want to practice 25 hours a day🤷‍♂️😁

@wilbertrobles1123 4 жыл бұрын

A groove so smooth. Laid down by some rough hands. That is the blues.

@daveyjoweaver6282 Жыл бұрын

True Heartfelt Music played with Spirit! A gift to humanity! Loving Thanks! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

@jonasjacobsen9702 3 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely awesome! Gotta love the blues!

@unclebrizz1053 9 жыл бұрын

I wish I knew those men's life stories.

@CountryHouseGent 7 жыл бұрын

Uncle Brizz It's all in the music. :)

@joejohnson6321 6 жыл бұрын

Uncle Brizz - It's a very well known story and if you live in North America and not living under rock, you know their is being victims of a society that virtually sees them as invisible.

@markus310 5 жыл бұрын

@@joejohnson6321 I'm not meaning to sound pedantic but I'm not sure that being a black person from the southern states of america during the early 20th century means that you have a predictable life. Sure, we understand there were shared struggles but how the hell can you know what each individual experienced in their lifetimes, what their beliefs and dreams were, how they felt about living and what they thought it all meant? VERY reductive view to see these men as only black men of the south

@michaelbarnett2527 3 жыл бұрын

@@joejohnson6321 SAW them that way. Until 40+ years ago.

@tomjones6441 9 жыл бұрын

So happy to find this so uplifting never heard of this artist before loved it all guitar so right singing so on put a smile on my face and toe tappin fool I became thanks sonny

@guapitatessa 9 жыл бұрын

I love the Blues! thanks my deepest soul. He played heartely. One old brother enjoyed dancing. Thanks for sharing to us..

@SkopTeocratico 11 жыл бұрын

This is really great!

@allen6924 5 жыл бұрын

Is that a cracked top f-hole? That guitar must have been murder on the fingers. But he knew how to play that thing for all its worth.

@freedomisntfree2089 3 жыл бұрын

Those old timers worked their fingers to the bone fingers of steel, they weren't rich famous celebrities Most likely his fingers were murder on the guitar

@catman953 11 жыл бұрын

what a treasure , i can still remember times like that lol

@olrikparlez3152 3 жыл бұрын

How great is it to have access to these performances...to whoever was responsible...we thank you.

@WildBillZim1 7 жыл бұрын

Magic

@k.m.slattery6263 3 жыл бұрын

My right thumb has a blister again‼️😆

@GregStallion 5 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna live and die a bluesman.

@patriciakimbrell3734 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Music 💙🎸💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟

@edwardbenes5015 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Thanks .

@frank-ts1yr 4 жыл бұрын

His voice

@johnasker2816 4 жыл бұрын

I really love this kind of music. From Barcelona. Hughs

@michaelbrunner8891 3 жыл бұрын

How the hell he kept that thing in tune.

@darklingeraeld-ridge7946 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful.

@NeonBlade 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@jamesmcallister6749 10 жыл бұрын

Mighty well played old pre war Gibson...looks to me like the small headstock ,,early thirtys maybe.a kalamazoo.

@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 4 жыл бұрын

sears?

@jjbluesbreizh 8 жыл бұрын

Le vrai très bon blues acoustique , un sacré guitariste !!!

@neonlittledog 9 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed,as Tony the tiger would say,Its Great,lol,Thanks for sharing.

@jeffreydraney3928 8 жыл бұрын

Superb. Epitomises the blues for me. The sound he gets out of that guitar, as TomBell said, it has seen a lot of jam sessions.

@pisoipisoi7584 3 жыл бұрын

freedom..,

@Anna-loves-you Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@749karakara 9 жыл бұрын

le blues pur naïf et plein de sensibilité ,j'adore!!!

@odysseyandecho 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t think he could’ve had a more unforgiving guitar

@Tomsru 9 жыл бұрын

How many miles has that guitar done and I wonder what stories it could have told?

@TheMrcrazy711 8 жыл бұрын

If you listen to it closely, you can hear those stories without a single word.

@fastjen Жыл бұрын

❤️

@ostendblues 11 жыл бұрын

Give that guitar to the best player of today and he would sound like s...t on it. This is the real blues played on a worn guitar and still sounding like the best!

@dufus2273 5 жыл бұрын

that old guitar has never seen a case but it works great.

@teentheblue3644 Жыл бұрын

Damn I couldn't even play on that guitar with such a warped neck, dude got some strong fingers

@toddwilliams6 4 жыл бұрын

can't not smile

@barristanselmy2758 9 жыл бұрын

That old guitar has some nice bass qualities about it.

@genesevox7403 4 жыл бұрын

Dude in the white bells is the cat daddy!

@kevinevans8592 Жыл бұрын

Good morning u tube

@zivabroga7104 6 жыл бұрын

How would it be if in 10,000 years, long after our present global civilisation is long forgotten, someone were to find this or something like (Sam Chatmon, R.L. Burnside) and only this! What a comment on mankind thanks America for the Blues!!

@nejm612 4 жыл бұрын

🎩🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

@mytapepoppedtoys2450 7 жыл бұрын

Original. Gangsta.

@Eb-or 3 жыл бұрын

He plays that guitar because he loves it. Maybe his grandad bought it for him....

@vjiced 10 жыл бұрын

i want it rolled with raw papers unbleached king size

@jacksparrow-zj4jj 6 жыл бұрын

i love you for and ever.....

@TheeMikeForce 5 ай бұрын

Uncle Bill fucking with the neighbors

@mylesphelps2590 8 ай бұрын

Looks like Belton Sutherland's guitar. Judging by other vidios he liked to pass her around

@djwsam575 5 жыл бұрын

Who s comin home last night baby doll ???

@fuxgood 11 жыл бұрын

They say cocaine is a helluva drug but so is alcohol!

@isteria71 10 жыл бұрын

i need lyricsssssss

@humbertosandri 10 жыл бұрын

sonzera

@bigkingbud 4 жыл бұрын

His strings are like an inch off of the neck.

@chickasawCouncil558 11 жыл бұрын

For those who are commenting about the dancing, do you wonder why this guy doesnt seem to bother the guitarist? How about researching the buzzard lope to see similar traditional afro/american dances.

@fuxgood 11 жыл бұрын

That an ancient Harmony guitar? Looks like it to me.

@sydneydwoskin4950 3 жыл бұрын

also i'm the guy in the white pants at the hang out

@cheyennebrownlow3591 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if he’s playing in standard tuning or something else?

@lilithelaine1238 2 жыл бұрын

i wish i could say!!! curious

@banjochris Жыл бұрын

Standard tuning, A position.

@ryanjohnson7354 9 жыл бұрын

Hey folks, is this an open tuning?

@andresmedrano1425 9 жыл бұрын

standard tuning one step low

@mixmastercj100 6 жыл бұрын

It's actually standard pitch, A position in the key of A.

@BubbaGump7854 7 жыл бұрын

How do I play this?

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 5 жыл бұрын

steelosteeZ you got to feel it.

@michaeltoner1993 4 жыл бұрын

go to the crossroads

@dimasvicente9880 4 жыл бұрын

Nelson Mandela Sou negro Sou forte Sim , Senhor Nelson Mandela sua Liberdade Um dia raiou! Nelson Mandela Os povos de maos sempre unidas O Racismo La' acabou! Nelson Mandela Meu Professor... meu livro na editora autografia.com.br/publique Paece and love.

@zeldaconnection9945 4 жыл бұрын

Hy Ol´Man! ... Please, please! teach me to play a Gitarre like you do! I really beg ya !

@wrlord 2 жыл бұрын

5:50 man, that is a face that has seen some things.

@TheBluesmanBlue 6 жыл бұрын

All I want to know who are going to fill these ole timers shoes once stay gone it's a Dying Breed when it comes to the Blues there's no such thing as dying notes it's creating your own style and your own sound notice all blues singer guitars do not sound the same remember that

@theofficialdiamondlou2418 5 жыл бұрын

delterbluesman thank you. Very well said. The answer. We are!!!! And our kids are ,if only we teach them the appreciation. But first one must live the blues to play the blues. And I fear that’s going to be a lot of youngsters soon.

@RobbyGAMEZ 5 жыл бұрын

Blues don’t die. Everyone feels the blues, and these days kids are still making music about their blues, it’s just not the same as this anymore. The feelings stay the same, and the art changes to match the most modern style

@78Richardab 4 жыл бұрын

Punctuation is useful.

@girboz 4 жыл бұрын

Most kids today are made of plastic and foam