Very nice version of Vera Hall's "Trouble So Hard" by Phil Hughes. Nice harpping and singing. Hope you all enjoy on this Sunday morning.
This is very cool, one of my favorite bluesmen, doing one of my favorite Gospel Blues songs. Makes me wish I had found this sooner. Just goes to show you that you have to keep digging the find all the great music that's out there.
I have heard this song, I don't know how many times before I realized that this is a gospel blues song.
I love Beth Hart, because she brings so much raw power to her performances. And this video will not disappoint. It is such a wonderful display of Mrs. Harts talents.
This is from the album Bang Bang Boom Boom
Notes from YouTube: For anyone interested in one of the little known prime influences of Elvis, Chuck Berry and many early rock and roll pioneers who she preceded, check out Rosetta Tharpe.
Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and also became known as "the original soul sister." She was a treasured early influence on iconic figures such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Johnny Cash.A couple of my favourites - ANYONE SUGGEST OTHERS PLEASE!
Y'all better catch this train. According to Sister Rosetta Tharpe "This train don't pull no winkers, no crap shooters and whiskey drinkers."
Here is a post from the past, but I like this song so much I just want to post it every Sunday!
On this early getting up morning, I think we need to have a sing along. I went to the trouble of transcribing this one. Because I know you are going to want to sing it too.
And yes I too hear angels singing.
I love almost every version of this song that I have heard.
Here we have the wonderful Tedeschi Trucks Band doing their version. Makes me want to go to church.
Very nice indeed. Sister Rosetta Tharpe did it before anybody else.
Gospel, blues, and jazz it is all in there. Not to mention smoking hot chops on the guitar.
I like to make the point that gospel / blues music is very far reaching. This delightful clip makes the point very well I think. The story is fascinating, and the song puts a smile on my face. I hope y'all like it too.
Krishna Das - Jesus on the Main Line (music starts at 5:20)
I posted this a month ago or so, and did not include the video. So here goes with the video this time. LOL.
This video is one of those rare gems that makes me want to clap my hands, just like my grandmother used to do when she said she was getting happy.
Notes from YouTube:
From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a
film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th
1987. Awesome solo's by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on
mandoguitar! (that was a first for me)
Comment from MrBillindallas:
Concert
was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal
tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie
was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best
venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were
truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the
dance floor.
Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:
3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):
Showtime
Little Sister
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
Me and Frank
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus on The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Why Dont You Try Me?
Down In The Boondocks
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
encores:
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene
3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus On The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Down In Mississippi
instrumental
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene
Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone
Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass
This video is one of those rare gems that makes me want to clap my hands, just like my grandmother used to do when she said she was getting happy.
Notes from YouTube:
From "Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have A Ball", a
film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA on March 25'th
1987. Awesome solo's by George Bohannon and Ry using slide on
mandoguitar! (that was a first for me)
Comment from MrBillindallas:
Concert
was from a two night run - the last of nine total dates on the NorCal
tour. Shot on 16mm film with an audio remote truck in the alley. Movie
was released in Europe but not in the US. Great band, at one of the best
venues in the 'States, the last two nights of the mini-tour they were
truly on fire. One venue was so small the band filled the stage and the
dance floor.
Setlist for the two nights in Santa Cruz:
3-24-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):
Showtime
Little Sister
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
Me and Frank
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus on The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Why Dont You Try Me?
Down In The Boondocks
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
encores:
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene
3-25-87 Santa Cruz, CA (the Catalyst):
Smack Dab In The Middle
Lets Have A Ball
unknown title [Spanish lyrics]
Hell Have To Go
If Walls Could Talk
Jesus On The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times & Live?
One Meatball
Atom Bomb
Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love
Down In Mississippi
instrumental
The Things That Make You Rich Make Me Poor
Crazy Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Goodnight Irene
Band:
Ry Cooder: guitar, vox
Jim Keltner: drums
Van Dyke Parks: keys
Jorge Calderon: bass
Flaco Jimenez: accordion
Miguel Cruiz: percussion
Steve Douglas: sax
George Bohannon: trombone
Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass
Notes From YouTube:
Acoustic hats at work: Laura Williams ( vocals and kazoo) and Luca Menti ( harps) came some time ago to visit me and we did this little jam singing and playing on the spot this old song composed by the Chatmon brothers alias the "Mississippi Sheiks".
I play my ringing National Triolian in standard tuning, key of C, with the help of my feet stomping a footdrum board crafted here in Italy by Herrmann Guitars (http://www.weissenbornguitar.com/ ).
We've posted a few of Rosetta Tharpe's YouTube clips here at SqueezeMyLemon, because she is so spectacularly placed at the junction of blues and gospel music that it is mind boggling when you really consider how talented she was.
And it seems to me that she does not really get the credit that she deserves for her ground breaking work.
Just listen to this one and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe @Amazon.com
This video is a re-enactment, but I really like it. I hope you enjoy it too, I think it is a great blues song for a Sunday morning.
