I Feel Like Going To Church: Staple Singers - This May Be The Last Time

This May be the Last Time - The Staple Singers

Hip Hop Blues

Mix Master Mike & Robert Johnson from Scratch

Friday Blues Funny - Guitar Face - Freddie King

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Yardbirds - Budy Guy Video

You would think that I should just be able to post what ever I want to any of my blogs right? Well I try very hard to keep this blog just to blues, and for a while there I really only focused on the pre-war and post war blues musicians.

Then I thought, dude that is way too narrow of a concentration. You need to open up to some of the more contemporary forms of the blues and also some other styles too. Which I figure we will all enjoy. One kind of blues that I plan to post more of is British blues, which I like a lot.

Well it is back to school time, and I thought I would post the song, "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" which was written by Sonny Boy Williams I. I have always liked this song, I mean it goes way back to when I was myself a schoolboy.

Well anyway, I'm thinking that the Yardbirds are a British Rock band, so there version should do well. But it sounds a little too much like a Rock song to me so I include Buddy Guy's version which is as blues and you can get. Not that I don't love rock, but that is just not what we are about here at SML. That's all I'm saying.

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Yardbirds


Buddy Guy - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

It's the Birthday of Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten

Freight Train and Other
North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes

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Well actually the day before yesterday, January 5 was the birthday of blues and folk musician Elizabeth Cotten. She was born in 1895 and she passed away on June 29, 1987.

I was going to try to write something that would indicate how much I like her music, but then it dawned on me, that really words do not capture the simple elegance that was Elizabeth Cotten. I just reccomend that you watch and listen to as much of her as you can, while you can.

I recommend that you take a look at this Elizabeth Cotten Interviewer with Shetland Fiddler Aly Bain, from his 1985 Series Down Home.

Elizabeth Cotten - Mama, Your Papa Loves You


Elizabeth Cotten Telling a funny story.

Elizabeth Cotten @SqueezeMyLemon

Welcome To My JS Friends and Geoff Muldaur

First I want to welcome all my online friends from JournalSpace to my humble blues blog. It is not really like my journal was, SqueezeMyLemon has a very narrow focus, it is about all things blues. For those who don't know JS the web site is gone, and that kind of gives me a little bit of the blues.

Geoff Muldaur - Got To Find Blind Lemon (Pt1)

Dancin' The Boogie - Silvan Zingg, Will & Maéva

I love boogie-woogie because it is kind of a happier part of the blues. All the energy and dynamics that the blues can bring are found in Silvan Zingg's music. He has a mastery of the boogie-woogie beat that is very smooth and refined, and he also holds on to that emotionally compelling part of good blues music.

When I watch the dance video clip below I can't keep my feet from moving. And the fact that I have "boogie-woogie dance envy" also known as "BWDE" becomes obvious to anyone near me.

Dancin' The Boogie - Silvan Zingg, Will & Maéva


Dancin' the Boogie

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Led Zeppelin - Travelling Riverside Blues

Hey, man if you see my rider, tell her to come on back home, ain't had no lovin since that little girl been gone.

Travelling Riverside Blues


Asked sweet mama, Let me be her kid
She said, "You might get hurt if you don't keep it hid"

Well I know my baby, If I see her in the dark
I said I know my rider, If I see her in the dark

Now, I goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by my side
Still barrelhouse, If it's on the riverside, yeah
I know my baby, Lord, I said, "is really sloppy drunk"
I know my mama, Lord, a brownskin, but she ain't no plum

See my baby, tell her, Tell her hurry home
Had no lovin', since my baby been gone
See my baby, Tell hurry on home
I ain't had, Lord, my right mind, Since my rider's been gone

Hey, she promises, She's my rider
I wanna tell you, She's my rider
I know you're mine, She's my rider
She ain't but sixteen, But she's my rider

I'm goin' to Rosedale, Take my rider by side
Anybody argue with me man, I'll keep them satisfied
Well, see my baby, tell her, Tell her the shape I'm in
Ain't had no lovin', Lord, since you know when

Spoken: Why don't you come into my kitchen

She's a kindhearted lady. She studies evil all the time
She's a kindhearted woman. She studies evil all the time

Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my leg
Squeeze it so hard, I'll fall right out of bed
Squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice runs down my leg

Spoken: I wonder if you know what I'm talkin' about

Oh, but the way that you squeeze it girl
I swear I'm gonna fall right out of bed

She's a good rider
She's my kindhearted lady
I'm gonna take my rider by my side
I said her front teeth are lined with gold
She's gotta mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul
She's my brownskin sugar plum...

Led Zeppelin @Amazon.com

Friday Blues Funny - Calhoun Tubbs Sings the Birthday Blues

New Release Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

Folk Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

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Track Listings
1. I Love You Baby
2. Corn Bread, Peas and Black Molasses
3. That's How I Feel
4. You'd Better Mind
5. Treated Wrong
6. Brownie's Blues
7. Southern Train
8. Just a Dream (On My Mind) - Sonny Terry, Broonzy, Willie
9. Sonny's Blues
10. Gone But Not Forgotten
11. Change the Lock on the Door
12. Climbing on Top of the Hill

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee were a prolific blues duo for decades. One of their hardest to find albums is Folk Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. It was originally issued on the Roulette label in 1959. Now mastered from the original tapes, and using the original album cover artwork, fans of this classic duo will no longer have the blues! They can listen to the blues instead!