This is video of the real blues in Mississippi circa 2008. Shot in blues alley, just off the square in Holly Springs, where--as it happens--I'll be playing a one-man band set on a big stage in two days. You can tell its the real blues because the music isn't the point. It's just the pretext:
You could, if you want, ask "What chords is he playing?" You could ask, "Is that Richter tuning or equal-tempered?" You could ask all that s--t, m---erfuc--r. And miss the damn point.
Long live Honeyboy. He survived decades of his own version of this sort of thing and lived to tell the tale. We can't even begin to understand.
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Amen, Brother Adam! A great cd is the live "Last of the Great Mississippi Bluesmen" with Honeyboy, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Pinetop Perkins, and Henry Townsend. For real "Real". ---------- Ricky B www.bushdogblues.blogspot.com RIVER BOTTOM BLUES--a crime novel for blues fans due out 2012
