36 views! Here's Sam Carr on guitar--I thought it was Honeyboy. For those who like their blues acoustic, down home, sad, low-key, unadorned, deep country, and authentic, here is your ultimate video:
The woman is Sam Carr's wife. I can't believe this showed up on YouTube.
Around 9:30, it suddenly becomes a movie, as opposed to cinema verite, and it's not quite the same thing.
I'd climb over broken glass to see this sorta thing... beautiful music Is it just me though? That guitar sounds a bit out of tune? Who cares played enough parties myself where concert pitch was the tarmac on the road
It's every white-boy bluesmans fantasy to hang with the real deal black bluesman. I think of great players like you (Adam G.) and Jason R. among others who actually did and wonder how special it must be to experience making music with authentic bluesmen!
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"Yeah, I try and think of something most other guys ain't played, cause most of 'em play them same songs"
beautiful...just beautiful...
i don't care if the guitar is in tune, outta tune, upside down tuned...i could listen to that cat play ALL AFTERNOON....just sit there with some ice cold beer and listen to him..time would fly by for me
and if you listen to the interview Sam's commenting on the exact old(traditional)/new(modern) music debate that happens on the forum so many times, i couldn't help but be touched by his laid back, stoic, "it is what it is" tone...
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Tip for the computer illiterate (I'm not trying to be patronising - I'm describing myself as I was before I tried out these things): If you right click on that video and copy its url and go to it in youtube and subscribe to the uploader's channel and search on crossroads within it, you can see all 7 parts of the movie. That's probably easier than using other routes. ---------- Andrew. ----------------------------------------- The only good cat is a stir-fried cat. (ALF)
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@Frank: Have you read my book, Mister Satan's Apprentice? I do my best to answer that question at length--discursively, you might say. The most satisfying part of living a dream is watching the dream slowly dissolve into the reality, which isn't dreamlike at all but is finally about coming to know another human being, learning many lessons large and small, and slowly becoming a better musician in the course of making a whole lot of music with somebody.
I can guarantee you that old black bluesmen don't romanticize each other. That's one of the lessons I absorbed from Sterling. "That bastard went and got himself killed!" was Sterling's word on King Curtis. "Man could play beautiful, but however." So although I was inclined early on to find my whole Harlem street-music experience with Stering (Mr. Satan at that point) a whalloping big romance, at this point I'm inclined to see him without illusions, as a man and musician who just IS. Nothing magical or mysterious there; just an extraordinarily gifted and energetic musician who is old now but still throwing his heart into it. I'm grateful indeed for having been given the chance to spend so much good playing time with him; his overall approach has certainly rubbed off on me, and I plan to do my best by the talent I've got.
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Yes I did read your EXCELLENT book...could not put it down, My favorite Author is "Jesse Stuart" He has that same kinda of effect on me when I read his books - you can't wait to turn the page to read whats next. Your book was available at the local library, so I guess my tax dollars are doin okay, now if they'd only pave my GotDamn Road, lol...I hear what your sayin, I got to hang out with a "Preacher" for a few years and to know him up close and personal is a much different experience then when he'd be transformed into another entity while on the pulpit. Off the pulpit, he was merely a man a sinful one at that, but a great man indeed....
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Sweet, sweet video. I'm glad I read French, too. It was at times a poem.
Loved the music and the transitional theme. Nostalgic and hopeful, the soul of blues.
Happened to notice, did you?, the influential role of technology on the evolution of the sound, and the relative purity of the source. That seed the mystery, the magic of creation. Much embellishment adds little, or obscures. The groove, the music, the human voice, carries the purpose.
What ultimately is the purpose? I still wonder, enthralled.
Excellent evolution video. Old time front porch through to the electrified bar band. Well done. The closing line says it all. As long as we keep the mystery of the blues alive the blues will stay alive. Thanks for posting this kudzurunner. I loved it. Any idea if this is an excerpt of a longer documentary? Kind of reminds me of Kenny Wayne Sheppards video/cd. I'd like to see more of it. ---------- "Keep it in your mouth" - XHarp
This is great stuff. I recently subscribed to AlanLomaxArchive on youtube, and they are uploading a lot of great stuff along these lines to Youtube. Well worth a look if you like great stuff.
Example
If any one wants to try play it, hes in standard tuning but tuned down to about c#.
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