Story behind the song
This liquor is just right. Any worse and I wouldn't be able to drink it, any better and you wouldn't have given me any !!!
Full Of Originality !!!
Well well well !!!
This heeya's the blue note, y'all !!
This is a tune to listen to when yer rollin' down the ol' lonesome highway....late in the evening....one hand up-on the wheel-a....the other hand on yo baby's thigh....
It's not what you play that's important. It's the notes you DON'T play - Miles Davis
If the blues was whiskey, and trouble was a bottle of gin. I'd buy me a 38 special and that's where trouble would begin - Roosevelt Sykes, Trouble and Whiskey Blues
Said when I die, don't bury me at all. Just pickle my body... up in alcohol - John Byrd, 1930
It's funny just how hard a man can fall, when he get to thinking one woman has got it all - Blind Arthur Blake, Chump Man Blues
That was a good job too, all I had to do when a lady came in to try on a pair of shoes was just to lace up her laces. But the boss fired me there, said I got above my job - Chris Bouchillon, Born In Hard Luck
The Story Of Jambone
No details. Said to have been from Little Egypt, Illinois. Proficient-esque on guitar, kazoo, stompin', and Mississippi saxophone. Present whereabouts unknown. Alleged step/half-cousin of Hambone Willie Newbern.
Produced by Jack Johnson III
Co-Produced by Van Morrison III
Inspiration from Robert Johnson, Lowell Fulson, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, & Big Joe Williams
Good Vibes by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Blind Arvella Gray, Blind James Campbell, Blind Joe Reynolds, Compton Jones, Jack Owens, Blind Bud Spires, RL Burnside, Shifty Henry, Boregard Rippy, & Jack White !!!
Now if you evuh wanna call up de Devil, don't furgit dat he gonna test you out good an' dat he ain't gonna show up de first Sunday you goes out to de forks of de road an' calls 'im; he ain't gonna show up no sooner'n de third time you calls 'im an' maybe not den - from Jim Finn on Calling Up the Devil in J. Mason Brewer's American Negro Folklore
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things - Big Bill Broonzy
I think the guy is one of these interplanetary world musicians, the kind of person they talk about where the world is sound and everything is resonating. He's one of those guys. There's only a few - Ry Cooder on Blind Willie Johnson
I love my baby like a cow loves to chaw her cud, but that fool moved off and left me, she done moved to the piney woods - Blind Lemon Jefferson, Piney Woods Money Mama
Some of these women do make me tired, got a handful of gimme and a mouthful of much obliged - Sleepy John Estes, Drop Down Mama
Don't never follow you first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time! - Son House
Some folks dig the swamp blues...I YAM THE SWAMP, Y'ALL !!!
Jambone on honeydrippin' vocals, Starvation Box git-tar, and great God A-mighty vibes!
If you can play the tune better than me, it's yours - Big Bill Broonzy
Sugar babe, I'm tired of you. Ain't your honey but the way you do - Mance Lipscomb, Sugar Babe
My motto is; if you don't hit some 'wrong' notes once in a while you're not trying hard enough - Mitch Holder on playing live, Interviews With The Jazz Greats
The blues'll kill you. And make you live, too. - Shirley Griffith, from Art Rosenbaum's notes to Saturday Blues
They tell me God don't like ugly. Said, boy, your home's in hell - Sam Chatmon, God Don't Like Ugly
When I die, don't bury me at all, just cremate me honey, 'cause I wants my ashes hauled - Steve James
She put carbolic in my coffee, turpentine in my tea, strychnine in my biscuits, Lord but she didn't hurt me - Furry Lewis, Big Chief Blues
The blues? Ain't no first blues. The blues always been - Nelson "Big Eye" Delisle, early New Orleans jazz clarinetist, in
