Booker / Bukka White S/D

Is there a CD I can get that comes close to or is in any way representative of this completely amazing performance:

I've been listening to some AMG samples and so far nothing sounds nearly this good.

Sky Songs comes closest to this, of the stuff I've heard.

Sky Songs actually looks pretty interesting, all those 7-12 minute songs, I'll probably make a point of picking it up if I ever see it, though it isn't quite THE ONE. This clip here is the best version of Aberdeen Mississippi Blues I've heard, not only for the more vigorous performance, but the sound mix as well. The guitar just sounds so big and in everything else I'm hearing sounds under-recorded by comparison.

http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/7/9/5/3/1043597_170x170.jpg

This one recorded live by John Fahey and Ed Denson is sounding pretty good.

Wow, that's a great performance.

Is he wearing a bolo tie?

I also have (somewhere) a disc released by New Rose at some point that features what sounds like '60s-vintage re-recordings of his 78-era stuff. Some of those performances are pretty peppy/vigorous, and I'm sure those tracks are floating around on some more recent release.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre800/e884/e88414b5tlt.jpg

Was it this?^^^
The sound clips of this one sound pretty good.

That's the one.

The power of the resonator guitar.

He played @ my college in about 75. No dobro, but when he did that percussive schtick (in the video) the whole thing came flooding back.

I remember he had and ancient song-list taped to the top edge of his guitar and I got to shake his had.

Thanks for that clip.

Love Bukka but Sky Songs is dreadful. More Wesley Willis than Mississippi Fred.

this clip is so weird. where are they? why is he shaking his face like that? why is that man untying that woman's boots? and it cuts off so abruptly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=j2y34Vnx3C4&NR=1

Is there a worst-represented-on-record genre than delta blues? So many titans of the genre were horribly/sporadically recorded by guys who had no idea how to capture a juke joint show. Big Joe Williams is another guy like Bukka White who's clearly brilliant but has a largely boring discography.

I guess its a french film - 'Le Blues Entre Les Dents' - anyone see it?

This is from the same thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqbKdnHZTs

That clip is amazing.

Is there a worst-represented-on-record genre than delta blues? So many titans of the genre were horribly/sporadically recorded by guys who had no idea how to capture a juke joint show. Big Joe Williams is another guy like Bukka White who's clearly brilliant but has a largely boring discography.

― Everything You Like Sucks, Sunday, March 3, 2013 7:43 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Both of these guys made some pretty good-to-great albums imo. The Big Joe album called Nine String Guitar Blues is really good, as is all the George Mitchell stuff. Bukka fares even better. Great ones: Aberdeen Mississippi, 1963 Isn't 1962. Pretty good one if you can find it for under ten bucks: Big Daddy.

Also, the Bukka stuff on the Takoma Contemporary Guitar comp is so, so good!

Memphis Hot Shots is a great Bukka collection as well. It is very sad that such an artiste hasn't left much of a recorded legacy.

Have been going through a really tough time mentally in the last few few days - and Bukka White's Sleepy My Blues has been my comforting soundtrack.

The closing track, "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper", was based on the Bukka White blues song "Shake 'Em On Down"

it sure was! funny how you can think you know the whole story, more or less, of zeppelin plagiarism, and still there are nuggets to be discovered.

anyway, listening to the album on takoma tonight. maybe not as thrilling as some of the videos you can find (re-upping two below), but a great listen for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2y34Vnx3C4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkhj9z14TBo