thanks for leaving your words, Mary. This song is one of my favorites of any genre, and I am so glad his voice, thanks to the recordings, can now be heard for all time. All my best...
This is the real deal, what a great track, the term "Sebastopol tuning" refers to open D tuning (bass to treble D A D F# A D) and is named that after an old time popular song which can be played using that tuning.
Back in the early 1990s my granddad 1912-2002 sung folk ballads and I decided after he died I would carry the Tradition on and be a folksinger which is what I am today. I am glad Folks love this Music I do Keep it alive People or it will fade into oblivion. America has two Things that make us interesting. Our history and Music.
Thanks, again! Love this guy's playing. It took a little while to get used to the voice but was listening to this on repeat and suddenly everything came together. This IS a great song.
I'm so upset with all the music that comes out these days, and I know everyone says this, but I really do mean it. I find a peculiar enjoyment from this era and style of music… At times, I'd say this is what gets me through some of my days. These guys created an art form. One that I'll cherish and ask others to cherish for the rest of my life. I remember a few times as a kid out in B.F.E Utah with my dad and brother driving to some lake near Loa or wherever-I had to have been four or five at the time (1999 or 2000)-and he would throw on all the George Mitchell Volumes and we'd sit in silence and soak em all in while coasting on the road. That music was good then and it's even better now, thank god for all the field recorders from back in the day. I feel like now, a lot of the old traditional blues styles have been drained out of this world and what's taken their place is music with no ambition behind it or passion. There's a few that still stand out here and there, but the main form of good music has changed, and is still changing, but not into a better form. So that being my opinion and personal view on the matter, I think I'll play this one one more time.
thanks, Steve. you were a lucky kid. and let me second the thanks to the field recorders. if not for them, a whole history of music would more than likely been gone for good and with it, all that they inspired. to passion!
"thank god for all the field recorders from back in the day" Some such as Art Rosenbaum, George Mitchell, and Pete Lowry are still living. Maybe you'll ever get the chance to thank any of them yourself. Lowry is on the internet. If you like this, two recordings Lowry made that I recommend are "Who's Going Home With You" by Henry "Rufe" Johnson and "Goin' Back And Get Her" by Frank Edwards.
+Steve Murdock Everything you said about music now is true Im afraid. Keep listening and take this here music forward. Keep it alive by just playing it. ☮
+ibrake4butterflies True : Don't forget to share as much as possible too ! I recently chanced upon a Google+ community called "Mississippi Delta Blues " that had been abandoned for 2 years so I am currently posting the living daylights out of it - c'mon in and share !
+Bristol Blue I hear you and I will. I'm not sure how that google plus works but I do share these aThe BWJOHNSON channel posts by email. I don't Instagram Facebook or tweet. I LIKE THIS MUSIC BECAUSE IT DOESNT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT STUFF. I don't know how to post on google plus. Just hearing that first PICK on the guitar and I know that it's going to feel soooo good. YES!
guess i got a little extra time, but if we're gonna get this to the kids we're gonna have to buy them cd players too! so maybe for now - i'll settle for some bootleg whiskey and these old restless blues. until we get the show on the road again bluesman...
Cecil Barfield was my great-uncle. He was my grandfather's brother. I remember growing up listening to him play the guitar. We miss him dearly. RIP.
thanks for leaving your words, Mary. This song is one of my favorites of any genre, and I am so glad his voice, thanks to the recordings, can now be heard for all time. All my best...
Thanks for sharing. These black southerners are the endless pavement road for Modern Music.✨
This is the real deal, what a great track, the term "Sebastopol tuning" refers to open D tuning (bass to treble D A D F# A D) and is named that after an old time popular song which can be played using that tuning.
Back in the early 1990s my granddad 1912-2002 sung folk ballads and I decided after he died I would carry the Tradition on and be a folksinger which is what I am today. I am glad Folks love this Music I do Keep it alive People or it will fade into oblivion. America has two Things that make us interesting. Our history and Music.
Thanks, again! Love this guy's playing. It took a little while to get used to the voice but was listening to this on repeat and suddenly everything came together. This IS a great song.
reminds me of rev wilkins
I'm so upset with all the music that comes out these days, and I know everyone says this, but I really do mean it. I find a peculiar enjoyment from this era and style of music… At times, I'd say this is what gets me through some of my days. These guys created an art form. One that I'll cherish and ask others to cherish for the rest of my life. I remember a few times as a kid out in B.F.E Utah with my dad and brother driving to some lake near Loa or wherever-I had to have been four or five at the time (1999 or 2000)-and he would throw on all the George Mitchell Volumes and we'd sit in silence and soak em all in while coasting on the road. That music was good then and it's even better now, thank god for all the field recorders from back in the day. I feel like now, a lot of the old traditional blues styles have been drained out of this world and what's taken their place is music with no ambition behind it or passion. There's a few that still stand out here and there, but the main form of good music has changed, and is still changing, but not into a better form. So that being my opinion and personal view on the matter, I think I'll play this one one more time.
thanks, Steve. you were a lucky kid. and let me second the thanks to the field recorders. if not for them, a whole history of music would more than likely been gone for good and with it, all that they inspired. to passion!
"thank god for all the field recorders from back in the day" Some such as Art Rosenbaum, George Mitchell, and Pete Lowry are still living. Maybe you'll ever get the chance to thank any of them yourself. Lowry is on the internet. If you like this, two recordings Lowry made that I recommend are "Who's Going Home With You" by Henry "Rufe" Johnson and "Goin' Back And Get Her" by Frank Edwards.
+Steve Murdock Everything you said about music now is true Im afraid. Keep listening and take this here music forward. Keep it alive by just playing it. ☮
+ibrake4butterflies True : Don't forget to share as much as possible too !
I recently chanced upon a Google+ community called "Mississippi Delta Blues " that had been abandoned for 2 years so I am currently posting the living daylights out of it - c'mon in and share !
+Bristol Blue I hear you and I will. I'm not sure how that google plus works but I do share these aThe BWJOHNSON channel posts by email. I don't Instagram Facebook or tweet. I LIKE THIS MUSIC BECAUSE IT DOESNT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT STUFF. I don't know how to post on google plus. Just hearing that first PICK on the guitar and I know that it's going to feel soooo good. YES!
Bloody hell....magnificent. Thanks for the record, but more important thank you Cecil Barfield for playing it.
Thanks Shane....
Wish I'd met this man....
Me too. Did I mention this one? We lost the guy who recorded this just recently too. Last of a dying breed...
believe it is Art Rosenbaum...but you're right about his playing..no person that lived a soft existence could make a song like this...thanks!
one of my favorite country blues tunes ever
Ah' what. sweet talent
"ol georgia frolicking blues"
I'm a big fan of yours. Its no surprise that your taste runs so deep
Again. Loving the color photos. So happy that someone took some chromes. Black and white feels SOOO good but the colored images add more.
Barfield kicks butt, , every time i listen to other blues guys i just want them to sound like Cecil singing.
I listen to this all the time
Still do
Excellent Post!!
BW Johnson please start putting out some bootleg CDs 😁
guess i got a little extra time, but if we're gonna get this to the kids we're gonna have to buy them cd players too! so maybe for now - i'll settle for some bootleg whiskey and these old restless blues. until we get the show on the road again bluesman...
Excellent, Thanks! .. love
Addictive!
Wonderful post, Thank you !!
Beautiful xx
So, so good
Man this is really nice
one of my favorites.. easily..
Fantastic
❤️❤️❤️
wow
Wow
not quite like this..... but Mississippi Fred McDowell sorta sounds like this...