RIP Son House (March 21, 1902 - October 19, 1988), aged 86 RIP Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 - May 4, 1987), aged 44 RIP Mike Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 - February 15, 1981), aged 37 You will always be remembered as legends.
Well in his clothing, speech, and lyrics he tried to create a colorful low-life persona and according to gossip forced his band to join him in eating at dive-bars and staying at flophouses. In his music he seems to strive for a blend of Bukowski and Grand Guignol. But he's a middle class kid even if his dad had a drinking problem.
From what I understand, as a child and teenager, Michael suffered quite considerably in an emotional sense. All the money in the world won't relieve that and that is what informs his performances.
@@promerops Read the latest Bloomfield bio; "Guitar King...". It's very detailed. In my experience, compared to plenty of other teens, Mike's issues weren't unusually painful. The main difference was how talented he was.
Then Mike and Paul came along and the blues moved up a notch and whole new way of interpreting the blues was born and blues was enriched beyond possibility. Amen💙🎸🖤👌
Paul's in Blues Heaven where he was Always DESTINED To Live FOREVER. God Rest His Soul. I Respect & Salute My Old Friend. PAUL! Ya Split WAY Too Early Man! RIP from Tony ...
It's from the movie Festival, directed by Murray Lerner. It has wonderful footage of the Newport Folk festivals of 193-65, including Dylan's notorious electric set backed by Bloomfield and company. It's a great film. I got it from Amazon.
I saw this in '68 in S.F. I've been looking for this scene for years. I never forgot Bloomfield's line about "if he was a tuna fish sandwich." I saw them a lot, my focus was on Butterfield and Bloomfield but Sam Lay, Jerome Arnold, and Elvin Bishop anchor them, kept the bottom drive going. Son House, speaks the truth about the blues, he did have a problem with the bottle. Of course, Mike and Paul died untimely deaths due to their excesses as well. Thanks to all of them for some great music.
Like the saying goes....ya gotta live 'em to play 'em. I have the blues in me. I've been through enough heartache and it does come from down deep inside me. Bloomfield eventually had the blues....fighting addiction and his insomnia.
How lucky we are to have these live dissertations and live performances from one of the the true lifelines to the origins of the real blues. I know he was flawed like we all are but damn I love Mr. House! Could you imagine if we had interviews and live recordings of Willie Brown ,Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton to add to this? wasn't meant to be but it's fun to imagine
Son House. The shirt and that neck tie. That tambre in his voice. That sad and passionate sound in his hands. The guitar sings where words call but fall short. Even his name, Son House. The coolest. A former co worker who is younger than me (but an "old soul") turned me onto him and I felt the same way I did when I first heard Muddy Waters. And as with Jazz when I first heard Miles, I was like a kid in the Blues candy store.
6:14 that's Maria and Jeff Mulduar who were playing with Jim Kweskin's jug band at this festival 65 or 66 Muddy Waters was at this gig .. Dylan went electric ... all us acoustic blues players left this show and bought Tele's and Twins .. pretty exciting stuff to be there and experience it .. thanks for posting
@@brianwells4507 The MC of Woodstock, Hugh Romney, got his famous other name while frying on acid lying on his back on stage and B.B. King leans over him looking down and says "Man, y'all lookin' like some Wavy Gravy right now."
This is incredible. 3 of the all time blues greats. Why aren’t there more interviews out there with Son House and all of his contemporaries? It’s beautiful.
In reference to the real old blues that require "no jumping" he is referring to the true meaning of blues someone sitting in silence playing only for themselves and not to entertain others.. THATS THE BLUES ITS A FEELING FIRST AND FOREMOST.
The Blues= depression with a melody. I had a Son House album for a lot of years and I had warped it when I left it sitting in a hot car but I would still play whatever songs would. One song sticks in my head a little: John the Revelator. I always figured that John was a mixed bag. He told a good narrative of Jesus and Quakers love it, he was boring in Letters and a paranoid schizophrenic when he wrote the Book of Revelations but evangelicals love that shit.
@@andybowen1249 I never heard that before. I just filtered though Beefheart's tunes and couldn't find anything resembling the Piedmont style of blues that House played unless you consider singing with a croaky voice an influence. As a fan, I got as far as Safe as Milk before I had to move on from Van Vliet, Zappa...music in general because I had to raise a family. For a while, I used that album title as a statement about my life, specifically with regards to flirting with women other than my wife..
@@murderhill1947 yes I could see why you’d think that, going off most of it, but there are some specific Beefheart tunes that pay homage to his hero and you’d be amazed how well he had him down. There’s a few on strictly personal “Ahh feel like Acid” or something like that and it’s basically a son House song with some extra lyrics. Lol that’s so funny about Beefheart and Zappa being a statement about your life and then raising a family? I can totally relate to this as My father who was very much in that scene( he hates the term hippy) he did the drug thing and tells me after a few years he realised the whole hippy culture and the drugs, had no real substance to it. Whilst he gave up on many bands he never relinquished his Beefheart albums albeit he did with some of the Lewd Zappa stuff. Check out My China pig off Trout Mask Replica, that’s another great blues track.
@@murderhill1947 I never moved on or away from any music I listened to back in the days...I dug it then & I dig it now.. those good sounds just keep on groovin'..
Was Son House talking about jumping in regards to the jump blues? Honestly he really poured his heart out with his definition of the blues. I suppose rock roll was the real situation. Blues isn't happiness
I love SON HOUSE.... OLD TIME. ....DELTA..CANT MATCH IT.... U HAVE TO BE BORN..IN IT.... U CAN TEACH... BUT FEELIN IS WITHIN..SPIRITUITAL... RUNS DEEP...BLACK MAN...CANE HE WALKS WITH IT....HE BREATH IT ....LIVES IT.
Great footage ! If you can find any recordings of the original Butterfield four piece band, listen up. That was the group I saw in '64. That was one bad ass band. Bloomfield showed up and it kinda became a sideshow. He was a good player tho.
His son didn’t do a bad job either. Matter of fact my first important purchase was “Blues at Newport ‘63,” on Vanguard, with Hammond on it. He blew me away, as did everyone else on the album - McGee and Terry, John Hurt, John Lee Hooker, Dave Van Ronk - a beautiful, classic album. If you can find it, please treat yourself.
I gravitated to guitar in the 60's after trying drums....harmonica....I was copying Clapton...Peter Green Mick Taylor...Mike Bloomfield was totally different...the 1st Paul Butterfield Blues Band record...MB a total powehouse !!
Elvin used a 335 and Bloomfield was on tele. Bloomfield would later use a gold top les paul just a year after this and then mainly his 59 les paul, but elvin bishop never stopped using that 335 up to this day
Bloomer was left handed played right which I think added to his tone.....im a lefty and play right....obviously nowhere near Michael but I think that heavy left hand gave him some added tone.....????
Son is a very old black man, his wiki says he was born in 1902 in Mississippi. He stared recording in the 1930s. In this video he gives a description on what blues music is, this is during the civil rights era, he didn’t mention Jim Crow, slavery, equality, anything SJW, the KKK, lynching, food counters, etc etc. why? In all the old black man music I’ve listened to it’s very hard for me to find more that 1 or 2 instances of That subject matter being touched on. Blues music is all about.... well the things he described in this video. Just a observation
In some ways black life was better before the civil rights movement and Great Society programs. Despite segregation, black and white got along pretty well. For example, white southerners listened mostly to black music whereas white northerners listened to hippie music.
I wonder if a woman has ever had a perfect relationship with an algorithm? Perhaps. I saw the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in my youth and had no idea that he had the same influence as Jack White. I can see why. That voice. That guitar.
@pekoe67 He uses that expression alot, except he usually spells it right. Maybe you could forgive because he came from a poor black home in the turn of the century. Or because he's one of the greatest musicians of all time
Good Lord Son House is Not a demon what Jewish horseshit. The blues resonates at the deepest of soul levels. Poverty racial or abuse all your life makes for good soul material plus addiction to booze and drugs. This has nothing to do with the blues.... our soul song is the blues between us and the Creator. All blues songs are a mix of Negroe and Indian soul cries for relief. This includes all humans white black or blue... I recorded with Walter Horton in 1972 and it all was just natural as can be. That's how the soul operates. Listen to Worried Worried Walter Horton and Nancy Nash
Son House gives the best description of the blues that I've ever heard. His performance proves his words that go right to the gut.
Weird fact: Son House outlived both Mike Bloomfield & Paul Butterfield
Very true, and was already 40 when they were born, crazy
Very true, and was already 40 when they were born, crazy
I know right, crazy. Paul was struggling with a drug addiction, and Mike really died much too young.
Elvin Bishop still rockin it!
Son outlived just about every major blues musicians lol
Michael Bloomfield = unique = as talented as a human can be with a pure soul. Love that guy.
RIP Son House (March 21, 1902 - October 19, 1988), aged 86
RIP Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 - May 4, 1987), aged 44
RIP Mike Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 - February 15, 1981), aged 37
You will always be remembered as legends.
Bloomfield is admirably candid. "My father's a multi-millionaire ..." He doesn't pretend to be authentic the way, say, Tom Waits used to.
By not pretending to be something he wasn’t, he was “authentic”. We should all strive for this objective.
Well in his clothing, speech, and lyrics he tried to create a colorful low-life persona and according to gossip forced his band to join him in eating at dive-bars and staying at flophouses. In his music he seems to strive for a blend of Bukowski and Grand Guignol. But he's a middle class kid even if his dad had a drinking problem.
The great majority of Mike's repertoire was composed by black bluesmen., while Waits was/is a prolific songwriter, a crucial difference.
From what I understand, as a child and teenager, Michael suffered quite considerably in an emotional sense. All the money in the world won't relieve that and that is what informs his performances.
@@promerops Read the latest Bloomfield bio; "Guitar King...". It's very detailed. In my experience, compared to plenty of other teens, Mike's issues weren't unusually painful. The main difference was how talented he was.
Then Mike and Paul came along and the blues moved up a notch and whole new way of interpreting the blues was born and blues was enriched beyond possibility. Amen💙🎸🖤👌
the real blues....when you're lonesome and worried and don't know what to do!
one of the first integrated bands,bloomfield was killing it,, great guitar player
One of the greatest. And as we can see - he's a pioneer. Good Jewish boy.
His guitar is inaudible. Where can a proper recording be found?
such a class act Bloomfield was !
@2:43 "You cry, you cry alone." I've never heard that explained so perfectly. Son House is a true poet.
that wire running over the top of bloomfields telecaster was a premonition of all the horror the thing would run into
biggest travesty in rock instrument history
before it got shaved off! wow good eye and way cryptic!
Paul's in Blues Heaven where he was Always DESTINED To Live FOREVER. God Rest His Soul. I Respect & Salute My Old Friend. PAUL! Ya Split WAY Too Early Man! RIP from Tony ...
RIP paul n mike 🖤 will live on foreva
It's from the movie Festival, directed by Murray Lerner. It has wonderful footage of the Newport Folk festivals of 193-65, including Dylan's notorious electric set backed by Bloomfield and company. It's a great film. I got it from Amazon.
I saw this in '68 in S.F. I've been looking for this scene for years. I never forgot Bloomfield's line about "if he was a tuna fish sandwich." I saw them a lot, my focus was on Butterfield and Bloomfield but Sam Lay, Jerome Arnold, and Elvin Bishop anchor them, kept the bottom drive going. Son House, speaks the truth about the blues, he did have a problem with the bottle. Of course, Mike and Paul died untimely deaths due to their excesses as well. Thanks to all of them for some great music.
Like the saying goes....ya gotta live 'em to play 'em. I have the blues in me. I've been through enough heartache and it does come from down deep inside me. Bloomfield eventually had the blues....fighting addiction and his insomnia.
And that's big Sam Ley on drums. One of the best Chicago drummers.
Lay.
He's right about butterfield. Greatest harp player ever in my book.
How lucky we are to have these live dissertations and live performances from one of the the true lifelines to the origins of the real blues. I know he was flawed like we all are but damn I love Mr. House! Could you imagine if we had interviews and live recordings of Willie Brown ,Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton to add to this? wasn't meant to be but it's fun to imagine
Son House. The shirt and that neck tie. That tambre in his voice. That sad and passionate sound in his hands. The guitar sings where words call but fall short. Even his name, Son House. The coolest. A former co worker who is younger than me (but an "old soul") turned me onto him and I felt the same way I did when I first heard Muddy Waters. And as with Jazz when I first heard Miles, I was like a kid in the Blues candy store.
6:14 that's Maria and Jeff Mulduar who were playing with Jim Kweskin's jug band at this festival 65 or 66 Muddy Waters was at this gig .. Dylan went electric ... all us acoustic blues players left this show and bought Tele's and Twins .. pretty exciting stuff to be there and experience it .. thanks for posting
I prefer acoustic for soul healing
Would love to know where 6:14 show is?
Mike, birthday, 28 July ....genius!
Blues: B L U S E
If Son says that's how it's spelled... then that's how you spell it!
@@macarius8802 John Lee Hooker pronounced Keith Richards, "Kief". By God that's Keith's new name!
@@brianwells4507 The MC of Woodstock, Hugh Romney, got his famous other name while frying on acid lying on his back on stage and B.B. King leans over him looking down and says "Man, y'all lookin' like some Wavy Gravy right now."
@@nobodyhome-jy2bd oh man that's hilarious! But y'know that's how the best "nicknames" really stick. Thanks for sharing I never knew that.
🤔.. Bloomfield was way sweet,.. way full of life..Butter is my soulmate 💕miss you 🎶
All great, phenomenal Son House performance ... love the quick cut to Joan Baez near the end.
Mike is so honest and open
This is incredible. 3 of the all time blues greats. Why aren’t there more interviews out there with Son House and all of his contemporaries? It’s beautiful.
That placement of the cable over Bloomfields Tele is so ironic
foreshadowing...
@@gabrielm.4554 Sorry to ask, but what did it foreshadow?
michavandam google Bloomfield’s tele
@@gabrielm.4554 Can't you give a small hint?
michavandam he cut the top off
It doesn't get more real. . .Man, Son House. . .livin the Blues. .
GREAT MIX!!!!
In reference to the real old blues that require "no jumping" he is referring to the true meaning of blues someone sitting in silence playing only for themselves and not to entertain others.. THATS THE BLUES ITS A FEELING FIRST AND FOREMOST.
If he was a tuna fish sandwich he would be into the blues!
grande Mike
son house is great!!!!!
The Blues= depression with a melody. I had a Son House album for a lot of years and I had warped it when I left it sitting in a hot car but I would still play whatever songs would. One song sticks in my head a little: John the Revelator. I always figured that John was a mixed bag. He told a good narrative of Jesus and Quakers love it, he was boring in Letters and a paranoid schizophrenic when he wrote the Book of Revelations but evangelicals love that shit.
Beefheart was clearly influenced by him.
@@andybowen1249 I never heard that before. I just filtered though Beefheart's tunes and couldn't find anything resembling the Piedmont style of blues that House played unless you consider singing with a croaky voice an influence. As a fan, I got as far as Safe as Milk before I had to move on from Van Vliet, Zappa...music in general because I had to raise a family.
For a while, I used that album title as a statement about my life, specifically with regards to flirting with women other than my wife..
@@murderhill1947 yes I could see why you’d think that, going off most of it, but there are some specific Beefheart tunes that pay homage to his hero and you’d be amazed how well he had him down. There’s a few on strictly personal “Ahh feel like Acid” or something like that and it’s basically a son House song with some extra lyrics.
Lol that’s so funny about Beefheart and Zappa being a statement about your life and then raising a family? I can totally relate to this as My father who was very much in that scene( he hates the term hippy) he did the drug thing and tells me after a few years he realised the whole hippy culture and the drugs, had no real substance to it. Whilst he gave up on many bands he never relinquished his Beefheart albums albeit he did with some of the Lewd Zappa stuff.
Check out My China pig off Trout Mask Replica, that’s another great blues track.
@@murderhill1947 I never moved on or away from any music I listened to back in the days...I dug it then & I dig it now.. those good sounds just keep on groovin'..
Was Son House talking about jumping in regards to the jump blues? Honestly he really poured his heart out with his definition of the blues. I suppose rock roll was the real situation. Blues isn't happiness
I love SON HOUSE.... OLD TIME.
....DELTA..CANT MATCH IT....
U HAVE TO BE BORN..IN IT....
U CAN TEACH... BUT FEELIN
IS WITHIN..SPIRITUITAL...
RUNS DEEP...BLACK MAN...CANE
HE WALKS WITH IT....HE BREATH IT
....LIVES IT.
Bloomfield is the best! Butter is the best, and Son House is the King! If you're Jewish, you definitely have the blues in this goddam world!!
Great footage !
If you can find any recordings of the original Butterfield four piece band, listen up. That was the group I saw in '64. That was one bad ass band.
Bloomfield showed up and it kinda became a sideshow. He was a good player tho.
I heard that John Campbell from Shreveport, La. ended up with Son House's guitar.
Too bad he left us too soon as well.
this is the real nitty gritty
Love this!
Wow I absolutely love the song in the end. "Jonestown Blues" I think its called.
It's a Little Walter instrumental called "Off the Wall".
Thats the blues. B L U S E . @ 1:02 LOL
man, this is great!
wouldn't matter if he was a tuna sandwich. so funny and so great!
Thank god for John Hammond Sr
His son didn’t do a bad job either. Matter of fact my first important purchase was “Blues at Newport ‘63,” on Vanguard, with Hammond on it. He blew me away, as did everyone else on the album - McGee and Terry, John Hurt, John Lee Hooker, Dave Van Ronk - a beautiful, classic album. If you can find it, please treat yourself.
My god! What a freakin great video! You did a good mitzva making this available
How come his guitar is not heard here? Same with Monterey Pop! Dives me nuts!
I gravitated to guitar in the 60's after trying drums....harmonica....I was copying Clapton...Peter Green Mick Taylor...Mike Bloomfield was totally different...the 1st Paul Butterfield Blues Band record...MB a total powehouse !!
Playing an early resonator. Even though he spelled it BLUSE, the knows and is The Blues...
Son House is THE boss
Thats the Blues ...B.L.U.S.E...wonderful
Son House - “That’s the Blues - B-L-U-S-E”……..”nuff said.
blues ain't nuthin' mo' than the truth laced with irony...
Does anyone know from which year's Newport Folk Festival this is?
aqua Thanks.
♥♥♥
Did u ever love somebody that didn't love u
no jumping
Lol. You don't want no company. So 😎
That's Elvin on that Tele...awesome!
Nelvis isn’t that mike on the tele and Elvin on the 335 or casino? Didn’t see the headstock so can’t tell which it is
Elvin used a 335 and Bloomfield was on tele. Bloomfield would later use a gold top les paul just a year after this and then mainly his 59 les paul, but elvin bishop never stopped using that 335 up to this day
@@tyrickwatson4825 Elvin is playing a ES345.
@@jimlabos oops thats right, i forgot red dog was a 45 not 35
Mike got that right on all accounts. He could play the blues. But he could never be a BLUESMAN.
Bloomer was left handed played right which I think added to his tone.....im a lefty and play right....obviously nowhere near Michael but I think that heavy left hand gave him some added tone.....????
is the entire movie available somewhere? I'd pay anything to watch it!
1:01 "That's the Blues, B. L. U. S. E. I want it spelled like this!
The blues doesn’t discriminate.
"...if he was a plenaria..."
just before all hell broke loose...
Mike Bloomfield 5 days before his 22nd birthday.
Is Son House talking specifically about Bloomfield here when he says “blues was here before him”? Or was this edited together?
Little Walter first to use an harmonica amplifier
Son is a very old black man, his wiki says he was born in 1902 in Mississippi. He stared recording in the 1930s. In this video he gives a description on what blues music is, this is during the civil rights era, he didn’t mention Jim Crow, slavery, equality, anything SJW, the KKK, lynching, food counters, etc etc. why? In all the old black man music I’ve listened to it’s very hard for me to find more that 1 or 2 instances of That subject matter being touched on. Blues music is all about.... well the things he described in this video. Just a observation
In some ways black life was better before the civil rights movement and Great Society programs. Despite segregation, black and white got along pretty well. For example, white southerners listened mostly to black music whereas white northerners listened to hippie music.
Because art that dwells on politics is usually bad art.
😯
I wonder if a woman has ever had a perfect relationship with an algorithm? Perhaps. I saw the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in my youth and had no idea that he had the same influence as Jack White. I can see why. That voice. That guitar.
@pekoe67
He uses that expression alot, except he usually spells it right. Maybe you could forgive because he came from a poor black home in the turn of the century. Or because he's one of the greatest musicians of all time
Man, I love older folk. They will tell you the truth. If your jumpin, thats not the Blues. HaHa.
6:14 that's Geoff Mulduar not Jeff .. sorry about that Geoff
ALL THAT Bobbin
And weavin...that ant. NO blues..and then butterfield. ...does it 😆 LOL
Just curious, anybody knows that exact song Son is playing at 1:52 or so?
Government Fleet Blues
imagine Mr James in his 30s this was when he was in his 60s
Who is the guy time 5:40?
Isaac Vera the guy playing the white tele is the legendary mike Bloomfield. Elvin Bishop is playing the 335
If he was a tuna fish sandwich ....
Your keyboard appears to be broken.
who is blind blake?
+steve zirkle I think he was the brother of Hard Of Hearing Dwayne.
Well he was a very good guitar player glad that you are interested in him
+Blind Willie Dunn nope! hard of hearing Dwyane was blind Blakes 2nd cousin, ,you see its very complicated, ,no relation to blind lemon Jefferson
@yungsu100 Plz...don't yell!!!
Good Lord Son House is Not a demon what Jewish horseshit. The blues resonates at the deepest of soul levels. Poverty racial or abuse all your life makes for good soul material plus addiction to booze and drugs. This has nothing to do with the blues.... our soul song is the blues between us and the Creator. All blues songs are a mix of Negroe and Indian soul cries for relief. This includes all humans white black or blue... I recorded with Walter Horton in 1972 and it all was just natural as can be. That's how the soul operates. Listen to Worried Worried Walter Horton and Nancy Nash
He's doing the first rap song.
Jews got the blues too!…just check out the history.
So jump blues isn't blues?
Bloooosh.
Damn drugs
Being deceived and taken advantage of by someone you trust, as well as unrequited love, go back to the dawn of mankind.
Jack White was a big influence on Son House... or vice versa...