My name is Marty. I’m from Louisville Kentucky. I am 71 years old and and I have been listening to the blues since I was in junior high school. I appreciate that you have posted “Baby Pleae Don’t Go” by Mississippi Fred McDowell.
Mississippi Fred McDowell’s version of this song is the BEST I’ve ever heard! It’s so lowdown and gritty, yet contains SO MUCH EMOTION! His guitar playing was unequaled...no one could even come close to copying him!
That's exactly right! Southern roots music is suffused by that railroad rhythm, whether blues or hillbilly. Johnny Cash's classic Sun sides, fer instance, like "Rock Island Line".🦃
Just 1 brilliant man with a battered old guitar with 6 wire strings, producing more power them most hardest rocking bands or the world-famous Hoover Dam, I just feel it in my bones that a few people are not going to agree with me but they be wrong.
TheHeatedCarcass Whatever you say, you know best about what you think and that is just fine with me, Me I believe different, there is room for millions of different points of view, I will go with what I know and believe to be true.
I heard all the rock bands of the 60's play this guy's music, but quit listening to their versions after I heard the real thing for the first time. Hypnotic.
I've been listening to blues for about 44 years since I was 8 or 9 and it still makes my heart race when I hear a slide guitar. Simply musical perfection.
I'm 33 and gutted I've never got to live in a time where this music was the standard. The "music" that now gets made is pure bs. I have an old soul I guess.. this rips!!
Incredibly genuine and just plain incredible...the way this builds, like powerfully creative beyond mere mortal...listen kids this sound and talent is where it is at, and will always be!
Saw him in Philadelphis a month before he died in what turned out to be a living room concert with about 25 other people. Most memorable show of my life. I think I was 23 at the time. He was and is a legend.
Sounds cool. I first heard Mississippi fred thru my buddy who was an audiophile back in 70's. Great great music. Apart from rj i think this fella was a fav.
Hi, do you know if there's a UA-cam on how to play a version of this song? And if not, what are the chords on that rhythm beat. I presume it is drop down? Any info would be appreciated. Cheers!
@@carlomezzatesta4659 it's kinda hard to explain but the root is e and then it's like you're flumpin the slide on g for the rhythm part idk how to explain the lead part
This was the music that led me to meet Mississippi Fred's wife Ms. Annie Mae McDowell at their house trailer in Como, Mississippi fall 1978. This was the music that brought me back to Mississippi three years later fall 1981 where I first met R.L. Burnside at his home in Coldwater, Mississippi as he was driving down the road leading to his house on his way back to driving his "Boss Man's" tractor after a lunch break. That night I went back and jammed with R.L. and a few friends. And wound up spending the night on his couch. After R.L. came out to the west coast for a short tour spring 1982, a few weeks later I followed R.L. back to Mississippi that summer and hung our playing and riding around with R.L. and his family. Mississippi Fred McDowell's music is why I toured with R.L. for 12 years between 1982 thru 1994. In the winter of 1986 at a gig we were doing in NYC Tom Pomposel showed up. Tom had played bass behind Fred on the album MISSISIPPI FRED MCDOWELL LIVE IN NEW YORK. Before following R.L. onstage Tom handed me his "magic stone." It had brought him luck when he backed up Fred In a similar situation all those years ago. I thanked Tom and found myself touching that stone throughout the night! A few years went by and though R.L. and I spoke regularly it wasn't until spring and summer 1999 we had a chance to play together again onstage several times. It felt fine as always. Unfortunately though R.L. kept touring through at least 2001 R.L.'s health began to decline until he passed away late summer 2005. A mighty depressing day. But R.L. was out of his pain. Before that in the fall of 2001 I helped a shaky walking R.L. back to his trailer after a festival in Oregon. He was tired and needed his heart medicine. It was getting close to the time maybe the last Mississippi Hill Country Delta Blues player truly of the Mississippi Fred McDowell era was about to spend his remaining time left on earth surrounded by family. Sad for the rest of us but it was where R.L. needed to be. During the time I knew and worked with R.L. the harmonica is what I mainly played, but also some guitar and also in between tours Eddie "Guitar" Burns, and other great country blues folk but R.L. is who I mostly learned and played with. We recorded alot but we only had two CDs. We recorded ACOUSTIC STORIES in New York in 1987 and the CD WELL...WELL...WELL a collection of songs with R.L. alone and with myself recorded between 1982 thru 1994. Both produced by Louis X Erlanger and released on MC Records. Hopefully over the years I have learned a touch of that incredible sweet slide guitar chunking bass thing going on that Fred taught R.L. Free McDowell passed away before I could meet him. But I was greatful to meet Annie Mae McDowell, the Rev. Curtis Abram, Otha Turner, Junior Kimbrough, Cedric Burnside, Johnny Woods and a few other magical players of the Delta Hill Country Blues tradition during the times I was in and out of Mississippi. All of whom were influenced I believe by Mississippi Fred McDowell as they all influenced each other. And thankfully Mississippi Fred McDowell influenced all of us weather we're players, or listeners. Giving us his incredible gift. Thanks for posting this. Brings back great memories. Jon Morris With R.L. BURNSIDE 1982 thru 1994 jonbeckleymorris@gmail.com
Wow, amazing life story. Recently discovered R. L. Burnside and wondered who played that blistering harmonica on Well, Well, Well. Thank you for your contribution to keeping the blues alive and well.
@@dianebarnes4446 Thank you Diane for that very kind comment on my playing on WELL...WELL...WELL... . R.L. was like family to me as was his wife Alice Mae, and his family. Before Fat Possum there were many people who helped keep R.L.'s career alive. Fat Possum recorded R.L. in ways that made him relevant to the current music scene of the time. That was after I'd played with him. But during live gigs with another guitar player Kenny Brown, and Cedric on drums R.L. played the same low down blues at those gigs in front of thousands of people that he played with me as a duo in front of as few as a half dozen people at The Maple Leaf in New Orleans. Anyway whenever he played wherever he played what century he played in--R.L. Burnside played THE BLUES. It was a great honor to be part of that from 1981 thru 1994 and knowing R.L. sitting in with him was fine but knowing R.L. as my friend was the greatest blessing of it all. Acoustic Stories is another CD I'm on with R.L. They've got my first and last names wrong-- I was living in Holland when Lou Erlanger produced it-- And Lou forgot I played guitar on KINDHEARTED WOMAN and MEET ME IN THE BOTTOM which gives a bit different perspective to our playing. But the good news is that the CD exists. I've worked up a list of all the various videos and recordings I could find with R.L. And I on UA-cam. I'm doing some music and writing projects in regards to us and if you're interested in me sharing that music list with you you're welcome to contact me at: jonbeckleymorris@gmail.com Again.... thanks for the fine compliment about my playing on WELL...WELL...WELL I hear every mistake I make! But old Rule Burnside he covered me pretty well....as partners do for each other. And what a partner R.L. Burnside was.😎 Jon Beckley Morris UA-cam RIP R.L. Burnside 1926 - 2005 You are greatly missed by so many.
@@myradioon Between 1982 - 1994 I played alot with R.L. Burnside, and other Mississippi players, but sadly never got the chance to play with Fred McDowell. Tom Pompesello played Bass behind Mississippi Fred on his record Live in New York.
Came here after hearing an excellent Radio 4 program “Great Lives” about Alan Lomax who documented so much of Blues music, and was instrumental in publicising Fred. Great contributions by Shirley Collins (who almost married Alan) and Billy Bragg.
This comment is intended for the post of Sept. 25th 2022- Wilbur Harrison? Get Together- a white folk rock group did a take on that song called Get Together- I mentioned a black artist who borrowed from the same song- Wilbur Harrison ? And His One Man Band? My boxes of 45's are several stories up in a nightmare messy attic- very good "unifying" song- the B side was good too-
Heard him in Chicago sometime around 1970. My companion said "He doesn't choose to play the blues, He HAS TO play the blues". Great bluesman.
I’m 85 this year and If I love another day, I have had a wonderful,life listening to Blues from the masters. ❤
Listening to this in April 2024 and I am 72 and still enjoying the blues.
THIS is Music!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍 oh, gosh!!!!!!!
My name is Marty. I’m from Louisville Kentucky. I am 71 years old and and I have been listening to the blues since I was in junior high school. I appreciate that you have posted “Baby Pleae Don’t Go” by Mississippi Fred McDowell.
Any good recommendations marty? My name is Tom, im 28
Same for me Marty ! I am Pascal, 63 from Paris and I would love to listen about your favorites musics, songs and sounds...
@@pascallebot2308 give me your recommendations too, Pascal!
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He’s brilliantly accompanying himself with sounds like a whole orchestra behind him.
Respect this brilliance.
I mean he was playing with a bassist for this one.
He is the real deal blues man.
I have loved the blues for over 40 years still love the blues.
As i am 61 years old.
Keep rocking. 😎😎😎😎😎
I'm 143 years old and this is great
😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍😂😂😂
These kids today that call themselves musicians couldn't hold a candle to likes of these old Delta Blues Legends 😊❤❤❤🌈💃👍👍
The crap kids are listening to is definitely not music and what's sad is probably nobody will turn them on to real music
Mississippi Fred McDowell’s version of this song is the BEST I’ve ever heard! It’s so lowdown and gritty, yet contains SO MUCH EMOTION! His guitar playing was unequaled...no one could even come close to copying him!
This sounds like an ole 1000 hp locomotive, battering the rails while taking off, at full load and full steam.
That's exactly right! Southern roots music is suffused by that railroad rhythm, whether blues or hillbilly. Johnny Cash's classic Sun sides, fer instance, like "Rock Island Line".🦃
Roots Punk Rock
What? Have you ever even heard a train? This sounds like a guy playing guitar,
Just 1 brilliant man with a battered old guitar with 6 wire strings, producing more power them most hardest rocking bands or the world-famous Hoover Dam, I just feel it in my bones that a few people are not going to agree with me but they be wrong.
James--I agree with you 100%...
This aint no rock n roll! This is sad old blues! Mississippi Fred McDowell didnt like rock music.
TheHeatedCarcass Whatever you say, you know best about what you think and that is just fine with me, Me I believe different, there is room for millions of different points of view, I will go with what I know and believe to be true.
You be right!
@@TheHeatedCarcass this sad old blues made me start dancing without realizing
Superpower guitar master and killer interpreter of music. Just insanely great.
I was out of the Army and free? again...back in college when I heard this and it melted my brain... I still play his songs on my guitar.
This is great music! The music that came out of the deep South cannot and will not be duplicated!
Real creativity.
so simpel; so real; so bluse; so good
His guitar sings along with his voice. His guitar talks deep blues.
This is what blues is all about. That guitar goes right through me.
I heard all the rock bands of the 60's play this guy's music, but quit listening to their versions after I heard the real thing for the first time. Hypnotic.
Not a person to say one version is better than another but I'll recommend checking out Rose Mitchell's version.
The music comes from the heart and has its emotional power.
I've been listening to blues for about 44 years since I was 8 or 9 and it still makes my heart race when I hear a slide guitar. Simply musical perfection.
I'm 33 and gutted I've never got to live in a time where this music was the standard. The "music" that now gets made is pure bs. I have an old soul I guess.. this rips!!
Genius... Blues.... What can You Say?????????Thank you Traveler...
can not do better than this. bless his cool soul
I like to hear the audience begin to speak out, especially the screams, as the tempo heats up. Good Lord!
Incredibly genuine and just plain incredible...the way this builds, like powerfully creative beyond mere mortal...listen kids this sound and talent is where it is at, and will always be!
If this guitar doesn't make you want to Dance, then you are Dead--Call the Undertaker...
You are SOOO right.!!!
If you like rock and roll, you like blues by default
he looks like a rwandan royalty .....and plays like king of the strings
Saw him in Philadelphis a month before he died in what turned out to be a living room concert with about 25 other people. Most memorable show of my life. I think I was 23 at the time. He was and is a legend.
Wow. F*ck wow. I'm so frickin jealous. xxx
Sounds cool. I first heard Mississippi fred thru my buddy who was an audiophile back in 70's. Great great music. Apart from rj i think this fella was a fav.
Great story.
Loved this guy for years - still do in New Zealand
You can hear the train😲
Whoever gave us a thumbs down really needs to go to reeducation camp
This guy makes me wanna learn guitar!
What a great musician. I would have loved to see him live
Brilliant love it.pure Blues and so good played Chapeau.
INCREDIBLE !!!
How in the Hell does anyone give a Thumbs Down to Guitar Gold such as this???
randy beard liberals.
the people who can't play like this
Sweet groovin
@@zeus-mt7wx wrong
People who simply dont get " good" music.. thats who..
This guy is so fucking good it hurts my head.
God ! This beautiful......
Brilliant!!! Come on down to the dirty!!! Listening in 2020..in the Delta...
ABSOLUTELY, fabulous music, thank you, good time for you
Awesome, the tempo is like a roller-coaster!
More like the rhythm of a rolling train, the train was a theme is early blues music.
It's a train building up speed as his baby leaves him.
Great jam.
Legend!!! Super!!!
This guy created my favorite song! -👨🏻🦳
This song was written by Big Joe Williams.
The room is spinning! Love this, and hear the audience scream for joy!
When first created, it was rock'n'roll in the womb.
I love,love the sound of this!
Love that guitar!
The best evverrr version!
For sure 😎✌️
❤From IRAQ
Sensational, true version.....Greetings from Ireland
INSPIRED SO MANY GREAT COVERS
This is a cover. Baby please don’t go almost certainly predates the recordings of blues and was a Delta standard
this is great
Im a punk rock musician from Victoria bc and did my best to recreate this version of baby please dont go at a recent show
Hi, do you know if there's a UA-cam on how to play a version of this song? And if not, what are the chords on that rhythm beat. I presume it is drop down? Any info would be appreciated. Cheers!
@@carlomezzatesta4659 it's kinda hard to explain but the root is e and then it's like you're flumpin the slide on g for the rhythm part idk how to explain the lead part
How does he do it? Brilliant.
Amazing!
thumbs up i say wonderful music
wauw i can feel it this touch my whole soul.
With Tom Pomposello backing him on bass.
just love it !
Blue truth. Blessed,
Mississippi blues bleeding out of all six strings....
*hell to the yes!!!*
just love it,live aswell,brillant
Soulkeeper...
Superb.
awesome
O carinha e fera . Cada corda da pra ver o que ele fazia é pura paixão Verdadeiro Blues ....m
This was the music that led me to meet Mississippi Fred's wife Ms. Annie Mae McDowell at their house trailer in Como, Mississippi fall 1978.
This was the music that brought me back to Mississippi three years later fall 1981 where I first met R.L. Burnside at his home in Coldwater, Mississippi as he was driving down the road leading to his house on his way back to driving his "Boss Man's" tractor after a lunch break.
That night I went back and jammed with R.L. and a few friends.
And wound up spending the night on his couch.
After R.L. came out to the west coast for a short tour spring 1982, a few weeks later I followed R.L. back to Mississippi that summer and hung our playing and riding around with R.L. and his family.
Mississippi Fred McDowell's music is why I toured with R.L. for 12 years between 1982 thru 1994.
In the winter of 1986 at a gig we were doing in NYC Tom Pomposel
showed up. Tom had played bass
behind Fred on the album MISSISIPPI FRED MCDOWELL LIVE IN NEW YORK.
Before following R.L. onstage Tom handed me his "magic stone." It had brought him luck when he backed up Fred In a similar situation all those years ago.
I thanked Tom and found myself touching that stone throughout the night!
A few years went by and though R.L. and I spoke regularly it wasn't until spring and summer 1999 we had a chance to play together again onstage several times.
It felt fine as always.
Unfortunately though R.L. kept touring through at least 2001 R.L.'s health began to decline until he passed away late summer 2005.
A mighty depressing day.
But R.L. was out of his pain.
Before that in the fall of 2001 I helped a shaky walking R.L. back to his trailer after a festival in Oregon.
He was tired and needed his heart medicine.
It was getting close to the time maybe the last Mississippi Hill Country Delta Blues player truly of the Mississippi Fred McDowell era was about to spend his remaining time left on earth surrounded by family.
Sad for the rest of us but it was where R.L. needed to be.
During the time I knew and worked with R.L. the harmonica is what I mainly played, but also some guitar and also in between tours Eddie "Guitar" Burns, and other great country blues folk but R.L. is who I mostly learned and played with.
We recorded alot but we only had two CDs.
We recorded ACOUSTIC STORIES in New York in 1987 and the CD WELL...WELL...WELL a collection of songs with R.L. alone and with myself recorded between 1982 thru 1994.
Both produced by Louis X Erlanger and released on MC Records.
Hopefully over the years I have learned a touch of that incredible sweet slide guitar chunking bass thing going on that Fred taught R.L.
Free McDowell passed away before I could meet him. But I was greatful to meet Annie Mae McDowell, the Rev. Curtis Abram, Otha Turner, Junior Kimbrough, Cedric Burnside, Johnny Woods and a few other magical players of the Delta Hill Country Blues tradition during the times I was in and out of Mississippi.
All of whom were influenced I believe by Mississippi Fred McDowell as they all influenced each other.
And thankfully Mississippi Fred McDowell influenced all of us weather we're players, or listeners. Giving us his incredible gift.
Thanks for posting this.
Brings back great memories.
Jon Morris
With R.L. BURNSIDE 1982 thru 1994
jonbeckleymorris@gmail.com
Wow, amazing life story. Recently discovered R. L. Burnside and wondered who played that blistering harmonica on Well, Well, Well. Thank you for your contribution to keeping the blues alive and well.
@@dianebarnes4446
Thank you Diane for that very kind comment on my playing on WELL...WELL...WELL...
. R.L. was like family to me as was his wife Alice Mae, and his family.
Before Fat Possum there were many people who helped keep R.L.'s career alive. Fat Possum recorded R.L. in ways that made him relevant to the current music scene of the time. That was after I'd played with him.
But during live gigs with another guitar player Kenny Brown, and Cedric on drums R.L. played the same low down blues at those gigs in front of thousands of people that he played with me as a duo in front of as few as a half dozen people at The Maple Leaf in New Orleans.
Anyway whenever he played wherever he played what century he played in--R.L. Burnside played THE BLUES.
It was a great honor to be part of that from 1981 thru 1994 and knowing R.L. sitting in with him was fine but knowing R.L. as my friend was the greatest blessing of it all.
Acoustic Stories is another CD I'm on with R.L. They've got my first and last names wrong--
I was living in Holland when Lou Erlanger produced it--
And Lou forgot I played guitar on KINDHEARTED WOMAN and MEET ME IN THE BOTTOM which gives a bit different perspective to our playing.
But the good news is that the CD exists.
I've worked up a list of all the various videos and recordings I could find with R.L. And I on UA-cam.
I'm doing some music and writing projects in regards to us and if you're interested in me sharing that music list with you you're welcome to contact me at:
jonbeckleymorris@gmail.com
Again.... thanks for the fine compliment about my playing on WELL...WELL...WELL I hear every mistake I make! But old Rule Burnside he covered me pretty well....as partners do for each other.
And what a partner R.L. Burnside was.😎
Jon Beckley Morris UA-cam
RIP
R.L. Burnside 1926 - 2005
You are greatly missed by so many.
I saw you play with him. Memorable show.
@@myradioon Between 1982 - 1994 I played alot with R.L. Burnside, and other Mississippi players, but sadly never got the chance to play with Fred McDowell. Tom Pompesello played Bass behind Mississippi Fred on his record Live in New York.
THIS COMPILATION IS DEDICATED TO MY PINK SWAN!!!!
Live at the Gaslight Cafe in New York City's Greenwich Village (Nov, 5, 1971)
I like his name but I’m kinda always liking Fred!😊
Thanks Dad R.I.P. 😄x
Yes cool 😎
Came here after hearing an excellent Radio 4 program “Great Lives” about Alan Lomax who documented so much of Blues music, and was instrumental in publicising Fred. Great contributions by Shirley Collins (who almost married Alan) and Billy Bragg.
Yeah get it Fred! Woah!
Bo Diddley must have listened to this !
''Play it fur Big Joe Williams!''
Du bonne blues 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
New Orleans ain't mentioned, this must be an original.
Ther's better version of this song by MFMcD on his 1969 Capitol LP-"I do not play no rock n' roll".I like Them version too!!
I used to think that AC/DC had done the best version of this number, but tonight I am proven wrong.
Spine tingling!
in memoriam frank pintone. bluesman.
Led Zeppelin learned how to play the blues from him ( And from Leadbelly too...)
TRUE !
Da Levi ain’t broke 😊😊😊
this reworks the whole idea if electric blues guitar
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Yes RAa yes
♥♥♥
Better than the "Them" cover from the 60's
yes, but without Them would we even know of Mississippi Fred?
@@timcrenshaw5920 yes
Ja Mannnnn !!!!!
This comment is intended for the post of Sept. 25th 2022- Wilbur Harrison? Get Together- a white folk rock group did a take on that song called Get Together- I mentioned a black artist who borrowed from the same song- Wilbur Harrison ? And His One Man Band? My boxes of 45's are several stories up in a nightmare messy attic- very good "unifying" song- the B side was good too-
quel roof !
great`rolling-stones.
romania,
I believe it 's Johnny Winter on the left in the first picture jamming with Fred. Can anybody confirm that?
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Yes yes yes RAa
Steam train gathering speed.
I thought his name was Mississippi Fried McDowell
How in the hell did this get 5 dislikes?
@antoon meert (I've stolen this comment from a German splashdiving video) : Perhaps they were drunk, and they missed the "like" button
Must be some rappers stumbled on here.
SOME ONE WHO LISTENS TO THE SPICE GIRLS THAT'S WHO DON'T NOE REAL MUSIC I GOT BLUE IN MY SOUL J M
teenagers.
Mississippi= Man i Social Security Scotch sip private i (Brandy) triple OG