Belton Sutherland: Blues #2 (1978)
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2010
- Belton Sutherland (vocal and guitar) performs an improvised blues on Clyde Maxwell's porch. Shot by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long at Maxwell's farm near Canton, Mississippi, September 3, 1978. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit culturalequity.org. [02.19.21]
Technology amazes me. This was shot before the internet was even a thing. This old fellow, hanging out on a porch and singing the blues, had absolutely no idea that almost forty years later people would be watching his performance around the world. It's kind of incredible, really.
over 800k views that's consider a gold record. Too bad he is no longer with us.
1.2 million now!
Yup. Serving as a everlasting reminder what blues is AND isn't. This generation who thinks Fish, Clapton, SRV is blues - this serves to show them what blues really IS. And it's not guitar rock shredders.
Add to this the consideration that this fellow is probably gone from this world and the weirdness grows exponentially
Probably
The crickets in the background just adds to it..
Kevin Atkins heck yeah
True Country Blues! Hell yeah!
Those are cicadas not crickets..
Todd Callison for sure crickets man. Also hilarious comment they do add to it
I hear crickets and cicadas....ya'll must be city boys. Or just deaf...
This old man doesn't play blues. He IS blues.
therefore he plays himself
No, he definitely plays blues.. Look right at the video up there
He said Blues. And so it was
yes..u cannot play the blues if u don't have the blues..i think BB King said that.
@@SuperLuckao Howlin Wolf
We owe a great debt to Alan Lomax.
Matt Jarrett very true
Priceless piece of footage ~ youngsters, take heed
Lomax father and sun, musical heroes ...
to Belton you owes baby
As well as Belton Sutherland
Fuckin' love that riff, so grimy, so raw, dipped in gold and dragged through mud.
Yes Dakota. You caught it man. I heard Hendrix here. The chord is just mean and steady.
I can hear Jim Morrison, get the MOJO RISING" Da da da da da Da
If you play it at 0.5 speed
@duhcohtuh - No gold to be seen here mate. Blue lies at the opposite end of that particular spectrum.
Reminds me so fucking much of heavy metal
THIS VIDEO IS SO FUCKING COOL ON SO MANY LEVELS
+gettinnapkins Yeah, there are not too many people that can get that...
***** but there are lots of things to understand on this video, not only about music..
jimihd1 my thoughts exactly
+gettinnapkins shut up fool youre fuckin the mojo
riffraff riff i don't get it. are you trying to seem interesting by belittling my excitement? because i was VERY impressed by your use of bold font on a youtube comment. are you a hacker?
If I had a choice between having tickets to see my favorite band of all time, front row center, or a chance to go back in time and sit on the porch with one of these old blues players and listen to the raw, unfiltered, true blues they used to play....I’d choose the time machine.
Uh huh… you could use that machine to see all the bands that you want.
There's something so powerful about seeing these old bluesman out on deep south porches at night, steamy air, crickets and frogs filling the sound of the night, and they're playing for their own catharsis long before the internet, playing to the open fields. The authenticity is haunting.
The fact that he is singing with his cigaret in his mouth
WOW! Can you get any more down to Earth than that? He's not looking for money and fame, just playing some deep-rooted blues with his whole heart and soul. And didn't even lose his cigarette while singing! And that rhythm with tapping his foot while playing. Just BEAUTIFUL!
Doesn't get any better than this
As a metal fan for more than 15 years, I must say that this is one of the purest and heaviest things I've ever seen
Power the blues bro power of the blues🎵
As a blues fan,you have plenty of great blues artists and songs like this.Go check Skip James or Boyd Rivers,just to name a few.
that is real music man not shit like metal. wtf metal, noise sh*t
Amen.
Metal is but two steps removed from the Blues with the latter begetting Rock & Roll which, in its turn, begat Metal
possibly the most badass thing I've ever heard in my life
I agree. Quite possibly.
Noely Ryan It's a solid ringer that's for sure.
He is playing how he is feeling. Love the Mississippi Blues.
I got some serious goosebumps listening to this.
indeed what incredible playing nothing phony just soul
That's some grown ass man stuff right there.
Ya man
Grown folk music indeed.
And you know this is true
THIS Gentleman.....reminds me of my Grandfather.....who played guitar and sang The Blues exactly like this when I was 3 years old in 1960.
He even looks a bit like him too.
Nice Flashback.
You are a lucky lucky man to have had a grandfather like him.lord knows the world sure could use them now..I tip my hat from tennessee
@@richardsledgecock2110 Thank you for your Kind Words. I bear his name as a "3rd" and try to live up to what he taught us. Lost him too soon. He crammed a lot into 61 yrs.
@@ramsfire I'm sure he'd be proud of ye.sounds like you learned alot.best wishes to you for the new year.god knows we could all use a little relief lol.all a fellow can do is what he can and let the rough end drag.
Out of all the videos in the Lomax Archive, this one astounds me the most. Everything about it is pure blues. The crickets in the background, the old porch, the dusty shoes, that guitar and Belton Sutherland as a figure. Simply blues.
The hand rolled,, cigarette hanging from his mouth pure blues
Yes!! It feels essential..defining in a way. Like it encapsulates the genre perfectly. Even that beautiful blend of deep emotion and nonchalant chill.
Check out burnside
Burnside blues
Robert Burnside blues
People idolize pop stars, and all those kinds of people we think of as “great musicians” myself included. People who play on 15 foot stages and charge 200 dollars a ticket. And there are people like this man who are something entirely separate. Entirely closer to the soul
The cigarette doesn’t burn ...too much respect
"Cigarette"...
He paused it ..until he was done jamming
Eli Malaga ,hhhhh
being that he n miss.... its prolly a jernt
That’s for sure a joint
Love how he gives the effect that he is playing guitar and bass at the same time! For an acoustic song, it comes off as very heavy!
I think it’s tuned down to open drone d or something. You get the effect from hitting the top (thickest) string in rhythm with the rest of the guitar. He’s playing guitar, vocals, bass, and drums. All by himself. What a performance. He had no idea we’d be enjoying it 😊
I think it's standard tuning but down to C# more or less, pretty heavy
I am so glad that Alan Lomax had a clue that this material was something to save. Music with substance!
This should 100% be put in the national archives
i think he created being cool without even noticing it!
ShuFFle2207 that'd what cool is
i guess the unlit cigarette helps. there for looks i reckon
@@heginschristianstrong7707 it used be lit, look closely! That's even makes if cooler!
Hegins christianstrong cigs used to go out that one looks to be hand rolled maybe not even a cig
Hell yeah I like going home
Belton Sutherland...even the name is cool. Don't you guys wish we could've been there on that porch and witnessed that? I know I do. Take care everyone.
Not really as I'd be a senior citizen or dead now.
For about 3 or 4 hours with some good moonshine and ice water. (a little weed, and some wiggling women) hot damn !!!!
Blows me away what a man can do with 2 frets.... and a endless pit of a blue soul
I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY 🎶🎸🎶
I can’t even begin to imagine how many lost songs of the past there are like this that have been tapped out and played on so many porches
The driving intensity of this tune is simply relentless.
This drive, with simple melody is the central, hypnotic element of Delta Blues that separates it from the other two types of country blues, that are Texas Blues and Piedmont Blues.
That’s real music ❤
Killer blues,raw and sloppy like it was meant to be. Love it.
Exactly.. just to mention the strings are a bit off in tune.. still in range though. Perfecto 👌
Belton Sutherland and the cricket´s band!
they later joined Buddy Holly
I can´t even talk and play at the same time and this guy is holding magically his cig
@blksbbth d legendary
As you watch and listen to this true old time blues talent, you may come to realize and recognize from whence the blues emulates. It comes from the heart, it comes from pain, it comes from love, it comes from despair, and often it emotes hope.
Elvis as a poor child himself was sitting and listening to these old fellows. Whatever happened to him later, I can still feel this in his soul.
AND PROBLY WHY eRIC cLAPTON shouldn't have been playing it.
pain and love are 2 connected polarities
@@jefersonvilaede very thin line between joy and suffering, god bless my friend
Crickets in the background and a hand rolled cigarette in his mouth. Can't get more authentic than that.
Singing, playing, and tapping rhythm with his foot....all with a smoke glued to the corner of his mouth. So great! Reminds me of all the old guys in the 70s who would do everything from fix cars, repair houses, fish, do manual jobs...and still always have that smoke glued to the corner of their mouth.
I can't count how many times watched this movie. I feel blues.
I'm not kidding when I say that that's one of the best song ever written.
The drone his thumb creates is addictive. This is as close as you can get to the source of all modern music.
Props to Alan Lomax for preserving so many brilliant performances….
Blues will never die. This tune is very powerfull.
This man deserves vastly more credit than he gets. These few videos are the only info about him thst exists...
+Kurt Morrison I agree with you.
No he doesn't, these are working man songs. For guys who roll their own and do hard labor into old age. And I bet you dont know shit about that.
What the hell are you talking about +riffraff riff
I wrote the song.
@@jacobusbaker9285 you were having a bad day right?
All the electronics and technology of today can't surpass this...my mouth is still open... What a bad ass man, with a mother of all bad ass tunes. This is so good it hurts...
That has to be one of the coolest sound guitar grooves ever, priceless. Something like this can not be duplicated or copied. It’s original Deep South American blues. It’s Boogie in one of it’s purest forms. It cannot be bought or sold and is difficult to learn. This song comes across as an authentic original masterpiece, yet the musician here probably did not gain or amass great wealth and riches money but he achieved something more important, he is a result of Freedom he is the Boogie in its pure musical state. He represents the True America at its foundations. He might or might not come from a poor background, it does not matter. What matters is his Spirit. He is very strong, very powerful, very dangerous, capable of anything, indestructible, and he is eternally forever. He will never die, he cannot, it’s impossible. He is simply a gift. A gift from God to anybody out there who wants it.-“Boogie Theory”
Belton Sutherland is one of my favorite musicians of all time. It's a shame he didn't lay down some more tracks on vinyl but we're lucky with what we have. Thanks to the Lomax team
A guitar and a man with soul, all that is needed for great music
JUST UNBELIEVABLE.........HE PLAYS...HE SMOKES...AND FUCK HE SINGS LIKE A BIRD
This cuts right to the soul. No fancy bs just music in its most human form
It literally sounds like there's a bassplayer playing in the background.
Belton's guitar playing is a Birdseye view of the internal SOUL of the blues.
Alan Lomax was an extraordinary human, without him much of this treasure would have been lost. But it's here for us to enjoy. Massive
This is one of the most rocking songs throughout these archives. I love it, the guitar and that bass beat kicked out with his heel on the wooden floor.
true music real art pure heart they dont make em like they use to god bless them women that spurred the worlds last genuine blues soul singers
Well, this is music ! no comments......Greetings from Germany
You need a lot of class, tradition and autenticity to sing just holding the cigarette in your mouth!!.
Pure sound
Damn. Just beautiful.
I love this mean look on his face!
my god i have tears in my eyes, this is amazing, wonderful, it touches through my heart.
His fingers didn't go anywhere, but my mind traveled so far far away...
Gotta love them crickets and good old sounds of nature to really bring the atmosphere alive its just like your out there sittin with him waiting on dinner to be ready
This gives me goosebumps without fail every time I hear it. What a tragedy that there aren't more recordings of this guy!
I AGREE WHOLE HEARTEDLY
Beautiful riff, you can really see that metal definitely came from the blues. I'm so glad of my roots.
Love the way he holds his smoke, sings his ballad, kicks his foot, never misses a beat....life will never be the same. Kids these days...wont appreciate the raw experience you get from living..
The real original blues. So good. Thanks for sharing.
Love the crickets in the background...the light conversation...the hollow floor of porch tapping his hard soled shoe...sounds great...man those strings looked 20 years old...who knows how old that guitar was....
Oh my Goodness! Just when you think you have heard them all, another awesome guitarist comes along. I am going to look this guy up and learn all his tunes. I can feel
the blues just pouring into and out of that old guitar from his soul. Whew!!
+Unique96 I will never forget Belton Sutherland. Thank God for You Tube.
Belton puts me into the mood to get into my car and drive as fast as it will take me. Total adrenaline rush man!
Belton would shit on you thats for sure.
That tone is special. I've been listening to old blues since I was a kid and never heard anything like that until today. Foot tapping is bananas.
Hard to believe that it could ever get any better than this. Raw, unpolished, unprocessed, and played straight from the gut the way it was meant to be. Sad that most of these players died dirt poor with no or very little recognition though they were the founding fathers of the blues. The blues are as American as American music can get...
The coolest man that ever lived without a shadow of doubt!
there's some serious juju in that guitar work...primal and powerful
I was just going to say I’ve never heard a guitar that sounds so raw, plain yet very captivating
He had been smoking that cigarette since 1932. It never went out, not even once.
Sitting on his porch, in the dark of night, no one but him and the crickets, almost like a pure release of emotion to the creator. Beautiful !
Watching in June 2020. Thank you Alan.👍🙂😎
youtube sometimes really hits the spot with its recomendations
I love how all these old blues songs have so much activity in the comment section! This is amazing!
This is intense. It’s not overly noisy or trying to show off. It is what it is.
Give that man a light....
I don't think I've ever heard an acoustic being played like this before in my whole life! It's heavy and dark bad arse cool.
Legenden einer fast vergessen Zeit.
Respekt
I've been watching this same video for easily over 5 or 6 years and it never fails to give me chills. This right here, Mr. Belton Sutherland, is the personification of the Blues! An older Black Man smoking a self-rolled cigarette on his front porch while playing his guitar and singing his heart out. We've all said to our Ol'Lady at one time or another, "I want you to love me or leave me.. Anythang that you wanna do!" This is a GEM right here. God Bless Mr. Sutherland and long live his legacy and contribution to the BLUES!
Haha, the singing cigarette. What blows me away is that pure authenticity of this. No bells and wistles. Just that cigarette and a guitar.
One man, one guitar, and a kick ass sound that is even almost absent from music today and even today's Blues. That driving hypnotic drone rhythm sounds like North Mississippi Hill Country Blues. Perhaps this was recorded in Oxford, Holly Springs, Water Valley, or even the other surrounding towns in the area. This sounds nothing like Delta Blues.
+Cody Moraga Agreed mate....not Delta or Southern Mississippi at all. This is Hill Country - RL Burnside, Fred McDowell, Junior Kimbrough territory.
+sayerma this is basically central mississippi. this was filmed in canton mississippi. bordering our capitol jackson missisippi. im from mississippi.
+leviticus ftw Cool, I'm all the way from Northern California, I have some family in Arkansas, but I've never been to Mississippi. North Mississippi Hill Country Blues is actually the name of the sub-genre within Blues. When I heard it the first time, I was hooked like a catfish! Wish I can visit Mississippi in the next few years and explore from Memphis, Tennessee, down to Clarksdale, MS, Oxford, and out east to Tupelo.
Cody Moraga Blind Pig records stuff..Brilliant!
@@codymoraga6784 I think this drone is the closest thing we have to an ancestral revolt--earmarks of both the hunter-gatherers exploited by the African Bantu, and slaves exploited by Europeans. Hill Country wasn't good for growing cotton, so this music flourished outside the old plantation and sharecropper systems...Delta Blues was created by black workers on the Mississippi, and seemed more preoccupied with seducing young ladies than rebelling...
This is one bad-ass son of a bitch.
Peak of class and style. As delta and blue as it can be. That is one of the many reasons I love the blues, when you think you already discovered all the hidden gems you stumble on another treasure. What a beautiful culture. Love this.
not delta, Mississippi hill country blues
Bull not hill blues old blues...delta had the same way of playing I'm from the delta seen katts sound like him....he wasn't from the hills close to the delta
The sound of a whole band from a voice, a guitar, and a tapping foot. Genius.
I just love these old tracks, where You can hear the true soul in all its depths. :)
Bello..bellissimo !!!!!
Wonderful......love the video..
Music is all about evoking or expressing emotion in my eyes. This is the pinnacle. And that riff is so dark and hits the soul in such a satisfying bluesy way. True musicianship.
i learned to play this on the guitar a couple years back note for note. I love that grimy riff
Authentic blues back in the day 👍💙. Thanks for sharing!
Love the way he use the porch as hes stomp box... he is his own band with all instrumenst... love this
Das ist die richtige Musik für den Tag der Arbeit, wunderschön zum chillen bei einem Bierchen (am Nachmittag)...
Listened to this song maybe since 7 years hours and hours and still there are tears pouring down as if i heard it for the first time
Eu aqui do Brasil que nunca pisei nos EUA sinto arrepios com um blues pesado destes, imagina vocês do Sul... muito bom...
"Well, I feel like holl'in', don't wanta holler, Lord
I got somethin' to tell you, girl, tell it to no crowd
I want you to love me or leave me, anything you wanta do
I want you to love me or leave me, anything you wanta do
What a strange thing happenin', someday it might happen to you
She's a brown-skin woman, dimples in her jaw
She's a brown-skin woman, dimples in her jaw
If you ever had the blues, know about how I feel
If you ever had the blues, know about how I feel
Feel just like a engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel"
fantastic!!!!! i think that this is the real original blues
The music goes on through the wind. To be played agin by the Hands of another soul. If you listen hard enough .. It will begin to play once again !
This is amazing…. 😮 beat is killing it
He looks a tad like Lee Van Cleef
He looks like Quint from JAWS
That's what I noticed too.
Wow your right !!
Spot on
John Holy crap he does
damn this guy can play.
Can't get more blues than this.
Lomaxs are GODSENT
Pure sounds. Pure fucking blues. Great Belton.
What a superb sounding guitar !
Love them damn shoes! If I was there there wouldn't be any dust on them.
What I’m talking about. Rough life still like the blues ?? Not hard to get there you know. 2024. Almost there