Why bring up rock and roll? Your great grandfather's music is better than rock and roll. (And the guys who invented rock and roll in 1947-1949 weren't actually very interested in it. Roy Brown, who wrote "Good Rocking Tonight," said he didn't even listen to acoustic guitar blues. He listened to swing, jump blues music like Louis Jordan's, and came up with a new spin on that. Jordan was older than Booker was.)
had the pleasure of seeing him play a few times. met im also he was very gracious to young white kid that didn't know shit. now i am in my seventy's and know a little...
killer blues track from booker white this guy is fucking awesome, this is real blues what a beat, and he makes guitar playing look easy. great song too.
+rasfilmon "This is the birth of rock and roll my friend." I'd vote for Wild Bill Moore's "We're Gonna Rock." And Moore had probably never heard of Booker White.
it DOESNT look easy and it's not! I've tried it and can't even get close to it - maybe it's because I don't have a National but thats probably just an excuse.🙄
Right on! I'm half tempted and half afraid to try doing some of what he did on my guitar. He totally owns that guitar when he plays that song! Amazing!
Most people around the world don’t understand the music that comes out of America because they don’t speak English but they tap their feet and clap their hands anyway because it’s music and it doesn’t need a language.
I first saw this video four years, and as an impressionable 15 year old, it helped get me into the blues. I'm nearly 20 now, and this performance still sounds like it did when I first heard it - fresh, raw, emotional, and most of all, relevant.
We're very fortunate that moments like these and men like Booker were recorded before they died. They will be listened to and loved by people for centuries. Booker, Son and the boys will live forever!
Buka White so great used to listen to Buka in the 60 s at a little club called the Ashgrove in Hollywood had all his albums too!!! Thanks Buka you were a gift to the world!
That's my great grandfather.I never got to meet him but I'm honored enough to have his name as my middle name. Love u grandad. From your great grandson Travis Booker williams. R.I.P.
Everyone is a Siskel or Ebert on the internet. Sometimes the simplest of things ARE the best kinds of music, for the moment. Music is ephemeral, and motivates an emotional response to which different people recat to things in different ways. hence, we have different kinds of music. Why does the sound of birds sound like music to people? But I digress. I think the simplisity is the golden part of this piece. You can hear the dynamics of the instrument, and his particular style more clearly, as it is not being obfuscated by complicated riffs. This particular video captures a lot of the nuances in an interesting way. Thanks for sharing!
Holy smoke! That man could play some guitar!!!!!!! I can't believe I had never heard of this amazing guitarist. Ain't that the way of it, though? True musical talent is something you have to hunt for amid all the crap out there mascarading as music. Thank you for posting. I wish I could play like that. Probably break every string on my guitar if I tried though. haha.
philomelodia how did u hear about him?? If u never heard of him, u prob never heard of lightnin hopkins, son house, fred mcdowell, r l burnside & my favorite junior kimbrough! Chk these guys out.
HAHAHA!! You win the internet haha!! I thought I was the only one that thought that. He's like (As he speaks to his guitar) "Bitch, you better sing , cause im here to play some music."
It's a hard song to learn, it doesn't fuck around. A MINOR with a variation on the D, not to mention this is open tuning, if you want to get technical with a slide. This isn't a song you learn to play overnight, it takes years to efficiently understand the twang and finger variation involved, yet he's playing it like it's going out of style yesterday...
I was lucky enough to see him live a couple of times at the Ash Grove in the mid-60's. Really don't remember too much about it. We went every weekend, for a few years. Saw about every folkie around at the time.
@@tomboyqueenX Thank you for replying. Sorry If I came off as rude there. I was just a bit confused by seeing somebody so old with an anime profile pic. Japanese anime really never took off with the post-WW2 generation in the west though animes like _Tetsuwan Atom_ and _Mach Go-Go-Go_ did arrive in the west in the 60s (though in a heavily diluted form, which made them look near-identical to western cartoons) and modern Japanese anime was pioneered by Osamu Tezuka in 1963, when he was trying to make a manga for TV. If you want further reading on manga/anime and japanese culture overseas, I recommend Pure Invention: _How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World_ by Matt Alt. It's a great read on a very interesting topic.
wow he really beats the bitch out of that guitar. he is possessed with utter musical brilliance. mesmerising performance. shames virtually every other singer/musician in the charts today.
It's amazing how similar old blue grass, blues, and old time country are. They are considered different, but you could play them interchangeably on the radio and most people wouldn't even notice. They all got soul. Something sadly missing from modern music. And all those people are almost gone. The greats are already gone. Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and so many others are gone forever and we'll never see their like again. Those who come after are not equal to those came before. Truly sad.
Whoever invented UA-cam, did more for mankind than all the religions in the world combine. How else would we know about this fantastic mind blowing stuff?
Hello: This is the first SLIDE work I have seen that far back in time.I have not see it all yet If you keep diging on utube you see a different singer ever week. Tonight I typed in 1890 Blues.I have gone back more that that but I forgot on recorders back then.LOL LOL.He sounds all right this is real Blues..
delighted about the blues marker, visited Aberdeen on a Sunday in June and could not even get a postcard let alone any reference to the great man. Told that quite a few people such as my wife visit from Aberdeen in Scotland. missed him when he visited UK .
White was born in 1906. He survived the great depression, convicted to a literal chain gang in prison, served in the Navy during WW2 and lived through the civil rights movement. I can't even imagine the things he's seen and experienced. For me, it really irks me to hear the pioneers of blues being attributed to Clapton or Stevie. This was blues and it could have only been born from these times.
Saw Booker once back in 1967 and had a shock when getting into a young guy’s car last Saturday with this track blaring out of his speakers. So glad the blues are coming back. Dr G
The guys who invented rock and roll in 1947-1949, such as Wild Bill Moore, Wynonie Harris, and Roy Brown (the rock and roll sound originated as a joke that consisted of performing jump blues as it were gospel, with the gospel backbeat that previously had been rare in jump blues) were much more interested in mid-'40s jump blues artists who made a lot of money such as Louis Jordan and Roy Milton than in the likes of Booker White.
+rasfilmon As a fan of Jimi Hendrix I know he was big fan of T Bone Walker guitar style ! :) Jimi was great but is true rock doesn`t starts with him .:) Might be ending with him ! :))
That open Em tuning is the bomb. I'm mostly an electric player, but watching this the other day, I had to get out the acoustic and go to work. You can play in the major key like here, or get all scary and Skip James with it. Yes.
he is playing so fluidly and naturally it is like the guitar is an extension of his own body, amazing simply amazing, Long Live The Blues, the greatest music on Earth.
Don't know but this video version verses are not in right places. I finally find lyrics for this song. But this really improvised version and some lyrics are instantly created. This is absolutely rawist version in this song. Can I linked? www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bukka+white/aberdeen+mississippi_20593047.html
Ben Nardolilli To be fair, quite a few Delta Blues songs are literally about shooting your partner in the face with 45s, 32-20s, and other assorted firearms lol
@@timcornelius1912 Are you sure? I read that it was steel on an article about his "iconic guitar", but maybe this is a different one? Sounds a bit more grungier like steel, too.
I saw him play in 1970 after he had been "re-discovered". I met him and Willie Dixon and the rest of the guys on tour. He signed his name as Bukka White. Fantastic night!!
This is my great grandfather. My grandmas father right here. He doesn't get enough credit. Hes a pioneer of rock and roll.
Why bring up rock and roll? Your great grandfather's music is better than rock and roll. (And the guys who invented rock and roll in 1947-1949 weren't actually very interested in it. Roy Brown, who wrote "Good Rocking Tonight," said he didn't even listen to acoustic guitar blues. He listened to swing, jump blues music like Louis Jordan's, and came up with a new spin on that. Jordan was older than Booker was.)
had the pleasure of seeing him play a few times. met im also he was very gracious to young white kid that didn't know shit. now i am in my seventy's and know a little...
you have the blood of legend/royalty son feel proud. Wear it humbly.
I don't know that he pioneered rock & roll, but he sure left an indelible mark on the Blues.
lbj46 u halfwit, how did u see him live, what in 1937, when u weren’t even born!
This is as pure as it gets. Bukka was a preacher of the blues.
There will have been no Led Zeppelin without guys like Booker White. He grooves and rocks it man -- amazing chap!
14v years ago.. Lmfao!
I'd be okay with no Led Zepplin - or at least no Robert Plant. His moaning ruined all of their music.
killer blues track from booker white this guy is fucking awesome, this is real blues what a beat, and he makes guitar playing look easy. great song too.
rasfilmon i would have to agree there this guy is always been amazing.
+rasfilmon "This is the birth of rock and roll my friend." I'd vote for Wild Bill Moore's "We're Gonna Rock." And Moore had probably never heard of Booker White.
@@thebrazilianatlantis165 Booker White wasn't until much later an influence on Rock (Robert Plant cites Bukka as one of his early blues influences)
When Booker takes off with that Rhythm I was just floored. Incredible.
mother of God he's killing it
That slap, hammer on pull off technique is quite the challenge to pull off.
Looks easy, but nay, brother, the timing is beyond imperative.
Peace
Nay lol
Exactly! That's what I'm tryin to tell emmm! Peace back atcha brotha.
Yeah it's sounds like there's another guitar player but it's just him 🤯
it DOESNT look easy and it's not! I've tried it and can't even get close to it - maybe it's because I don't have a National but thats probably just an excuse.🙄
Oh my. When ya wanna hear pure, nasty blues, turn this on.
0:01 Okay this is old-timey...
0:09 HOLY SHIT METAL AF
LOL - Yep!
The first metal song!
For sure!
What a right hand! I don't think I understood a word he sung, but who cares when there is rhythm like that?
The camera is spot on. Thanks.
Right on! I'm half tempted and half afraid to try doing some of what he did on my guitar. He totally owns that guitar when he plays that song! Amazing!
Most people around the world don’t understand the music that comes out of America because they don’t speak English but they tap their feet and clap their hands anyway because it’s music and it doesn’t need a language.
Hundreds of years of genuine black experience speaking out.
I first saw this video four years, and as an impressionable 15 year old, it helped get me into the blues. I'm nearly 20 now, and this performance still sounds like it did when I first heard it - fresh, raw, emotional, and most of all, relevant.
Same story here.
I barely seen this in 2020 I've been a fan of Pre-War Blues since 14(I'm 25). This is over the top master level.✨
it dont matter what you play its how you play it. awsome .
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We're very fortunate that moments like these and men like Booker were recorded before they died. They will be listened to and loved by people for centuries. Booker, Son and the boys will live forever!
Buka White so great used to listen to Buka in the 60 s at a little club called the Ashgrove in Hollywood had all his albums too!!! Thanks Buka you were a gift to the world!
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That's my great grandfather.I never got to meet him but I'm honored enough to have his name as my middle name. Love u grandad. From your great grandson Travis Booker williams. R.I.P.
That's pretty much all you need to know, right there.
frankie12string damn right
+PPlast08008icsoul 00
fuck yes
My god...sheer blues..sheer talent..noone does it like that anymore!! Big respect!❤
The low fidelity sound brings a whole new dimension to his playing. Love it.
One of the greatest Bluesmen ever. Thanks for posting this great video.
Rest in Peace Bukka White.
I just saw this legends younger cousin(BB King) a few days ago at blues festival. Thank God for UA-cam!! A moment in time!
The origin of rock and roll right here y'all!
Well, not really.... more like a distant relative of rock
Everyone is a Siskel or Ebert on the internet. Sometimes the simplest of things ARE the best kinds of music, for the moment. Music is ephemeral, and motivates an emotional response to which different people recat to things in different ways. hence, we have different kinds of music. Why does the sound of birds sound like music to people? But I digress. I think the simplisity is the golden part of this piece. You can hear the dynamics of the instrument, and his particular style more clearly, as it is not being obfuscated by complicated riffs. This particular video captures a lot of the nuances in an interesting way. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely. Complication is easy to hide behind.
Agreed! This man is a genius and I can not expect simple folks to grasp such an idea....
This playing isn't simple.
There's NOTHING simple about the way this guy played.
Holy smoke! That man could play some guitar!!!!!!! I can't believe I had never heard of this amazing guitarist. Ain't that the way of it, though? True musical talent is something you have to hunt for amid all the crap out there mascarading as music. Thank you for posting. I wish I could play like that. Probably break every string on my guitar if I tried though. haha.
unfuckin believable
philomelodia how did u hear about him?? If u never heard of him, u prob never heard of lightnin hopkins, son house, fred mcdowell, r l burnside & my favorite junior kimbrough! Chk these guys out.
I love your great grand pa brother, I’ve been listening to him 51 yrs, love Tony
are you familiar with Roy Rogers (not the cowboy)
This guy's a one-man party. Amazing!
His percussion technique is SICK
I remember this style of playing in his act a lot. Very unique!
Are you fuckin kidding me? (puts down guitar forever)
HAHAHA!!
You win the internet haha!!
I thought I was the only one that thought that. He's like (As he speaks to his guitar) "Bitch, you better sing , cause im here to play some music."
It's a hard song to learn, it doesn't fuck around. A MINOR with a variation on the D, not to mention this is open tuning, if you want to get technical with a slide. This isn't a song you learn to play overnight, it takes years to efficiently understand the twang and finger variation involved, yet he's playing it like it's going out of style yesterday...
BLUES HEAVEN! That right hand rhythm thing! Where he's slapping the bridge and neck and hammering on those bass notes is ASTONISHING!
Thank God for everyone and everything it took for me to get to hear this.
John Fahey
I heard this man live in the 1960s, the best ever in this style. And now we have (c)rap?
Much agread
Booker White's sound is so authentic! This made my weekend 🙌 ❤
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I was lucky enough to see him live a couple of times at the Ash Grove in the mid-60's. Really don't remember too much about it. We went every weekend, for a few years. Saw about every folkie around at the time.
Wow.
So how old are you tomboyqueenX Greenberger?
@@canesvenatici4259 74. The UA-cam account was my son's so I just continued to use it.
@@tomboyqueenX Thank you for replying. Sorry If I came off as rude there. I was just a bit confused by seeing somebody so old with an anime profile pic. Japanese anime really never took off with the post-WW2 generation in the west though animes like _Tetsuwan Atom_ and _Mach Go-Go-Go_ did arrive in the west in the 60s (though in a heavily diluted form, which made them look near-identical to western cartoons) and modern Japanese anime was pioneered by Osamu Tezuka in 1963, when he was trying to make a manga for TV. If you want further reading on manga/anime and japanese culture overseas, I recommend Pure Invention: _How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World_ by Matt Alt. It's a great read on a very interesting topic.
No one else on earth could do this and get that sound. There will only ever be one Mr. Bukka White.
Thats some hardcore there.
2022 still rockin This!!!
wow he really beats the bitch out of that guitar. he is possessed with utter musical brilliance. mesmerising performance. shames virtually every other singer/musician in the charts today.
Well said!! I love Booker / Bukka White. He deserves to be a LOT better known. Fabulous player.
It's amazing how similar old blue grass, blues, and old time country are. They are considered different, but you could play them interchangeably on the radio and most people wouldn't even notice. They all got soul. Something sadly missing from modern music. And all those people are almost gone. The greats are already gone. Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, and so many others are gone forever and we'll never see their like again. Those who come after are not equal to those came before. Truly sad.
Bukka White,brilliant, greetings from Aberdeen Scotland 🏴🏴🏴🏴, the original Aberdeen
A lot of great things originate from Scotland! Cheers from Inverness Township, Michigan 🇺🇸 👍🏾
Whoever invented UA-cam, did more for mankind than all the religions in the world combine. How else would we know about this fantastic mind blowing stuff?
Some of us had searched out the 78s 60 years ago!!
GREAT.WITHOUT MUSICIANS LIKE THIS.NOTHING WE NO TODAY EVEN EXISTS.
For half the song he’s not even looking at the neck…what a magician
That's called Mojo working. Gave birth to rock and roll.Great Bukka rocked the blues and BB got some groove.
45 people are jealous guitar players.
Yes sir, and if they will get in line, I will gladly start from the Biggest One down, whooping ass
I worship you sir
Bb
It’s a 151 now 😔
I first heard a tiny snippet of this song in the movie "Life" and could not get it out of my head until I found here. Thank you dear uploader.
This song makes me feel badass :D gotta love Bukka's tunes!
Hello: This is the first SLIDE work I have seen that far back in time.I have not see it all yet If you keep diging on utube you see a different singer ever week. Tonight I typed in 1890 Blues.I have gone back more that that but I forgot on recorders back then.LOL LOL.He sounds all right this is real Blues..
Brilliant example of why the guitar is classed as a percussion instrument.💪
Welch ein wunderbares Ton- & Filmdokument. Ein fantastischer Blick zurück zu den Wurzeln von Rock, Blues und Rock'n'Roll.
That guitar was sold not long ago for a large sum of money , there’s an interesting story behind it any one is interested to Google ,
delighted about the blues marker, visited Aberdeen on a Sunday in June and could not even get a postcard let alone any reference to the great man. Told that quite a few people such as my wife visit from Aberdeen in Scotland. missed him when he visited UK
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White was born in 1906. He survived the great depression, convicted to a literal chain gang in prison, served in the Navy during WW2 and lived through the civil rights movement. I can't even imagine the things he's seen and experienced. For me, it really irks me to hear the pioneers of blues being attributed to Clapton or Stevie. This was blues and it could have only been born from these times.
wow what a great preformance...powerful voice and haunting guitar..imagine listening to this live!
This is amazing!
We dont have artists like this anymore.
Its sad,but were lucky to have you tube.
Great lord the rythm is amazing.
ThAnK YoU MR BUKKA WHiTE !!! RESPECT !!!
You got it. He's most often known as Bukka White.
Saw Booker once back in 1967 and had a shock when getting into a young guy’s car last Saturday with this track blaring out of his speakers. So glad the blues are coming back.
Dr G
No one can play like this! Wow!
I agree
Catherine Geldart Bukka White can...
I was so high when I first saw this that I just sat there slack jawed. Shattered my universe. Probably one of the greatest things ever.
This, children, is where rock and/or roll came from.
The guys who invented rock and roll in 1947-1949, such as Wild Bill Moore, Wynonie Harris, and Roy Brown (the rock and roll sound originated as a joke that consisted of performing jump blues as it were gospel, with the gospel backbeat that previously had been rare in jump blues) were much more interested in mid-'40s jump blues artists who made a lot of money such as Louis Jordan and Roy Milton than in the likes of Booker White.
+rasfilmon As a fan of Jimi Hendrix I know he was big fan of T Bone Walker guitar style ! :) Jimi was great but is true rock doesn`t starts with him .:) Might be ending with him ! :))
+TheBluesSociety And T-Bone Walker was a huge fan of Scrapper Blackwell.
i'm 14 and i love this type of music and John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. i love this type of music.
Ok devil where do I sign?!!
....with what?!??!!!
blues roots...he's deep down from there somewhere. Thankyou for the classic recording of the great man
The real deal. Not the Stones, not Zepplin, not Pink Floyd Not the fckin Beatles. Not any of them. This is where it comes from. The truth.
Exactly
Been looking for this forever!!
It's featured in the movie "life" but no mention of it in the sound track. Not fair!!!
Amazing!
Thanks for the upload.
That's it Bukka, you wail that thing.
Booker doesn't stop playing. The video stops. Booker can keep this up for decades.
the heaviest thing i've ever heard.way heavier than metal.
That open Em tuning is the bomb. I'm mostly an electric player, but watching this the other day, I had to get out the acoustic and go to work. You can play in the major key like here, or get all scary and Skip James with it. Yes.
This sounds a bit like Parchman Farm blues, although the lyrics may be different.
it is so incredibly good to see and hear music made/played for a valid
reason....
SMACK A SMACK A SMACK!
love it.
I'm surprised (but quite happy) to see over 1 million views. Long live the blues!!
Oh my God!!!!!!
he is playing so fluidly and naturally it is like the guitar is an extension of his own body, amazing simply amazing, Long Live The Blues, the greatest music on Earth.
You know it occurs to me, and I think it's a shame, but I bet that guitar is worth more money than Booker White made in his lifetime. Sad isn't it?
That guitar is in newcastle england .
Apparently he didn't do very well out of his brief folk career and went back to a life of hardship.
One man and one guitar. That's some formidable boogie.
Seriously arse kicking blues
@MichaelKingsfordGray If someone says "arse kicking" and you visualise an anus it's you who is the pervert my nasty little friend.
Love this keep coming back to it
Stormy Guitar :)
This is so badass. I found this by accident a few days ago, and every time I watch it gets better. "Play it good now!" Hell yeah :)
Don't know but this video version verses are not in right places.
I finally find lyrics for this song.
But this really improvised version and some lyrics are instantly created.
This is absolutely rawist version in this song.
Can I linked? www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bukka+white/aberdeen+mississippi_20593047.html
When I was 4 years old my mom gave me a harmonica. Since then(I'm now15) I love the blues..
And I'm sure there will be a blues revival in the 20's.
Can we all just admire how awesome this is without making metaphors about domestic abuse?
Ben Nardolilli To be fair, quite a few Delta Blues songs are literally about shooting your partner in the face with 45s, 32-20s, and other assorted firearms lol
@@blah148 Skip James' 32-20 Blues, Crow Jane Blues, Memphis Minnie's Me and My Chaffeur Blues to name a few.
Thanks SilvinaBlues... He is truly amazing.
Is that a dobro he's playing?
yes it is a dobro!
Shady Rok extreamly late but i think it is Actually a national
No, it's a Narional steel guitar. Dobros are the wooden body resonators mostly used in country music.
It's bell brass with an internal resonator.
@@timcornelius1912 Are you sure? I read that it was steel on an article about his "iconic guitar", but maybe this is a different one? Sounds a bit more grungier like steel, too.
One of my favorite acoustic blues singer and guitar players
Slap the shit out of that guitar. Real blues.
Just saw this for the first time. Wow. Beautiful, pure music.
Robert Plant brought me here . :]
johncox ❤❤❤
I hope you know Sandy Denny!
Great to see old footage like this. Just pure, innovative guitar skills.
Quem tá assistindo isso em 2017?
Who is watching this in 2017?
Some wicked fine blues. Video and audio quality is excellent, too. Thanks for posting this.
holy cuh-ripes! so who first came up with guitar-tapping?
Not Eddie Van Halen, That's for DAMNED sure! XD
I saw him play in 1970 after he had been "re-discovered". I met him and Willie Dixon and the rest of the guys on tour. He signed his name as Bukka White. Fantastic night!!
My holy fuck who needs other substances?! boah. seufz.
I remember hearing this beautiful music in the 90’s at uni.
You remember Fast Rabbit?
So this is BB king's uncle .
Close. His mother's first cousin, making BB his first cousin once removed.
Love the way he slaps that box! Couldn't have been any better on an electric guitar! Great music!!!