Blues Maker (1969)

when I a little boy we used we us to holler them old song beer you know lady you to get that smoke coming out the kitchen you know you be plot it on you and you think about wonder why you going tonight you know that girl you have mistreat you that suay we see you begin to have the blues then you understand see that's what that what the blues is [Music] Lord at 61 Highway B been long know well at 61 High been long [Music] know she from New York City down they go from [Music] Mexico you know F [Music] down you know some f [Music] down well just go to w look down [Music] I said please please see somebody from [Music] me I said please please see somebody from [Music] me have you seen my baby tell her she's all right with [Music] me I started school one morning morning bab I my books [Music] away I started school one morning morning darling Lord I P my [Music] books I wrote a note to my teacher Lord I'm going to try 61 [Music] today Lord am I you have [Music] my Fred McDow lives in Ko a small town in Northwest Mississippi he has played and sung in many places Chicago California Newport and places in Europe he is probably best known for his style of guitar playing an old style which he learned from an uncle years ago tuning his guitar to an open chord he sometimes uses a glass bottleneck to slide up and down the strings with that bottleneck he can make his guitar say anything he [Music] does just like see now all right you got a good friend you're good to her if you got a wife you good to her give her anything she say she she want for that you able well you had lots of confidence in well you lose that confidence well that's her you you understand you see and if you can play music The more you play the better you feel you understand cuz you begin to play it off your mind so that's where the blues run when you get off to yourself then you see you studing and if you can hit one of these things sit down play you two three pieces your mind is out you you get up put it down little bed you pacifi you got that off your mind what you thinking about that's that's where the blues is a lot of people you don't don't know what the blues is but that's exactly what it is [Music] W you know wake L Captain l and i w Lord I could find a [Music] baby should Lord I could find a m darling baby should well [Music] you know my long last you know but I got the shortest [Music] line I'm a long last can baby but Lord I got this short [Music] Lord my captain holl [Music] hurry I declare [Music] Bo you know my captain Holland [Music] hurry I declare now I'm all [Music] Lord I can I drive him [Music] [Laughter] Captain I declare won't go long Lord I can I drive I won [Music] Lord even drink no [Music] water no Lord he won't drink no water C [Music] Lord done Stone blind I'm in you [Music] again Lord and long bring bring me truth [Music] bring pra and Lord [Music] I BR me chist I'm in jail jail [Music] again everybody [Music] crying babybody will you do everybody C everybody cry how about way you do [Music] everybody you [Music] do cry [Music] hone we you do anybody crying stand [Music] by Lord when you get home darling please sit down and ride me up few your [Music] I said when you get homee me [Music] up Lord that I be consolation Lord be return my [Applause] [Music] [Applause] glor you going find my Su Lord be [Music] your where you going to find my SU oh Lord on your [Music] [Applause] [Music] sh well we have treat me Lord bab get [Music] you [Music] [Applause] I'm going to call up Shin I see [Music] [Applause] my Lord I'm going to call up sh I might see my baby over there [Music] [Applause] I have a letter this morning say she mother be to [Music] [Applause] yoga the land has yielded crops one of which was a rare music the blues many of the Great Blues makers have died but for a while yet the country Blues live how you like it boy for a while anyway