What an awesome talent ! Beautiful ! And I don't think anyone can play this song like that. I just fell into the rabbit hole of R.L. Burnside and don't intend to climb back out lol
It hurts my heart that these two complicated talented people who seemed so right together couldn’t overcome their demons. Even their melancholy is beautiful. I can’t get enough of their performances together, I wish there were more. ❤️
Johnny Woods was the right hand harmonica man of Mississippi Fred McDowell - R.L.Burnside''s mentor. His rhythmic style is heavily influenced by Fred McDowell.
Great version. Yeah, the Spirit lawsuit was bogus. Maybe the composer of Cry Me a River (Arthur Hamilton) should have gone after both Spirit and Led Zeppelin. <sarcasm> Ps. I met Arthur in traffic school and we ended up writing four songs together. Wonderful man.
Some of the major riffs remind me of 'Santa Baby' by Eartha Kitt from 1953. A smooth combination of what was Santa Baby & the proto-version of Stairway... another masterpiece.
The surviving photo of JCF with Elvis in 1957 in Memphis when Jackson was about 13 is a classic. Yes we have 12 seconds of JCF but none of NIck Drake so I guess we are fortunate here. Jackson made it to London with the help of a $100,000 insurance settlement he got at age 21 from the school fire that took the lives of several of his classmates and physically and mentally tortured him for years. Marlene Dupont was one of the lost classmates (and subject of one of his most memorable songs). I was surprised to learn that John Renbourn communicated and met JCF in the 1990s (he was there for those early years of Sandy Denny performing at folk clubs and also seeing JCF perform). At the time, JCF was considered the rising star and far superior to Paul Simon who was living at the same residence with JCF and others).