Fun fact. The white guy playing this cool riff was good friends with RL Burnside and they would play at juke joints together back in the day. The drummer is also burnsides grandson. A great tribute to RL.
The Blues will never die... this whole world, regardless of color, race or religion has heard the sound of their souls crying and will never forget it... THAT is the blues.
@@sweetscience1 yeah as a ancient forgotten language, just to study. They do not even know how it really sound :). So dont be smartpants you know what I mean. I love blues
@@ibanezyamato7885 I know exactly what you mean...I just think you're wrong. Artists like Cedric Burnside, Jimbo Mathus, and the Black Keys are keeping the Blues alive and well. Blues is in the DNA of America at this point, and that's not likely to change. And I'd argue, too, that although not exact, we do have a pretty good idea of what Latin sounded like thanks to the Catholic Church.
@@sweetscience1 I might be wrong, I m not talking about coming 30-50 years though. maybe in 1000 years lets say. Blues might evolve in totally something different. Everything can be forgotten. All I wanted to say. Rest is just argument sake :)
He should get together with Morgan Freeman, who owns a juke joint -BBQ blues place in the South. Maybe come out with an album of blues, similar to Bo Diddley and B.B. King with vocals by Samuel Jackson. That would be an album to have.
I KNOW RIGHT!? But this gives a really interesting perspective on why we may feel a certain way about music that should contradict the feeling we get! Trust me, I feel the same way (since I play quite a bit of music myself), it was just an article I had just read that seemed to fit the conversation :D
my personal opinion of those 50 or so versions this is the best. I only know of 2 others like this one. all the rest are more like Jerry Reed and a lot of other country players. not even close. the 2 similar to this are Nick Cave and the bad seed, and R. L. Burnside. well Tina Turner did a version kinda in between the two types. but I still say this version is the best and most powerful! Samuel L. Jackson! man KNOWS the blues!
9 bullets, even if you argue it was a magazine, he still unloaded on a corpse, and also the fact if it was a revolver he reloaded to keep shooting... a corpse... damn that cold
@@ProletarianTakeover 1962 and a .44. Revolver for sure. Figure he had five loaded, empty cylinder under the hammer. Shot the bartender twice, Billy three times, then reloaded and dumped the whole gun into Billy.
Jackson voice and this riffs come from the guts and fill the place with sweat and southern dust. Things you can feel at every minute of this underrated drama about redemption and loss
if i remember right, there was a long, long documentary after the movie - went thru how morgan freeman and others were trying to save old juke joints, well what's left of them - and other relics from the early blues out in the woods and deep in the swamps, etc. the band in the movie - the mississippi all stars tells who inspired them in the formation of the band and also there's some history about the music too now, this was a WAY LONG time ago... i rented the movie from BLOCKBUSTER on VHS!!! I'm sure that you can buy/rent/stream it from any number of sources - maybe even from youtube. good luck in your search! p.s. Samuel L. learned to play the slide guitar and how to sing for his part in this movie!!!
I’m on my way to the airport and this song got me wanting to go to the nearest country bar and request they play this while I’m drinking the cheapest beer and all bottom shelf liquor and having a freakin great time. Ok I said enough 🤠💪🏿🎸🎶
One of the coolest dang things I ever saw in life was this movie. Couldn't have come at a better time. Loud blues music in a small town club, scary stuff, and a naked chick! What more could you want from a film!!
It is worth going to a movie theater for this movie, then going back to see it again, then dragging your entire family to see it, then bringing your date to see this movie, then buying the dvd JUST for the music that is played in this movie. Then you have to buy the soundtrack.
R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough are two of my favorites in that style, BTW that is Cedric Burnside on drums and R.L.'s as he put it "adopted son" on guitar Kenny Brown
I'm really glad you posted it, it is one of the best cuts from the movie, how ever it's "Bucket of Blood". Nobody knows how far back this goes but its an oldy
Holy Christ!!!! This sounds like a variation of the traditional blues song, Stagger Lee. This is is Mississippi Delta blues. Serious shit. Sam Jackson please record a blues album. That would be awesome.😎👍
It's called Mississippi Hill Country Blues. It's known for having few, or even no, chord changes. It's a groove that drones, with great licks and slide accents for coloring. The white guy in the hat is Kenny Brown - well known in this style, and a protege of R.L. Burnside. He has some music up on RU-vid - I hope that helps (it's awesome that you enjoy the music!)
GOD DAMN SAMUEL L JACKSON The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my
I don't know if he can, not based on this clip anyway. We see suspiciously very little of him actually playing the guitar as opposed to shots where the guitar is outside the frame of the camera.
@@Gwyrddu Supposedly he learned in an open tuning to play the parts in this movie. I still think that's awesome. He's one of those actors that I lament never became a rock n' roll singer or a blues singer.
WELL YOU COULDN'T BE MORE WRONG SIR! Samuel L. Jackson learned to play the guitar for this film while completing production of Snakes on a Plane (2006). This film was the other of two films released the same year in which Jackson starred with the word "snake" in the title.
If it wasn't for blues, we wouldn't have rock and roll, metal, punk, nu-metal, hip-hop, or funk. Most, if not all of the timeless modern genres owe a debt to blues.
Samuel is da best. I love when he starts off some other song and says "are yal ready for some shit" I swear if this were better quality I would play it out. Just to see people's reaction on the dance floor. Funny as hell.
I was just a barefoot kid living in South Carolina along the Savannah River back in 62 when things were a little different. This movie was like going home.. if only for a moment.
Reminds me of old places around here in north GA mountains got the ole shot gun houses called county line or state lines which ever one you was between and I was only born in the 70s stores from family and friends wilder before my time 😊😊😊😊😊❤
Genious scene. All the human desperation goes in sweat, in a big transe dance. I can see it a thousand times, it triggers the same emotion of losing myself in the pulse of the crowd.
yeah great movie and one of the best Samuel has a damn good voice for this bleus styleim late with seeing this just yesterday seen it but damn i loved it this movie is exeptional
+Vam The Anomaly desert eagles come in lots of calibers .41 mag, .44 mag, .50 ae of the top of my head, but that is not the only semiautomatic pistol in .44 mag
+Jim Doire once you really get into blues you realize a lot of songs are like that, started as some folk song a million years ago and blues musician after blues musician make it their own.
