Janice Joplin and so many more owe her everything. My word, my God what a Queen of blues incarnation and originality. Raw, refined and freaking excellent
MY MOMMA INTRODUCED ME TO JANISE AND MAMA FELL IN MY PLAYLIST LIKE NATURAL...JANICE INSPIRATION WAS HER, WHY U THINK SHE DID THE SONG SHE WROTE...BALL N CHAIN...I KNOW IM A WHITE WOMAN, BUT SAME AS JANIS A WOMAN W SOUL..HAPPENS TO B I WAS BORN N THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER 🤣😂🤣 HOW IRONIC, OR COINCIDENCE
+Bea A i have a theory ... all these types of music (and more( the stuff with lyrical/musical/political/emotional substance)) are written by people who have seen (or their decendants) the worst in people/war/attrocities/themselves and without that knowledge (of deep unforgivable pain essentially) how can you write such soulful/meaningful music? american soul , irish folk and as a newer example Sysytem of a down (being the decendants of the armenian genocide) all have (and many more i probably have forgotten or never heard) impo some kind of this pain mojo that leaks into their music and makes it not just good but touches you to the core IE: Red hot chili peppers when i hear death of a martian for example and Anthony starts rambling halfway through, I feel hes saying more than any properley constructed sentence ever could about the curcumstances that lead him to write it (Fleas dog had died) and i believe he used this "pain mojo" to write one of the most beautiful/moving peices of music ive ever heard and in traditional RHCP style MAKES NO F*#$ing sence its not allways written by the final artist even its just the mojo IE: hurt by nine inch nails is a mediocre song (and i like NIN) the same song performed by johnny cash is a masterpeice (and i dont like country) i believe because of this pain mojo I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isnt mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning - different, but every bit as pure - trent reznor of NIN (the guy who wrote the song)
@@xalexbanx Wicked cute (any one who has to self describe as cute is most probably ugly and dumb as a box of rocks) learned a new word however does not understand the meaning. Low IQ individual.
This is the best version of this song! I have never heard this one before, only Howlin' Wolf's original, and the Stones hit! Thanks for posting the ultimate live performance of "Little Red Rooster"!
Yes, she is wonderful. Willie Dixon singing this song, the song he wrote, also is amazing. And Sam Cooke did a great version as well. Maybe there aren't any "ultimate" versions. Maybe the great blues singers each will offer a great version from the depths of their souls.
grew up with all these blues great @nd big mama really had a way of making you feel. the blues i love it just love it spent alot of time sitting back at the joints listening and rocking wouldn't change a thing she done on stage !!!!
Just great! Laidback, beautiful background for the voice, not too may loud notes, heartfelt voice, and a cocky rooster. Pity there ain't too much of this cool electric blues around. :(
I love the Blues. Just found out about Big Mama. Im a 60 year guy. This music could have been played on the "Album Rock" stations back in the 60s - 70s. Thanks TravelerIntotheBlue for posting Ms. Willie Mae Thornton's music.
This is really great,when I was a little kid(over 35 years ago)my dad always played me the Sam Cooke version,but I love hers as well!!! I'm 41 and thiis is my first time hearing of her!!!! Great Music and Great Voice!!!!💖💖
Gracias a estos grandes artistas de color el rock y sus generos derivados surgieron y progresaron . El buen blues y el rock siempre iran tomados de la mano . " Gran cantante Big Mama ".
No matter What magical musical lets y'all Relax,enjoy All your Blessings, Bearhugs,Emraces,so let me humbly Introduce music,I Enjoy,Lets count our Blessings,Thank u Lord ,Amen
Red Hot.. Blues is the Cool... !!!!!!!! Willie Keep shaking... I Feel the Love ... I feel the Pain... I feel the emotion... I feel the Life that is to Come ..... give me a red rooster that the money people don't abuse....!!!!!!
Elvis didn't steal her songs he praised her by trying to sing this song in his own way.He knew she was great and wanted to follow her song in his own way.
As far as I know, Elvis Presley never recorded “Little Red Rooster”. The original version is by Howlin’ Wolf (with the brilliant Hubert Sumlin on guitar) and the song is credited to Willie Dixon (but some elements in it are definitely older). Elvis recorded Willie Mae Thornton’s “Hound Dog” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - although Big Mama Thornton always claimed that she wrote (the basis of) the song. The lyrics of the version by Elvis Presley are abbreviated and more importantly: tamed; he could not sing: “you can wag your tail but I ain’t gonna feed you no more” - feeding the snooping dog, as well: giving the snooping man’s “tail” a blow job. Elvis: “well, you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine”. Another famous singer who “stole” from Big Mama is Janis Joplin, who built a career on singing “covers” of “black music” (mostly however written by “whites”): “Ball and Chain”. Big Mama Thonton’s original version is unsurpassed. Listen to Big Mama in Europe with Fred McDowell on slide guitar: those three songs are outright magnificent Blues.
@@QuinnLondonborn Sorry. If somebody states a few facts and a few views, "you are wrong" is a ridiculously general comment that nobody can do anything with.
Her big hit from 1952 "Hound Dog" written by a couple of Jewish kids from New York,Leiber and Stoller. They wrote a few other decent songs also. You gotta love America. Thanks for posting
