Deep Purple Lazy Live 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pD1Azkcojw
First owner was Sid Solomon III.
The Blues cannot be owned.
It can only be experienced.
Are you, experienced?
I’m being swallowed by America,
Losing my soul in America,
Oh, I can’t keep up in America ‘cause now they’re selling dreams in America,
Oh, living in the malls of America,
Deals made behind the walls of America,
Try to find my face in America,
Now you gotta buy your place in America.
Tell me, who owns you baby?
Tell me, who owns you now?
Tell me, who holds the key to your captive heart?
Tell me, who owns you baby?
Tell me, do you even know?
Who is the one who unlocks the dreams of your soul?
“wang dang doodle” By Koko Taylor.
CC
I have a couple pair of 501 Blues.
Paid cash, so I guess I own em outright...
The last Blues song I wrote was
“Stuck here at Walmart”
in Salida, Colorado. It was a big hit with my wife and daughter.
So here is the song I wrote. My Blues Nomme de Guerre at the time was
“Smoky Cottonmouth Nixon”
“Stuck Here at Walmart”
by Smokey Cottonmouth Nixon
“Well I Woke up this morning,
beside the Gunnison highway,
Saw ‘nother man just sittin there,
He didn’t have nothin to say.
Yes I woke up this mornin
On the the Gunnison highway.
The bearded bum sittin in the rain,
He had nothin to say.
The cardboard sign he was holdin’
Told the whole world what was goin down
Said “Stuck here at Walmart”
People just drove right around.
He was watchin the poor grouchy woman
Wearin the blue overalls dress
Cram her groceries into that old Chevy van
Man, she was makin a mess.
So we drank nasty black coffee
Beside the Walmart parking lot
Next to Gunnison Highway
I told him what I done.
Well the woman’s baby was hollerin
Over in Pharmacy,
A wailin and crying
For her mama to see.
Her baby daddy shot a man in Memphis
And truly killin he did need
So that po’ mama ran South to Salida
She has that baby to feed.
That baby daddy in Memphis
He knew he was fixin to die
When he told that po grouchy woman
The blue overalls dress made her butt look big.
Blue Overalls Dress woman told her foolish man
You will never see the electric chair
Then she told me “shoot him bubba”
Baby daddy died right there.
So we ran south to Colorado
On the Rocky Mountain Highway
Thing is them blue overalls dress
Made her butt look fat in a big way.
When I told her that at Walmart
She kicked me out of that Chevy van
Now I am stuck at Walmart
Just like that other Salida man.”
“Slave”
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Don’t wanna be your slave
Twenty four hours a day
Hey, why don’t you go down to the supermarket
Get something to eat, steal something of the shelves
Pass by the liquor store
Be back about quarter to twelve
Don’t want to be your slave
Baby go, baby go, baby go
Do it yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTwnExGWsAY
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“When you’re thinking ‘evil’, you GOT the blues.” - Howlin’ Wolf
Howlin’ Wolf live in Toronto 1970 (footage), the man knows how to make an entrance
Highway 49
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwkiy9QnD80
Hey Bo Diddley (opening sequence from DA Pennebaker’s Sweet Toronto, 1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVE0wuh8BXw
The Doors can be seen in one of the limos (they also played as did Alice Cooper and Gene Vincent).
No One Owns The Blues
Josh Alan Friedman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1i1A8a-SwA
Got to catch Johnny Winter in a 3 piece band at (I want to say) The Lonestar Cafe in NYC, July 4th 1979 (or so)...the man wore out his guitar. Every song played had a 3 minute-plus riff.
Here’s “I Wonder” from Humble Pie (Steve Marriot’s voice makes it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu-MMLdoII
And here’s the Pie doing “For Your Love” acoustic, set to a bluesy motif (again, Marriot blows it out of the water)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0gkMzies2U
Not sure about today but in 1970 Albert King owned the blues:
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Hw-kPkdrajU
Charlie Patton owns the blues - everybody else just rents from him.