Booker "Bukka" White pt 1

[@jimswainston]

0:31 Mama Don't Allow 5:09 Aberdeen Mississippi Blues 9:57 Piano Boogie

[@mst7155]

To Mr Jim Swainston : thanks for writing the titles. about bukka white: I listen a lot of blues,but I can't find too many artists at this level.full of rithm, energy, authenticity..... His rough voice only adding too the charm! I didn't know he can play the piano too. Amazing artist! I recently discovered his version of "shake them on down". I was really shaked by the beautiful and powerful rendition. Does anybody know who is the composer,or maybe the first bluesman that sang that masterpiece?

[@jimswainston]

@@mst7155 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_%27Em_On_Down

[@gaddyify]

Damn, when he slapped that guitar, i couldn't do nothing but shake my head in amazement.

[@smoothoperator7023]

Terry Dixon "spanking the baby"

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[@burntchickennugget3519]

I'm about as nihilist as they come but I get the feeling that the blues will outlast us all...

[@comicscrazy3664]

This mans whole demeanor, driving open style play, coupled with a gravely, robust, echoing, singing style, and an occasional propensity to slap the old body, to me... just exudes some long, poor hard times throughout life. He also just seems to be able to pull and rip long forgotten, ancient emotions & memories from my mind of my grand father. During the G. depression g p traveled the rail roads from NY to CA & back working many diff. trades along the way, herding cattle, racing horses, & becoming an accomplished fine restaurant chief, just to name a few. Only two things made that trip there and back. One was his old hollow body guitar & the other, a quarter of a life time of memories. Many were happy and good but some, long, poor, & hard as well! Grandpa loved to tell us his traveling stories and in his younger years would also play that guitar and sing at family parties. I remember how he would "attempt" to the best of his abilities...lol play southern blues, some honkey tonk, flat picking, and his seeming favorite the flourish of the Spanish guitar...Bet you wouldn't guess he also had a propensity to slap that old body. Peace

[@henryfrost8542]

One of the very best bluesman that ever lived. Brilliant!

[@VirginiaWolf88]

This man lives up to everything that I had imagined him to be since I saw him in an old book on the blues 30 years ago or more. He is so awesome!!!

[@mississippideltablues]

What is the name of the book

[@mediaogre6019]

The gentleman's talent was off the scale.

[@areguapiri]

The steel slide guitar is the coolest and the greats who played it like this are treasures!

[@TheD1763]

This bluesman was realy good,I like him very much,because he play the blues with an own style:)

[@gasnjuice6450]

God bless the black man .. bukka you legend.. delta blues addict

[@maxwellfan55]

What a man, so much in that face, so much in each note he plays and sings. Bukka's my fav.

[@michaelthomasjr]

Led Zeppelin brought me here and I thank them for that. Whether these great Bluesman were credited directly or indirectly, the influence they had on Rock and Roll is enormous. Zeppelin carried the torch and were champions of the Blues for this era of artist.

[@terminatorx2545]

Michael Thomas I don’t think so. The Stones and Eric Clapton did way more to turn folks onto the blues. At least they didn’t pretend to write those songs by other artists.

[@mcconlogue1898]

Give John Mayall some credit too

[@bungieflute]

@@terminatorx2545 S -Ones step, I love that stuff from the people up top...

[@mcconlogue1898]

Paul Butterfield, Mayall, Stones, Cream, early Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat and many other bands were way ahead of zeppelin in exposing white folks to blues.

[@offgridselfteliant]

Blues baby, Blues! Been listening since the kid 60's never stopped!

[@ludo4cloud]

He's got a magic sound and groove. A delta genius.

[@stevehughes7896]

Natural Blues, Lord !

[@garyyeigh6098]

Now that my friends is a musician.

[@vincent5542]

Didn t know he played the piano ! And so good!

[@theodoretheelder6248]

I don't understand a single word that Booka is saying, but it sounds perfect.

[@sheilabarron5532]

Boy he was killing it on the strings then the ivories oh my gosh ❤it✌💙

[@chromemutt]

WOW!!!! this is amazing

[@tonalview3894]

The way he finished his songs abruptly is nothing short of a statement. Impressive! Thank you for sharing.

[@mst7155]

To Folk Seattle: a lot of thanks for your efforts to upload the the videos and the music of the great Masters of the blues.

[@butasoffroad]

Amazing. Essential. Music made in Earth can't be better than this.

[@timjames72]

not many seem ta know he's BB KINGS COUSIN!!

[@kipponi]

I know.

[@brianhackert8513]

i know

[@heru-tehutire1329]

Thank you, I didn't know that...

[@taurtue]

Uncle I think?

[@nottavictim5]

Bukkas the better guitarist

[@Teddyb1939]

Just how good can a video be!! Bukka White one of the all time greats.Magic stuff.

[@howdyimhunner]

I'm from Mississippi and am a slide player. Bukka was almost always in E minor. That was "his" thing. He always hammered onto the 1st fret on the 3rd string to make it an E major but his tuning was almost always in E minor.

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

Interesting. What would be the same effect in open D?

[@banjochris]

Rev. Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid Drinkers. Same thing, just tune your third string down to F instead of F#.

[@goodun6081]

That's some damn fine piano playing on the third song!

[@friendofbeaver6636]

Thanks for vid. I've heard his guitar and singing and read about his prominence as an artist, but I never knew he rocked the piano like that.

[@Logoned]

Feel like I struck gold, blues gold on this channel. Thank you

[@EverydayLinguistics]

was searching for copper... and I found gold!

[@medoelwerfally]

Really nice 👍🏼 👉🏻Thank you for shearing that

[@Zopf-international]

Much love Booker. Much love.

[@BNardolilli]

All my friends want to do is play Robert Johnson all day but when I try to play Bukka White they take my whiskey away.

[@brianhackert8513]

wow, did you make that up? i am stealing it. nice one!

[@robkunkel8833]

Ben Nardolilli ... take your whiskey away ? ... thats no way to treat good man. No how.

[@DrHBate]

One technique that you will often hear him employ in this tuning, is a hammer on from the minor third to the major third (third string open to first fret), implying an indeterminate third (blue note). This can be heard in Parchman Farm Blues, for example.

[@hssmrg]

I didn't know he played the piano as well as the slide guitar - what a talent!

[@williamharris2150]

He even grew up playing fiddle at square dances with his father. If there were only recordings of that as well.

[@guitarHero1885]

wow - he even plays the piano!!! super beautiful at that. only ever saw the 2nd song from this session - thanks for posting - bukka t genius!!

[@bradfordeaton6558]

I came to this guy late but he just fascinates me.

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

most of us did, lol.

[@TheEva1944]

I LIKE ALL OF BUKKA'S BLUES RENDITIONS!

[@tylerbrandon460]

I love Aberdeen woman I hear the beat to Sonny Terry harmonica train. And DEAR GOD I just noticed how enormous his hands are!

[@user-rr5lq9vz6g]

This is blues magic and he playing the better blues guitar 🎸 music 🎶 good muisc .

[@rmoore325]

The tuning is actually in E minor, you can see his first finger is holding down the G# so the chord you actually hear is E major

[@experimentalel7]

he really killed it on the piano. love this dude so so much. big influence on me.

[@kulttumult1352]

Genius

[@gunnerfan1907]

I love this with all of me.

[@Kockabilly]

Delta, boogie woogie. Damn you Bukka!

[@nottavictim5]

Bukkas Comin at ya like a freight train!

[@andovideo]

makes me want to shout we were here! to frickin outer space

[@charlesanthony4004]

Holy shit!!!!!!

[@flashfastest]

A king among kings, respect!......

[@sweeabn6736]

AMAZING!

[@nnnnnie]

I think I heard about Booker via John Fahey back in the late 60's or early 70's.

[@teddy1066]

Definitely open E-minor tuning. You can see him fret the third string on the first fret to play an E chord.

[@trahtybarahty]

this is brilliant

[@itsallaroundyou7085]

He must have been a big dude. I know a national is only the size of a classical but it looks like a parlor in his hands

[@medalerner5057]

B lived with him in Memphis for a while, and advanced his playing by learning from Bukka.

[@davisworth5114]

BB King developed his vibrato technique because he was trying to imitate Bukka, who made "race records" in the thirties and made what is considered to be the last great Country Blues recordings in 1940 when Walter Melrose of Melrose Music in Chicago got him released from Parchman Farm. I was a concert promoter for the Seattle Folklore Society and these recordings, made at Ch. 9 on the U. of W. campus, were anxiety producing for the men because of the weirdness of the scene, playing in a strange place for white people in a sterile environment that was totally alien from the playing situations they were used to, where people were dancing and drinking and having a good time. Bukka looks very uncomfortable here, but he had the ability to make up songs on the spot and I have seen him literally mesmerize a whole auditorium of people.

[@medalerner5057]

@@davisworth5114 B was not imitating Bukka, who was his cousin. B wanted to play slide, but found he couldn't. He developed the "trill" to approximate the slide sound. BB stayed with his cousin when he first got to Memphis, and Bukka helped him with his playing. B's style was influenced by Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and others.

[@edhallam7580]

"i dont need no stinkin picks!"

[@user-us4nr6gv7f]

+ed hallam He's wearing a thumb pick though.

[@georgepearce7192]

Can't believe 8 people have disliked this amazing skilled human! I guess that's life...

[@BluesJaromi]

Drive and Groove Great :)

[@MaxFruchtman]

Those endings are killing me

[@dantetka]

mi heroe de la guitarra y la musica

[@tomitstube]

this is some boogie woogie now, gets your whole body movin.

[@ozziommi]

Preach on, Master!

[@kaecake9575]

The good side of KZbin 👍

[@NobodyYou1]

I`m a white guy. But if I had a choice - he would be my gran dad and would sing these songs in front of me before I go to sleep.

[@johnellis9352]

This is really good

[@timothynaidoo1360]

2:37 - drunken axe man....lol - wat a legend though

[@joehardrocker735]

incredible.

[@roberttuss5349]

Have mercy, Bukka!

[@IberianInteractive]

1000th like ;)

[@hukusirohinoki]

👏👏✨✨✨✨✨🎸😍

[@jessevanes1]

gotta share

[@aron34100]

verry nice!!!!!!

[@arteclarissa]

verdaderamente este hombre era hijo de Dios

[@jackflak]

Nice..

[@bornfedslaughter]

I love him an howling wolf for the raspyness.

[@smoothoperator7023]

bornfedslaughter video of him playing while wolf egging him on here on you tube.

[@loumartin8312]

Shake em on down…my all time fave!

[@TonySoul508]

"Play It Good Now"

[@highlandervalasik9274]

If you ain't hear Parchman Farm by Bukka

[@xBaronSamedi]

From looking at his hands, he's in open minor tuning. G string is tuned to a minor third, but he can play a major third with first fret and everything else in open. I wouldn't say its in E major or minor; he's playing blues in E, using major and minor chords.

[@melvinwren]

didnt know he played piano

[@DrHBate]

If I may be so audacious as to say so, I think you're both wrong. Booker would use the E minor tuning to play a song that might not come out in the key of E minor. If you notice in the first song of the video, he never allows the guitar to ring completely open. When his hand is in 'first position' he will fret the the third string (in this case tuned to the minor third) at the first fret. The resulting chord is an E major.

[@poteshnik]

First song is "Mama don't 'low"

[@partyinternational4406]

Cousin -- yep long time

[@patrickfiorilalonde]

Well I was searching for this set :) Thanks. By the by, what's the name of that last one ?

[@tgtf72]

This song is in Emajor. But if you reference the text they are speaking of him using Eminor tuning as an artist in general. They are most likely talking about a different song. The e minor Tuning is used by Skip James on Devil Got my Woman if you need to reference which other artist uses Eminor because I'm not sure what song of Whites they are referring to. But you are right it is not used on this one.

[@Hankypanky7002]

Did he ever do a studio recording? And if so, where can I find it?

[@syke7799]

nice

[@sixstringmarauder]

I have a vinyl of his called parchman farm, its a not for sale promotional album which is just a collection of his very early recordings. I am pretty sure if you go on Ebay or amazon you could find it in cd format, funny thing one of the guys who accompany him on some fo the tracks is only identified as washboard sam.

[@BeriManalo]

I think you are right, he is "playing" in E maj, but not actually playing all the strings "open" at anytime , the guitar is tuned to E minor, he is keeping his 3 string fretted at the 1st fret, providing the 3rd, watch the pointer finger on his left hand, have a good one!

[@marcus_starr]

BB King’s uncle

[@dreadwayne7035]

OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@highlandervalasik9274]

Got Lp with this on it

[@ftellez0987]

Good explanation. thnx

[@ethanhammond7615]

I had to turn this off when he started playing that piano. It was too good to handle, I had no idea that he played piano. It's just too good

[@Nostalgico80]

I know he played on album anthology of American folk music - I don't know if he recorded a solo album of his own. It's sure that he recorded some 78 rpm.

[@TheAssholebullshit]

that's how it's done right there

[@FolkSeattle]

I picked up my guitar while the song was playing; hit the low E, it sounded right. Strummed an E minor, it sounded wrong. Strummed an E major, it sounded right...

[@DavidMFChapman]

FolkSeattle There’s no contradiction. The guitar is tuned do the open strings sound an E minor chord, but he fingers the guitar to get an E major sound.

[@lotyde]

where can i find the lyrics to the first song?

[@Casiodad]

The first song is mama dont allow

[@nickybareau3639]

whatever it is he has it

[@hubertsumlin9697]

Bukka plays piano. Ok wow

[@TheFolkandBluesVampire259]

Piano Boogie