Champion Jack Dupree - Alberta

[@zeus-mt7wx]

This makes me cry, from good times remembered. For a 14yr old , my dad met with Champion Jack, next we’re invited to Champion Jacks home in Halifax England. Spent many many nights listening to Champion Jack & my dad playing together. I kinda dated his daughter Christina. OMG What I privileged kid I was. Never Never do I forget, that this Great Gentleman & His family allowed us into there home. The Gumbo & Louisiana music “ Heaven “.

[@christianboddum8783]

This man grooved so hard, heard him up close in a little joint in Germany when I was 14 around 1978, he had the whole room in palm of his hand. Saw him later with Kenn Lending on guitar, I wanted that spot soo bad 😁

[@hanszlh6522]

... 60ies at Storyville in Frankfurt , i used to be his "please-can-you-get-me-a-cold-beer" 'boy' , did let me watch his playing from just next to him ,,, what a really nice guy he was with so much good humor . those were the days !!! ...

[@andrewcampbell-bluespianop6741]

He was a real champion of the blues. Raw and unique, and always played from the heart. A Blues piano legend.

[@stephenhudson7039]

Yes what a talent. Adopted Yorkshireman. 🇬🇧❤️

[@tambeirne1163]

Every now and then time stands still and you've just got to listen. Thank you for this.

[@tambeirne1163]

It's Beethoven to me baby. Can't stop listening. One more time. . .

[@ata1811]

One of the great barrelhouse piano players! Thank you for posting this!!

[@davidnicholas6026]

Champion Jack….Lets keep the legend alive…

[@SparksHealth]

The reason I started playing, this is a great man

[@erii.hdz.7827]

This song is really amazing, I love it!

[@StefanRohlaender]

Beautiful clip, thank you for putting it up! I only saw him live three times and I still recall those performances as the best concerts I have ever seen...

[@Hernes6]

One of my true blues heros.

[@albertgule9917]

Indeed this is great he was gifted

[@attiliomalambri]

This reminds me to the Fats Domino's first hit record "The Fat Man" in 1949,probably one of the first rock'n'roll records ever made. Long live to the blues!!!

[@brettbrandstatt8589]

Absolute national treasure.

[@studebaker914]

He is the music

[@mercysihlangu8538]

Give me more about the man please Love him

[@BLAB-it5un]

This man is the foundation for so many others several of which directly took his music and simply gave these songs new lyrics. This is Professor Longhair's "Tipitina". And Fats Domino's "Fat Man" is built entirely on a Dupree song "The Junker's Blues" to name just two. And yet most people have probably ever heard this man's name. All this said, I realize that much of what developed into the more recent New Orleans style of Allan Toussaint and even Dr. John among many others is all built on a standard that Dupree was but one to develop. My hunch is that anyone finding Dupree here already knows this...

[@mrizos]

He was Champion Jack for a reason. This is just a tiny sample of his talent.

[@kuckuck59]

Simply wonderfull. Thanks for this video....

[@caferive]

Absolute and total gem....Champion Jack....not much better than this really....!!!

[@murph5438]

So great -- will always be so -- he was indeed a champion

[@henrikbolberitz2257]

I've heard it in Professor Longhair version, named Tipitina.

[@stevebottomley7419]

Bit like fat man by fats domino too

[@rpdugoni]

Love him. Saw him play in NorCal in the late 1980's....

[@KennLending]

that was in 1991 - and I was with him on guitar :-)

[@paulkate72]

Real old-time blues from the Champion - aptly named.

[@enricotrafeli4425]

Outstanding performance,,

[@gnomely1]

I was lucky enough to see him perform twice. As an Englishman I'm proud that he liked my country so much that he chose to spend almost two decades living here towards the end of his life. So many others were influenced by this great musician, not the least of whom was the great Fats Domino.

[@2009framat]

I saw him playing live several times: once in 1980 with singer Brenda Bell and guitarist Sonny Rhodes. I hope it hurts your british proudness not too much that Jack Dupree preferred to live in (western) Germany the last 19 years of his life and two of his neighbours had been Louisianna Red and Eric Burdon btw. Best regards from Berlin

[@patricialeblanc3580]

Quite a few new orleans rythym and blues songs came out of this one.

[@qhoqhoza4556]

This is the real classic

[@DrBlues76]

Dont matter where Champion Jack Dupree was... It was the REAL Louisiana thing...

[@EgonFilho23]

Excelente! Nice performance.

[@mmaphuthisephesu7108]

Blues comes from within, it comes from within a person. It doesn't come of the conservatory! You cant understand the blues if you've never been hurt

[@Radiopirat]

More blues is not possible...

[@booieandpianobob]

Great track- an earlier version by Jack was Junckers Blues- The Fat Man and Lawdy Miss Clawdy clearly based on these.

[@josedomingostadelman738]

la mejor

[@peglegnoid6139]

CHAMPION INDEED !!

[@tambeirne1163]

I can't help it, I just gots to keep coming back

[@calum66]

A true master. You know you are safe in his hands -------unless of course he was punching you!

[@mmaphuthisephesu7108]

He knows how to worry a line.... tinaaaaa uuuuuuuuhuuuuuuh

[@ballygassoon]

Sweet !

[@okioki13]

Does anybody has accords for this song? I really can not get it out of my head.

[@okioki13]

@1GuitarraFacil yeah, I am the piano beginner and I was not able to put all the bars together...

[@nikitianus]

Gentle

[@Babykinluck]

When did hamion Jack perform in Cape Town and where

[@DanielBannerCosplayKid30]

thats where i live now and thats my grampa

[@MultiMrPhill]

***** Wow, really?!

[@DanielBannerCosplayKid30]

yeah

[@MultiMrPhill]

***** Are you a Musician too, or do you get fed up with people wanting to talk about this stuff all the blimming time?!!!

[@DanielBannerCosplayKid30]

im a singer and no I like people

[@MultiMrPhill]

I'd be interested to hear any recordings you've made...!

[@Beneblues]

fuckin cool! Legal pra caralho!

[@1GuitarraFacil]

@okioki13 Well, it's just a 12-bar blues Champion's style.

[@nikitianus]

Perfect

[@tambeirne1163]

one more time

[@bobaldo2339]

Rosemary by Fats Domino.

[@felixgreenburg3373]

I hadn't heard that song Tipitina by Professor Longhair, Ti Nah Nah by Smiley Lewis, the Junkers Blues by Champion Jack Dupree, Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino, The Fat Man by Fats Domino, Staggerlee by quite a few musicians (it''s a very old song after all) That kinda melody was just a great New Orleans thing way back when The chords go I, I7, IV, IVm6 (or IV rootless b9), I, V, I It's a good thing

[@KennLending]

Yes - Fats copied a lot from Jack - also "The Fat Man" :-)

[@petertabsne7484]

downloadchampion

[@jackparker230993]

with the likes of justin bieber and rebecca black tainting the internet, we can only hope this blues genius doesnt have youtube up there!

[@nolarm99]

same progression as "Frankie and Johnnie' but still great music.

[@MarkSmith-nw4os]

They threw away the mold.

[@qhoqhoza4556]

Anyone with the track I'm happy to be free?