When The Catfish Are In Bloom

ddking66, a guitarist on youtube: Reverend Gary Davis' Twelve Sticks


Bukka White: Jelly Roll Blues


Mance Lipscomb: Night Time Is The Right Time

Anywhere But Here

You've Got To Change Your Mind

Why not throw in a few blues videos:


Mance Lipscomb: So Different Blues



Booker "Bukka" White: Poor Boy Long Way From Home



Skip James: I'm So Glad

On the Sunny Side of the Ocean

"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar. In the music I was composing I was trying to express my emotions, my so called negative emotions, which were depression, anger and so forth. Like Stan Kenton did. He got away with it. I ‘ve always admired him for that. I listen to Stan Kenton a lot then and I still do. And I was trying to put together some distant music, I was thinking mainly of Bartok as a model, but played in this finger picking pattern, which I still use. So I was trying to put those things together into a coherent musical language which people would understand and it worked pretty good. Everybody else was just trying to copy folk musicians, I wasn’t trying to do that. I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. How can I be a folk? I’m from the suburbs you know."
-John Fahey

Time for a little American Primitivism or what have you.


Leo Kottke: Vaseline Machine Gun


John Fahey: Red Pony (Wine and Roses)


Stefan Grossman: God Moves on the Water

Through the Echoplex

"Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin"
-Miles Davis

Stepping away from the blues for a moment:

Sonny Sharrock: 1988 Knitting Factory
-This seemingly improvised piece seems based on the track "Fourteen" from his album "Seize the Rainbow," and the line up seems to be the same, two drummers and all.


Robert Fripp: 1979 Frippertronics Demo


John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia, and Larry Coryell: Meeting of the Spirits
-An over-the-top guitar trio cover of McLaughlin's Mahavishnu classic. Coryell's hair is at full force, watch out.

Got a Letter This Mornin'

So, I grabbed up my suitcase, and took off down the road
When I got there she was layin on a coolin' board
I grabbed up my suitcase, and I said and I took off down the road
I said, but when I got there she was already layin on a coolin' board
-Son House

Let's continue the blue streak:

Lightnin' Hopkins: Unknown Instrumental



Booker "Bukka" White: Aberdeen Mississippi Blues


Furry Lewis: Goin' To Brownsville

Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me

Ain't no more potatoes, the frosts have killed the vine
Well, the blues ain't nothin' but a good woman on your mind
-Mississippi John Hurt

A few videos to keep you screamin' and hollerin' the blues:

Son House: Death Letter

Mississippi John Hurt: You got to Walk that Lonesome Valley


Mississippi Fred McDowell: John Henry