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[captawesomesauce]

Music thoughts at 11:30am...

I hate the whole idea of suing people because music has the FEEL of another .. BUT... it’s really fucking important to credit influences when it’s a real direct thing.

Some of our best music comes from that influence... for example:

Robert Petway is generally considered the guy who started making Catfish Blues well known (though there is some debate there)

In the 50′s/early 60s Muddy Waters took the song and turned it into 2 others, Rollin Stone and Still a Fool, both of which became big hits!

Jimi Hendrix then took the song and turned it into the base for his Voodoo Chile... I can’t find a video version of it, but definitely look for the Electric Ladyland 15 min version with Steve Winwood on the organ!!!! 

[snorquist]

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You Can Mistreat Me Here, By Tommy McClennan and Robert Petway. I had already been a blues fan for a quarter-century when I started this blog in June of 2010. I've stumbled and bumbled a bit, trying to get the right versions, just recently downloading Audacity to try to improve the clearness of some of the older stuff, etc., but the coolest thing so far, as well as the most fun, has been discovering great artists for the first time. In the last 18 months, these include Tommy McClennan, Robert Petway, Clifford Gibson, Lonnie Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Blind Blake, just to name a few. I have enough stuff backlogged to take me well into 2012, and I'm enjoying the ride! Happy Holidays, everyone! For more by Petway & McClennan, see my 2011 archive for Whiskey-Head Woman (7/3), I'm A Guitar King (7/17), Cotton Patch Blues (10/28), Travelin' Highway Man (10/31), Mr. So And So (11/1), Crosscut Saw (11/2), and New Sugar Mama (11/20).