![]() How come you didn't stay your ass in Mississippi? How come you didn't stay your ass in Poland? Take a hell of a lot to get me to cross it. I think she's asking, how long are you gonna be gone.Ī little friend to keep you company while I'm gone.Ĭan we afford this? Don't worry about it. Just get you enough green to cover yourself and then you ain't no Jew-boy no more.ĭo we have enough? Hi, baby. It was the color of them bills that mattered. Now, Leonard Chess didn't worry none about skin color. Well, I'm going away to leave Won't be back no more Going back down south, child. Not the crazy harp-playing f*ck, you don't. We sh**t up half your whole joint, and now you want to put us on a record. Stop talking to me like I'm some damn plantation owner. You gonna throw that thing way up there like that. When you get that ball, you gonna kick that leg over. I'll talk this peckerwood into not calling the police.Īin't never see them pitchers? Here's how you do it. If he foolish enough to come after you I'll put the b*llet in him my damn self. Then you know I'll sh**t this whole f*ck up then.īut you ain't got to use it tonight. You think I never used this before? I know you did. ![]() We'll burn Chicago down if you don't get your ass locked up or k*lled. Little Walter, Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers called themselves "The All-Star Trio," but everybody else knew them as "The Headhunters" on account of how they sliced their competition. Someone who will feed you and clothe you and tell you to get your behind in that bath. You can play the shit out of that guitar, so I'll follow you anywhere you want, but don't you ever be calling me no "son. Where in the hell you going? Follow me now. Hush now, scaring my boys, and let me hear some of that harp. Hey, big guy, your daddy sure can cook, huh? You fixing to chop my head off with my own guitar? Man. I'll give you $1 if you let me strum that guitar. When Muddy met Little Walter, he was just 17 years old, but he was the greatest harp player that ever lived. I don't mind you getting men all liquored up but I lost two daughters to bluesmen. Hey, I'd love to know if you hear someone special. You can buy a car like this making race records? When I heard you start playing that music it took me someplace so good, Muddy. I don't talk as good as you or something, huh? You got to go, before my mama brings the boys home. You must have three addresses in your pocket. You have been giving that same smile to girls all morning. Take that shit back down there to Mississippi. ![]() ![]() Hey, boy, ain't nobody want to hear that sharecropping music. Now, the acoustic guitar was fine down south, because there's nothing but miles of empty fields out your window.īut in the city, with all them streetcars and automobiles, you couldn't get yourself heard. And he knew it was a man he was meeting, too big for that sl*ve shack he was born in and too big for that plantation. I'm recording folk music for the Library of Congress.Ĭould you move into the mike a little bit for me? Thanks.įeel like I'm meeting myself for the first time.Īnd he was. I didn't travel all this way to have my daughter marry some schmuck from the same village. Your father and I, we come from the same sh*thole in Poland. So, you are serious about this marriage then? I'd like you to know that I'm making plans for the future. Feder, I don't know if I told you, but I've been making plans to get out of the junk business. Say, Daniel was a witness When are we getting married? This story ain't just about me.Ī witness for my Lord The other a sharecropper from Mississippi. Took a whole lot of people to make the music that changed the world. Now, when the white girls started doing it, they called that rock and roll. Now, the first time a gal took off her underwear and threw them on stage it was on account of a fella singing the blues. And I'm making this here audio recording so that when you visit Chess Recording Studio, you know the history.
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