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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Last Night / Love Unexpected Encounter With Bukka White
Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, but it was pretty unexpected to hear immortal bluesman Bukka White playing over the PA at a First Hill bar on a Monday night. It had been too long since I'd last listened to Bukka, and damn, did he sound incredibly vital in that urban-boho setting. Bukka's music is the real, raw shit, into which sometimes you gotta dig amid your steady diet of 21st-century audio edibles, just to keep you honest and rooted.
(Does anyone remember Railroad Jerk's awesome cover of "Fixin' to Die Blues"? That spurred me to get into Bukka. Praise be.)
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He is still alive!?
Thank you for telling this, it's gonna be the first thing I will do once I am back in Seattle~
Thank you for telling this, it's gonna be the first thing I will do once I am back in Seattle~
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I have been a long-time Bukka White fan. 'Mama don't allow' was probably 30-40 years ahead of its time. It is interesting to see how little ground has actually been covered in the 70-100 years since the groundwork for most of modern 'pop' music was laid down. Charlie Patton's "Shake it and break it' or Blind Willie McTell's 'Broke Down Engine Blues' have guitar playing and lyrics that would seem completely contemporary.
There was a great PBS (i think) documentary made in the late 70's called "Good Morning Blues" hosted by BB king that does some last-minutes before they died type interviews with Bukka and a few others, as well as having them each perform a song.
There was a great PBS (i think) documentary made in the late 70's called "Good Morning Blues" hosted by BB king that does some last-minutes before they died type interviews with Bukka and a few others, as well as having them each perform a song.
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