The first time I posted this up, the vid came down, so here goes again.
The whole video is quite historic and excellent from beginning to end if you are into roots, ethnic music or just into music. Ry Cooder's number around the 8 minute point is a fave of mine. I also liked his description of encountering it. Which follows. [I have a little NLP trascriber known as Otter that is like magic for stuff like this...]
Ry Cooder on Joe Williams’ Sloppy Drunk . I bought the record in 1960 I think it came out. I was a young boy. And I used to go down to this little record store in a house these two ladies had. And they had it in an old bungalow house downtown Los Angeles, that I had to take two buses to get to. Regular bus and and electric bus. And they let you play the records on a little Webcor schoolhouse record player. I put the needle over there, took it out of the sleeve and you know and put the LP down the record itself and then put the needle on and Sloppy Drunk JUMPED OFF! Never heard anything before so crazy and violent. I was only about 13. So bought the record.
I got back on two buses drove home rode the buses off. And we had a Magnavox console at home. In our little crappy aircraft worker duplex. It was a combination of AM, FM - radio was good. And the record player with a good speaker in there. Crank that thing up and turned it on, Sloppy Drunk JUMPED OFF! My parents came home. My mother goes [imitating face of someone eating a lemon]. My dad goes [imitates dad scowl] and says “That’s not anything I want to hear.” I said wait, it's good. Listen to this. He turns the LP over and he starts reading the text. “This doesn't make any sense to me,” he said. And that's when I knew right then. I learned something - - that my parents were not always right, that they could be wrong. And I can be right because I know it was good. - JVaughan
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