while I was loitering on youtube

[johncorrigan]

After a brush with the jazzers I found myself looking for Blind Eddie Dunn's Gin Bottle Four, and in the process found this fine old bit of Cajun singing from Cleoma Falcon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d42xhqxAPfk

[Paul Sherratt]

John,
I hope you weren't wearing a hooded top over on yo'toob. Wasn't poor old Cleoma just wonderful.
You'll have heard this classic before, I'm sure.
( First sent to me by one-time board correspondent, Captain Glassback ! **)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nzdZGYWv4E



* And I think subsequently aired on civilised R3

[johncorrigan]

John,
I hope you weren't wearing a hooded top over on yo'toob. Wasn't poor old Cleoma just wonderful.
You'll have heard this classic before, I'm sure.
( First sent to me by one-time board correspondent, Captain Glassback ! **)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nzdZGYWv4E



* And I think subsequently aired on civilised R3

I think that fine tune turned up somewhere else too, Paul!

Hadn't made the connection - I'll assume the middle name threw me. What a great voice.
....and naw! these are the only hoodies hangin' about round these parts.
http://www.mullbirds.com/HoodedCrow.jpg
Anyway CDJ's link had led me to Blind Eddie Dunn who was Eddie Lang playing here with Lonnie Johnson ( who's also in the BEDGB4) - terrific stuff, I thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGr-...eature=related

[Globaltruth]

I think that fine tune turned up somewhere else too, Paul!

Hadn't made the connection - I'll assume the middle name threw me. What a great voice.
....and naw! these are the only hoodies hangin' about round these parts.
http://www.mullbirds.com/HoodedCrow.jpg
Anyway CDJ's link had led me to Blind Eddie Dunn who was Eddie Lang playing here with Lonnie Johnson ( who's also in the BEDGB4) - terrific stuff, I thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGr-...eature=related

Only the other day I slipped in a batch of tracks by Lonnie Johnson onto my future son-in-law's iPod.

They have been enthusiastically received - without young S-i-L having a clue who he was listening to, or from what era.
That says something to me about the need for exposure to a wider range of music...and that people with open ears tend to hear more.

[johncorrigan]

Only the other day I slipped in a batch of tracks by Lonnie Johnson onto my future son-in-law's iPod.

They have been enthusiastically received - without young S-i-L having a clue who he was listening to, or from what era.
That says something to me about the need for exposure to a wider range of music...and that people with open ears tend to hear more.

I showed my 19 year old some of the Human Planet prom the other evening, Global - he was amazed by Ayarkhaan mentioning some techno 'wizard' who makes sounds just like that, but not accompanied only by some khomuses and vocals - he was slightly overwhelmed; but even more so by Khusugtun who he said were the best 'Overtone Singers' he had heard - says I've been trying to stuff Mongolian music down his throat for ages.
Here was a previous favourite from one of Charlie G's compilations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN41vuy-hh0

[johncorrigan]

Back to Lonnie Johnson and here's Sonny Boy introducing him sometime in the early 60s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8fyb...eature=related
....and while we're there here's a spot of Sonny Boy keeping it to himself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0rRv...eature=related