Poor Boy - Lomax Prison Recording video free download


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Uploaded: 2008/02/14

Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1939, picture taken by Jack Delano.

Sorry if any confusion was caused over this though the song and the picture are unrelated, I just like the picture so thought it was some what fitting for a song recorded in prison :)

This song is by Bukka White, though i wasn't 100% sure of this when I first uploaded this as I lifted it from a large archive of LOC recordings and it didn't have an artist listed.

Comments

9 years ago

boomhauer15

BUKKA WHITE, SON

9 years ago

HillbillyBoogie1

This sounds like country music...Great song!

9 years ago

Ralph Johnston

Check out Bukka White playing Poor Boy...using a screwdriver for a slide!!! One of the best videos out there!!! Cheers!!! RC Johnston...aka Blind Brand X/Ragtime Ralph/Tyrone PowerChord!!!

9 years ago

Ralph Johnston

Good ol' Booker T Washington White!!! Huge influence on Blind Joe Death and Blind Brand X...Cheers!!! RC Johnston

9 years ago

elvis presley

Beautiful Music.....

9 years ago

manoel luiz teixeira

Doce lembrança, certamente tenha alguém ainda vivo; o momento esta aí; um registro histórico; dá pr'a cantar e tocar, etc., gostei muito. maneco - RGS -Brasil.

9 years ago

garbageblues

perfect

9 years ago

Dieter Lang

very nice blues

10 years ago

Federico Corchero

The man with the guitar is Buddy Moss. Guitar player and singer from Jewell, Georgia.This picture was taken in 1941 while he paid 6 years in jail.

10 years ago

messiahsez

Poor Boy.

10 years ago

xXPanzerStalkerXx

100% sure Its bukka

10 years ago

Blues Kid

This bukkam

10 years ago

isa nasser

Recorded by Alan Lomax in 1939, picture taken by Jack Delano. I mean really ?!?

10 years ago

Blondie

How is the genre called?

10 years ago

Andy Leigh

I'm learning to play this and I've been listening to lots of different recordings of it (all by Bukka White). Both the lyrics and the playing (and Bukka's voice) changed over the years. This recording sounds almost the same as the version on the Aberdeen Mississippi Blues LP (2012). I don't know when that studio version was first released, but it's quite early I think. I'm pretty sure this prison recording is by Bukka White as the phrasings are almost identical in both recordings.

10 years ago

RugbyDemon6789

it is the same song as for it being a recording by him IDK here the link to him performing it < /watch?v=N0jRX69mxcE

10 years ago

Motomoto67

This is good but doesn't sound like Booker White. Must be someone else Lomax recorded.

10 years ago

Алексей Комаров

how old is this song?

10 years ago

chocolatedonut31

While your heart's in the right place that's not very accurate, just read an ethnomusicology book on the blues. It's just not true from music theory perspective, there's plenty European influence, in fact, plenty of Mexican influence by way of the European influence. Don't let racial pride confuse people that are interested in this music and how it came about and why it sounds the way it does.

10 years ago

thudds

Do you have any references backing that up for that's quite an astounding proposition?

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