Robert Wilkins - That's No Way To Get Along video free download

bluesloverz

Monday afternoon blues.

Joseph Scott

Researcher of black folk music Newman White suggested in the 1920s that AAAB was the second most popular lyric form after AAB in blues in the 1910s, a suggestion that fits well with other evidence. This song is a normal 16-bar AAAB blues, like "Wartime Blues" by Lemon Jefferson, "Blues I Got Make A New Born Baby Cry" by Lead Belly, "Sadie Lee Blues" by Peg Leg Howell, "Stove Pipe Blues" by Daddy Stovepipe, and so on, except he sticks extra repetitions of words in towards the front, an approach that we know goes back at least as far as 1912 in blues.

Barbara Carl Nitsche

Thanks for posting this great-great song .

niceeeeeeeeeeee!

treated me like my poor hide was made of a rock of stone.that was enough to make me wish i was dead and gone.i stood on the roadside and waited for the train TO TAKE ME AWAY FROM HERE!!

Positivity

"The celebrated rock musicians who performed as the Rolling Stones may not have been converted [religiously like the Rev. Wilkins], but they were listening, and decided to cover Wilkins's Prodigal Son (a remaking of his That's No Way To Get Along) on their 1968 release Beggar's Banquet." -Ted Gioia in Delta Blues

Phil Rey

I saw his son playing this somewhere on youtube - looks like a nice old bloke. Thanks for the pics!

MrLara150

PRODIGAL SON - STONES ?

nightimelady

what are your other top picks? :)

diddywahdaddy

Yeah, it's so precious, one of the very best country blues, ever. It always moves me, can't ignore it in any way.

jurr47

Ha! Another idea that page and plant borrowed. They called it "poor tom"

Jerry Battiste

*Peter Green - Jumping at Shadows*

11rcampbell

maybe not richards but jagger yes

bigtone1348

Recorded at The Peabody Hotel, Memphis....no ducks were harmed during this recording.

honeyspur

It's one of my top 5 old country blues tunes of all time!

beatles48fuji

I like this voice!!!!!!!

jay1beaux

Beautiful music--thanks for posting

pearljamfan76

@TheFeathers2010 both versions serve their purpose.... i would have never found this version if it weren't for my step dad introducing me to awesome music like the stones, hendrix and krimson.... this recording was way ahead of its time, being retro and futuristic at the same time...

themagicmanmdt

makes jagger + richards seem like prissy boys.

monkeytown1000

He wrote this in 1929, then during the '30s became very religious after seeing the violence at blues juke joints. He was eventually ordained a minister. From the 1930s on he would only sing blues with gospel lyrics, and he changed the lyrics to 'That's No Way To Get Along' to a christian theme (but the tune stayed the same) and it became called 'Prodigal Son' after the bible story - no more talk of "low down women" etc. 'The Prodigal Son' version was the one the Rolling Stones covered.

john atco

words fail me.its so good.