This is the roots of rock and roll , Southern blues

@margiemcpeak9304

3 жыл бұрын

Factz!

@kurtsaxton9665

3 жыл бұрын

He was actually known as a folk artist which was pretty much blues at the time but check out the museum and outside of Shreveport Louisiana great stuff.

@kurtsaxton9665

3 жыл бұрын

The man influenced everybody from Led Zeppelin to Eric Clapton to Jeff Beck to all the American blues artists that came after him. He is truly an American icon from Louisiana, check out cotton fields.

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

All facts

The man created the rock'n'roll and the blues with a few guys in the south, legend, not a lot people know this, Leadbelly is a fuckin legend

It was suppose to be a code song about prison black Betty meaning moonshine, Black Betty is about a gun. It's still code so the guards wouldn't know

@GrizzlyHemlock

2 жыл бұрын

It's about a gun or moonshine? Bam-ba-lam...that's a gun shot or strong liquor going to your head.

We wouldn't know, black Betty, where'd you sleep last night, night of the midnight sun and so many more old plantation songs without him and its recorded in prison in the 1920s

I like Lead Belly's singing you need to listen to more of the old southern blues,

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

Black Betty is an old song. Much older than Lead Belly. It’s origins are unknown, but some say that it’s a military cadence about a musket. That said, the only musket I’m aware of that has a similar name is the early 1800’s British “Brown Bess”. Black Betty is also said to be a bottle of whiskey, a whip and a wagon or vehicle that rode prisoners into prison. Take your pick. :)

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

Oh god the confusion around this song is funny 😂😂

@morganmckenzie1303

Жыл бұрын

If i was a 1800 soldier there are thing I love to protect me. My woman and my gun. Its a double meaning. So both are true.

This is great, I know Leadbelly but never heard this. Sounds like a cadence song, for keeping in step while marching or working. These kinds of songs usually evolve in bits and pieces, and the meaning can be very fluid--if soldiers were singing it while on the march, then yeah they might have tweaked the lyrics to refer to a gun. Probably all the interpretations have their degree of validity. I do know the song that he was leading into at the end there, about getting arrested, 'Almost Gone'.

Hi again Biz! Now you're gettin down to it! Please do some more Texas Blues, too!? Johnny & Edgar Winter's "Tobacco Road" is incredible! 🔥✌

@ktspirit1

3 жыл бұрын

Now I'm gonna have to go listen to Tobacco Road, ha! I haven't heard that one in a long time.

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

Got you 🙌🏾🙌🏾

I like old blues from the early years

Lead Belly was a massive collector of songs, and really made so many recordings that were then taken as the basis for songs by other artists, particularly by some of the white blues based bands in the UK in the 60s - Led Zeppelin etc.

Thank you.. it’s a shame some communities don’t know who Huddie Leadbetter is. Black Betty= intelligence of a freed black woman. “At that time”

The crazy thing is that, when Ram Jam did their version, the NAACP lobbied to get it boycotted everywhere because they said that the lyrics were racist. Who ever made that decision obviously knew nothing about their OWN culture and musical history! Nothing could be further from the truth. If Ram Jam hadn't had the utmost respect for Lead Belly's and his contemporaries' music, which is now a part of American musical history and has shaped, not only American music, but popular music worldwide, then they would not have honored him with their own rendition of the song, putting a little spin on it with slightly more sexual innuendo. This kind of music and all the music it inspired has greatly shaped our musical heritage as a nation and as a planet.

I love old audio recordings! Subscribed.

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub

The meaning of a song sung by Lead Belly, well good luck finding that. That man worked with John Lomax and Alan Lomax, recording folk songs in order to save them from being forgotten. Recording music had just become a thing, and folk wasn't a popular type of music. But a few good men had the idea to record the music people had been singing for years and years. And it wasn't always the prettiest, sometimes lyrics were missing, different versions of the same song popped up in different places with no telling which is closer to the original. Most often we can't say anything about a folk song other than it was recorded then and there first, by that person and they heard the song there.

Thank you for this you just educated me I had no idea that ram jam had covered this song. Keep it up loving the show

I read somewhere that Lead Belly actually got this song from somebody who did it before him.

Lead belly had a huge influence..one of the true architects of American songwriting

Leadbelly was born free to parents who were slaves years before he was born. Around 1890- he wrote about 300 songs that everyone knows, but he never got credit properly. House of the rising sun, gallows pole, etc. So many guys stole his shine since then, it's sad.

Nice, never found this, great Leadbelly

Music historians have tracked back the roots of "House of the Rising Sun" back to 17th century Ireland. Quite possible this song is about that old, too. Anyway, any youTube reactor getting back to Lead Belly has my attention. And yes, paper cuts are worst:)

Glad to see this. I've been trying to get multiple black reactions to this!!! He's an icon!!! Check out Bill Monroe bluegrass version in the pines!!!!

Its a relief that a black guy wrote this song, so that you never can blame Ram Jam for being racist or inappropriate behaviour, they just covered the lyrics and made it an awesome rock song from it.

He did the original ( My Girl, -Where did you sleep last night -) song that Nirvana covered.

you need to listen to the “gallis pole” by leadbelly the guitar playing is even insane

Lead Belly es un auténtico padre de la música. Es insultantemente puro, el ruido actual es grosero.

I like this version. I am trying to learn about old time blues and originals of songs I only know from modern artists. This helps. Thanks

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

No prob

You should listen to Lightnin Hopkins - baby please don’t go

lead belly is bad ass.

This was recorded by Leadbelly while he was in prison. It's about hard labor busting rocks. Black Betty was the Black Pick Axe.

He wrote this song original OG killed a white man and sang his way out prison twice. I don't know why the hip hop community he doesn't Embrace Leadbelly when they found him in prison he had 500 original song The Midnight Special Goodnight Irene Black Betty he died penniless but he'll be studied in history books forever

@michaelvoorhees5978

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't write it. It's older than him

Check out his song cotton fields. Great reaction my brother.

Some say it’s about the whip used in prisons. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pp13p7ilj5yTfbA.html. First recording of Black Betty in 1933 sung in a Texas prison and note the reference to the prison’s Captain being the father of the baby. Here is a Wiki2 page outlining the various meanings with the ones most backed by sources claim it’s a whiskey citing a writing by Benjamin Franklin but even that one is challenged that his reference was about an actual black bartender in a London bar. No reason it has to have one euphemism.

I'll tell you what that's about... "Black Betty"; is a "night stick. [ So it is about violence.] * When "black Betty "; has a baby... That is telling about the night stick braking; into pieces. Black Betty is a night stick... That is what older people called that... Especially after the song surfaced.

This isn't one of my favorite Lead Belly songs, but I do like his music. As for the lyrics, I'll leave that up to the interpretation of the listener, LOL. It makes me think of working on a "Chain Gang", which is a song by Sam Cooke.

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I heard it was a Civil War slang. If true it is a 160 years old tune

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

Sheeesh

Ias a while dude i learned the Tru e original

It’s about a girl, it’s about a gun, why can’t it be both? As for original, it’s an old song, no one knows who really wrote it. I think it dates back to Civil War times. Leadbelly was probably the first recording of it though

Can I recommend the Hindenburg disaster song?

It’s a black gun, (not ethnic, but the actual color black so as to be hidden well at night). the sound it makes supposedly sounds like “bam ba lam”.

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

Okay alot of people say that thanks

@vickiconley3638

3 жыл бұрын

@@watchbizmatik kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKyXsdqvddarj7w.html you ever do Grand funk railroad doing inside looking out!? If not, I hope you will. Getting to old to read through all your video lists! Love your show and reactions.

I'm so confused🙃🙃🙃🙃😵😵😵😵. To me in the verision from Jam Ram I always thought they were talking about a prostitute of dignified color persuasion A Bbb. The line "She always steady she always ready. Shaking her thing always make me sing. Anyway that what I picture. That was the first time I ever heard Lead Belly. But he is intriguing. Kinda interested to see what else he has .

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

Me too lol

There was a gun named black Betty

“on a monday i was arrested on a tuesday i was locked away in jail on a wednesday my trial was attested on a thursday nobody could afford my bail on a saturday me and my babe went a walkin on a sunday she kicked me out a doors on monday we were sittin down talkin on a tuesday she pawned all my clothes” was what the song was about to get into before it got cut off early, technically its a different song, but so is the first part “looky looky yonder”.

Goin Down Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jeff Beck live !!!

damn song got cut off too early

I don't think we'll ever know what the song is really about because the lyrics of so many of these old African American songs were were code. White people especially weren't supposed to understand them.

Good Soul, Original Sounds Better...👍

Listen to more Leadbelly for yourself. Don’t even post it just learn about him and his music

Try Googling first, fool.

Yawn...

Thank you for this you just educated me I had no idea that ram jam had covered this song. Keep it up loving the show

@watchbizmatik

3 жыл бұрын

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