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Gary

climber

From the City That Dreams

Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 10, 2011 - 10:04pm PT

"We're talking about the life of a human being."

Howlin' Wolf lectures Son House on the blues.

When your anchor fails on a factor two fall, you sure enough got the blues.

Donald Thompson

Trad climber

Los Angeles,CA

Nov 10, 2011 - 10:07pm PT


	Credit: Donald Thompson

philo

Trad climber

Somewhere halfway over the rainbow

Nov 10, 2011 - 10:12pm PT

The BLUES are what I got for Christmas.

Jim Brennan

Trad climber

Vancouver Canada

Nov 10, 2011 - 10:23pm PT

Here's Buddy Guy showing the benefits of having Muddy Waters threatening him if he got it wrong when he was young:

http://youtu.be/8GAo0KXRgm8

Gary

climber

From the City That Dreams

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2011 - 09:01am PT

Buddy's Blues Singer CD is terrific.

Here's a bluesman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GN-BP_Qlk

Hankster

Social climber

Boulder

Nov 11, 2011 - 09:02am PT

"the blues is just a good man feeling down"

Cosmiccragsman

Trad climber

AKA Dwain, from Apple Valley, Ca. and Vegas!

Nov 11, 2011 - 09:14am PT

I posted this on another thread a few moments ago,
but it fits well here also.

:)

Locker SINGS the BLUES

Missing photo ID#224517

Bruce Morris

Social climber

Belmont, California

Nov 11, 2011 - 11:34am PT

"The Blues is a feelin',
Saddest feelin' I ever known"

Ron Anderson

Trad climber

USA Carson city Nev.

Nov 11, 2011 - 11:45am PT

da blues,, a twelve bar progression invented in the mississippi delta region...

strangeday

Trad climber

Brea ca.

Nov 11, 2011 - 12:23pm PT

Screaming jay Hawkins had the "constipation blues"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hks_t-HzSc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

G_Gnome

Trad climber

In the mountains... somewhere...

Nov 11, 2011 - 12:41pm PT

Da Blues, what Led Zeppelin did sooooo well.

Cragman

Trad climber

June Lake, California....via the Damascus Road

Nov 11, 2011 - 12:49pm PT

Jake and Elwood.

Missing photo ID#224575

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Nov 11, 2011 - 01:09pm PT

"Lady Sings The Blues" Billie Holiday
"Black Peter" Grateful Dead
"Born Under a Bad Sign" Albert King. Covered by Hendrix, Clapton, Rita Coolidge
"Can't Find My Way Back Home" Blind Faith
"Cry Baby" by Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters, covered by Janis
"House of the Rising Sun" unknown. 16 year old Georgia Turner was recorded by Alan Lomax in 1937. Covered by Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Animals, Mark O'Conner-a really evocative violin piece.

crøtch

climber

Nov 11, 2011 - 01:13pm PT

Blue camalots for 150 feet

Missing photo ID#224562

Chief

climber

The NW edge of The Hudson Bay

Nov 11, 2011 - 02:19pm PT

Studying schoolwork at home on a rainy Remembrance Day.

Mighty Hiker

climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Nov 11, 2011 - 02:20pm PT

Shouldn't it be "what are the blues"?

Gary

climber

From the City That Dreams

Topic Author's Reply - Nov 11, 2011 - 02:24pm PT

Shouldn't it be "what are the blues"?

No. I reference Howlin' Wolf. He knows.

When you run out of blue camalots and you got another 50 feet to go, you got the blues.

wack-N-dangle

Gym climber

the ground up

Nov 13, 2011 - 08:23pm PT

Human hixtory unknown, call and response, gospel, chain gangs. blues. Maybe when you have the blues too long it makes you want to holler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FevK4QQaoFs

Never really felt it, but a bit in the soul, makes me glad to be human and give thanks for their works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYSFEfeC3Ro

wack-N-dangle

Gym climber

the ground up

Nov 13, 2011 - 08:30pm PT

mmmmmmmmmmm

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

"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."

"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked."
Jimi Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h2ywNdG45I