harpdude61
1951 posts
Jan 09, 2014
7:44 PM
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I read about this on American Blues Scene, I think.... I heard about this old guy (81 years old) cutting his first record. I finally tracked it down, it's a man by the name of Leo Welch, & he is on "Big Legal Mess Records", along with the (late) big names of the old school Hill Country scene...RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, & the master, Mississippi Fred McDowell.
Strangely, this is a gospel record. Stranger even, it's good. Or at least I think so... samples on the linked page. I think I gotta buy the man's record...
http://biglegalmessrecords.com/leo-welch-sabougla-voices-out-january-7th/
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Jehosaphat
647 posts
Jan 09, 2014
11:28 PM
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Followed the link..Oh yes great stuff.
He has a few on the Tube but i like the sound of his 'new' gospel sampler from the link better.
I'll be buying it.
(Considering i belong to the "how did Noah get Dinosaurs onto the Ark" brigade i have an inordinate amount of black gospel CDs')
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oldwailer
1991 posts
Jan 09, 2014
11:43 PM
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That is great! I love the old gospel stuff--and it doesn't seem at all strange to me that it's gospel!
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KC69
357 posts
Jan 10, 2014
6:55 AM
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Hapdude61: Thanks for the tip !! I just ordered the CD. My pastor owns a recording studio and want to record some Gospel Blues. This should be some good background work. Always good to hear from the oldwailer, hope all is well in your neck of the woods.
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kudzurunner
4486 posts
Jan 11, 2014
1:04 AM
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I brought Leo Welch to my graduate blues tradition class at Ole Miss back in December. He spent an hour visiting with us and playing and singing his music. He's a great guy, and his friend/guide/manager, Vencie Varnado, is also a great guy. Leo--or Bud, as he is called--spent many decades cutting logs in the north Mississippi woodlands. He talked about how he made the chain saw "sing," using it to express himself. He plays both blues and gospel numbers. He's got a great groove.
The moment I heard the first song on his album, "I don't know what God's come to do," I told Vencie that he was going to blow up big time, and I'm pleased to see my prophecy come true. He's a bona fide Mississippi folk musician, somebody who made music for his local church for decades.
He told an amazing story about B. B. King playing a local club in Bruce, Mississippi, back in the 1950s or 60s. Some guy told BB "Don't play that song"--meaning a song about some baby who had done him wrong. BB went ahead and played it, and the guy ran onstage and knocked BB down. BB left that story out of his autobiography.
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Lmbrjak
222 posts
Jan 11, 2014
9:05 PM
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"He talked about how he made the chainsaw sing"
Most of the crews I've worked on, the cutters work alone and are well spread out to avoid dropping trees on each other. Most of the time,especially in the hills,you can't see each other but you listen for safety reasons(certain sounds trigger alarm bells) Each cutter has his own groove,especially with the revs between cuts when they are limbing. You learn to recognize a cutter by sound after you've worked with him awhile.
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