Mississippi Fred McDowell
Mississippi Fred McDowell was born Fred McDowell in Rossville, Tennessee, January 12, 1904. He died in Memphis,Tennessee on July 3, 1972. He was a blues singer and guitar player in the North Mississippi style.
His parents, who were farmers, died when McDowell was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from ploughing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926 where he worked in a number of jobs and played music for tips. Read Full BioMississippi Fred McDowell was born Fred McDowell in Rossville, Tennessee, January 12, 1904. He died in Memphis,Tennessee on July 3, 1972. He was a blues singer and guitar player in the North Mississippi style.
His parents, who were farmers, died when McDowell was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from ploughing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926 where he worked in a number of jobs and played music for tips. He settled in Como, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, in 1940 or 1941, and worked steadily as a farmer, continuing to perform music at dances, and picnics. Initially he played slide guitar using a pocket knife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone, later switching to a glass slide for its clearer sound. He played with the slide on his ring finger.
A pure hill country blues musician, he played "just the straight, natural blues," and he "do not play no rock and roll." McDowell initially played the recognizable resonator guitar but, during tours and recordings beginning in the 1960s, he adopted the use of electric guitar and was probably the first original delta- or country blues musician to do so. McDowell's style is distinctive and recognizable; perhaps the dirtiest sounding guitarist ever and one of the most influential. The slide guitar styles of Bonnie Raitt as well as Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones, as well as Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys are all heavily influenced by McDowell's technique.
McDowell died of cancer in 1972 and is buried at Hammond Hill M.B. Church, between Como and Senatobia. On August 6, 1993 a memorial was placed on the gravesite of Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Hammond Hill Baptist Church cemetery by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund.
His parents, who were farmers, died when McDowell was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from ploughing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926 where he worked in a number of jobs and played music for tips. Read Full BioMississippi Fred McDowell was born Fred McDowell in Rossville, Tennessee, January 12, 1904. He died in Memphis,Tennessee on July 3, 1972. He was a blues singer and guitar player in the North Mississippi style.
His parents, who were farmers, died when McDowell was a youth. He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. Wanting a change from ploughing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926 where he worked in a number of jobs and played music for tips. He settled in Como, Mississippi, about 40 miles south of Memphis, in 1940 or 1941, and worked steadily as a farmer, continuing to perform music at dances, and picnics. Initially he played slide guitar using a pocket knife and then a slide made from a beef rib bone, later switching to a glass slide for its clearer sound. He played with the slide on his ring finger.
A pure hill country blues musician, he played "just the straight, natural blues," and he "do not play no rock and roll." McDowell initially played the recognizable resonator guitar but, during tours and recordings beginning in the 1960s, he adopted the use of electric guitar and was probably the first original delta- or country blues musician to do so. McDowell's style is distinctive and recognizable; perhaps the dirtiest sounding guitarist ever and one of the most influential. The slide guitar styles of Bonnie Raitt as well as Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones, as well as Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys are all heavily influenced by McDowell's technique.
McDowell died of cancer in 1972 and is buried at Hammond Hill M.B. Church, between Como and Senatobia. On August 6, 1993 a memorial was placed on the gravesite of Mississippi Fred McDowell at the Hammond Hill Baptist Church cemetery by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund.
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Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Mississippi Fred McDowell Lyrics
Good mornin', little schoolgirl
Good mornin', little schoolgirl
Can I go?
Can I go home wit' you?
Tell yo' mama an yo' papa
Lord, I'm a li'l schoolboy, too
Come on, be my baby
Come on, be my baby
I'll buy you a diamond
I'll buy you a diamond ring
If you don't like that, baby
I ain't gon' buy ya a doggone thing
I don't know, hardly
I don't know, hardly
What in this world
What in this world to do
I don't mean to hurt yo' feelings
Or even get mad with you
I 'member way back, babe
I 'member way back, babe
When I was young age
When I was young, age-a nine
Lord, I thinkin' about my schoolday
It sho' did worry on my mind.
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Written by: FRED MCDOWELL
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Branislav Puletic
Good mornin', little schoolgirl
Good mornin', little schoolgirl
Can I go?
Can I go home wit' you?
Tell yo' mama an yo' papa
Lord, I'm a li'l schoolboy, too
Come on, be my baby
Come on, be my baby
I'll buy you a diamond
I'll buy you a diamond ring
If you don't like that, baby
I ain't gon' buy ya a doggone thing
I don't know, hardly
I don't know, hardly
What in this world
What in this world to do
I don't mean to hurt yo' feelings
Or even get mad with you
I 'member way back, babe
I 'member way back, babe
When I was young age
When I was young, age-a nine
Lord, I thinkin' about my schoolday
It sho' did worry on my mind.
Quist
pure awesome, thanks
ZOKU
7 years later ;)
Ernesto De La Serna
I don't know how old this version is but a thousand years from now it will still be stomping everyone's ass into the ground.
1blastman
@Chip Musick If they bring the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival back like they are planning in October, there should be a good collection of new and old bluesmen coming in. The Blues Tent is the place to be when that happens. The line ups should be out this summer.
Chip Musick
@1blastman Nice to chat with somebody who knows what the hell he's talking about....love Delta Blues!!!!!!!
1blastman
@Chip Musick I had followed McDowell and other Delta bluesmen - Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt for years before the British Blues Invasion broke out TYA was the second wave of the blues invasion following the Stones, John Mayall, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and Clapton with the Yardbirds.
Alvin Lee could wail on guitar, but I really liked a lot of the
jazz stuff he did early on like Woody Herman's Woodchopper's Ball.
Rock in Peace - Alvin Lee
Chip Musick
@1blastman Ha!...Love it....saw TYA several times in the easly 70s in Honolulu and they were si damm good. They came out to pkay encore and someone tossed a lei that went around Alvin Lee's guitar neck and he got mad and ripped it off and it tore all to hell and got tangled up in his guitar strings and deadened the strings. He slammed that Gibson bout haif way across the stage into his amp and stormed off stage and never came back..guitar was still squealing out feedback and everything else it could 25 minutes later when I finally ledt the building (right behind Elvis)! Good times. Thanks friend, Peace and stay safe and God bless Mississippi Fred McDowell and you and yours.
1blastman
@Chip Musick The Yardbirds and most notably Ten Years After covered this in the 60's. Saw TYA do this at the Fillmore and was the most lechereous version that I ever could've imagined at the time. The closest to it was the Stones "Stray Cat Blues" .
Bill Hilliard
For all the BS click-bait on YouTube, you can always find gems like this.
Gonzalo Soto Fernandez
Muy bueno! Mucha calidez, aquí les comparto algunas melodías Patagonicas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQsAoD-buk espero que les guste, Saludos desde el Sur :D