The TB Blues
November 21st, 2006 at 1:16 pm (Uncategorized)
It’s day 2 of Guest Contributors Week and I think we got off to a damn good start yesterday with Mr. Brycebag’s submission. Today is Tony B Day. Happy Birthday TONY!!!! Tony writes about a blues musician named Henry Thomas who lived long long ago, and thus there aren’t any pictures readily available for me to post of him. But I love posting pictures, so here are 3 of people named Henry Thomas who aren’t the Henry Thomas Tony is talking about. Tony’s entry is directly below the pics. Make sure you comment on what TB gots to say!
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Henry Thomas was a blues musician born in Texas in the late 1800’s. Though most of the major blues figures are from the Mississippi Delta –an area in Mississippi where the most fertile soil, and thus largest plantations and black populations were found—Thomas was from the West. That’s about all the biographical info you’re gonna get from me. Let me tell you what I think of the song.
Don’t Leave Me Here is a blues song. To most people it may not sound like a blues song, not like Son House, or Muddy Waters, or even Bonny fucking Raitt (who rocks), but it’s a blues song. It’s important to recognize that The Blues don’t have to sound a certain way. The Twelve Bar Blues that most of us can recognize right away is only one style of the genre. I only used ‘genre’ there because I felt I was on the verge of using the word ‘Blues’ too much. The idea of themes is more vital in classifying The Blues than the sound of the song itself. Quickly off the top of the flowing locks that sit upon my perfect head, the most prominent themes are; love, work, rivers, trains, freedom from love, work, rivers and trains, race, mobility and much much more. Don’t Leave Me Here deals directly with another major theme, that being that being mobility. Although southern blacks were no longer slaves, and were technically free, Jim Crow laws passed just after the Emancipation Proclamation ensured they were anything but free. Mobility represented the freedom to move around, live or work were one pleased. This was a very uncommon for thing for a southern black, and actually some of the blacks with the most mobility were in fact blues musicians.
I’m gonna post a variety of blues songs on here to show you what I mean about the different themes tying together several different sounds into one….genre…bombardier. Dave, tell the people how to pronounce both words. Okay, now listen.
Tony
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kyra said,
November 21, 2006 at 5:53 pm
prolific.
on so many levels.
like that scene in V for vandetta (if you havent seen it…damn you….and maybe dont read this next sentence) she walks out of her prison only to discover…SURPRISE….it was just a make believe game! hahahaha
similarly, i was shocked to discover that henry thomas was not the blues musician i had expected, but indeed, far ahead of his times technologically, and far behind his times in other ways (eunuch?…look what wikipedia has to say …> “castration has been documented to effectively reduce symptoms in people with schizophrenia, psychosis, violent behaviors, paraphilias, manias, overactive libido, baldness, sleep apnea, as well as prostate disorders and prevention of various sexually transmitted diseases, by means of eliminated or reduced sexual activity. Many men indeed chose to become eunuchs for some of these reasons…….”
plus……French…..all in all, i was left with the pleasing yet shocking sensation of a slip and slide on a hot summer day
i love you tony….
i hope that doesnt make things weird between us now
Centaur said,
November 21, 2006 at 6:34 pm
Henry thomas was a genius. Love the synch and the SHHH, what a creative BLUES MUSICIAN!! This song reminds me of good advice our good friend mos def once gave me.. “Look at this photograph Every time I do it makes me laugh How did our eyes get so red And what the hell is on Joey’s head ”
Tony=dipping sauce, jody=organic lays
garret said,
November 21, 2006 at 10:52 pm
I think you are fucking hilarious or I am totally confused. I seem to be confused a lot on this site. This song should be titled “french baby blues”. The funny thing is Tony actually used to love this song. He got beat up by all the Blake Boys in Juniour high at a school dance because he kept buggin the dj to play this song and then we he did, tony lost his mind. He started doing his sexy fingers through the hair dance and then that’s when it happened. Fucking Waheeb. This would actually be a great tool for kids to learn french. Sorry Tony if you are embarresed by this story. It had to come out sooner or later.
scary hairy gary
mister joey junk said,
November 22, 2006 at 4:30 pm
i rate this song a 9 out of 10. its brilliant. it brings me back to a time when what you said didnt matter as long as you sounded fuckin cool.
tony said,
November 23, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Hello people,
Mr. B here, just dropping in to say thank you for all the nice things you had to say. Both of you.
Garret, that is a lie and you know it–those Blake Boys couldn’t catch me if their shitty lives depended on it. Though you’re right about one thing: I am fucking hilarious.
Joell, everything you say sounds fucking cool anyway, so you don’t have to use these French baby rap songs as a crutch any more.
Dave, are you going to post the real song or am I going to have to activate the warning fist?
Blink Blink,
Tony
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