Good Morning Blues
Got everything you want. You got a bed and fine breakfast. You got a fine family, but you just toss and turn in bed. You get up to the "Good Morning Blues".
There are bombs flying and people dying. They wake up to a hole in the ground. You wake to burnt toast and jam on your shirt. This is the "good morning" blues.
Good morning. Everything is awesome.
Nine Below Zero
Sonny Boy Williamson -
There is some controversy about his name. It looks to me like he just wanted to pick up a legacy and he fits the name well.
When you have given all of you money and all of your loving and everything and got nothing in return you feel like you've been put down. You feel like the biggest loser and dumped out in the cold at nine below zero.
When you spit on the ground and the spit freezes cracked you know that's nine below zero. Nobody should be put out of the house at nine below zero, but that's how the world is. It's cold when all your money is gone and the woman don't treat you right.
What would you do when it's nine below zero and it looks like everybody is through with you?
Last but not least:
Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
She was the real Rosetta stone of the Blues.
One of the first things I'm gonna do when I get to heaven is look up Rosetta Tharpe and give her the credit where it belongs.
Look at the audience in this concert here. It's at a real train station. The kids are a group of hip teenagers of Manchester England in 1964. At this time the Beatles were performing on the The Ed Sullivan Show. ( He never did pay me the 10 million dollars from Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes. )
This woman rocks and is the originator of those riffs. She was finally initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in 2018. Her Biography says she influenced Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Little Richard. She would say:
"When people would ask her about her music," Wald says, "she would say, 'Oh, these kids and rock and roll — this is just sped up rhythm and blues. I've been doing that forever.' "
The photos in this article are taken with my camera in Seoul at an art exhibit with permission from the Ethiopian artist Adugna Kassa. For serious inquiries into Kassa's "free art" see here.