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Thread #120103   Message #2609628
Posted By: Bobert
12-Apr-09 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Race & Socially Responsive Posting
Subject: RE: BS: Race & Socially Responsive Posting
Gwine get reeee'ligin,
Gwine joine Bap-tis choucth
Gwine come a Bap-tis preacha'
So I won't haf to woik...

(Son House ffrom "Preachin' Blues...)

BTW, there is an excellent video of Son House doing "John the Revelator" while standing up but before he does the song he goes into a monologue that is absolutely priceless where he speaks about the conflicts of between the blues, which were thought by some to be the "Devil's music", and his Faith... It is a very anguished monolgue...

It has been reported that Son would go down to the juke joint on Saturday night and play music and drink hard and get up on Sunday mornin' and preach... If there was such thing as a time machine I would love to be able to go back to the 30's and sit right up there in the first pew to hear one of his sermons...

B~