Down and dirty, can I get an “Amen?” Talk about sensitive interplay between musicians! A sleazy trombone, Ry Cooder wielding that guitar like a man possessed, and that voice - my God, that voice! Straight from the swamp, like he’s channeling a 1,000-year-old man. This, dear listeners, is music the way it’s meant to be performed. No silly auto tune vocals, no banal instrumentation, no smoke, no mirrors, no gimmicks. Just one long ton of talent.
How could eight people say they dislike this "tidal wave" of talent? Regardless of ones political or musical preferences, an honest person cannot deny greatness!
I know this comments from 10 yrs ago but I'm 32 grew up listening to this guy thanks to my old man loving it n I completely agree ND also fuck these 8 people Ry Cooder's the Man Chur👍
Nancine2, I gasp and struggle to express how this song, in fact the whole concert at the catalyst moves me. it is supernatural how extraordinary it is. Im 69, an old retired doctor, a nonmusician, and this is to me the most finely crafted, soulful piece of work...well, it makes me want to stay alive. It makes me love everybody around me. What more can you expect of music?
And that was live boys and girls. None of that production that you can't repeat on your own. Live, Live it was live I tell ya. Talk about setting a mood. Good God Almighty, that was something special. 'Ol Roy can make it talk and the vocals are just perfect. It's like I just took a trip and never left the farm. In my younger days I worked in Mississippi on the Tombigbee River. Yes boys and girls we was surveying the Tombigbee for the subsequent locks and dams. 1971 or 1972 I believe it was. Mississippi is sure something special. Especially the folks out in the country You talk about down home and country well they have it or at least had it. Met some wonderful people for both races. And this song sets the mood. Also check out RL Burnside Holly Springs Miss. He's gone now but he had a little club in Holly Springs. I once spent a weekend their at one of the surrounding farms. Met some wonderful people and some real share croppers. It was like taking a step back into the past.
ainthurtinnobody I think u meant Ry not Roy j/s Yeah the south is known for hospitality although I ain't sure if it's like it used to be. Years ago I had a flat and some young guys helped us out right up to bringing it back n putting it on the car, in FL! Really nice young men they were.
My family reunions were in Mississippi, near Columbus, Camp Pratt, a former YMCA campground.. Our cabin was a few yards from bank of Tombigbee River. Every 2 yrs. for 4 days 3 nights in muggy Miss. August, our families would come from around the U.S. and bring that place to life. Each family stayed in different cabins. We all thank the yr. they finally put in AC units in them. My Mother's brother's and sister's still lived in Miss. and Alabama. Everyone played an instrument and or sang, most played by ear and extremely well. My wonderful Aunt Norene raised all the mouth watering food we ate, black eyed peas, melons, corn, pecan pies[ my fav] fresh purserves and on and on. I gained 10 pds. every time, I didn't mind at all. I savored each morsel. She played guitar, fiddle and sang so beautifully. We ate, played, sang, hugged, told well worn, but welcome stories . Fished, swam, tennis, baseball, basketball, rode horses. Man I loved it so. Now all is left are wonderful memories, as most all have passed on or too old to travel the great distance. The closest airport is in Memphis.This song always takes me back, I've always liked it and Ry's music. Many of my relatives were born in shacks with no running water, heat, electricity, indoor toilet. They picked cotton as children and grew up in Great Depression, a hard life. 12 brother's and sister's on my Mother's side, her the baby. Still kickin' at 94 yrs. young. But all prospered in many and varied ways and places. In 94 I took my wife and newborn daughter to the reunion. We traveled from Illinois, about 1600 miles round trip. I always switched from interstate, to two lane road, once I got to Tupalo. Stayed the night there, always stayed at same hotel. I'm a photographer, who loves shooting the old stores, buildings, shacks and barns, still then, on the one time main highway. Some sites seemed still stuck, in a time warp of days long ago. The trip in 94 I decided to stop in Holly Springs, of all places, to eat a picnic lunch. A lush green vine infessed spot , blanketed on all sides , some 50 yrds. off road. The Vines were so thick around us and our feet, it felt like plush green carpet to walk and sit upon. I'm fond of the timed photo, I took on tripod of the three of us, surrounded by a green lush canopy. I wanted to ''go back in time''briefly, with my wife and 2 month old daughter. You see , I was the only one in my family born in the North, a damn Yankee! Of all things! I had always wished for Southern roots in a way. Well, this damn Yankee can't believe this extended, long winded diatribe. Your comment just made me ''step back into the past'', as you said. Ya'll take care now. lol
Ry Cooder used to come to London with these guys and play the Hammersmith Odeon in the 1980s. I would buy tickets for the last night, and then they’d add more nights and I’d have to buy more tickets for the new last night 😀 Bobby King would come in in a tux and take his jacket off, and then his tie and then his shirt 😀 Those singers were something else and Ry, well Ry Cooder was God. Still is. Best live music I ever heard ❤
Ry has such a heart, passion and connection for the sentiment of this song - and the people so moved by their long-ago hurtful memories of Mississippi. He did a likewise BEAUTIFUL job of producing Mavis Staples' wonderful CD.
Powerful, intense music! Ry Cooder's guitar performance is wonderful... but man! Those VOICES. That sound is somehow the essence of Mississippi for me. It's like what this cut says, says it once for all time. GREAT.
And this said: my father had this concert on VHS back in the 80's. Together with a few parts of Woodstock this must have been the concert video I watched the most in my teens. It just gets to you, the voices, the slide, the atmosphere of the whole thing...
Terry Evans - has worked for ages with Ry Cooder, as well as having an impressive solo career. Check out his duo albums with Bobby King, his solo albums, and the awesome "Visions" CD with Hans Theessink.
Now that hits the spot. This here scratches my rhythmic itch. This is awesome. It’s my first, virgin hearing plus I’m behind the drums, grooving it in sections lol
Ry's "Boomer's Story" was my introduction to his work. Amazed ever since. Saw him live in Liberty Hall Houston, Texas, 1972. Solo, acoustic. It was musically groundSHAKIN for me.
All, who may pass this way, get busy, I say, help me lord, help me.......Bring the kind of music, strength in essence and energy in the heart......Songs you feel deeply about, for more than the playing of fast notes, or pretty buts talkin bout lustin the night away.....The passion of the tone, the deep sense of familiarity and the feel better after its done. Ready for yet another concert ....... Tina could, Beyoncé could, Dolly and Loretta could, and the list, can take a week to verify of those in past generations who could take voice and instrument and make the whole world better, if only for a night, a song, an album...or just the sight of them.....there are many who do just that.....define what it is to be a Great Performer.
This song moves my ass everytime I hear it. Man... the most haunting vocals I've probably ever heard, with Ry Cooder sliding that icing on the cake... Some music theorists think the "third" doesn't belong in the panatonic (blues) scale.. Couldn't disagree more...
awesome! i´ve seen terry live 2times here in austria 2gether with hans theessink - it was a wonderful experiance!! especially THIS song! thanx & god bless!
The reason we all seem to understand the Blues is every (almost every) adult has had that "hole in your bully with the wind blowing thru." And it's better listening to it than having to live it day by day. Glad I live here on the left coast and can still play a little music to keep an old man smiling, yes! ℗.
Wow - totally awesome! Gives me the chills. My husband and I met in Santa Cruz, CA - our first date was at the Catalyst -- 1969 -- thanks for great echoes of the past.
addicting.....I am obsessed with this great song ...... ry cooder and the wholr=e band are amazing they are perfectly harmonizing with each other.Thank you for posting this....I am subscribinh you.
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In VERY loving memory of Mr. Terry Lee Evans (1937 - 2018 R.I.P. Gone but NOT forgotten)
God bless that man...AND his soul!!
Down and dirty, can I get an “Amen?”
Talk about sensitive interplay between musicians! A sleazy trombone, Ry Cooder wielding that guitar like a man possessed, and that voice - my God, that voice! Straight from the swamp, like he’s channeling a 1,000-year-old man.
This, dear listeners, is music the way it’s meant to be performed. No silly auto tune vocals, no banal instrumentation, no smoke, no mirrors, no gimmicks.
Just one long ton of talent.
Amen !
😊
❤❤ wow
We The People love Mississippi! ;)
Sounds swampy. Caught a couple of notes that sounded like “Southern Comfort” the movie that Ry did the music for.
How could eight people say they dislike this "tidal wave" of talent? Regardless of ones political or musical preferences, an honest person cannot deny greatness!
They in they KKK
I know this comments from 10 yrs ago but I'm 32 grew up listening to this guy thanks to my old man loving it n I completely agree ND also fuck these 8 people Ry Cooder's the Man Chur👍
People gonna hate…even kill what they do not like or understand.
Music from the HEART!
It's because their just gay 😅
THIS IS SOME OF THE HEAVIEST BLUES SHIT IVE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE THIS IS WHY I PLAY OH LAWD
This man's voice has the power of thousands of voices. It feels as if other lives are here with him..
Absolutely, I couldn't agree more with you Patricia!!!
Yes, full of Soul!
What a great comment
Amen
Who was the lead singer? Just found this music.
7 minutes of goooooooooosebumps. This performance is a miracle.
Da hast du recht❤
2024 checking in. Still doesn’t get any better.
Just having a rough day then stumbled across this belter in my country blues playlist....got shivers and started annoying my neighbour hooting 😂❤️
If it got any better, my head and heart would simply explode.
Dear Lord! Could this be any better? So perfect and powerful.
uummm nooo
Put your sweet lipps closer
Ry cooder
@nancine it's a great cover, but to answer your question, yes, just listen to the original
Nancine2, I gasp and struggle to express how this song, in fact the whole concert at the catalyst moves me. it is supernatural how extraordinary it is. Im 69, an old retired doctor, a nonmusician, and this is to me the most finely crafted, soulful piece of work...well, it makes me want to stay alive. It makes me love everybody around me. What more can you expect of music?
For 7 minutes I give my soul away...
Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces was an outstanding ensemble.
They made some beautiful music together.
This live performance you can feel all the way down in your soul. Mind blowing.
Superb performance!
He lived it. Born in Vicksburg 1937.
One of the best blues perfomance ever live on stage ,,,greate voice of mr.evans
I don't care who you are are, you can feel this. Brilliant.
Hey nick, you still feeling this 13 years later?
May you rest in peace Terry. Amazing voice that will be missed.
Truly a gifted musician.
And that was live boys and girls. None of that production that you can't repeat on your own. Live, Live it was live I tell ya. Talk about setting a mood. Good God Almighty, that was something special. 'Ol Roy can make it talk and the vocals are just perfect. It's like I just took a trip and never left the farm. In my younger days I worked in Mississippi on the Tombigbee River. Yes boys and girls we was surveying the Tombigbee for the subsequent locks and dams. 1971 or 1972 I believe it was. Mississippi is sure something special. Especially the folks out in the country You talk about down home and country well they have it or at least had it. Met some wonderful people for both races. And this song sets the mood. Also check out RL Burnside Holly Springs Miss. He's gone now but he had a little club in Holly Springs. I once spent a weekend their at one of the surrounding farms. Met some wonderful people and some real share croppers. It was like taking a step back into the past.
ainthurtinnobody I think u meant Ry not Roy j/s Yeah the south is known for hospitality although I ain't sure if it's like it used to be. Years ago I had a flat and some young guys helped us out right up to bringing it back n putting it on the car, in FL! Really nice young men they were.
Larry Fleck Your right. I probably had been listening to Roy Buchanan and got my Ry and Roy's mixed up. They're both good though.
My family reunions were in Mississippi, near Columbus, Camp Pratt, a former YMCA campground.. Our cabin was a few yards from bank of Tombigbee River. Every 2 yrs. for 4 days 3 nights in muggy Miss. August, our families would come from around the U.S. and bring that place to life. Each family stayed in different cabins. We all thank the yr. they finally put in AC units in them. My Mother's brother's and sister's still lived in Miss. and Alabama. Everyone played an instrument and or sang, most played by ear and extremely well. My wonderful Aunt Norene raised all the mouth watering food we ate, black eyed peas, melons, corn, pecan pies[ my fav] fresh purserves and on and on. I gained 10 pds. every time, I didn't mind at all. I savored each morsel. She played guitar, fiddle and sang so beautifully. We ate, played, sang, hugged, told well worn, but welcome stories . Fished, swam, tennis, baseball, basketball, rode horses. Man I loved it so. Now all is left are wonderful memories, as most all have passed on or too old to travel the great distance. The closest airport is in Memphis.This song always takes me back, I've always liked it and Ry's music. Many of my relatives were born in shacks with no running water, heat, electricity, indoor toilet. They picked cotton as children and grew up in Great Depression, a hard life. 12 brother's and sister's on my Mother's side, her the baby. Still kickin' at 94 yrs. young. But all prospered in many and varied ways and places. In 94 I took my wife and newborn daughter to the reunion. We traveled from Illinois, about 1600 miles round trip. I always switched from interstate, to two lane road, once I got to Tupalo. Stayed the night there, always stayed at same hotel. I'm a photographer, who loves shooting the old stores, buildings, shacks and barns, still then, on the one time main highway. Some sites seemed still stuck, in a time warp of days long ago. The trip in 94 I decided to stop in Holly Springs, of all places, to eat a picnic lunch. A lush green vine infessed spot , blanketed on all sides , some 50 yrds. off road.
The Vines were so thick around us and our feet, it felt like plush green carpet to walk and sit upon. I'm fond of the timed photo, I took on tripod of the three of us, surrounded by a green lush canopy. I wanted to ''go back in time''briefly, with my wife and 2 month old daughter. You see , I was the only one in my family born in the North, a damn Yankee! Of all things! I had always wished for Southern roots in a way. Well, this damn Yankee can't believe this extended, long winded diatribe. Your comment just made me ''step back into the past'', as you said. Ya'll take care now. lol
Best version ever recorded...
Forty years of listening to Ryland Cooder through all his musical evolvements so good
Ry Cooder used to come to London with these guys and play the Hammersmith Odeon in the 1980s. I would buy tickets for the last night, and then they’d add more nights and I’d have to buy more tickets for the new last night 😀 Bobby King would come in in a tux and take his jacket off, and then his tie and then his shirt 😀 Those singers were something else and Ry, well Ry Cooder was God. Still is. Best live music I ever heard ❤
This is the best Mississippi song I have found so far.
Reminds me of a cypress swamp after midnight.
Such a powerful song. Terry Evans gets his shoulders going and Ry looks like he is in a trance during his solo ride
He was in a music trance !
2024. Just checking in. Still brilliant.
Ry has such a heart, passion and connection for the sentiment of this song - and the people so moved by their long-ago hurtful memories of Mississippi. He did a likewise BEAUTIFUL job of producing Mavis Staples' wonderful CD.
This is what music is.
This is crazy wicked good! You are down in old Mississippi listening to this. Up under your ribs stuck like old Molasses!
Powerful, intense music! Ry Cooder's guitar performance is wonderful... but man! Those VOICES. That sound is somehow the essence of Mississippi for me. It's like what this cut says, says it once for all time. GREAT.
Hell yea Mississippi boy here, good ass music
Terry Evans ! what a voice! full of power and emotion!
:-(
This is so hot you can feel the humidity like high noon in the Delta.
There are no words. This just leaves me speechless.let the miracle of these talented people speak for itself
Man, this is Heaven.
Ry Cooder is as good as it gets. Best blues ever.
And this said: my father had this concert on VHS back in the 80's.
Together with a few parts of Woodstock this must have been the concert video I watched the most in my teens.
It just gets to you, the voices, the slide, the atmosphere of the whole thing...
Very good group of musicians.very powerful for sure.
Terry Evans - has worked for ages with Ry Cooder, as well as having an impressive solo career. Check out his duo albums with Bobby King, his solo albums, and the awesome "Visions" CD with Hans Theessink.
This is a POWERFUL piece of music, can you post the whole concert?
@@1blastman it's on TH-cam somewhere I've watched it
He was an amazing musician.
Man, so much feeling, so much feeling.
Pure delta blues, nothing compares a dying art
Amazing. Gives me goosebumps.
Terry Evans is one of the greatest blues man ever !!
One word Timeless
Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, love love love, big smiles from Downunda Oz, i never ever get sick of this song or Crossroads. Much Love 💓💖💓
RIP Terry Evans. So sad to have lost you. Powerful, powerful voice
all i can say is thanks for the great music.
Powerful. I never get tired of hearing this.
What a powerful voice, what a song !
This tune is so heavy incredible musicians man! How can you get better than heavy blues? Impossible!
The best blues i ever heard and i am an old white haired guy
Ry Cooder is a phenomenal guitarist. I am bummed I never listened to him for over 40 years, until recently.
Badass.... Slide is amazing and Vocals hit ya right in your Gut!!!!!
l'âme du blues coule dans les veines de terry evans et Ry cooder!!
Gut bucket blues at it's absolute best. Rockin' back and forth with the beat.
Now thats a band in the zone...brilliant stuff...
And that's how you do it , less is more this is truly stunning what an
amazing player no fret ripping runs just real ability with soul brilliant
Wow that was bloody good - I didn't want it to end.
The power of a simple groove done well. Perfection
Nuff said......
R.I.P. Terry Evans. I never knew a voice could contain so much soul.
Singers:
Bobby King: tenor
Terry Evans: baritone
Arnold McCuller: tenor
Willie Green Jr: bass
If you can keep your body still listening to this, you must be dead! Great stuff! Thanks for uploading it.
Now that hits the spot.
This here scratches my rhythmic itch. This is awesome.
It’s my first, virgin hearing plus I’m behind the drums, grooving it in sections lol
This is magnificent Mastery at its finest .
BAD ASS brother.....Ry tore it UP on this one....and great vocals with Terry.....Magnificent job....
Wow that is fantastic.
The first time I heard Down in Mississippi was by Mavis Staples. Both renditions are gutsy and genuine. RIP Terry Lee Evans.🙏✝️
I call this "slide shredding". Ryland was really feelin" it. Mr. Evans Vocals were great. Thank you
And I call this soul slide shredding .
Terry Evans is so underrated.
By who?????? Some pre teen rap "fan"?
Ry's "Boomer's Story" was my introduction to his work. Amazed ever since. Saw him live in Liberty Hall Houston, Texas, 1972. Solo, acoustic. It was musically groundSHAKIN for me.
And you were very lucky to see him so young ...
amazing performance
Just saw Mr. Evans tonight at Vancouver Island MusicFest! Canada loves you Terry!
All, who may pass this way, get busy, I say, help me lord, help me.......Bring the kind of music, strength in essence and energy in the heart......Songs you feel deeply about, for more than the playing of fast notes, or pretty buts talkin bout lustin the night away.....The passion of the tone, the deep sense of familiarity and the feel better after its done. Ready for yet another concert ....... Tina could, Beyoncé could, Dolly and Loretta could, and the list, can take a week to verify of those in past generations who could take voice and instrument and make the whole world better, if only for a night, a song, an album...or just the sight of them.....there are many who do just that.....define what it is to be a Great Performer.
A voice that give you chills.
Wow what an amazing guitar solo.
This song reaches down into your soul and pulls it out. Fantastic.
This is Music with capital M! That voice sends shivers down my spine!
I am sorry that Terry past away
Rest in Peace Terry Evans. A true legend
passed.
This song moves my ass everytime I hear it. Man... the most haunting vocals I've probably ever heard, with Ry Cooder sliding that icing on the cake... Some music theorists think the "third" doesn't belong in the panatonic (blues) scale.. Couldn't disagree more...
This live version is the best probably my 100th time watching 😂
Bobby King and Terry Evans, covering JB Lenoir, with Ry Cooder accompanying.
RIP, Terry.
It don't get better than this.
awesome! i´ve seen terry live 2times here in austria 2gether with hans theessink - it was a wonderful experiance!! especially THIS song! thanx & god bless!
DAMN! that man howls like howling wolf!
The reason we all seem to understand the Blues is every (almost every) adult has had that "hole in your bully with the wind blowing thru."
And it's better listening to it than having to live it day by day.
Glad I live here on the left coast and can still play a little music to keep an old man smiling, yes! ℗.
THAT is talent!!!!!
ry cooder is simply a genious. not only that, but he is a proper musician, he seems to have not ego!
He knows he's good and he loves music and beautiful songs , that's all ...
Love this so much.
sensationell ! Great Work !
incredibly strong voice .
Ry Cooder. Mesmerizing- every one of them.
Sublime c'est la magnificence.Quelle pure beauté! J'adore la 🎶 c'est d'un charme fou!!! Bravo à vous tous. ♥️♥️♥️🌞🌈🔥🔥🔥💧💐💯💯💯💫💥👍👌✌️🙏🙏🙏🥰
Wow - totally awesome! Gives me the chills. My husband and I met in Santa Cruz, CA - our first date was at the Catalyst -- 1969 -- thanks for great echoes of the past.
No me canso de verlo , excelente !!!!!!!!!!!
Music that comes from the heart!
100% pure feeling !!!! Fucking love this song !
life aint so bad when you hear music like this xx
Saw this line-up at Wembly Arena in the late 80's.........& it WAS as good as this recording! just fabulous!
saw the same tour. Manchester
Such a great Lenoir song AND this is just as good
Great vocals Great slide / I like music with heart
Thanks for posting this. It is a total monster.
What a band!
A joy to listen to.
Best of the best!
addicting.....I am obsessed with this great song ...... ry cooder and the wholr=e band are amazing they are perfectly harmonizing with each other.Thank you for posting this....I am subscribinh you.
man ry is so good