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Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)

from Take Yo Time by Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons

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Adapted from the 1927 recording by "Mississippi" John Hurt.

There are multiple quality videos on Youtube of Hurt performing in the early 1960's, here is one example:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKkw4nkifa8

You can download many of Hurt's recordings at the Internet Archive:

archive.org/search.php?query=creator:%22Mississippi%20John%20Hurt%22


Dr. Philip Ratcliffe wrote a book called "Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues". Ratcliffe interviewed numerous folks who knew Hurt for the book, including the bluesman's first wife, who was 107 years old at the time. Read an interview with Ratcliffe here:

www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/interview-with-author-dr-philip-ratcliffe-on-mississippi-john

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Got the blues, can't be satisfied
Got the blues, can't be satisfied
Keep the blues, I'll catch that train and ride

Yes, whiskey straight will drive the blues away
Yes, whiskey straight will drive the blues away
That be the case, I wants a quart today

I bought my baby a great big diamond ring
I bought my baby a great big diamond ring
Come right back home and caught her shaking that thing

I said, "Babe, what make you do me this a-way?"
I said, "Babe, what make you do me this a-way?"
Well, that I bought, now you give it away

I took my gun and broke the barrel down
I took my gun and broke the barrel down
I put that joker six feet in the ground

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from Take Yo Time, released November 14, 2014
Ben Hunter - fiddle
Joe Seamons - banjo, vocal

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Ben Hunter & Joe Seamons Seattle, Washington

Ben & Joe give life to voices that have long been silenced in American culture.

Their award- winning performances are highlighted by story-telling that shows how the past still lives in the present.

Through their songs, audiences witness current issues crop up again and again in folk songs, dance tunes, acoustic blues, and original traditional songs.
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