Traditional and Interpreted Blues Tunes Collection - Homemade Extra Special

Cover Art: Cropped area of promotion poster for 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, other album images taken and cropped and enhanced  from other public domain sources

Music by JTSunrise. My music is free to anyone for listening or to or share for non-commercial and non-political uses

Religious and educational uses are encouraged without any ($0) copyright distribution fees or and kind of profit whatsoever being generated of any kind by anyone, this means you

All The Best!!!

JT

Century of Progress

The Story of the Biscuit Roller

The Blues are loaded with culinary references to sex - this is a form of signifying, which is the use of innuendo and doubletalk that is understood by members of one’s community. Countless blues lyrics use metaphor and innuendo to allow the singer to brag about physical attributes and sexual prowess, and state all kinds of desires, without uttering a single profane or off-color word. That’s good signifying. 

it takes bit of imagination for a delicate flaky biscuit dripping with butter and honey to become a metaphor for a delectable woman, and her skillful lover who is called a biscuit roller.

A biscuit roller can be male or female, though, as evidenced by Robert Johnson’s lyric from “If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day”:

“I rolled and I tumbled and I cried the whole night long
Boy I woke up this morning, my biscuit roller gone”

Biscuit Blues Songs:
“Biscuit Roller Blues”- Kokomo Arnold (James Arnold)
“If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day”- Robert Johnson
“Big Mama’s Door”- Alvin Youngblood Hart

Cover Art: U.S. #729 1933 3¢ Century of Progress Issue Date: May 25, 1933 First City: Chicago, IL Quantity Issued: 480239300
Text: “The Language of the Blues” Debra Devi 
Song: JTS, Open D - Capo 5 (High Open G) Pinky Slide on Brass Bell Tricone Resonator Guitar, Three Fingers and the Truth
Full Band Song, “Son of a Biscuit Roller”: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/H19otF7gwytzyLEG9

Biscuit Roller Blues - JTSunrise Solo Bluesman (Century of Progress)

This is the offspring of prior “Biscuit Roller” with string band added - a slow build to the big hillbilly porch stomp.  

See “Biscuit Roller” for description: https://on.soundcloud.com/7YRFY 

JTSUNRISE

SON OF A BISCUIT ROLLER BLUES - JTSUNRISE MOSTLY GOOD STRING BAND

Son of a Biscuit Roller Blues - JTSunrise Mostly Good String Band (Century of Progress)

Psychobilly original Banjo Cat version of a hoedown classic. Put a smile on that face 😊. All the Best and Enjoy!!! JTSunrise


OG Banjo Cat
https://youtu.be/bXNEDXn2zQs

Banjo Cat KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE

Keep On The Sunny Side - OG BANJO CAT #1 - JTSunrise Mostly Good String Band (Century of Progress)

Hesitation Blues may have been the first twelve-bar blues to be known across the US South, circulating in oral tradition for years – perhaps decades – before it was written down, mostly in versions that were far too dirty to be printed or recorded. Robert Winslow Gordon and Hubert Canfield both collected multiple versions in the 1920s, and Jelly Roll Morton recalled one for Alan Lomax that he’d apparently heard in New Orleans around the turn of the century. 

The Hesitation Blues has since been cleaned up and done by various artists in every genera. However it originated in burlesque and other more phonographic musical forms of the underworld preformed for patrons in juke joints, brothels and speak-easy clubs by early bluesmen. Most versions seem to have included verses in the same basic pattern:

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I ain’t no butcher, no butcher’s son,
But I can cut your meat until the butcher comes.

I ain’t no milkman, no milkman’s son,
But I can pull your titties till the milkman comes.

I ain’t no sergeant, no sergeant’s son,
But I can handle your privates till the sergeant comes…

…and so on, as well as such straightforwardly descriptive verses as, from Canfield’s collection:

A fist full of teats, and a mouth full of tongue,
Takes a long peckered daddy to make his baby come.

Only the BEST for you all! 
Saturday Satan Sunday Saint JT

Hesitation Standard Blues

Hesitation Standard Blues - Solo Guitar Instrumental Bluesman (Century of Progress)

"Going to Germany" “Goin’ to German” “Goin’ to Germa”
Gus Cannon (blues banjo legend) Noah Lewis (blues harmonica legend) and the 'Jug Stompers' recorded this song in 1929, titled 'Going to Germany' but they sang it "I'm goin' ta Germa". 
In my version, “going to Germa/n” is a reference to the January 8–10, 1811 German Coast Uprising- largest slave insurgency in US history. I believe that is what Cannon intended.
The blues provides an undertone way to protest oppression and a blues song that can be heard nearly 100 years later can be relevant today.
Jug Stompers 1929 version: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/EGtavui9wyhK152m8
The German Coast was a region of early Louisiana settlement located above New Orleans, and on the west bank of the Mississippi River. It was largely settled by German immigrants.  Four slave-holding plantations developed along this coast.
The 1811 Uprising gathered an estimated 500 slaves from plantations along River Road and marched toward New Orleans. Insurgents killed two white men. The local militia was called. Confrontations with militia and executions killed 95 slaves.
There was also the reality of executions, imprisonment and enforcement fines from Jim Crow laws after Reconstruction. Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a minstrel show character, the laws existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War until 1968. Laws were lethally enforced to marginalize African Americans. Denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities. Those who attempted to defy Jim Crow laws faced arrest, fines, jail sentences, violence and death for them and their friends and families.
In the song, the storyteller is considering collateral retaliation against authorities while being mindful of severe punishment not only to himself but also to members of his community if he does something violent in retribution to his persecution or punishment. Going to German is a way to pause to reflect on what happened to those who lost their lives fighting authoritarian injustice before retaliating to remember the heads on the pikes in German of their relatives. I believe “get away from my window” is a reference to self-isolation when Jim Crow was in pursuit of the storytelling fugitive, because anyone associated with the fugitive would also be subject to severe punishment. Turning-in oneself to face the severity of Jim Crow punishment for whatever race crime was committed was the untimely the stoic option, but only after going to German to pray and think about it.
On the 1929 song, Cannon played a five-string banjo. His and most other early banjo playing styles was not like the modern country and bluegrass styles we know today. It had more in common with the playing of jazz musicians like Johnny St. Cyr who favored the tenor banjo or six-string banjguitar that is still used in New Orleans Traditional Music in a syncopated strum or pinch playing style correlated to the treble rhythm of the song opposite of the alternating bass note to create a bounce in the tune. A banjo is a drum with strings and can be played as such.
If you play old-time music and live near Seattle, or if you are visiting the PNW and want to play in an old-time parlor band with Banjo Tony (bandmate) and me please let me know.
JTSunrise version [G, C, D]

I'm goin' to German, might back some ol' day I'm goin' to German, might be back some ol' day Goin’ to German Mississippi
I might be back some ol' day

Get f'm my window; stop knockin' on my door  Get f'm my window; stop knockin' on my door Get f’m my window woman, ain’t got no woman no more

When you’s in trouble, I worked an' paid yo' fine When you’s in trouble, I worked an' paid yo' fine
Now I'm trouble babe, but you won’t be payn’ mine

I went to German, I got down on my knees and prayed 
I went to German, I got down on my knees and prayed I went to German Mississippi, and now I’m back today 

JTSunrise

Going to German

Going To German Mississippi - Solo Bluesman (Century of Progress)

An American folk performer with roots in the 90s Seattle and Tempe music scenes, JTSunrise weaves classic tunes and tales from the heart with modern images mixed with fingers and breath - - - Genuine Gen X Folkspunk Seattle Americana acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, uke, autoharp, harmonica an old school stringband songs recorded down home

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JTSunrise breaks down as follows:
J = 1, T = 4, S = 3, U = 6, N = 5, R = 2, I = 1, S = 3, E = 5.
Total: 1 + 4 + 3 + 6 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 5 = 30.
Reduce 30 to 3 (3 + 0).
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