Stevie Ray Vaughan with Lonnie Mack - Oreo Cookie Blues (Acoustic!)

[bluesbassman]

Just found this one. SRV playing slide too!

Some banter up front, song starts around 1:56.

[panader0]

1. Oh yeah....

[Miles Archer]

2. If you ever see THIS CD...

...buy it.

It followed "Strike Like Lightning," which featured Stevie. The version of "If You Have To Know" is far superior to the studio version (even though it was a duet with Stevie) because Lonnie just steps on its neck.

It starts off with an instrumental called "Camp Washington Chili" and then he hits the main riff chords and it's all attitude and swagger. The lyrics are classic blues / R&B "boasting."

Got my head on my shoulders, my feet on the ground
To keep from breakin' out of this blues side of town
If you have to know....do you have to know
I've been too far up, too far down, if you have to know

They went and locked me up....for 47 days
Wouldn't let me out and I wouldn't change my ways
If you have to know....do you want to know
I take what I get and I play where I stay....if you have to know

I'm a runaway engine on a midnight line
No destination and no track of time
Ain't worried about yours, don't worry about mine
If you have to know....since you have to know

Well too many bars and too many nights
Too many lefts and not enough rights
If you have to know....do you have to know
I'm the last one to leave and the first one to fight
If you have to know

Got a whole lot of women....a whole lot of beer
Half outta whiskey and flat out of (Chester)fields
If you have to know....do you have to know
I got some kinda deal but it's all up to you
If you have to know

[bluesbassman]

4. Yes sir, that's one asskickin' album.

Lonnie was a huge influence on blues-rock guitar playing. Love his stuff.

[Miles Archer]

7. Lonnie reminds me that joke Robert Duval tells Sean Penn in the movie "Colors"...

...Daddy bull and baby bull standing on top of a hill, see a bunch of cows at the bottom of the hill. Baby bull says "Hey pop, let's run down there and **** one of those cows." Daddy bull replies "NO, son...let's WALK down there and **** them ALL."

Lonnie has a calm sense of cool...he could rip your face off but he'd do it while kicked back and without breaking a sweat.

[IrishAyes]

3. Thanks!

Long live Stevie Ray, forever in our hearts.

The closest I've ever seen anyone come to him is a young man named JD Simo. He started studying guitar somewhere around the age of 5 and went on to become a child blues musical prodigy. Made a temporary stopover with a country band in Nashville, but now he's back to the blues again with his own band, Simo. If you doubt MY word, he's the apple of Buddy Guy's eye. Anybody wanna argue with that? Up through his teens at least he continued classical guitar studies too, a wise move.

I believe Stevie Ray would've adopted JD.

[bluesbassman]

5. You're welcome!

Thanks for the tip on JD Simo. He sure can play!

[IrishAyes]

8. He can sing, too.

When his family moved to Phoenix from Chicago, JD would play Prescott a lot. Even though I lived on a little ranch 5 miles down a dirt road 20 miles away, I worked at a place barely across the highway from the Pines, one of the best little roadhouses in the world. Even when it was my day off, I'd drive in for his shows, several hours early because he always drew huge crowds. I'd buy something to eat, one beer, and then park at the table closest to the stage and read a book! while waiting for the Simo crew to show up.

Took tons of videos which I will someday upload for everyone to enjoy. The tragedy was that I ran out of tape the one night he sang 'Hurt' - by far the best cover I ever heard, even better than Cash. And he's a genuinely nice young man. People could see I was a serious videographer and treated me more than well. I really liked his drummer at the time, and thereby hangs the tale of my best shot. During one drum solo I flopped down on my back on the stage floor and - w/o interfering! - scooted to where I could take an extended upshot of the drummer's face, framed by the cymbals, sweat dripping everywhere including my lens; but I didn't care. Strange maybe, what some people consider the thrill of a lifetime.

I think if my house ever started to burn down, those tapes might be the first thing I grabbed to rescue.

[SkatmanRoth]

6. Stevie Ray Vaughan channeling Elmore James

bookmarked