When you lose someone close, it breaks your heart, I know. But singing a song about it when it involves losing a family member to the state? Blind Lemon Jefferson is just that strong enough to do just that…listen up now…
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Here you’ll find an early blueprint for what would eventually become the rock and roll rhythm section. The piano covers the top and the bottom, and the vocal sits on top of that bass part like a cat on a fence on a hot summer night. And what a vocal! Blind Lemon Jefferson had power and grace. These days the children singing with auto tuners and digital editing, why, they should all set a spell and listen to grandaddy wail.
Too much time spent in the fast lane? Blind Lemon is saying that eventually women will get tired of that and leave you with just one shoulder to cry on. The shoulder on the side of the highway…
Not all of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s brilliant recordings have survived the years so well. They often have decades of wear and tear in the grooves, pulled from the original 78 RPM side or reel to reel tape into the digital realm in the nick of time, saving what’s left of these audio treasures from oblivion. There’s hiss and pop on this, but that doesn’t obscure the magnificent art shining just beneath. “Broke and Hungry Blues” is a timeless masterpiece.
