Ep074: Delta Blues Historian Gayle Dean Wardlow
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Gayle Dean Wardlow started a record collection in the 1960s by knocking on doors in the deep south but soon he was also collecting stories and facts about the blues musicians he loved, including Charlie Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Willie Brown & more. Today we talk to Mr Wardlow about these musicians and their wild stories plus we discuss a rarely known bluesman Hayes McMullan who's material has just only just been released.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hayes MacMullen. |
| 0:02.0 | That's right. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey, you're 65? |
| 0:04.0 | 65. |
| 0:05.0 | 65. You were born in 1904. 192. 192? That's right. I see, what was your day to birth? 29th year January. January. January, 1902. Yes, sir. And you were born in Tallahatchie County? Born in Tallahatchie County, raised in. That's right. You were born on a plantation here? |
| 0:21.0 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:22.0 | Out at the end of here, I said from Charles. |
| 0:24.0 | I hear from Charles. tell out the counter, raise, that's right. You were born on a plantation here? Yes, sir. |
| 0:21.6 | Out here in the hill, I was here from Charleston. |
| 0:23.6 | Out here from Charles. |
| 0:24.6 | Out here from Charles. |
| 0:25.6 | Oh, every day, mama, seemed like murder here. |
| 0:42.3 | I said every day, baby, seemed like murder here. |
| 0:55.0 | Said I'm leaving here, I'm leaving here, honey, I know you don't be more care. |
| 1:13.6 | Highland started to make a record was plying. |
| 1:21.6 | Four mule on the plantation. |
| 1:26.6 | Man come through there picking a guitar called Charlie Patton. And I liked |
| 1:32.1 | this sound. |
| 1:33.0 | Boy, me a strange coming, you'll lob and wagon blow. The blues men when they came through |
| 1:42.1 | town, they were traveling, plantation to plantation. |
| 1:45.0 | We was essentially stuck in one place. |
| 1:49.0 | And just to see somebody coming through and moving on, they moved freely at night. |
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