long john

Lightnin' Washington And Group singing "long john"... part of alan lomax's field recordings of the american south ... i just got hooked up with a bunch of these, including the disc this is off of "Deep River of Song: Big Brazos" ... i'm pretty sure they are choppin' trees in this tune, which is holdin the beat ... the whole disc is fantastic, but that song in particular (there's two on the disc by washington, both are the stand-out tracks in my opinion) ... i highly recommend you listen to the track on that page and listen to how seriously these guys are singin that song, i mean, man ... you can feel it if you got any kinda soul ... i'm convinced that if all music was performed like that, there would be no room for britney spears, or whoever is popular right now ... because people would listen to music not just for a catchy melody or something to dance to, but the actual PERFORMANCE (and i don't mean pyrotechnics and jumbo-trons) would be the crux of what was being sung ... so all the gimmicks would be pointless ... well, i can dream anyway ...