Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

I'm talking about the room, I ain't talking about no skin and air.
Gonna be a bit more things before I'm finished with it.
And that's all there is to it. He don't stutter all the time.
when he hear, "Hey, nigger."
That's Toledo, Levee, and Slow Drag over there.
Let me. Ma, listen.
Uh, Mr. Sturdyvant, sir?
But it don't last long.
♪ Oh, my jelly roll ♪
Don't cost but a nickel a bottle.
Figured he'd check the schedule
Looking for this woman to put me in my grave,
They ask who he was. He said he was Reverend Gates
and acted like he done accepted the facts of what happened.
♪ You can swing it You can bring it ♪
I don't like to sing it that way. I'm doing it the old way.
Fifteen minutes.
and record them songs Mr. Sturdyvant done told me I can make,
but she went out and joined the church.
Coward motherfucker!
Sure, Ma. I got it right here.
He got four of them before they got him.
That ain't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about art.
just like you take hold of a mule and make it do what you want.
You ain't gotta rehearse that.
I done told y'all you don't know me. You don't know what I'll do.
Levee, I don't want no shit. You rehearse like everybody else.
Well, what is you doing, nigga?
I'm just telling you he got off at Sigsbee.
I'll grab Levee.
♪ Please come home to me ♪
Ma got her Coke, Levee. We about ready to start.
I just gotta finish the last part of this song.
We moved over with relations in Caldwell.
They need one of them jug bands for this.
There you go. That's what he told you.
We'd be up there finishing up.
What the hell I care what you're tired of? I wasn't talking to you.
Fifteen minutes. We'll be ready to go.
Hell, she can't even get a cab up here in the North.
That's what people want now, Ma. They want something they can dance to.
One of the fellas of them gals he was messing with
Levee, you gonna burn in hell.
You in the band just like everybody else.
with a straight razor when my grandma hung out the wash.
Levee ain't gonna let nothing happen to him.
Eight years old.
with a gang of white mans.
I straightened everything out.
It was all a mistake. It was all a mistake.
- Yeah! - Hey, let's do "Moonshine Blues" next?
Soon as I get my band together
The colored folks made Ma a star.
They're in the band room.
What sense it make to rehearse the wrong version?
Ma, come back here! Ma, please!
The man come in here, call you a boy,
They call him some more. He kept walking.
and asked them if they wanted to sell theirs, too,
It's just, "Show me a good time. That's all I want."
any more mistakes and I can make my records someplace else.
Well, you go ahead.
Levee all right.
Y'all gonna fire me. I don't care. I'll go get my own band anyway.
What is you doing?
Life ain't shit.
Ain't nobody thinking about what kind of life,
and then we announced we was moving out that county.
Oh. Them ain't the songs Ma told me.
Okay, Ma.
They crowded around him.
She got her people. I got mine. I don't care what nobody else do.
Uh…
Shit. I taught Bessie. Bessie ain't doing nothing but imitating me.
All right, nigga.
Nigga, you stepped on my shoe, you know that?
It's your God, huh? Is that right?
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." One, two, you know what to do.
Irvin, get away from me. Shit.
I don't think nobody give a damn. Sylvester, look here.
He sees where the sun's getting low in the sky,
And you mix it up, cook it real good to where the flavors flow through.
And… that stew is still there.
You boys go ahead and take a break.
- Keep the change. - Yes, ma'am.
The cord's all chewed up. We need another cord.
That was a good session you boys put in.
Gentlemen, the band room.
And I knew where he kept it. I went and got it.
♪ Grandpa told Grandma, I heard him say ♪
Shoot.
Just standing there, watching him.
The day I get jealous of you, I may as well lay down and die.
I ain't gonna mess up nothing. Ma say...
You gonna mess up the song, Cutler, and you know it.
That is all I am asking, Ma. Just 15 minutes.