Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

you gonna say it's the same train?
What is you doing to make it better?
He can't dance like this with them clodhoppers Toledo got.
"Moonshine Blues."
You know how many records she sold in New York?
Music will do that. It fills things up.
All right, Cutler. Let me see you fix that.
Stop it now. Somebody gonna come in here.
- That's a fool. - Nothing gonna happen to Levee.
♪ Jumping over in the sea ♪
- Yeah, I talked to him... - Talk to him again.
Cutler!
Took his Bible and tore it up,
Just 'cause I say "yessir," don't mean I'm spooked up by him.
You think I'm gonna solve the colored man's problem all by myself?
It's the cord, Mel.
and leave me standing in my door.
We was living in Jefferson County, about eight miles outside of Natchez.
The peoples in the North ain't gonna go for that old tent-show nonsense.
Your God ain't shit, Cutler.
Damn! They done changed things around.
Oh, shit. God don't mean nothing to me.
All right, I ain't nobody. Don't pay me no mind.
I forgot the Coke.
- Okay, lady... - What you gonna do?
Okay, boys. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take one.
Fifteen minutes.
I just want some of them yellow ones.
Levee.
All right, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Levee's version.
Now, you told me I could record them songs.
Let's do this one song.
I make more money for this outfit than anybody else you got put together.
just to see how you think.
What you talking about he gonna strike me?
and have to do with my mama any way they want.
- I want to hear more of that sound. - How you boys doing, Cutler?
Smiled in his face…
Mr. Irvin… About these songs…
Just go somewhere and stay out of the way.
If you wanna make a record, find the time.
and you know I want to play Levee's music right.
Levee ain't messing up my song.
Well, I done learned that.
Come on and save him like you did my mama.
That's where we part ways.
Like I say, they're not the kind of songs we're looking for.
All right. You gonna be sorry.
I want you to pay the boy his money.
And I don't mind telling him.
to make sure he arrived in time for somebody to pick him up. All right?
♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
no matter how much it hurt 'em.
Play something for me.
Door wasn't there before.
Come on, Levee. Let's get ready to play. Keep your mind on your work.
I don't care what you play. Don't matter to me.
Nigga, I ain't studying you.
"Moonshine Blues" first. "Moonshine Blues," Ma.
Now, he don't know where he is in this town.
Testing, one, two, three.
♪ My jelly roll ♪
♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
Now I'm gonna show you the rest.
Come on, Sylvester. Where's Sylvester's mic?
He's been my manager for six years, and the only time he had me over his house
♪ You wanna be my man ♪
Ain't nobody but the devil.
before I take you down to Memphis.
All right, boys, you done s… s…
They wanna take your voice and trap it in all them fancy boxes
All the while, he's planning how he's gonna get him
Send them to my address. I'll get around to 'em.
You'll see.
Tell this man who I am. Get him straight.
Hmm.
I'm talking about what the intro gonna do to the song.
♪ These dogs of mine ♪
- I just thought... - Damn what you thought!
but we'll be ready to go in 15 minutes.
I done been a little bit of everything.
me and Cutler play on the breaks.
If my daddy had a knowed I was gonna turn out like this,
you done seen the rest. Now I'm gonna show you the best.
Look at that.
You're talking all them highfalutin ideas
Too cheap to buy me a Coca-Cola. I'll buy my own.
then it's just like I'd be some whore and they roll over and put their pants on.