Liner notes to, This page was last edited on 8 February 2021, at 01:21. One accurate version. Morton also walked in major and minor sixths in the bass, instead of tenths or octaves. Enjoy! Upon investigation, I found that this is not the only instance of a blues/jazz singer singing about Stavin’ Chain. January 01, 1970. He was transported to a black hospital farther away. Wining Boy Blues Jelly Roll Morton, 1938 The title is a reference to the singer being a fast-living man of great, sexual prowess. What exactly is a Stavin’ Chain? (fiddler in the background)]. There were songs by Lil Johnson (Stavin’ Chain) and “Big” Joe Williams (Stavin’ Chain Blues) that refer to Stavin’ Chain. It plays acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs. Accessed October 02, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxkvu_gWlQI. I'm the winin' boy. Loyola College, Chicago, Illinois, November 17, 1978 Winin' Boy Blues Tom Dooley This Time Forever Deep Elem Blues KC Moan Knockin' On Heaven's Door Big Boy Pete Jack-A-Roe Dark Hollow Oh Boy In 1938, American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax and the self-proclaimed inventor of jazz Jelly Roll Morton came together to lay down the definitive timeline for the birth of jazz. 331 views, added to favorites 5 times. FAVORITE (0 fans) Jelly Roll Morton. He played basic swing rhythms with both the left and the right hand. Their recording session resulted in a 9-hour collection of Jelly Roll Morton songs and interviews between Morton and Lomax. "Winin' Boy Blues" 3:45: 2. whinin' boy Cf. Tuning: E A D G B E. Author alinchausti [a] … In the first song recorded during these sessions, Winin’ Boy Blues, Morton sings the lines. Dm G7 Dm G7 Cmaj7 I'm the winin' boy, don't deny my name. The sessions were intended to be a short interview with musical examples for researchers at the Library of Congress, but the sessions expanded to over eight hours, with Morton talking and playing piano. Traditional blues from Jelly Roll Morton and his New Orleans Jazzmen with Sidney Bechet on Sax recorded 1939. "Doctor Jazz" (2005). Duke Ellington and Jimmie Lunceford were absent, though both were appearing in Los Angeles at the time. Jelly Roll: Well, you know, he slept like Stavin’ Chain. Apart from including the oft-quoted line which inspired W. C. Handy, Collins’ blues recalls Georgia blues man, Barbecue Bob and his “Easy Rider Don’t You Deny My Name” recorded the same year, and also the bawdy “Winin’ Boy Blues” which Jelly Roll Morton was to later immortalize for the Library of Congress. Winin' Boy Blues (Attila's International All Stars at the 24th Bohém Festival) Request Chords. He said Buddy Bolden played ragtime but not jazz, a view not accepted by some of Bolden's contemporaries in New Orleans. After Morton's grandmother found out he was playing jazz in a brothel, she disowned him for disgracing the Lamothe name. Pick it up an' shake it like sweet stavin' chain. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe into the Creole community[4] in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans around 1890, and he claimed to have been born in 1885. February 11, 2015. The Music Box interviews were released posthumously as boxed set and won two Grammy Awards. I’ve found that American blues music is one with an extremely rich history and is full of similar, obscure references. Jelly Roll: Yes, I like the tune, I can’t, couldn’t  memorize the tune, you know… Don't deny my name. Guitar Tabs Universe [7] He often sang smutty lyrics and used the nickname "Jelly Roll", which was African-American slang for female genitalia. FAVORITE (1 fan) Hot Tuna. [1] Music critic Scott Yanow wrote, "Jelly Roll Morton did himself a lot of harm posthumously by exaggerating his worth...Morton's accomplishments as an early innovator are so vast that he did not really need to stretch the truth. [21] Lomax was interested in Morton's days in Storyville, New Orleans, and the ribald songs of the time. F#. Play Advices. In 2013, Katy Martin published an article arguing that Alan Lomax's book of interviews put Morton in a negative light. Lomax: What what did you hear about him, this is very interesting cause, you know, they have a song about Stavin’ Chain Hot Tuna is an American blues-rock band formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. Lomax: Popular around New Orleans as well.