http://www.metafilter.com/tags/HoneyWhereYouBeenSoLong Posts tagged with 'HoneyWhereYouBeenSoLong' at MetaFilter. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:34:33 -0800 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:34:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69279/The%2Dmysterious%2DKid%2DBailey <a href="http://www.tefteller.com/html/78_kid_bailey_full.html" title="Full-size reproduction of the label for Bailey's Brunswick 78, 'Rowdy Blues'">Kid Bailey</a> was a Mississippi Delta bluesman blessed with the kind of slightly gravel-tinged voice that emanates authority. His recording career was a very short one, however, consisting of <a href="http://www.wirz.de/music/bailefrm.htm " title="That is, September 25, 1929, at Memphis' historic Peabody Hotel. But as this discography indicates, those two numbers have found their way onto a lot of releases over the years.">precisely one day</a>, and yielding <a href="http://prewarblues.org/2006/06/sql-blues/" title="You can hear the entirety of Bailey's recorded works, Mississippi Bottom Blues and Rowdy Blues, here at 'Honey Where You Been So Long'.">precisely two songs</a>. Very little is known about Bailey himself, and the identity of the 2nd accompanying guitarist on his only known recording remains a mystery, though there has been some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Brown_(musician)" title="Wikipedia: Is Willie Brown the 2nd guitarist? Is Willie Brown Kid Bailey?">some</a> <a href="http://blindman.forumhoster.com/index.php?s=666e9992f3066db7cce3a1622ec256fa&showtopic=2539" title="Sure has folks wondering...">speculation</a>. I've been doing a little speculating myself, regarding some of Bailey's lyrics, and any of you blues linguists who might want to help fill in the blanks, please see the [more inside].</a> Can you help to fill in the blanks? Or suggest any corrections for words I might be hearing wrong? <u><a href="http://prewarblues.org/2006/06/sql-blues/">Mississippi Bottom Blues</a></u></a> Way down in Mississippi, where I was bred and born _____________ be my native home _________ and my hair is turning gray _________ hair is turning gray I know it would break her heart to find I was barrelhoused in this way I'm going where the water drinks like wine I'm going where the water drinks like wine Where I can be drunk down and staggering all the time Ain't but the one thing lordy worries my mind Ain't but the one thing lordy worries my mind That's a house full of women _________ (lord and none of 'em mine)? My baby passed me and she never said a word And my baby passed me and she never said a word Nothing I had did but ______ she had heard (something?) <u><a href="http://prewarblues.org/2006/06/sql-blues/3">Rowdy Blues</a></u> Ain't gonna marry, (no) need to settle down I'm gonna stay right here til I tear this barrelhouse down I love you baby, and I tell the world I do And I love you baby, and I tell the world I do I don't love nobody in this whole round world but you Ain't no use of weeping, ain't no need to cry Ain't no use of weeping, ain't no need to cry You've got a home just long as I've got mine Is you ever been lucky now woke up cold and ______ I was _______ nothing but a monkey man And I love you baby, you so nice and brown And I love you baby, you so nice and brown Cause you put up _______ so it won't come down Did you get that letter now, mailed in your back yard Did you get that letter now, mailed in your back yard Said what it said but you ______friend have to part tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69279 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:34:33 -0800 Bailey blues Brown DeltaBlues HoneyWhereYouBeenSoLong Kid KidBailey music Willie WillieBrown flapjax at midnite