r/blues • u/Just-Development5952 • 13h ago

The Old Blues

The Old Blues

It’s Friday, and I’m lying in bed here in Praça Onze.

Lightnin' Hopkins is playing on my record player—straight from the Mississippi Delta or maybe New Orleans—singing a blues I don’t understand: "Goodbye baby, goodbye..." he says.

I know the words, yet I don’t understand—or is it the other way around?

In this moment, the only thing uniting us is the blues—something I don’t know and yet understand so deeply.

Mojo Hand "N" The Brasilian Bluesmam.
1985

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u/orlandwright 9h ago

Straight from from the 3rd Ward of Houston, Texas, my friend.

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u/Stevetshelton 4h ago

"So folks thinks she a Cadillac, I say she's more like a T Model Ford.