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♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
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♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
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♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
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♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
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Yeah, Ma!
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Yeah, baby!
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♪ I had the blues so bad ♪
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♪ I sat down on my floor ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ I'm on my way ♪
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♪ Crazy as I can be ♪
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♪ Oooh… ♪
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♪ Hmm… ♪
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♪ Hmm… ♪
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♪ Ah! ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ Daddy, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ I'm on my way ♪
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♪ Crazy as I can be ♪
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♪ Hey ♪
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♪ Hey, Daddy ♪
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♪ Please come home to me ♪
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♪ Hey ♪
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♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
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♪ I'm on my way ♪
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♪ Crazy as I can be ♪
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Testing, testing, one, two, three.
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Testing, one, two, three.
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- Testing, testing, one, two...
- Got that list?
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Uh, I got it. Don't worry about it.
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I'm holding you responsible.
You keep her in line.
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I'm not putting up with any shenanigans.
You hear, Irv? Irv?
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Irv?
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Irv!
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Not putting up with any Royal Highness,
Queen of the Blues bullshit.
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Mother of the Blues, Mel.
Mother of the Blues.
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Heh. You should've heard Levee
at the club last night, Toledo.
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Trying to talk
to that gal Ma had with her.
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You ain't got to tell me.
I know how Levee do.
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Levee tried talking to her
and got his feelings hurt.
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I want you to get her in here,
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record those songs
on that list, and get her out.
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Just like clockwork.
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Like clockwork, Mel.
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And that horn player,
the one who gave me those songs,
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is he going to be here today?
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- I want to hear more of that sound.
- How you boys doing, Cutler?
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Fine, Mr. Irvin.
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Where's Ma? She with ya?
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I don't know.
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She told us to be here at 1:00.
That's all I know.
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Where's the, uh, horn player?
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Levee's supposed to be here same as we is.
I reckon he'll be here in a minute.
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Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, Chicago.
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He ain't from 'round here now.
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Come on in. I'll get you fed
and ready to make some music.
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Right.
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Right down the hall.
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Where's Ma?
How come she isn't with the band?
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Everything's under control, Mel.
I got everything under control.
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Cutler, here's the list
of songs we're going to record.
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Why isn't she here?
And where's that horn player?
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What we got there, Toledo?
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Eh, we got, uh…
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Mmm. "Prove It on Me,"
"Hear Me Talking to You,"
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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,"
"Moonshine Blues."
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Oh. Them ain't the songs Ma told me.
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I wouldn't worry about it if I was you.
Ma'll get it straightened out.
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"Moonshine Blues."
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That's one of them songs
Bessie Smith sang, I believes.
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Eh, Slow Drag's right.
I wouldn't worry about it.
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Levee know what time
he's supposed to be here?
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Levee left the hotel
talking about he was gonna buy shoes.
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Says it's the first time
he beat you shooting craps.
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- I ain't thinking about no four dollars.
- Levee sure was.
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Let me get a hit of that.
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That four dollars
liked to burn a hole in his pocket.
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He's supposed to be here at 1:00.
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- That's some good Chicago bourbon.
- Look here, Cutler!
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- I got me some shoes.
- Ooh!
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Nigga, I ain't studying you.
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How much you pay
for something like that, Levee?
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Eleven dollars.
Four dollars of it belong to Cutler.
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Ooh! Levee say if it wasn't for Cutler,
he wouldn't have no new shoes.
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I ain't thinking about Levee or his shoes.
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Let's get ready to rehearse.
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I'm with you on that score.
Don't want to be here all night.
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Ain't but four songs on the list.
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Last time there was six songs.
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Yeah. Now I'm ready.
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I can play some good music now.
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Damn! They done changed things around.
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Don't never leave well enough alone.
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Yeah, everything changing all the time.
Even the air you breathing change.
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Yeah, you got, uh, monoxide,
hydrogen, changing all the time.
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Skin changing.
Different molecules. Everything.
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Nigga, what is you talking about?
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I'm talking about the room,
I ain't talking about no skin and air.
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I'm talking about something I can see.
I ain't talking about no molecules.
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I know what you talking about.
You don't know what I'm talking about.
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That door. You see that door?
That's what I'm talking about.
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Door wasn't there before.
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You wouldn't know your right from left.
And damn if that door wasn't there.
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If you talking about
they done switched rooms, you right.
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But don't go telling me
that door wasn't there.
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Damn the door and let's do this.
I want to get out of here.
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Toledo started all that about the door.
I'm just saying that things change.
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What you think I was saying?
Things change. The air and everything.
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Now you gonna say you was saying it.
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You gonna fit
two propositions on the same track,
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run them into each other,
and 'cause they crash,
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you gonna say it's the same train?
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Now this nigga talking about trains.
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We done went from the air
to the skin to the door and now trains.
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Toledo, I'd just like to be
inside your head for five minutes
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just to see how you think.
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You done got more shit
piled up and mixed up in there
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than the devil got sinners.
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You been reading too many goddamn books.
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What you care about how much I read?
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I'm gonna ignore you
'cause you're ignorant.
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- Let's rehearse the music.
- All right.
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You ain't gotta rehearse that.
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Ain't nothing but old jug-band music.
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They need one of them jug bands for this.
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Don't make no difference to me,
long as we get paid.
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That ain't what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about art.
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What's drawing got to do with it?
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Where you get this nigga from, Cutler?
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He sound like one of them Alabama niggas.
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It's Slow Drag, all right.
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Just play the piece, nigga.
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If you want to be one of them, uh,
what you call virtuosos or something,
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you're in the wrong place.
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You ain't no King Oliver or Buddy Bolden.
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You're just an old trumpet player
come a dime a dozen.
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Talking about art.
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What is you?
I don't see your name in lights.
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I just play the piece. Whatever they want.
I don't criticize other people's music.
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I ain't like you, Cutler. I got talent.
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- Oh, shit.
- Ooh.
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Me and this horn, we's tight.
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If my daddy had a knowed
I was gonna turn out like this,
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he woulda named me Gabriel.
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Oh!
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I'm gonna get me a band
and make me some records.
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I done give Mr. Sturdyvant
some of my songs I wrote,
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and he say he gonna let me
record them when I get my band together.
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I just gotta finish
the last part of this song.
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I knows how to play real music,
not this old jug-band shit.
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I got style.
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Oh, everybody got style.
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Style ain't nothing but keeping
the same idea from beginning to end.
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Everybody got it.
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Everybody can't play like I do.
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Everybody can't have their own band.
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Until you get your own band
where you can play what you want,
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play the piece and stop complaining.
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I told you when you came on here,
this ain't none of them hot bands.
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This is an accompaniment band.
You play Ma's music when you're here.
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I got sense enough to know that.
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I could look at y'all
and see what kind of band it is.
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I could look at Toledo
and see what kind of band it is.
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Oh, now Toledo ain't said nothing to you.
Don't get Toledo started now.
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Is you all gonna
rehearse the music or ain't you?
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How many times you done play them songs?
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- What you gotta rehearse for?
- This a recording session.
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I want to get it right the first time
and get on out of here.
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Well, y'all go on and rehearse, then.
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I'm going to finish this song
for Mr. Sturdyvant.
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Levee, I don't want no shit.
You rehearse like everybody else.
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You in the band just like everybody else.
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Mr. Sturdyvant gonna have to wait.
It's the band's time.
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I'm ready if you want to rehearse.
I said there ain't no point in it.
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Ma ain't here. What's the point?
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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
One, two, you know what to do.
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No, no, no. No, no.
We ain't doing it that way.
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We doing my version.
That's what Mr. Irvin told me.
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Say it's on the list he gave.
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Let me worry about what's on the list.
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What sense it make
to rehearse the wrong version?
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You supposed to rehearse
what you gonna play.
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- That's the way they taught me.
- That's what I'm trying to say.
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You trying to tell me
what we is and ain't gonna play,
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and that ain't none of your business.
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Your business is to play what I say.
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Oh. I see now.
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You done got jealous
'cause Mr. Irvin using my version.
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What I got
to be jealous of you about?
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The day I get jealous of you,
I may as well lay down and die.
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Levee started all that
'cause he too lazy to rehearse.
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Where's the paper?
Look at the paper. See what it say.
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Gonna tell me I'm too lazy to rehearse.
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We ain't talking about the paper.
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We talking about
you understanding where you fit in here.
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- You play what I say.
- I don't care what you play.
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Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up.
I don't care what you play.
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You boys know what's keeping Ma?
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Uh…
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Can't say, Mr. Irvin.
She'll be along directly, I reckon.
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Well, you go ahead.
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Mr. Irvin…
About these songs…
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Whatever's on the list.
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I'm talking about this "Black Bottom."
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- It's on the list.
- Yes, sir, I know it's on the list.
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But I just want to know which version.
We got two versions of that song.
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Oh, Levee's version.
We're using Levee's arrangement.
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Okay, got that straight.
Now about this "Moonshine Blues."
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Yeah, we'll work it out with Ma, Cutler.
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You boys just rehearse
whatever's on that list.
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See, I told you!
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It don't mean nothing when I say it.
You got to wait for Mr. Irvin to say it.
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I told you the way it is.
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The sooner you understand
it ain't what you say,
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or what Mr. Irvin say,
it's what Ma say that count.
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I don't care what you play.
Don't matter to me.
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Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up.
I don't care what you play.
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Thank you. All right, let's, uh,
play this "Hear Me Talking to You"
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till we figure out
what's going on with this "Black Bottom."
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One, two, you know what to do.
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Don't nobody say when it comes to Ma.
She gonna do what she wanna do.
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Mr. Irvin the one putting out the record.
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He gonna put out
what she want him to put out.
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Levee confused about who the boss is.
He don't know Ma's the boss.
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You know how many records
she sold in New York?
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And you know what's in New York?
Harlem. Harlem's in New York.
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So what
if they didn't sell in New York?
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We packed them in
in Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta.
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We ain't in Memphis. We in Chicago.
We in a recording session.
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Mr. Sturdyvant and Mr. Irvin
say what's gonna be here.
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You heard what the man told you.
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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
Levee's arrangement.
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There you go. That's what he told you.
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I don't know why y'all want
to pick with me about it.
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I'm with Slow Drag.
Let's go and get it rehearsed.
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All right, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,"
Levee's version.
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How that first part
go again there, Lev?
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It go like this.
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That's to get the people's attention.
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That's when you and Slow Drag
come in with the rhythm,
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me and Cutler play on the breaks.
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The man asked how the part go.
Ain't ask for all that.
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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
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One, two, you know what to do.
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Hey, hey, hey. Y'all gotta keep up now.
You playing in the wrong time.
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Will you let us play this song?
We been playing before you was born.
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Trying to tell us how to play.
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All right. Let's try again.
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Wait a minute. Let me fix this.
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This string starting to unravel,
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and you know
I want to play Levee's music right.
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If you was any kind of musician,
you'd take care of your instrument.
00:16:32.541 --> 00:16:34.125
Keep it in tip-top order.
00:16:34.208 --> 00:16:37.208
If you was any kind of musician,
I'd let you be in my band.
00:16:37.291 --> 00:16:38.666
- Shit.
- Damn!
00:16:39.666 --> 00:16:41.708
Slow Drag, watch them
big-ass shoes you got.
00:16:41.791 --> 00:16:43.250
Ain't nobody done nothing to you.
00:16:43.333 --> 00:16:44.332
You done stepped on my shoes.
00:16:44.333 --> 00:16:45.833
Then move them out the way.
00:16:45.916 --> 00:16:47.516
You was in my way. I wasn't in your way.
00:16:47.541 --> 00:16:50.291
Any man who takes a whole week's pay
and puts it on some shoes,
00:16:50.375 --> 00:16:51.625
understand what I mean,
00:16:51.708 --> 00:16:53.958
what you walk around
on the ground with, is a fool.
00:16:54.041 --> 00:16:55.201
And I don't mind telling him.
00:16:55.250 --> 00:16:56.833
What difference it make to you?
00:16:56.916 --> 00:16:59.083
Ain't nothing wrong
with having nice shoes.
00:16:59.958 --> 00:17:01.625
- Look at Toledo.
- Ooh!
00:17:02.833 --> 00:17:04.041
What?
00:17:06.208 --> 00:17:07.541
What was that about Toledo?
00:17:08.125 --> 00:17:11.041
Nigga got them clodhoppers. Old brogans.
00:17:11.125 --> 00:17:13.375
He ain't nothing but a sharecropper.
00:17:14.250 --> 00:17:15.416
Hey, Slow Drag.
00:17:17.166 --> 00:17:18.541
Play something for me.
00:17:23.166 --> 00:17:26.291
A man gotta have
some shoes to dance like this.
00:17:27.333 --> 00:17:30.583
He can't dance like this
with them clodhoppers Toledo got.
00:17:30.666 --> 00:17:33.791
That's the trouble with colored folks,
always looking to have a good time.
00:17:33.875 --> 00:17:35.874
More niggas have got killed
trying to have a good time
00:17:35.875 --> 00:17:37.458
than God got ways to count.
00:17:38.250 --> 00:17:41.875
♪ When the world goes wrong
And I got the blues ♪
00:17:41.958 --> 00:17:45.333
What the hell having a good time mean?
That's what I want to know.
00:17:45.416 --> 00:17:47.541
Got to be more to life
than just having a good time.
00:17:47.625 --> 00:17:49.958
If there ain't,
then this is a piss-poor life we're living
00:17:50.041 --> 00:17:51.833
if that's all there is
to be got out of it.
00:17:53.541 --> 00:17:56.000
Niggas been having
a good time before you was born,
00:17:56.083 --> 00:17:58.583
and they gonna keep
having a good time after you gone.
00:17:58.666 --> 00:18:01.458
Nobody talking about
making the lot for the colored man
00:18:01.541 --> 00:18:02.958
better for him here in America.
00:18:03.041 --> 00:18:05.458
Ain't nobody
thinking about what kind of life,
00:18:05.541 --> 00:18:07.082
the world they gonna leave
for the young'uns.
00:18:07.083 --> 00:18:10.208
It's just, "Show me a good time.
That's all I want."
00:18:10.291 --> 00:18:12.333
Aw. It just makes me sick.
00:18:12.416 --> 00:18:14.125
Good times is
what makes life worth living.
00:18:14.208 --> 00:18:15.165
Uh-huh.
00:18:15.166 --> 00:18:18.208
Hey, I know how to have a good time
as well as the next man.
00:18:18.708 --> 00:18:20.166
Yeah.
00:18:20.250 --> 00:18:23.666
I just said there's got to be
more to life than just having a good time.
00:18:23.750 --> 00:18:26.125
I said, the colored man
ought to be doing more
00:18:26.208 --> 00:18:28.458
than trying to
have a good time all the time.
00:18:30.666 --> 00:18:32.458
Well, what is you doing, nigga?
00:18:32.541 --> 00:18:34.208
You're talking all them highfalutin ideas
00:18:34.291 --> 00:18:36.171
about making
a better world for the colored man.
00:18:36.208 --> 00:18:37.875
What is you doing to make it better?
00:18:37.958 --> 00:18:42.000
You playing the music and looking for
your next piece of pussy same as we is.
00:18:42.083 --> 00:18:43.583
What is you doing?
00:18:43.666 --> 00:18:46.750
It ain't just me, fool. I said everybody.
00:18:46.833 --> 00:18:50.250
You think I'm gonna solve
the colored man's problem all by myself?
00:18:50.333 --> 00:18:53.083
I said "we." You understand that?
00:18:53.166 --> 00:18:56.250
We? That's every living
colored man in the world
00:18:56.333 --> 00:18:59.000
got to do his share, got to do his part.
00:18:59.083 --> 00:19:01.416
I ain't talking about
what I'm gonna do or you gonna do,
00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:04.083
or Cutler, Slow Drag, anybody else.
00:19:04.166 --> 00:19:08.291
I'm talking about
what all of us gonna do together.
00:19:08.375 --> 00:19:10.250
That's what I'm talking about, nigga.
00:19:11.666 --> 00:19:13.750
Well, why ain't you just say that then?
00:19:16.125 --> 00:19:19.166
Toledo, I don't know
why you waste your time with this fool.
00:19:19.791 --> 00:19:21.374
I ain't gonna be
too many more of your fools.
00:19:21.375 --> 00:19:22.875
Ain't nobody studying you.
00:19:22.958 --> 00:19:25.416
All right, I ain't nobody.
Don't pay me no mind.
00:19:25.500 --> 00:19:27.000
Ain't nobody but the devil.
00:19:27.083 --> 00:19:28.625
There you go. That's who I am.
00:19:28.708 --> 00:19:30.457
I'm the devil.
I ain't nothing but the devil.
00:19:30.458 --> 00:19:33.333
I know a man sold his soul to the devil.
00:19:33.416 --> 00:19:36.916
Name of Eliza Cotter.
Lived in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
00:19:37.958 --> 00:19:40.791
Devil came by
and he upped and sold him his soul.
00:19:40.875 --> 00:19:43.958
Nigga, how you know
this man done sold his soul to the devil?
00:19:44.041 --> 00:19:46.208
You talking some old-woman foolishness.
00:19:46.291 --> 00:19:48.583
Everybody know. It wasn't no secret.
00:19:48.666 --> 00:19:51.066
He went around working
for the devil and everybody knowed it.
00:19:51.125 --> 00:19:53.708
Carried him a bag.
One of them carpet bags.
00:19:53.791 --> 00:19:56.333
Folks say he carried
the devil's papers and whatnot
00:19:56.416 --> 00:19:58.750
where he put
your fingerprint on the paper with blood.
00:19:58.833 --> 00:20:00.553
Where he at now?
That's what I want to know.
00:20:00.625 --> 00:20:02.875
He can have
my whole handprint if he want to.
00:20:02.958 --> 00:20:04.625
Showed up one day all fancied out
00:20:04.708 --> 00:20:07.416
in the finest clothes
you ever seen on a colored man.
00:20:08.166 --> 00:20:11.166
Pocketful of money,
just living the life of a rich man.
00:20:11.833 --> 00:20:14.000
Had him a string of women
he run around with
00:20:14.083 --> 00:20:15.666
and throw his money away on.
00:20:15.750 --> 00:20:18.166
One of the fellas
of them gals he was messing with
00:20:18.250 --> 00:20:20.625
got fixed on him wrong
and Eliza killed him.
00:20:20.708 --> 00:20:22.625
And laughed about it.
00:20:22.708 --> 00:20:25.000
Sheriff come
and arrest him and let him go.
00:20:25.083 --> 00:20:27.333
Trial come up. Judge cut him loose.
00:20:27.416 --> 00:20:28.332
Cut him loose
00:20:28.333 --> 00:20:30.666
and give him a bottle of whiskey.
00:20:30.750 --> 00:20:32.624
Folks ask what done happened
to make him change,
00:20:32.625 --> 00:20:35.875
and he tell them straight-out
he done sold his soul to the devil
00:20:35.958 --> 00:20:37.707
and asked them
if they wanted to sell theirs, too,
00:20:37.708 --> 00:20:39.416
'cause he could arrange it for them.
00:20:39.500 --> 00:20:42.375
Hold on. What happened to this fella?
That's what I want to know.
00:20:42.458 --> 00:20:45.250
Last I heard,
he headed up north with that bag of his,
00:20:45.333 --> 00:20:47.208
handing out
$100 bills on the spot
00:20:47.291 --> 00:20:49.625
to whoever wanted
to sign on with the devil.
00:20:49.708 --> 00:20:51.958
Hmm. I sure wish I knew where he went.
00:20:52.041 --> 00:20:53.521
He wouldn't have to convince me long.
00:20:53.541 --> 00:20:55.125
Hell, I'd even help him sign people up.
00:20:55.208 --> 00:20:59.166
Nigga, God gonna strike you down
with that blasphemy you talking.
00:20:59.250 --> 00:21:01.875
Oh, shit. God don't mean nothing to me.
00:21:01.958 --> 00:21:04.458
Let him strike me.
Here I am, standing right here.
00:21:04.541 --> 00:21:06.040
What you talking about he gonna strike me?
00:21:06.041 --> 00:21:08.750
Here I am.
Let him strike me. I ain't scared of him.
00:21:08.833 --> 00:21:10.625
All right. You gonna be sorry.
00:21:10.708 --> 00:21:12.308
You gonna fix yourself to have bad luck.
00:21:12.333 --> 00:21:13.813
Ain't nothing gonna work out for you.
00:21:13.833 --> 00:21:15.250
- Bad luck?
- Yeah.
00:21:15.333 --> 00:21:16.833
What I care about bad luck?
00:21:17.708 --> 00:21:19.208
You talking simple.
00:21:19.291 --> 00:21:21.250
I ain't had nothing
but bad luck all my life.
00:21:21.333 --> 00:21:24.250
Couldn't get no worse.
What the hell I care about bad luck?
00:21:24.333 --> 00:21:26.083
I eat it every day for breakfast.
00:21:26.166 --> 00:21:29.041
You dumber than I thought you was,
talking about bad luck.
00:21:29.833 --> 00:21:30.833
All right, nigga.
00:21:32.125 --> 00:21:34.000
You'll see.
00:21:34.583 --> 00:21:35.916
Can't tell a fool nothing.
00:21:37.125 --> 00:21:38.250
You'll see.
00:21:47.875 --> 00:21:49.000
Oh. There you go.
00:21:50.583 --> 00:21:51.666
Over there.
00:21:51.750 --> 00:21:53.583
Whoa!
00:22:00.375 --> 00:22:01.666
What are you doing?
00:22:02.333 --> 00:22:04.958
Cutler, your boys' sandwiches are here.
00:22:05.458 --> 00:22:07.125
- Cutler?
- Lady...
00:22:07.208 --> 00:22:08.915
- This is a brand new car.
- Lady...
00:22:08.916 --> 00:22:10.125
Ain't had but a ding.
00:22:10.208 --> 00:22:13.291
- Okay, lady...
- What you gonna do?
00:22:13.375 --> 00:22:14.290
- Ma!
- I'm talking...
00:22:14.291 --> 00:22:16.332
I got eyes, you got eyes.
What are you gonna do?
00:22:16.333 --> 00:22:17.457
- Listen to me...
- What happened?
00:22:17.458 --> 00:22:19.040
Tell this man who I am. Get him straight.
00:22:19.041 --> 00:22:20.875
Tell this man who he's messing with.
00:22:20.958 --> 00:22:23.333
Officer, what's the matter?
What's the problem?
00:22:23.416 --> 00:22:24.999
When I walked up
on the incident, this lady...
00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.833
- Sylvester wrecked Ma's car.
- I… I did not. The man hit me.
00:22:27.916 --> 00:22:29.436
You want it in a nutshell?
00:22:29.500 --> 00:22:30.915
We got her charged
with assault and battery.
00:22:30.916 --> 00:22:33.083
- Assault and what for what?
- Sylvester was driving...
00:22:33.166 --> 00:22:34.915
I can tell you what happened
if you wanna know.
00:22:34.916 --> 00:22:37.375
That's my nephew.
That's Sylvester. He was driving my car...
00:22:37.458 --> 00:22:39.625
- We don't know whose car it is.
- That's Ma's car.
00:22:39.708 --> 00:22:41.041
I bought and paid for that car.
00:22:41.125 --> 00:22:42.833
That's what you say.
We gotta check it out.
00:22:42.916 --> 00:22:44.125
What's the problem?
00:22:44.208 --> 00:22:45.207
I was calling the paddy wagon
00:22:45.208 --> 00:22:47.666
to haul them
to the station, sort everything out.
00:22:47.750 --> 00:22:49.915
- She's aggressive with the other driver...
- He got ugly with me.
00:22:49.916 --> 00:22:52.207
- I don't know why you tell that lie.
- You let me tell the story?
00:22:52.208 --> 00:22:54.333
Well, if you gonna tell it, tell it right.
00:23:00.750 --> 00:23:04.041
Like I said,
while I was waiting for the paddy wagon,
00:23:04.125 --> 00:23:05.845
I turn to hear
this guy's side of the story.
00:23:05.875 --> 00:23:07.515
She won't let him get a word in edgeways.
00:23:07.541 --> 00:23:10.208
He steps in front of her
to tell his version of things,
00:23:10.291 --> 00:23:11.207
she pushes him to the ground.
00:23:11.208 --> 00:23:12.583
She ain't hit him. He just fell.
00:23:12.666 --> 00:23:14.624
If that don't beat all to hell.
I ain't touched the man.
00:23:14.625 --> 00:23:17.250
All right, Ma. Officer,
can I speak to you for a minute?
00:23:17.333 --> 00:23:18.333
I got things to do.
00:23:18.416 --> 00:23:20.291
He bumped into me and fell down.
00:23:20.375 --> 00:23:22.333
Flopping on the ground like a rag doll.
00:23:23.541 --> 00:23:24.958
I ain't touch the man.
00:23:32.750 --> 00:23:33.875
All right, Ma.
00:23:33.958 --> 00:23:35.500
Come on. Let's go. Move it out.
00:23:36.083 --> 00:23:37.124
I got it all taken care of.
00:23:37.125 --> 00:23:38.750
Clear it out. Come on. Let's go.
00:23:38.833 --> 00:23:40.208
What's going on? What did you do?
00:23:40.291 --> 00:23:41.249
Sturdyvant, get on away from me.
00:23:41.250 --> 00:23:43.370
That's the last thing I need,
to go through your shit.
00:23:43.375 --> 00:23:45.666
- Everybody move along.
- It's not the place.
00:23:45.750 --> 00:23:47.000
Here, Ma.
00:23:47.916 --> 00:23:49.250
Let me take your things.
00:23:50.875 --> 00:23:52.625
- I don't believe we've met.
- Hi.
00:23:52.708 --> 00:23:54.749
That's my nephew Sylvester,
and that there's Dussie Mae.
00:23:54.750 --> 00:23:56.583
- Oh, hello.
- Everybody here?
00:23:56.666 --> 00:23:58.125
They're in the band room.
00:23:58.208 --> 00:24:01.375
- Ma, why don't you sit and relax?
- I ain't for no sitting.
00:24:01.458 --> 00:24:03.916
- Where's the bathroom?
- Uh, down that hall.
00:24:04.416 --> 00:24:07.916
Honey, call down there and see about
my car. I need my car fixed today.
00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.416
Why y'all keep it so hot in here?
00:24:09.500 --> 00:24:11.916
Y'all want to make records,
better get a fan on.
00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.458
I got it, Ma.
I'll take care of everything.
00:24:29.750 --> 00:24:31.041
She's late and already...
00:24:31.125 --> 00:24:33.750
I talked to her last night.
Got everything straight.
00:24:33.833 --> 00:24:35.958
You stay out of the way. Let me handle it.
00:24:36.041 --> 00:24:37.833
You handled it last time, remember?
00:24:37.916 --> 00:24:41.500
She marches in like she owns the place,
complains about the building being cold,
00:24:41.583 --> 00:24:44.000
trips over a mic wire,
then threatens to sue me.
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.291
I ain't never been in a recording studio.
00:25:03.416 --> 00:25:04.583
Where the band at?
00:25:04.666 --> 00:25:06.583
They off somewhere rehearsing.
00:25:08.166 --> 00:25:10.250
Come over here and let me see that dress.
00:25:11.875 --> 00:25:13.416
That dress look nice.
00:25:15.250 --> 00:25:17.833
I'm gonna take you tomorrow
to get you some things
00:25:17.916 --> 00:25:19.666
before I take you down to Memphis.
00:25:20.416 --> 00:25:23.666
They got some clothes up here
they ain't got in Memphis.
00:25:24.458 --> 00:25:26.791
- I want you to look nice for me, hmm?
- Mmm-hmm.
00:25:26.875 --> 00:25:29.750
You gonna travel with the show,
you gotta look nice.
00:25:29.833 --> 00:25:32.458
I just need me some new shoes.
These hurt my feet.
00:25:32.541 --> 00:25:35.916
Oh, don't you be messing around
with no shoes that pinch your feet.
00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:39.875
Ma knows something about bad feet. Mmm.
00:25:42.083 --> 00:25:44.916
♪ Oh, Lord ♪
00:25:47.208 --> 00:25:50.333
♪ These dogs of mine ♪
00:25:51.208 --> 00:25:55.041
♪ They sure do hurt me ♪
00:25:55.125 --> 00:25:58.375
♪ All the time ♪
00:26:00.333 --> 00:26:02.500
♪ Reason why? ♪
00:26:02.583 --> 00:26:05.625
♪ I don't know ♪
00:26:07.833 --> 00:26:13.708
♪ Lord, I beg to be excused ♪
00:26:20.125 --> 00:26:21.166
Okay.
00:26:21.916 --> 00:26:24.500
Go on, get my slippers
out my bag over yonder.
00:26:30.375 --> 00:26:34.291
♪ I can't wear me no sharp-toed shoes ♪
00:26:36.083 --> 00:26:38.666
♪ I went for a walk ♪
00:26:39.541 --> 00:26:41.041
♪ I stopped to talk ♪
00:26:43.833 --> 00:26:50.125
♪ Oh, how my corns did bark ♪
00:26:50.833 --> 00:26:53.833
I just want
some of them yellow ones.
00:26:53.916 --> 00:26:55.666
About a half size bigger.
00:26:55.750 --> 00:26:58.541
We'll get you whatever you need.
Sylvester too.
00:26:58.625 --> 00:26:59.905
Sylvester, tuck your clothes in.
00:26:59.958 --> 00:27:02.458
Straighten them up and look nice.
Like a gentleman.
00:27:02.541 --> 00:27:03.874
Look at Sylvester with that hat on.
00:27:03.875 --> 00:27:07.250
Take that hat off inside.
Come over here and leave that piano.
00:27:07.333 --> 00:27:10.875
I ain't doing nothing
to the… piano. I'm… l… looking at it.
00:27:10.958 --> 00:27:13.208
Baby, come over here and sit down.
Come on.
00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:16.083
Soon as Mr. Irvin come back,
00:27:16.166 --> 00:27:18.833
I'm gonna have him take you down,
introduce you to the band.
00:27:19.583 --> 00:27:21.791
Cutler gonna show you how your part go.
00:27:21.875 --> 00:27:24.666
When you get your money,
send some of it home to your mama.
00:27:24.750 --> 00:27:27.916
- Let her know you're doing all right.
- Okay.
00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:32.250
Ma, I called down
to the garage and checked on your car.
00:27:32.333 --> 00:27:36.000
It's just a scratch, and they'll
have it ready for you this afternoon.
00:27:36.083 --> 00:27:38.250
They'll send it over
with one of their fellows.
00:27:38.333 --> 00:27:39.708
Better have my car fixed right.
00:27:39.791 --> 00:27:43.166
I ain't going for that. Brand-new car.
They better fix it like new.
00:27:52.458 --> 00:27:54.583
Irvin, what is that I hear?
00:27:54.666 --> 00:27:56.708
I know they ain't rehearsing
Levee's "Black Bottom."
00:27:56.791 --> 00:27:58.166
I know I ain't hearing that.
00:27:58.250 --> 00:28:00.208
Ma, it's what I wanted
to talk to you about.
00:28:00.291 --> 00:28:02.500
Levee's version, it really picks it up.
00:28:02.583 --> 00:28:06.208
I ain't studying Levee nothing.
I know what he done to that song.
00:28:06.291 --> 00:28:08.833
I don't like to sing it that way.
I'm doing it the old way.
00:28:08.916 --> 00:28:11.416
That's why I brought my nephew
in here to do the voice intro.
00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:15.000
That's what people want now, Ma.
They want something they can dance to.
00:28:15.083 --> 00:28:17.208
Levee's arrangement
gives the people what they want.
00:28:17.291 --> 00:28:20.000
It makes them excited,
forget about their troubles.
00:28:20.083 --> 00:28:24.166
I don't care what you say, honey.
Levee ain't messing up my song.
00:28:24.250 --> 00:28:26.916
If he got what the people want,
let him take it somewhere else.
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:29.416
I'm singing Ma Rainey's song,
not Levee's song.
00:28:29.500 --> 00:28:31.083
Now that's all there is to it.
00:28:31.666 --> 00:28:34.750
Carry my nephew on down there.
Introduce him to the band.
00:28:34.833 --> 00:28:36.958
I promised my sister I'd look out for him,
00:28:37.041 --> 00:28:40.291
so he's gonna do
the voice intro to the song my way.
00:28:40.375 --> 00:28:41.458
We just figured...
00:28:41.541 --> 00:28:45.541
Who's this "we"? What you mean "we"?
Come talking this "we" stuff. Who "we"?
00:28:46.125 --> 00:28:47.708
Me and Sturdyvant. We decided...
00:28:47.791 --> 00:28:50.250
You decided, huh?
I'm just a bump on a log.
00:28:50.333 --> 00:28:52.207
I'm just gonna go
whichever way the river drift.
00:28:52.208 --> 00:28:54.000
Is that it? You and Sturdyvant decided?
00:28:54.083 --> 00:28:56.163
- No. We just thought...
- I ain't got no good sense.
00:28:56.208 --> 00:28:59.541
I know nothing about music
or what a good song is or what ain't.
00:28:59.625 --> 00:29:01.208
You know more about my fans than I do.
00:29:01.291 --> 00:29:03.833
It's not that.
It's more of what the people want.
00:29:05.291 --> 00:29:09.458
Tell you something, Irvin, and you can go
up there and you can tell Sturdyvant too.
00:29:10.083 --> 00:29:13.375
What you all say
don't count with me, you understand?
00:29:13.458 --> 00:29:16.375
Ma listen to her heart.
Ma listen to the voice inside her.
00:29:16.458 --> 00:29:17.833
That's what count with Ma.
00:29:18.625 --> 00:29:20.250
Carry my nephew on down there.
00:29:20.333 --> 00:29:23.500
Tell Cutler he'll do the voice intro
to the "Black Bottom" song.
00:29:23.583 --> 00:29:25.166
Levee ain't messing up my song.
00:29:25.250 --> 00:29:27.082
If that don't set right
with you and Sturdyvant,
00:29:27.083 --> 00:29:29.583
I can carry my black bottom
on back down South to my tour,
00:29:29.666 --> 00:29:31.625
'cause I don't like it up here noways.
00:29:32.291 --> 00:29:34.125
Okay, Ma.
00:29:35.125 --> 00:29:36.125
I don't care.
00:29:38.583 --> 00:29:40.625
- I just thought...
- Damn what you thought!
00:29:40.708 --> 00:29:43.125
What you look like
trying to tell me how to sing my song.
00:29:43.208 --> 00:29:45.833
That Levee and Sturdyvant shit,
I ain't going for it.
00:29:47.708 --> 00:29:51.041
Sylvester, go introduce yourself.
I'm through playing with Irvin.
00:29:51.125 --> 00:29:53.875
Uh… Where I go? Which way they at?
00:29:55.041 --> 00:29:57.375
Come on. I'll carry you down there myself.
00:29:57.458 --> 00:29:59.208
Can I go? I want to see the band.
00:29:59.291 --> 00:30:00.541
No. Come on, Sylvester.
00:30:01.166 --> 00:30:03.708
Okay, Ma. Have it your way,
00:30:04.291 --> 00:30:06.166
but we'll be ready to go in 15 minutes.
00:30:06.250 --> 00:30:08.291
We'll be ready to go when Madam says so.
00:30:08.375 --> 00:30:10.083
That's the way it go around here.
00:30:12.166 --> 00:30:13.208
Perfect.
00:30:32.291 --> 00:30:34.250
Cutler, this here my nephew Sylvester.
00:30:34.333 --> 00:30:37.541
He'll do the voice intro
on "Black Bottom" using the old version.
00:30:37.625 --> 00:30:39.916
What? Mr. Irvin said
we're using my version.
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.541
I ain't studying you or Mr. Irvin.
00:30:41.625 --> 00:30:43.624
Cutler, get him straightened out
on how to do his part.
00:30:43.625 --> 00:30:44.785
I ain't thinking about Levee.
00:30:44.833 --> 00:30:47.000
These folks done messed
with the wrong person.
00:30:47.083 --> 00:30:50.791
Cutler gonna teach you how to do
your part. Go ahead and get it straight.
00:30:50.875 --> 00:30:52.958
Don't worry about what nobody else say.
00:30:55.666 --> 00:30:58.250
Hey, come on in, boy.
I'm Cutler.
00:30:58.333 --> 00:31:01.875
That's Toledo, Levee,
and Slow Drag over there.
00:31:01.958 --> 00:31:04.166
- Sylvester, huh?
- Sylvester Brown.
00:31:04.250 --> 00:31:05.750
I wrote a version of that song,
00:31:05.833 --> 00:31:08.541
what picks it up
and sets it down in the people's lap,
00:31:08.625 --> 00:31:10.416
and here she come talking this.
00:31:10.500 --> 00:31:14.000
You don't need that old circus bullshit.
I know what I'm talking about.
00:31:14.083 --> 00:31:16.291
You gonna mess up the song,
Cutler, and you know it.
00:31:16.375 --> 00:31:17.832
I ain't gonna mess up nothing. Ma say...
00:31:17.833 --> 00:31:19.458
I don't care what Ma say!
00:31:20.041 --> 00:31:22.500
I'm talking about
what the intro gonna do to the song.
00:31:22.583 --> 00:31:25.415
The peoples in the North ain't gonna
go for that old tent-show nonsense.
00:31:25.416 --> 00:31:27.124
- They wanna hear some music.
- Nigga.
00:31:27.125 --> 00:31:29.791
I done told you time and again.
Ma say what to play, not you.
00:31:29.875 --> 00:31:32.833
You ain't here to be doing no creating.
You play whatever Ma say.
00:31:32.916 --> 00:31:35.208
I might not play nothing.
I might just quit.
00:31:35.291 --> 00:31:38.208
Nigga, don't nobody care if you quit.
Whose heart you gonna break?
00:31:38.291 --> 00:31:39.458
Levee ain't gonna quit.
00:31:39.541 --> 00:31:41.666
He need to make money
to keep him in shoe polish.
00:31:44.333 --> 00:31:47.583
I done told y'all you don't know me.
You don't know what I'll do.
00:31:47.666 --> 00:31:50.125
I don't think nobody give a damn.
Sylvester, look here.
00:31:50.208 --> 00:31:52.791
The band plays the intro,
and then you say,
00:31:52.875 --> 00:31:55.208
"All right, boys, you done seen the rest."
00:31:55.291 --> 00:31:56.833
"Now I'm gonna show you the best."
00:31:56.916 --> 00:31:59.833
"Ma Rainey's gonna
show you her black bottom."
00:32:00.416 --> 00:32:03.541
You got that? Heh. All right,
let me hear you do it one time.
00:32:05.791 --> 00:32:08.083
All right, boys, you done s… s…
00:32:09.583 --> 00:32:10.625
…seen the rest.
00:32:12.541 --> 00:32:14.166
Now I'm gonna show you the best.
00:32:15.125 --> 00:32:19.166
Ma Rainey's gonna show you
her black b… b… b…
00:32:21.166 --> 00:32:22.250
…bottom.
00:32:22.333 --> 00:32:26.791
All right, Cutler.
Let me see you fix that.
00:32:27.500 --> 00:32:28.958
Straighten that out.
00:32:29.041 --> 00:32:31.750
Slow Drag, whoo, you hear this shit?
00:32:31.833 --> 00:32:34.583
How in the hell the boy
gonna do the part if he can't even talk?
00:32:34.666 --> 00:32:37.750
Who… Who's you
to tell me what to do, nigga?
00:32:37.833 --> 00:32:41.041
This ain't your band.
Ma tell me to d… do it, I'mma do it.
00:32:41.625 --> 00:32:44.375
So you can go to hell…
n… n… nigga.
00:32:47.041 --> 00:32:50.625
B… Boy, ain't nobody
studying you. Cutler, go on and fix that.
00:32:51.208 --> 00:32:53.750
You fix that
and I'll shine your shoes for you.
00:32:53.833 --> 00:32:55.375
Go on and fix that one.
00:32:55.458 --> 00:32:58.958
You say, uh, you Ma's nephew?
00:32:59.041 --> 00:33:00.750
Yeah, so what that mean?
00:33:00.833 --> 00:33:03.250
Oh, I ain't meant nothing.
I was just asking.
00:33:03.333 --> 00:33:05.250
Let's rehearse
so the boy can get it right.
00:33:05.333 --> 00:33:07.083
I ain't rehearsing nothing.
00:33:07.166 --> 00:33:08.750
Just wait till I get my band together.
00:33:08.833 --> 00:33:11.458
I'm gonna record that song
and show you how it's supposed to go.
00:33:11.541 --> 00:33:14.375
We can do it without Levee.
Sylvester, you remember your part?
00:33:14.458 --> 00:33:17.666
Yeah, I… I remember pretty g… good.
00:33:18.666 --> 00:33:20.958
Well, come on.
Let's do it then. All right?
00:33:24.041 --> 00:33:25.041
Levee.
00:33:30.583 --> 00:33:32.625
Good, you boys are rehearsing, I see.
00:33:32.708 --> 00:33:36.375
Yessir, we rehearsing.
We know them songs real good.
00:33:36.458 --> 00:33:39.041
Good. Say, Levee,
did you finish that song?
00:33:39.750 --> 00:33:41.750
Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant.
I got it right here.
00:33:42.333 --> 00:33:45.041
I wrote that other part
just like you say. It go like…
00:33:45.625 --> 00:33:48.125
♪ You can swing it
You can bring it ♪
00:33:48.208 --> 00:33:51.041
♪ You can dance at any hall ♪
00:33:51.125 --> 00:33:54.291
♪ You can slide across the floor
You'll never have to stall ♪
00:33:54.375 --> 00:33:56.250
♪ My jelly roll ♪
00:33:56.333 --> 00:33:58.413
Then I wrote that part
for the other people to dance,
00:33:58.416 --> 00:34:00.207
like you say, for them
to forget about their troubles.
00:34:00.208 --> 00:34:03.083
Good. I'll see about your songs
as soon as I get the chance.
00:34:03.166 --> 00:34:05.750
- I'll just take this.
- Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant.
00:34:06.416 --> 00:34:08.083
Soon as you get the chance.
00:34:11.333 --> 00:34:12.957
You hear Levee?
You hear this nigga?
00:34:12.958 --> 00:34:14.583
"Yessir, we's rehearsing, boss."
00:34:14.666 --> 00:34:17.583
I heard him.
Seen him too. Shuffling them feet.
00:34:17.666 --> 00:34:20.041
Yeah, well,
Levee can't help it none.
00:34:20.125 --> 00:34:24.291
He's spooked up by the white man.
Ain't had time to study 'em.
00:34:24.375 --> 00:34:27.125
I studies the white man,
I got him studied good.
00:34:27.208 --> 00:34:30.666
The first time one fixes on me wrong,
I'm gonna show him just how much I study.
00:34:30.750 --> 00:34:32.708
Come tell me
I'm spooked up by the white man.
00:34:32.791 --> 00:34:35.541
You let one mess with me,
I'll show you how spooked up I am.
00:34:35.625 --> 00:34:38.541
The man come in here, call you a boy,
00:34:38.625 --> 00:34:41.208
tell you to get up
off your ass and rehearse,
00:34:41.291 --> 00:34:43.458
and you ain't had
nothing to say except, "Yessir!"
00:34:46.166 --> 00:34:49.375
I can say "yessir" to whoever I please.
What you got to do with it?
00:34:49.458 --> 00:34:52.458
I know how to handle white folks.
I been handling them for 32 years.
00:34:52.541 --> 00:34:54.041
You gonna tell me how to do it?
00:34:54.125 --> 00:34:56.541
Just 'cause I say "yessir,"
don't mean I'm spooked up by him.
00:34:56.625 --> 00:34:59.000
I know what I'm doing.
Let me handle him my way.
00:34:59.083 --> 00:35:00.563
Well, go and handle it then.
00:35:00.583 --> 00:35:02.416
Toledo, you always messing with somebody.
00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:06.125
Always agitating somebody
with that old philosophy bullshit.
00:35:06.208 --> 00:35:08.541
You stay out of my way
about what I do and say.
00:35:08.625 --> 00:35:11.083
I'm my own person. Just let me alone.
00:35:11.166 --> 00:35:15.000
All right, all right.
Levee, you right. I apologize.
00:35:15.083 --> 00:35:17.791
Ain't none of my business
you spooked up by the white man.
00:35:17.875 --> 00:35:20.250
See, that's the shit I'm talking about.
00:35:20.333 --> 00:35:22.166
Y'all back up and leave Levee alone.
00:35:22.250 --> 00:35:24.833
Oh, come on, Levee.
We was all just having fun.
00:35:24.916 --> 00:35:27.207
Toledo ain't said nothing about you
he ain't said about me.
00:35:27.208 --> 00:35:28.368
You just taking it all wrong.
00:35:28.416 --> 00:35:29.625
I ain't meant nothing by it.
00:35:29.708 --> 00:35:31.500
Levee got to be Levee!
00:35:32.125 --> 00:35:35.041
He don't need nobody messing with him
about the white man!
00:35:35.875 --> 00:35:39.000
'Cause you don't know nothing about me.
You don't know Levee.
00:35:39.083 --> 00:35:41.333
You don't know nothing
about what kind of blood I got!
00:35:41.416 --> 00:35:43.375
What kind of a heart I got beating here!
00:35:46.125 --> 00:35:47.708
I was eight years old
00:35:48.291 --> 00:35:50.708
when a gang of white mans
come into my daddy's house
00:35:50.791 --> 00:35:53.208
and have to do with my mama
any way they want.
00:35:54.708 --> 00:35:59.291
We was living in Jefferson County,
about eight miles outside of Natchez.
00:35:59.375 --> 00:36:02.666
My daddy's name was Memphis.
Memphis Lee Green.
00:36:02.750 --> 00:36:07.041
Had him near 50 acres of good
farming land. I'm talking good land.
00:36:07.125 --> 00:36:08.708
Grow anything you want.
00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:11.500
He done gone off of shares
and bought this land
00:36:11.583 --> 00:36:14.125
from Mr. Hallie's widow woman
after he done passed on.
00:36:14.208 --> 00:36:17.166
Folks called him a uppity nigger
'cause he done saved and borrowed
00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:19.875
to where he could
buy this land and be independent.
00:36:21.125 --> 00:36:22.833
It was coming on planting time,
00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:26.916
and my daddy went into Natchez
to get him some seed and fertilizer.
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:31.500
Called me, say, "Levee,
you the man of the house now."
00:36:33.333 --> 00:36:35.458
"Take care of your mama while I'm gone."
00:36:38.416 --> 00:36:39.958
I wasn't but a little boy.
00:36:41.541 --> 00:36:42.875
Eight years old.
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:47.083
My mama…
00:36:48.291 --> 00:36:51.416
was frying up some chicken
when them mans come in the house.
00:36:52.333 --> 00:36:54.125
Must have been eight or nine of 'em.
00:36:55.458 --> 00:36:59.875
She's standing there frying that chicken
when them mans come and took a hold of her
00:36:59.958 --> 00:37:04.541
just like you take hold of a mule
and make it do what you want.
00:37:08.541 --> 00:37:10.041
There was my mama…
00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:13.208
with a gang of white mans.
00:37:17.750 --> 00:37:19.666
She tried to fight 'em off.
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.750
I could see where
it wasn't gonna do her any good.
00:37:25.041 --> 00:37:27.125
I didn't know what they was doing to her,
00:37:27.208 --> 00:37:30.541
but I figured whatever it was,
they might as well do to me too.
00:37:32.666 --> 00:37:36.625
My daddy had a knife he kept around there
for hunting and working and whatnot.
00:37:36.708 --> 00:37:39.708
And I knew where he kept it.
I went and got it.
00:37:42.125 --> 00:37:47.125
I'm gonna show you
how spooked up I was by the white man.
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.875
I tried my damnedest
to cut one of them's throat.
00:37:53.208 --> 00:37:54.750
I hit him on the shoulder.
00:37:55.875 --> 00:37:57.595
He reached back,
grabbed hold of that knife,
00:37:57.625 --> 00:38:00.041
and whacked me across the chest with it.
00:38:05.833 --> 00:38:07.416
That's what made them stop.
00:38:08.833 --> 00:38:11.041
They was scared
I was gonna bleed to death.
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:14.791
My mama wrapped me in a blanket,
00:38:14.875 --> 00:38:18.000
carried me two miles
down to the Furlow place
00:38:18.083 --> 00:38:20.333
and they drove me up to Doc Albans.
00:38:20.416 --> 00:38:23.958
He was waiting on a calf to be born,
and he say he ain't had time to see me.
00:38:25.125 --> 00:38:27.375
They carried me to Miss Etta, the midwife,
00:38:28.541 --> 00:38:30.000
and she fixed me up.
00:38:32.333 --> 00:38:33.791
My daddy came back
00:38:34.791 --> 00:38:37.708
and acted like he done accepted
the facts of what happened.
00:38:38.208 --> 00:38:40.583
He got the names
of them mans from Mama.
00:38:41.708 --> 00:38:43.000
He found out who they was,
00:38:43.083 --> 00:38:45.333
and then we announced
we was moving out that county.
00:38:45.416 --> 00:38:47.916
We said goodbye to everybody,
all the neighbors.
00:38:50.375 --> 00:38:53.375
My daddy went and smiled
in the face of one of them crackers
00:38:53.458 --> 00:38:54.916
who had been with my mama.
00:38:57.125 --> 00:38:58.708
Smiled in his face…
00:38:59.958 --> 00:39:01.625
and sold him our land.
00:39:03.833 --> 00:39:06.500
We moved over with relations in Caldwell.
00:39:07.208 --> 00:39:09.000
He got us settled in,
00:39:09.708 --> 00:39:12.875
and then he took off one day.
I ain't never seen him since.
00:39:18.041 --> 00:39:19.375
He sneaked back.
00:39:21.125 --> 00:39:22.666
Hiding up in the woods,
00:39:23.541 --> 00:39:26.083
laying to get them eight or nine men.
00:39:29.083 --> 00:39:31.500
He got four of them before they got him.
00:39:39.666 --> 00:39:41.625
They tracked him down in the woods.
00:39:44.166 --> 00:39:45.625
Caught up with him, hung him…
00:39:47.166 --> 00:39:48.333
set him afire.
00:39:53.208 --> 00:39:56.875
My daddy wasn't spooked up
by the white man. No, sir.
00:39:57.958 --> 00:40:00.208
And that taught me how to handle them.
00:40:01.291 --> 00:40:05.791
I seen my daddy go up
and grin in this cracker's face.
00:40:08.375 --> 00:40:11.541
Smile in his face and sell him his land.
00:40:11.625 --> 00:40:15.208
All the while,
he's planning how he's gonna get him
00:40:16.083 --> 00:40:17.625
and what he's gonna do to him.
00:40:19.333 --> 00:40:21.208
That taught me how to handle them.
00:40:23.166 --> 00:40:27.000
So you all just back up
and leave Levee alone about the white man.
00:40:27.833 --> 00:40:31.416
I can smile and say "yessir"
to whoever I please.
00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:33.458
I got my time coming to me.
00:40:36.791 --> 00:40:39.416
You all just leave Levee alone
about the white man.
00:40:57.500 --> 00:41:00.583
♪ Everybody ♪
00:41:03.375 --> 00:41:06.666
Everybody come
from different places in Africa, right?
00:41:06.750 --> 00:41:08.416
Different tribes and things.
00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:11.958
Soon awhile they began
to make one big stew.
00:41:12.666 --> 00:41:16.583
You had your, uh, carrots and your peas,
00:41:16.666 --> 00:41:18.541
and your potatoes over here.
00:41:18.625 --> 00:41:21.000
And over there,
you had your meat and nuts,
00:41:21.083 --> 00:41:23.208
uh, okra, corn.
00:41:23.291 --> 00:41:28.041
And you mix it up, cook it real good
to where the flavors flow through.
00:41:28.125 --> 00:41:29.875
And then you got one thing.
00:41:29.958 --> 00:41:32.041
You got a stew.
00:41:33.041 --> 00:41:36.041
Now you take and you eat that stew.
00:41:36.125 --> 00:41:40.541
You take
and you make your history with that stew.
00:41:41.708 --> 00:41:45.250
But you look around
and you see some carrots over there,
00:41:45.333 --> 00:41:48.083
and some peas over here.
00:41:48.875 --> 00:41:53.208
And… that stew is still there.
00:41:54.583 --> 00:41:58.708
Hmm. You done made your history
and it's still there.
00:42:00.708 --> 00:42:03.541
You can't eat it all.
00:42:06.875 --> 00:42:07.958
What you got?
00:42:08.916 --> 00:42:12.000
You got some leftovers. That's what it is.
00:42:15.583 --> 00:42:21.875
See, we's the leftovers.
The colored man, he is the leftovers. Huh.
00:42:36.166 --> 00:42:38.083
What's the colored man
gonna do with himself?
00:42:40.791 --> 00:42:42.708
That's what we're waiting to find out.
00:42:48.750 --> 00:42:53.875
But first he's got to know
that he's a leftover.
00:43:22.750 --> 00:43:23.750
Mr. Irvin.
00:43:27.416 --> 00:43:29.500
I ain't got nothing to do with it, but…
00:43:31.041 --> 00:43:32.541
the boy can't do the part.
00:43:32.625 --> 00:43:34.625
He stutters right through it every time.
00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:38.875
It's a whole different bottom, though.
It's a whole different style.
00:43:38.958 --> 00:43:41.875
Relax and breathe,
and everything's gonna be all right.
00:43:41.958 --> 00:43:44.208
I'm just gonna cue you in…
00:43:44.291 --> 00:43:47.166
I know where the four is, man.
Don't got to tell me nothing.
00:43:47.250 --> 00:43:51.125
You're gonna smile and say
the line. Then we gonna get goin'.
00:43:51.208 --> 00:43:53.208
- Cutler.
- Ma'am?
00:43:53.291 --> 00:43:55.750
I know it's on the four…
00:43:55.833 --> 00:43:58.875
Levee got his eyes in the wrong place.
You better school him, Cutler.
00:43:58.958 --> 00:44:02.208
Come on, Levee. Let's get ready to play.
Keep your mind on your work.
00:44:02.291 --> 00:44:05.500
Okay, boys. Here we go.
Here we go. Here we go.
00:44:06.083 --> 00:44:09.000
"Moonshine Blues" first.
"Moonshine Blues," Ma.
00:44:09.083 --> 00:44:11.723
I ain't doing no moonshine nothing.
I'm doing "Black Bottom" first.
00:44:11.750 --> 00:44:13.583
Come on, Sylvester.
Where's Sylvester's mic?
00:44:13.666 --> 00:44:15.250
Irvin, get him a mic.
00:44:15.333 --> 00:44:18.833
Uh… Ma, the boys say he can't do it.
00:44:19.416 --> 00:44:22.958
Who? Who say he can't do it?
What boys say he can't do it?
00:44:24.125 --> 00:44:25.791
The band, Ma. The boys in the band.
00:44:27.916 --> 00:44:28.958
What band?
00:44:30.833 --> 00:44:31.958
Band work for me.
00:44:32.041 --> 00:44:34.625
He stutters, Ma.
They say he stutters.
00:44:34.708 --> 00:44:36.541
I don't care if he do.
00:44:36.625 --> 00:44:39.791
I promised the boy
he could do the part, so he gonna do it.
00:44:39.875 --> 00:44:43.458
And that's all there is to it.
He don't stutter all the time.
00:44:43.541 --> 00:44:45.166
Get a microphone down here for him.
00:44:45.250 --> 00:44:46.625
We don't have time. We can't...
00:44:46.708 --> 00:44:48.458
If you wanna make a record, find the time.
00:44:48.541 --> 00:44:51.125
I ain't playing with you.
I could walk out of here right now.
00:44:51.208 --> 00:44:53.458
Go back to my tour.
I don't need to go through all this.
00:44:53.541 --> 00:44:55.916
Go get the boy a microphone.
00:45:01.625 --> 00:45:04.208
Levee, I know you had something
to do with this. Watch yourself.
00:45:04.291 --> 00:45:05.291
It was Cutler.
00:45:05.375 --> 00:45:08.250
It was you.
You the only one…
00:45:08.333 --> 00:45:09.958
The boy stutter. He can't do the part.
00:45:10.041 --> 00:45:11.541
Can or can't, he gonna do it.
00:45:11.625 --> 00:45:13.791
- You ain't got nothing to do with it.
- I don't care.
00:45:13.875 --> 00:45:17.083
- He can sing the whole song.
- Well, all right. Thank you.
00:45:17.166 --> 00:45:19.125
He's only getting one chance.
The cost of this...
00:45:19.208 --> 00:45:21.750
Damn the cost.
You always talking about the cost.
00:45:21.833 --> 00:45:24.713
I make more money for this outfit
than anybody else you got put together.
00:45:24.791 --> 00:45:27.416
If he mess up,
he'll do it till he get it right.
00:45:30.875 --> 00:45:33.291
Come on, baby. Come on. Come.
00:45:33.916 --> 00:45:37.416
Stand right there. Hold your hands
like I told you to. Okay. Come on.
00:45:38.625 --> 00:45:40.541
All right. Don't worry about messing up.
00:45:40.625 --> 00:45:42.708
You mess up,
we'll do it till you get it right.
00:45:42.791 --> 00:45:44.958
All right. Play it for him, Cutler.
00:45:45.041 --> 00:45:45.999
All right.
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:49.583
One, two, you know what to do.
00:45:51.375 --> 00:45:52.375
All right, boys,
00:45:53.208 --> 00:45:57.041
you done seen the best.
00:45:57.833 --> 00:45:59.125
Now I'm gonna show you the rest.
00:45:59.750 --> 00:46:03.666
Ma Rainey's gonna
show you her b… b… b…
00:46:03.750 --> 00:46:06.041
black b… bottom.
00:46:06.583 --> 00:46:10.000
That's real good, baby.
You take your time. You'll get it right.
00:46:10.083 --> 00:46:12.083
Okay, Ma. We're ready to go.
00:46:12.166 --> 00:46:14.875
- Where's my Coke?
- "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," boys.
00:46:14.958 --> 00:46:18.750
Where's my Coke? I need a Coke.
Hot as it is. Shit. I need a Coke.
00:46:18.833 --> 00:46:19.832
What's the matter, Ma?
00:46:19.833 --> 00:46:21.916
Where's my Coke? I need a cold Coca-Cola.
00:46:22.458 --> 00:46:23.833
Uh, Ma, look…
00:46:24.875 --> 00:46:26.125
I forgot the Coke.
00:46:26.708 --> 00:46:29.416
Let's do it without it, huh?
Just this one song. What say, boys?
00:46:29.500 --> 00:46:33.083
Damn what the band say. You supposed
to have my Coca-Cola. You knew that.
00:46:33.166 --> 00:46:34.846
I ain't doing nothing
without my Coca-Cola.
00:46:35.416 --> 00:46:36.936
- Shit.
- Just a minute here, Ma.
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:38.375
You come in an hour late...
00:46:38.458 --> 00:46:40.958
Get out my face.
Irvin, I told you keep him away from me.
00:46:41.041 --> 00:46:43.124
I'm tired of her nonsense.
I'm not gonna put up with this.
00:46:43.125 --> 00:46:45.000
Let me. Ma, listen.
00:46:45.083 --> 00:46:48.375
I'll call down to the deli
and get you a Coke. But let's get started.
00:46:48.458 --> 00:46:51.291
Sylvester's standing there ready to go,
the band's all set up.
00:46:51.375 --> 00:46:52.833
Let's do this one song.
00:46:52.916 --> 00:46:55.000
Too cheap to buy me a Coca-Cola.
I'll buy my own.
00:46:55.083 --> 00:46:57.083
Slow Drag, Sylvester. Go on, baby.
00:46:57.166 --> 00:47:01.125
Get me three bottles of Coca-Cola,
ice cold. Get y'all something too.
00:47:01.208 --> 00:47:02.448
- Keep the change.
- Yes, ma'am.
00:47:03.208 --> 00:47:04.958
Irvin, get away from me. Shit.
00:47:05.041 --> 00:47:07.458
You can wait till I get my Coca-Cola.
Ain't gonna kill you.
00:47:07.541 --> 00:47:09.958
Okay, Ma. Get your Coke.
00:47:10.041 --> 00:47:11.500
Gentlemen, the band room.
00:47:12.083 --> 00:47:14.166
Christ sakes, get your Coke.
00:47:18.708 --> 00:47:19.875
Cutler.
00:47:21.500 --> 00:47:23.208
Come here a minute. I need to talk to you.
00:47:41.916 --> 00:47:45.125
What's all this shit about
"the boys in the band said"?
00:47:45.208 --> 00:47:47.166
I tells you what to do.
00:47:47.250 --> 00:47:50.625
I says what the matter is with the band.
I say who can and can't do what.
00:47:50.708 --> 00:47:52.250
We just say 'cause the boy stutter.
00:47:52.333 --> 00:47:54.416
I know he stutters.
Don't you think I know?
00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:55.833
This is what gonna help him.
00:47:55.916 --> 00:47:57.166
We thought it'd be easier...
00:47:57.250 --> 00:47:58.999
He gonna do the part. I don't
wanna hear any more of this shit
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.000
about what the boys in the band says.
00:48:05.916 --> 00:48:09.625
And I want you to find somebody
to replace Levee when we get to Memphis.
00:48:09.708 --> 00:48:11.333
Levee ain't nothing but trouble.
00:48:11.416 --> 00:48:12.666
Levee all right.
00:48:12.750 --> 00:48:15.250
He plays good music
when he puts his mind to it.
00:48:15.333 --> 00:48:17.500
- He know how to write music too.
- I don't care.
00:48:17.583 --> 00:48:18.707
He ain't nothing but bad news.
00:48:18.708 --> 00:48:21.166
Find somebody else.
He the ringtail leader.
00:48:21.250 --> 00:48:23.666
I know it was his idea
who to say who can do what.
00:48:23.750 --> 00:48:27.208
Dussie Mae! Sit your ass down
and stop flaunting yourself around.
00:48:27.291 --> 00:48:28.375
I ain't doing nothing.
00:48:28.458 --> 00:48:30.583
Just go somewhere and stay out of the way.
00:48:48.625 --> 00:48:51.458
♪ You can slide across the floor ♪
00:48:51.541 --> 00:48:54.916
♪ You'll never have to stall
My jelly roll ♪
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.833
♪ Oh, my jelly roll
My jelly roll ♪
00:48:59.916 --> 00:49:02.833
Hi. I just wanted to see
what it look like down here.
00:49:03.625 --> 00:49:04.958
Well, come on in.
00:49:05.791 --> 00:49:06.791
I don't bite.
00:49:09.125 --> 00:49:10.565
I didn't know you could write music.
00:49:10.625 --> 00:49:13.416
I just thought you was
jiving me at the club last night.
00:49:13.500 --> 00:49:15.666
No, baby. I knows how to write music.
00:49:15.750 --> 00:49:18.000
I done give some
of my songs to Mr. Sturdyvant.
00:49:18.083 --> 00:49:19.583
He say he gonna let me record 'em.
00:49:19.666 --> 00:49:21.375
I'm gonna have my own band.
00:49:21.458 --> 00:49:25.541
Hey, Toledo. Ain't I give
Mr. Sturdyvant some of my songs I wrote?
00:49:26.125 --> 00:49:27.916
Don't get Toledo mixed up in nothing.
00:49:29.708 --> 00:49:31.666
You gonna have your own band, sure enough?
00:49:32.250 --> 00:49:36.333
Levee Green and his Footstompers.
00:49:36.416 --> 00:49:39.791
A man what's gonna get his own band
need to have a woman like you.
00:49:39.875 --> 00:49:43.166
A woman like me need a man
to bring it and put it in my hand.
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:45.665
I don't need nobody
getting something for nothing
00:49:45.666 --> 00:49:47.458
and leave me standing in my door.
00:49:47.541 --> 00:49:51.041
That ain't Levee's style, sugar.
I knows how to treat a woman.
00:49:51.625 --> 00:49:54.625
Buy her presents and things.
Treat her like she want to be treated.
00:49:54.708 --> 00:49:57.833
That's what they all say till
it come time to be buying the presents.
00:49:57.916 --> 00:50:01.625
When we get down to Memphis,
I'm gonna take you out,
00:50:01.708 --> 00:50:03.375
show you a good time.
00:50:04.208 --> 00:50:06.291
Show you Levee know how to treat a woman.
00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000
Ma.
00:50:14.750 --> 00:50:18.916
This "Moonshine Blues," that's one of them
songs that Bessie Smith sangs, I believe.
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:20.000
Bessie what?
00:50:20.500 --> 00:50:21.791
I ain't thinking about Bessie.
00:50:22.333 --> 00:50:24.973
Shit. I taught Bessie. Bessie ain't
doing nothing but imitating me.
00:50:25.041 --> 00:50:28.166
What I care about Bessie?
I don't care if she sell a million record.
00:50:28.250 --> 00:50:31.250
She got her people. I got mine.
I don't care what nobody else do.
00:50:31.333 --> 00:50:33.000
Ma was the first. Don't you forget it.
00:50:33.083 --> 00:50:34.483
Nobody said nothing about all that.
00:50:34.500 --> 00:50:36.624
- I'm saying that's the song she sang.
- I've been doing this a long time.
00:50:36.625 --> 00:50:39.666
Ever since I was a little girl.
I don't care what nobody else do.
00:50:39.750 --> 00:50:42.250
Shoot. That's what
get me so mad with Irvin.
00:50:43.583 --> 00:50:45.457
White folks try to be
put out with you all the time.
00:50:45.458 --> 00:50:47.750
Too cheap to buy you a damn Coca-Cola.
00:50:47.833 --> 00:50:50.291
I lets them know it, though.
Ma don't stand for no shit.
00:50:51.041 --> 00:50:52.083
Shoot.
00:50:52.166 --> 00:50:55.166
They wanna take your voice
and trap it in all them fancy boxes
00:50:55.250 --> 00:50:59.666
with all them buttons and dials,
and then too cheap to buy you a Coca-Cola.
00:51:00.250 --> 00:51:02.166
Don't cost but a nickel a bottle.
00:51:06.833 --> 00:51:08.791
They don't care nothing about me.
00:51:11.958 --> 00:51:15.083
All they want is my voice.
00:51:18.750 --> 00:51:20.083
Well, I done learned that.
00:51:22.125 --> 00:51:24.208
And they gonna treat me
the way I want to be treated
00:51:24.291 --> 00:51:25.916
no matter how much it hurt 'em.
00:51:29.666 --> 00:51:32.500
They back there right now
calling me all kinds of names.
00:51:32.583 --> 00:51:34.541
Calling me everything but a child of God.
00:51:35.166 --> 00:51:38.541
But they can't do nothing else 'cause
they ain't got what they wanted yet.
00:51:39.375 --> 00:51:43.000
As soon as they get my voice down
on one them recording machines,
00:51:43.750 --> 00:51:48.291
then it's just like I'd be some whore
and they roll over and put their pants on.
00:51:48.375 --> 00:51:50.125
They ain't got no use for me then.
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.083
I know what I'm talking about. You watch.
00:51:54.791 --> 00:51:57.500
And Irvin,
he right there with the rest of them.
00:51:57.583 --> 00:51:59.333
He don't care nothing about me either.
00:52:00.041 --> 00:52:03.250
He's been my manager for six years,
and the only time he had me over his house
00:52:03.333 --> 00:52:05.083
was to sing for some of his white friends.
00:52:05.166 --> 00:52:07.000
Huh. I know how they do.
00:52:07.083 --> 00:52:09.666
Yeah. Shit, you colored
and you can make 'em some money,
00:52:09.750 --> 00:52:14.041
then you all right with them,
otherwise you just a dog in the alley.
00:52:14.958 --> 00:52:16.666
I done made them
more money from my records
00:52:16.750 --> 00:52:19.208
than all them other
recording artists they got put together,
00:52:19.291 --> 00:52:23.125
and then they wanna balk about
how much this session is costing them.
00:52:23.208 --> 00:52:25.375
I can't see how
it's costing as much as they say.
00:52:25.458 --> 00:52:28.208
Shit, it ain't.
I don't pay that kind of talk no mind.
00:52:32.250 --> 00:52:35.000
- I already got my fellas picked out.
- Mmm-hmm.
00:52:35.083 --> 00:52:39.208
I'm getting me some good fellas.
Know how to play real sweet music.
00:52:39.291 --> 00:52:42.583
You get your own band,
we'll see about this stuff you talking.
00:52:43.208 --> 00:52:45.916
I just wanna show you
I knows what the womens like.
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.875
They don't call me
Sweet Lemonade for nothing.
00:52:48.958 --> 00:52:50.666
Stop it now. Somebody gonna come in here.
00:52:50.750 --> 00:52:51.750
No, they ain't.
00:52:53.166 --> 00:52:54.166
Look here, sugar.
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:56.666
What I wants to know is,
00:52:57.416 --> 00:53:02.250
can I introduce
my red rooster to your brown hen.
00:53:09.208 --> 00:53:13.000
You get your own band and we'll see
if your red rooster know how to crow.
00:53:21.708 --> 00:53:24.250
Mmm. Damn, baby.
00:53:24.333 --> 00:53:27.166
Now I know
why my grandpappy sat on the front porch
00:53:27.250 --> 00:53:30.375
with a straight razor
when my grandma hung out the wash.
00:53:30.458 --> 00:53:32.000
You crazy!
00:53:32.083 --> 00:53:34.250
Whoo!
00:53:36.958 --> 00:53:40.958
I bet you sound like
the midnight train to Alabama
00:53:41.041 --> 00:53:43.625
when it crosses the Mason-Dixon Line.
00:53:47.833 --> 00:53:50.083
How you get so crazy?
00:53:50.166 --> 00:53:53.333
It's women like you that drive me so…
00:53:54.958 --> 00:53:56.666
Good God.
00:53:57.250 --> 00:53:59.833
Happy birthday to the lady with the cakes.
00:54:13.208 --> 00:54:15.000
Sure done got quiet in here.
00:54:19.125 --> 00:54:21.208
I never could stand no silence.
00:54:22.333 --> 00:54:25.458
I always got to have some music
going on in my head somewhere.
00:54:26.250 --> 00:54:27.875
It keeps things balanced.
00:54:27.958 --> 00:54:30.125
Music will do that. It fills things up.
00:54:31.458 --> 00:54:34.875
The more music you have
in the world, the fuller it is.
00:54:34.958 --> 00:54:37.916
I can agree with that.
I got to have my music too.
00:54:38.541 --> 00:54:40.875
White folk
don't understand about the blues.
00:54:41.875 --> 00:54:44.541
They hear it come out,
but they don't know how it got there.
00:54:46.208 --> 00:54:49.041
They don't understand
that that's life's way of talking.
00:54:50.208 --> 00:54:51.750
You don't sing to feel better.
00:54:52.625 --> 00:54:55.500
You sing 'cause
that's a way of understanding life.
00:54:57.750 --> 00:55:00.208
The blues help you
get out of bed in the morning.
00:55:02.041 --> 00:55:04.250
You get up knowing you ain't alone.
00:55:05.958 --> 00:55:07.791
There's something else in the world.
00:55:09.208 --> 00:55:12.666
Something's been added by that song.
00:55:15.458 --> 00:55:16.458
Mmm.
00:55:19.541 --> 00:55:22.125
This be an empty world without the blues.
00:55:24.333 --> 00:55:25.249
Yeah.
00:55:25.250 --> 00:55:28.708
I try to take that emptiness
and fill it up with something.
00:55:29.500 --> 00:55:31.125
Ooh!
00:55:33.833 --> 00:55:37.208
I ain't started blues way of singing.
Blues always been there.
00:55:37.291 --> 00:55:39.082
But if they wanna
call me the Mother of Blues,
00:55:39.083 --> 00:55:41.208
that's all right with me.
It don't hurt none.
00:55:43.708 --> 00:55:46.500
Sure did take y'all a long time.
Sylvester, get Irvin.
00:55:46.583 --> 00:55:47.708
Tell him we ready to go.
00:55:47.791 --> 00:55:48.791
I'll grab Levee.
00:55:59.083 --> 00:56:00.083
Ah…
00:56:07.333 --> 00:56:09.708
Ma got her Coke, Levee.
We about ready to start.
00:56:09.791 --> 00:56:11.874
- Get this off me.
- Okay.
00:56:11.875 --> 00:56:15.833
- Okay, gotta go.
- Just go!
00:56:30.041 --> 00:56:33.583
Okay, boys.
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take one.
00:56:34.916 --> 00:56:37.625
Two, you know what to do.
00:56:40.125 --> 00:56:45.250
All right, boys,
you… you… d… done…
00:56:48.208 --> 00:56:49.333
Take two.
00:56:50.125 --> 00:56:51.208
All right, boys,
00:56:51.291 --> 00:56:54.458
you done seen the rest.
Now I'm gonna show you the best.
00:56:54.541 --> 00:56:58.208
Ma Rainey's gonna show you her…
B… B… B…
00:57:01.875 --> 00:57:03.000
Take…
00:57:05.250 --> 00:57:06.250
Hmm.
00:57:12.416 --> 00:57:15.208
Ma, can we just do it without the…
00:57:17.375 --> 00:57:18.458
Take six.
00:57:26.375 --> 00:57:27.500
Take seven.
00:57:30.875 --> 00:57:31.916
All right, boys,
00:57:32.625 --> 00:57:36.000
you done seen the rest.
Now I'm gonna show you the best.
00:57:36.708 --> 00:57:38.958
Ma Rainey's
gonna show you her black bottom.
00:57:39.583 --> 00:57:42.875
♪ Way down South in Alabamy ♪
00:57:44.250 --> 00:57:47.541
♪ I got a friend they call Dancin' Sammy ♪
00:57:48.791 --> 00:57:52.416
♪ Who's crazy
About all the latest dances ♪
00:57:53.041 --> 00:57:57.333
♪ Black bottom stomps
And the new baby prances ♪
00:57:57.416 --> 00:58:01.833
♪ The other night at a swell affair ♪
00:58:02.416 --> 00:58:05.916
♪ Soon as the boys
Found out that I was there ♪
00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:10.541
♪ They said, "Come on, Ma
Let's go to the cabaret" ♪
00:58:11.625 --> 00:58:15.208
♪ When I got there, they began to say ♪
00:58:16.250 --> 00:58:19.916
♪ "I wanna see that dance
They call the black bottom" ♪
00:58:20.958 --> 00:58:23.083
♪ "I wanna learn that dance" ♪
00:58:24.916 --> 00:58:29.458
♪ "Wanna see the dance
They call your big black bottom" ♪
00:58:30.166 --> 00:58:32.833
♪ It'll put you in a trance ♪
00:58:34.500 --> 00:58:38.166
♪ All the boys in the neighborhood ♪
00:58:38.250 --> 00:58:42.958
♪ They say
"Your black bottom is really good" ♪
00:58:44.250 --> 00:58:48.041
♪ "Come on and show me
Your black bottom" ♪
00:58:48.958 --> 00:58:52.208
♪ "I wanna learn that dance" ♪
00:58:53.583 --> 00:58:57.583
♪ I wanna see the dance
They call the black bottom ♪
00:58:58.416 --> 00:59:01.041
♪ I wanna learn that dance ♪
00:59:02.750 --> 00:59:07.750
♪ Wanna see you do the dance
You call your big black bottom ♪
00:59:07.833 --> 00:59:10.666
♪ It'll put you in a trance ♪
00:59:12.208 --> 00:59:15.958
♪ Early one morning
'Bout the break of day ♪
00:59:17.208 --> 00:59:21.041
♪ Grandpa told Grandma, I heard him say ♪
00:59:21.916 --> 00:59:25.916
♪ "Get on up and show your old man
Your black bottom" ♪
00:59:26.416 --> 00:59:30.416
♪ I wanna learn that dance
Yes, sir ♪
00:59:31.500 --> 00:59:34.833
♪ I wanna learn that dance ♪
00:59:38.583 --> 00:59:41.625
Okay, that's good, Ma.
That sounded great. Good job, boys.
00:59:41.708 --> 00:59:43.625
See? I told you you could do it!
00:59:43.708 --> 00:59:45.707
- He did good.
- All you gotta do is set your mind to it.
00:59:45.708 --> 00:59:47.332
- He did better than I thought he would.
- My baby.
00:59:47.333 --> 00:59:51.208
- Mwah. That's my baby.
- Hey, boy. Hey, boys, Ma.
00:59:51.291 --> 00:59:55.416
- Yeah!
- Hey, let's do "Moonshine Blues" next?
00:59:56.083 --> 00:59:57.125
"Moonshine Blues," boys.
00:59:57.208 --> 01:00:00.958
Irv? Something happened
with the recording. Check that mic.
01:00:01.500 --> 01:00:03.583
One, one, one, two, check, one...
01:00:03.666 --> 01:00:05.375
No. The problem's with the kid's mic.
01:00:06.791 --> 01:00:08.666
Oh, Christ Almighty!
01:00:09.250 --> 01:00:11.000
- Ma, we didn't record the song.
- Shit!
01:00:11.083 --> 01:00:12.707
What you mean you didn't record the song?
01:00:12.708 --> 01:00:14.290
What were you
and Sturdyvant doing up there?
01:00:14.291 --> 01:00:15.624
Levee must have
kicked the plug out.
01:00:15.625 --> 01:00:16.624
I ain't kicked nothing.
01:00:16.625 --> 01:00:18.333
If Levee had his mind
on what he was doing.
01:00:18.416 --> 01:00:21.250
If it ain't one thing, it's another.
Straighten your black ass out.
01:00:21.333 --> 01:00:23.208
Hell, it ain't my fault.
I ain't done nothing.
01:00:23.291 --> 01:00:24.333
It's the cord, Mel.
01:00:24.416 --> 01:00:26.333
The cord's all chewed up.
We need another cord.
01:00:26.416 --> 01:00:28.041
- The most disorganized…
- Ma?
01:00:28.125 --> 01:00:29.624
- Waste of my time.
- Where's she going?
01:00:29.625 --> 01:00:31.083
- Shit.
- Ma? Ma!
01:00:31.666 --> 01:00:32.582
Ma?
01:00:32.583 --> 01:00:35.458
If you walk out of this studio,
you're through. You're washed-up.
01:00:35.541 --> 01:00:37.291
Chrissakes, Mel! Ma!
01:00:37.375 --> 01:00:40.250
Ma, come back here! Ma, please!
01:00:43.083 --> 01:00:44.083
Listen, Ma.
01:00:45.125 --> 01:00:46.833
These records are gonna be hits.
01:00:47.541 --> 01:00:49.458
They are gonna sell like crazy.
01:00:49.541 --> 01:00:51.416
Hell, even Sylvester will be a star.
01:00:52.666 --> 01:00:53.833
Fifteen minutes.
01:00:55.125 --> 01:00:58.583
That is all I am asking, Ma.
Just 15 minutes.
01:01:03.333 --> 01:01:06.208
Fifteen minutes.
You hear me, Irvin? Fifteen minutes.
01:01:06.291 --> 01:01:09.375
Then I'm gonna carry my black bottom
on back down to Georgia, you hear me?
01:01:09.458 --> 01:01:11.208
Fifteen minutes.
01:01:14.958 --> 01:01:17.166
You boys go ahead
and take a break.
01:01:17.250 --> 01:01:19.541
Fifteen minutes. We'll be ready to go.
01:01:20.500 --> 01:01:22.333
Don't make
no difference to me if she leave.
01:01:22.416 --> 01:01:24.375
I'm ready to get on outta here, anyway.
01:01:24.458 --> 01:01:25.583
If I was Mr. Irvin,
01:01:25.666 --> 01:01:28.458
I'd go on and get them cords
and things hooked up right.
01:01:28.541 --> 01:01:31.333
If Levee kept his mind on his work,
we wouldn't be in this fix.
01:01:31.416 --> 01:01:32.625
We'd be up there finishing up.
01:01:32.708 --> 01:01:35.041
Now we gotta see
if that boy can get that part right.
01:01:35.125 --> 01:01:37.375
He got one eye on the gal
and the other on his trumpet.
01:01:37.458 --> 01:01:39.207
Nigga,
don't you know that's Ma's gal?
01:01:39.208 --> 01:01:42.208
I ain't done nothing to her. I just
talk to her like I talk to anybody else.
01:01:42.291 --> 01:01:44.832
Your ass gonna be out there
scraping the concrete, lookin' for a job,
01:01:44.833 --> 01:01:45.874
you keep messing around with her.
01:01:45.875 --> 01:01:48.583
I ain't done nothing to the gal.
I just asked her her name.
01:01:48.666 --> 01:01:51.066
If you sayin' I can't do that,
Ma'll just have to go to hell.
01:01:51.083 --> 01:01:53.708
I'm through with it.
Try talking to a fool.
01:01:53.791 --> 01:01:57.666
Some mens got it worse than others.
Some mens is excited to be a fool.
01:01:59.458 --> 01:02:02.083
I knows about it.
The excitement is something else.
01:02:02.166 --> 01:02:05.875
I done experienced it.
Make you feel good to be a fool.
01:02:06.458 --> 01:02:07.791
But it don't last long.
01:02:07.875 --> 01:02:11.083
Over in a minute, then you
got to tend with the consequences.
01:02:11.166 --> 01:02:14.541
That's the best sense you made all day,
talking about being a fool.
01:02:14.625 --> 01:02:17.833
That's the only sensible thing
you said today, admitting you was a fool.
01:02:17.916 --> 01:02:21.375
Oh, I admits it, all right.
Ain't nothing wrong with it.
01:02:21.458 --> 01:02:24.375
I done been
a little bit of everything.
01:02:24.458 --> 01:02:27.166
Gonna be a bit more things
before I'm finished with it.
01:02:27.250 --> 01:02:29.375
But I ain't never been
the same fool twice.
01:02:29.458 --> 01:02:30.791
That's where we part ways.
01:02:30.875 --> 01:02:33.208
But you been a fool. That's what counts.
01:02:33.291 --> 01:02:35.416
Talking about I'm a fool
for asking the girl her name,
01:02:35.500 --> 01:02:37.125
and here you is one yourself.
01:02:37.208 --> 01:02:39.000
I married a woman. A good woman.
01:02:39.083 --> 01:02:42.125
To this day,
I can't say nothing bad about this woman.
01:02:42.208 --> 01:02:45.583
I married her with all the good intentions
and graces of being hooked up,
01:02:45.666 --> 01:02:47.875
bound to her for the rest of my life.
01:02:47.958 --> 01:02:49.833
Looking for this woman
to put me in my grave,
01:02:50.416 --> 01:02:52.666
but she went out and joined the church.
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:58.625
She got up there
and got to seeing them good Christian men
01:02:58.708 --> 01:03:00.791
and wondering why I ain't like that.
01:03:01.375 --> 01:03:04.125
Soon she figured
she hooked up to a heathen.
01:03:04.208 --> 01:03:05.500
Couldn't live like that.
01:03:06.750 --> 01:03:07.750
So she left.
01:03:08.500 --> 01:03:09.625
Hmm.
01:03:09.708 --> 01:03:14.416
I just sat down and I figured I was a fool
01:03:14.500 --> 01:03:18.000
not to see that she needed
something that I wasn't giving her,
01:03:18.083 --> 01:03:20.416
else she wouldn't have been
up there at the church.
01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:22.000
So, yeah…
01:03:22.833 --> 01:03:25.041
Toledo been a fool about a woman.
01:03:26.416 --> 01:03:27.791
That's part of making life.
01:03:28.958 --> 01:03:31.041
Toledo, what you call a fool
01:03:31.125 --> 01:03:33.416
and what I call a fool
are two different things.
01:03:33.500 --> 01:03:37.666
A fool is responsible
for what happen to him.
01:03:37.750 --> 01:03:40.291
A fool cause it to happen. Like Levee.
01:03:40.791 --> 01:03:44.583
He keep messing around with Ma's gal,
his feet be out there scraping the ground.
01:03:44.666 --> 01:03:46.750
- That's a fool.
- Nothing gonna happen to Levee.
01:03:46.833 --> 01:03:48.499
Levee ain't gonna let
nothing happen to him.
01:03:48.500 --> 01:03:51.457
Better not let Ma see you ask her.
That's what the man's trying to tell you.
01:03:51.458 --> 01:03:53.208
I don't need nobody to tell me nothing.
01:03:53.291 --> 01:03:55.958
Toledo, all I'm saying is,
from the looks of it,
01:03:56.041 --> 01:03:58.375
from your story,
I don't think life treated you fair.
01:03:58.458 --> 01:03:59.750
Oh, life's fair.
01:03:59.833 --> 01:04:00.958
Life ain't shit.
01:04:01.041 --> 01:04:03.290
You can put it in a paper bag
and carry it around with you.
01:04:03.291 --> 01:04:05.500
It ain't got no balls.
01:04:05.583 --> 01:04:08.333
Now death? Death got some style.
01:04:08.416 --> 01:04:11.000
Death will kick your ass
and make you wish you never been born.
01:04:11.083 --> 01:04:12.500
That's how bad death is.
01:04:12.583 --> 01:04:14.791
But you can rule over life.
Life ain't nothing.
01:04:14.875 --> 01:04:17.625
Nigga talking about life is fair
and ain't got a pot to piss in.
01:04:17.708 --> 01:04:19.708
All right.
Now I'm gonna tell you something.
01:04:19.791 --> 01:04:22.166
A nigga gonna be dissatisfied
no matter what.
01:04:22.250 --> 01:04:24.250
Niggas got a right to be dissatisfied.
01:04:24.333 --> 01:04:27.291
Is you gonna be satisfied
with a bone somebody done throwed you
01:04:27.375 --> 01:04:29.458
when you done
seen them eating a whole hog?
01:04:29.541 --> 01:04:32.625
You lucky they let you be an entertainer.
You're lucky and don't even know it.
01:04:32.708 --> 01:04:36.458
I'm talking about being satisfied
with a bone somebody done throwed you.
01:04:36.541 --> 01:04:40.125
That's what's the matter with y'all,
you're satisfied sitting in one place.
01:04:40.208 --> 01:04:41.750
Soon as I get my band together
01:04:41.833 --> 01:04:44.333
and record them songs
Mr. Sturdyvant done told me I can make,
01:04:44.416 --> 01:04:47.500
I'm gonna be like Ma and tell
the white man just what he can do.
01:04:48.083 --> 01:04:49.625
Ma tell Mr. Irvin she leaving?
01:04:49.708 --> 01:04:53.125
Mr. Irvin get down on his knees
and beg her to stay.
01:04:53.208 --> 01:04:56.333
That's the way I'm gonna be.
Make the white man respect me.
01:04:56.416 --> 01:04:58.375
The white man don't care nothing about Ma.
01:04:58.458 --> 01:05:00.625
The colored folks made Ma a star.
01:05:00.708 --> 01:05:03.375
The white folks don't care
nothing about who she is
01:05:03.458 --> 01:05:04.958
or what kind of music she make.
01:05:05.041 --> 01:05:07.916
Let her go to one of them
white folks hotel and see how big she is.
01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:10.666
Hell, she can't even
get a cab up here in the North.
01:05:10.750 --> 01:05:13.083
I'mma tell you something. Reverend Gates.
01:05:13.166 --> 01:05:15.500
Slow Drag, you know
who I'm talking about. Reverend Gates.
01:05:15.583 --> 01:05:19.333
Reverend Gates was, uh, coming up
from Tallahassee to Atlanta
01:05:19.416 --> 01:05:22.875
to see his sister who was sick
at that time with the consumption.
01:05:23.708 --> 01:05:26.583
The train come up
through Thomasville, then past Moultrie,
01:05:26.666 --> 01:05:29.083
and then ended up
in this little town called Sigsbee.
01:05:29.166 --> 01:05:31.166
You can stop telling that right there.
01:05:31.250 --> 01:05:35.166
Ain't but one train come out
of Tallahassee headed north to Atlanta.
01:05:35.250 --> 01:05:36.458
It don't stop at Sigsbee.
01:05:36.541 --> 01:05:38.875
The only train
that stop at Sigsbee is the Santa Fe,
01:05:38.958 --> 01:05:40.624
and you gotta transfer
at Moultrie to get it.
01:05:40.625 --> 01:05:42.291
Maybe that's what he done. I don't know.
01:05:42.375 --> 01:05:44.458
I'm just telling you
he got off at Sigsbee.
01:05:44.541 --> 01:05:47.208
You telling it.
Tell it your way. Just make up anything.
01:05:47.291 --> 01:05:49.125
Leave him alone and let him finish.
01:05:49.208 --> 01:05:50.708
Go on, tell it your way.
01:05:50.791 --> 01:05:54.000
Reverend Gates
got off this train in Sigsbee.
01:05:54.083 --> 01:05:55.458
Figured he'd check the schedule
01:05:55.541 --> 01:05:59.333
to make sure he arrived in time
for somebody to pick him up. All right?
01:05:59.416 --> 01:06:03.791
While he's there, it come upon him
that he had to go to the bathroom.
01:06:03.875 --> 01:06:05.875
Now, the only colored restroom they had
01:06:05.958 --> 01:06:09.791
was an outhouse they had sitting way back,
200 yards or so from the train station.
01:06:10.541 --> 01:06:13.916
While he's in the outhouse,
the train go off and leave without him.
01:06:14.541 --> 01:06:17.833
Now, he don't know
where he is in this town.
01:06:17.916 --> 01:06:19.875
In fact,
he ain't never heard of it before.
01:06:19.958 --> 01:06:22.083
I heard of it,
and he ain't got off no train
01:06:22.166 --> 01:06:24.208
coming outta Tallahassee in Sigsbee.
01:06:24.791 --> 01:06:28.125
The man's standing there
trying to figure out what he gonna do,
01:06:28.208 --> 01:06:30.500
where this train
done left him in this strange town.
01:06:32.416 --> 01:06:33.625
It started getting dark.
01:06:34.333 --> 01:06:36.708
He sees
where the sun's getting low in the sky,
01:06:36.791 --> 01:06:39.166
and he's trying
to figure out what he gonna do,
01:06:39.250 --> 01:06:40.832
when he noticed a couple of white fellas
01:06:40.833 --> 01:06:42.875
standing across the street
from the station.
01:06:42.958 --> 01:06:44.875
Just standing there, watching him.
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:48.750
Then two or three more fellas
come up and join the other one.
01:06:49.250 --> 01:06:53.250
Now he look around the station.
He don't see no colored folks nowhere.
01:06:53.750 --> 01:06:55.665
He don't know
what's getting into these fellas' minds,
01:06:55.666 --> 01:06:57.791
so he commence to walking.
01:06:57.875 --> 01:07:01.000
He don't know where he walking.
He walking down the railroad tracks
01:07:01.083 --> 01:07:03.416
when he hear, "Hey, nigger."
01:07:04.833 --> 01:07:06.250
Just like that.
01:07:07.041 --> 01:07:08.458
"Hey, nigger."
01:07:10.041 --> 01:07:11.208
He keep walking.
01:07:12.083 --> 01:07:15.125
They call him some more. He kept walking.
01:07:16.291 --> 01:07:19.833
Then he heard a gunshot.
Yeah. He stopped then, you know.
01:07:20.708 --> 01:07:21.916
They crowded around him.
01:07:22.666 --> 01:07:23.791
He's standing there,
01:07:24.583 --> 01:07:26.166
cross around his neck,
01:07:26.250 --> 01:07:29.291
and the little Bible
that he keep with him all the time.
01:07:30.458 --> 01:07:34.083
They ask who he was.
He said he was Reverend Gates
01:07:34.166 --> 01:07:35.726
and he was on his way to see his sister
01:07:35.750 --> 01:07:37.958
who was sick,
and the train went off and left him.
01:07:38.041 --> 01:07:40.916
And they said, "Yeah, nigger?"
01:07:41.500 --> 01:07:43.166
"But can you dance?"
01:07:47.125 --> 01:07:48.416
He looked at them
01:07:49.125 --> 01:07:50.583
and commenced to dancing.
01:07:53.333 --> 01:07:56.416
One of them reached up
and tore his cross off his neck,
01:07:56.500 --> 01:08:00.000
said he was committing heresy
by dancing with a cross and a Bible.
01:08:02.375 --> 01:08:04.958
Took his Bible and tore it up,
01:08:05.041 --> 01:08:07.833
and had him dancing
till they got tired of watching him.
01:08:09.125 --> 01:08:13.708
- That's the only way that man...
- What I wants to know is, he a man of God.
01:08:13.791 --> 01:08:16.416
Where the hell was God
when all this was going on?
01:08:17.458 --> 01:08:19.458
Why didn't God strike down them crackers
01:08:19.541 --> 01:08:21.666
with some of this lightning
you talking about to me?
01:08:22.166 --> 01:08:23.958
Levee, you gonna burn in hell.
01:08:24.041 --> 01:08:26.750
Why didn't God strike
some of them crackers down? Tell me that.
01:08:26.833 --> 01:08:29.875
That's the question. Don't come
telling me this burning-in-hell shit.
01:08:30.541 --> 01:08:31.958
He a man of God,
01:08:32.041 --> 01:08:34.500
why didn't God
strike some of them crackers down?
01:08:35.541 --> 01:08:38.666
I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you the truth.
01:08:39.541 --> 01:08:41.875
God ain't never listened
to no nigga's prayers.
01:08:41.958 --> 01:08:44.278
God take the nigga's prayers
and throw them in the garbage.
01:08:44.333 --> 01:08:48.666
God don't pay niggas no mind.
In fact, God hate niggas.
01:08:49.291 --> 01:08:51.583
Hate them with all the fury in his heart.
01:08:51.666 --> 01:08:54.333
Jesus don't love you, nigga.
Jesus hate your black ass.
01:08:54.416 --> 01:08:56.958
Come talking that shit to me.
Talking about burning in hell.
01:08:57.041 --> 01:08:58.916
God can kiss my ass.
01:09:00.333 --> 01:09:04.666
You wanna blaspheme my God!
That's my God! My God, you worthless...
01:09:04.750 --> 01:09:06.125
Let him go!
01:09:06.208 --> 01:09:07.416
- You worthless!
- Let him go!
01:09:07.500 --> 01:09:10.541
- That's my God! Blaspheme my God.
- Let it go! It don't mean nothing!
01:09:11.500 --> 01:09:13.000
It don't mean nothing!
01:09:13.583 --> 01:09:16.125
It's your God, huh? Is that right?
01:09:18.708 --> 01:09:21.083
All right,
I'm gonna give your God a chance.
01:09:21.708 --> 01:09:23.583
I'm gonna give your God a chance.
01:09:23.666 --> 01:09:25.916
I'm gonna give him
a chance to save your black ass.
01:09:26.458 --> 01:09:28.916
- Put that knife up!
- Stay out of this, Toledo.
01:09:29.000 --> 01:09:30.249
- That's no way to solve nothing.
- Put that knife up!
01:09:30.250 --> 01:09:33.166
I'm talking to Cutler's God! You hear me?
01:09:33.250 --> 01:09:36.500
Cutler's God! I'm calling Cutler's God!
01:09:37.708 --> 01:09:39.291
Come on and save this nigga.
01:09:39.875 --> 01:09:42.125
Strike me down before I cut his throat.
01:09:42.208 --> 01:09:45.041
- You gonna burn in hell, nigga.
- I'm calling your God.
01:09:45.666 --> 01:09:49.416
I'm gonna give him a chance
to save you. I'm calling your God!
01:09:50.166 --> 01:09:51.416
Cutler's God?
01:09:51.500 --> 01:09:53.375
Come on and save this nigga.
01:09:54.208 --> 01:09:56.416
Come on and save him like you did my mama.
01:09:57.750 --> 01:10:00.000
Save him like you did my mama!
01:10:02.541 --> 01:10:04.375
I heard her when she call you.
01:10:06.083 --> 01:10:10.750
I heard her when she said,
"Lord have mercy. Jesus help me."
01:10:11.750 --> 01:10:15.375
"Please, God, have mercy on me, Lord.
Jesus help me."
01:10:16.958 --> 01:10:18.708
Did you turn your back?
01:10:21.541 --> 01:10:24.083
Did you turn your back, motherfucker?
01:10:25.500 --> 01:10:27.125
Did you turn your back?
01:10:29.166 --> 01:10:30.166
Come on.
01:10:31.375 --> 01:10:33.375
Come on and turn your back on me.
01:10:35.416 --> 01:10:37.166
Turn your back on me!
01:10:38.291 --> 01:10:39.625
Come on. Where is you?
01:10:41.208 --> 01:10:43.333
Come on and turn your back on me!
01:10:44.791 --> 01:10:48.625
Turn your back on me, motherfucker!
I'll cut your heart out!
01:10:49.791 --> 01:10:53.166
Come on. What's the matter? Where is you?
01:10:54.125 --> 01:10:56.041
Come on and turn your back on me.
01:10:57.041 --> 01:10:59.166
Come on, what you scared of?
01:11:00.666 --> 01:11:04.500
Turn your back on me! Come on!
01:11:10.500 --> 01:11:12.333
Coward motherfucker!
01:11:17.208 --> 01:11:18.833
Your God ain't shit, Cutler.
01:11:22.208 --> 01:11:23.625
Your God ain't shit.
01:11:39.916 --> 01:11:44.041
♪ Hello, central, give me 609 ♪
01:11:44.750 --> 01:11:48.250
♪ What it takes to get it
In these hips of mine ♪
01:11:48.333 --> 01:11:51.000
♪ Oh, you'll hear me talking to you ♪
01:11:51.583 --> 01:11:54.625
♪ I don't bite my tongue ♪
01:11:56.958 --> 01:11:59.416
♪ You wanna be my man ♪
01:11:59.500 --> 01:12:03.041
♪ You better bring it with you
When you come ♪
01:12:06.375 --> 01:12:08.916
♪ You wanna be my man ♪
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:12.958
♪ Bring it with you when you come ♪
01:12:23.916 --> 01:12:25.708
Wonderful. We got that, boys.
01:12:25.791 --> 01:12:26.875
Whoo-hoo!
01:12:26.958 --> 01:12:29.250
Good session, Ma.
We've got ourselves some winners!
01:12:29.333 --> 01:12:31.333
Slow Drag,
where you learn to play that bass at?
01:12:31.416 --> 01:12:33.250
I heard it singing. I heard you.
01:12:33.333 --> 01:12:35.093
You had that bass
jumping all over the place.
01:12:35.125 --> 01:12:36.291
I was following Toledo.
01:12:36.375 --> 01:12:38.575
Nigga got them long fingers
striding all over the piano.
01:12:38.583 --> 01:12:41.207
- I was trying to keep up with him.
- That's what you supposed to do.
01:12:41.208 --> 01:12:42.999
- Play the music.
- Cutler, you hear Slow Drag
01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:44.875
on that bass
spanking like you spank a baby?
01:12:44.958 --> 01:12:46.666
Boom!
01:12:47.291 --> 01:12:49.666
Levee, what were you doing?
Why you playing all them notes?
01:12:49.750 --> 01:12:52.958
Playing ten notes for every one you
supposed to play. Don't call for all that.
01:12:53.041 --> 01:12:55.582
You're supposed to improvise
on the theme. That's what I was doing.
01:12:55.583 --> 01:12:57.463
You're supposed
to play the song like I sing it.
01:12:57.500 --> 01:12:59.625
The way
everybody else play it.
01:12:59.708 --> 01:13:01.666
I was playing the song the way I felt it.
01:13:01.750 --> 01:13:04.791
I'm trying to sing my song
and you messing up my ear.
01:13:04.875 --> 01:13:07.750
- You call that playing music?
- Hey, I know what I'm doing.
01:13:08.583 --> 01:13:10.583
Y'all back up and leave me alone
about my music.
01:13:10.666 --> 01:13:13.458
I done told you it ain't about your music.
It's about Ma's music.
01:13:13.541 --> 01:13:15.040
That's all right. I told you what to do.
01:13:15.041 --> 01:13:17.000
What I care about what you and Cutler do?
01:13:21.333 --> 01:13:24.583
Y'all gonna fire me. I don't care.
I'll go get my own band anyway.
01:13:24.666 --> 01:13:27.083
- You keep messing with me...
- Nobody studying you.
01:13:27.166 --> 01:13:29.000
All right, nigga. You fired.
01:13:35.041 --> 01:13:37.666
You think I care about being fired?
I don't care.
01:13:37.750 --> 01:13:39.791
- You doing me a favor.
- Cutler, Levee's out.
01:13:39.875 --> 01:13:43.000
- He ain't playing in my band no more.
- I'm fired? Good!
01:13:43.083 --> 01:13:45.166
Best thing that ever happened to me.
01:13:46.500 --> 01:13:48.250
I don't need this shit.
01:14:31.791 --> 01:14:33.041
Okay.
01:15:12.833 --> 01:15:14.625
Mel will be out with your money
in a minute.
01:15:14.708 --> 01:15:16.833
That's cash money. I don't want no check.
01:15:17.375 --> 01:15:20.041
I'll see what I can do.
I can't promise you nothing.
01:15:20.125 --> 01:15:22.625
As long as it ain't no check.
I ain't got no use for a check.
01:15:22.708 --> 01:15:26.708
Listen, Ma.
I talked to Sturdyvant, and he said…
01:15:26.791 --> 01:15:28.625
Now I tried to talk him out of it,
01:15:28.708 --> 01:15:32.583
but he said the best he can do
is take $25 of your money
01:15:32.666 --> 01:15:34.625
and give it to Sylvester.
01:15:34.708 --> 01:15:36.166
Take what and do what?
01:15:37.958 --> 01:15:41.583
If I wanted the boy to have
$25 of my money, I'd give it to him.
01:15:42.791 --> 01:15:44.124
He's supposed to have his own money.
01:15:44.125 --> 01:15:45.958
He's supposed to get paid
like everybody else.
01:15:46.541 --> 01:15:48.666
You go on up there,
and you tell Sturdyvant
01:15:48.750 --> 01:15:50.708
that he better pay the boy his own money.
01:15:50.791 --> 01:15:53.416
- Yeah, I talked to him...
- Talk to him again.
01:15:53.500 --> 01:15:55.207
Tell him if he don't
pay the boy his own money,
01:15:55.208 --> 01:15:57.958
he'll never make another record
of mine again. Tell him that.
01:15:59.250 --> 01:16:02.166
You supposed to be my manager.
Always talking about sticking together.
01:16:02.250 --> 01:16:03.333
Start sticking.
01:16:06.250 --> 01:16:08.500
- Get the boy his money!
- Okay.
01:16:09.208 --> 01:16:10.375
I'll see what I can do.
01:16:41.541 --> 01:16:42.666
Hey, Ma.
01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:45.416
Is there something wrong?
01:16:45.500 --> 01:16:46.750
Is there a problem?
01:16:47.416 --> 01:16:49.541
I want you to pay the boy his money.
01:16:49.625 --> 01:16:51.166
Sure, Ma. I got it right here.
01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:55.208
It's, uh, 200 for you
and 25 for the kid, right?
01:16:58.333 --> 01:16:59.500
Irvin misunderstood me.
01:16:59.583 --> 01:17:01.708
It was all a mistake.
It was all a mistake.
01:17:02.541 --> 01:17:05.125
- A mistake, huh?
- Sure, Ma. Made a mistake.
01:17:05.791 --> 01:17:07.166
But he's paid, right?
01:17:07.250 --> 01:17:08.541
The only mistake…
01:17:09.541 --> 01:17:12.375
was when you found out
I hadn't signed the release forms.
01:17:12.458 --> 01:17:13.541
That was a mistake.
01:17:14.333 --> 01:17:16.208
Come on. Sign the forms, huh?
01:17:16.291 --> 01:17:18.625
- Dussie Mae, Sylvester, come on.
- Ma, sign the forms.
01:17:18.708 --> 01:17:20.458
Irvin, where's my car?
01:17:20.541 --> 01:17:22.791
It's right out front.
I got the keys right here.
01:17:22.875 --> 01:17:25.291
Come on and sign these forms, huh?
01:17:31.166 --> 01:17:32.333
Irvin, give me my keys.
01:17:33.250 --> 01:17:36.166
Sure, Ma. Just… sign these forms.
01:17:43.250 --> 01:17:45.130
Send them to my address.
I'll get around to 'em.
01:17:45.208 --> 01:17:47.916
Come on, Ma.
I took care of everything, didn't I?
01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:49.541
I straightened everything out.
01:17:50.375 --> 01:17:51.375
Ma?
01:17:55.208 --> 01:17:56.208
Please?
01:18:15.875 --> 01:18:17.500
And you tell Sturdyvant,
01:18:17.583 --> 01:18:20.500
any more mistakes
and I can make my records someplace else.
01:18:47.416 --> 01:18:51.250
I ain't gonna stand for it.
Ain't gonna bring me no check down here.
01:18:53.041 --> 01:18:54.801
Man give me a check last time.
What happened?
01:18:54.833 --> 01:18:56.665
We had to go
all over Chicago to get it cashed.
01:18:56.666 --> 01:18:59.500
See a nigga with a check,
first thing they think is he stole it.
01:18:59.583 --> 01:19:01.375
I ain't had no trouble cashing mine.
01:19:01.458 --> 01:19:02.916
I don't visit no whore houses.
01:19:03.000 --> 01:19:04.874
You don't know my business,
so don't start nothing.
01:19:04.875 --> 01:19:08.333
I'm tired of you as it is. I ain't
but two seconds off your ass, noway.
01:19:08.416 --> 01:19:09.625
Don't y'all start nothing now.
01:19:09.708 --> 01:19:11.957
What the hell I care what you're tired of?
I wasn't talking to you.
01:19:11.958 --> 01:19:14.208
- I was talking to this man.
- Boys, I've got your pay.
01:19:15.250 --> 01:19:18.500
Mr. Irvin told me you boys prefer cash,
and that's what I have for you.
01:19:19.083 --> 01:19:21.083
That was a good session you boys put in.
01:19:21.166 --> 01:19:22.082
There's 25 for you.
01:19:22.083 --> 01:19:24.958
Yes, sir, you boys really know
your business. Twenty-five for you.
01:19:25.041 --> 01:19:28.166
We're gonna get you
back in here real soon. Twenty-five.
01:19:28.250 --> 01:19:31.416
And have another session,
so you can make some more money.
01:19:31.500 --> 01:19:32.708
And 25 for you.
01:19:33.500 --> 01:19:35.125
Uh, Mr. Sturdyvant, sir?
01:19:37.875 --> 01:19:39.416
About them songs I give you?
01:19:41.041 --> 01:19:43.500
Oh, yeah. Oh, Levee.
Uh, I thought about it.
01:19:43.583 --> 01:19:45.583
I don't think that people will buy them.
01:19:45.666 --> 01:19:47.546
They're not the type of songs
we're looking for.
01:19:47.625 --> 01:19:50.666
Mr. Sturdyvant, sir.
I done already got my band picked out.
01:19:50.750 --> 01:19:54.291
I got some real good fellas.
They know how to play real good music.
01:19:54.375 --> 01:19:57.083
I know if the peoples
hear the music, they'll buy it.
01:19:57.166 --> 01:20:00.250
Uh, Levee, I'll be fair with you.
They're not the right songs.
01:20:00.333 --> 01:20:03.250
Mr. Sturdyvant, peoples
is tired of hearing jug-band music.
01:20:03.333 --> 01:20:06.291
The people in the big city?
They want something with some fire to it.
01:20:06.375 --> 01:20:08.458
Harlem, Detroit, DC.
01:20:08.541 --> 01:20:11.666
Okay, I'll tell you what.
I'll give you $5 apiece for 'em.
01:20:11.750 --> 01:20:16.583
I don't want $5, Mr. Sturdyvant.
I wants to record them songs like you say.
01:20:16.666 --> 01:20:18.832
Like I say, they're not
the kind of songs we're looking for.
01:20:18.833 --> 01:20:21.250
Mr. Sturdyvant,
you asked me to write them songs.
01:20:21.333 --> 01:20:23.791
Why didn't you tell me that
when I first give them to you?
01:20:23.875 --> 01:20:25.791
You told me you was
gonna let me record them.
01:20:25.875 --> 01:20:27.374
What's the difference
between then and now?
01:20:27.375 --> 01:20:30.166
- I'll pay you for your trouble.
- What's the difference?
01:20:30.250 --> 01:20:31.583
That's what I wanna know.
01:20:32.166 --> 01:20:34.041
I had my fellas play your songs.
01:20:34.125 --> 01:20:37.500
When I heard them, they didn't sound
like the kind I'm looking for right now.
01:20:37.583 --> 01:20:39.541
You got to hear me play them.
01:20:39.625 --> 01:20:42.666
You ain't heard me play them.
That's what's gonna make them sound right.
01:20:42.750 --> 01:20:44.083
Levee, I don't doubt that.
01:20:44.166 --> 01:20:47.125
It's just that, I don't think
they'd sell like Ma's records.
01:20:48.458 --> 01:20:50.208
But I'll take 'em off your hands for you.
01:20:51.916 --> 01:20:54.166
Mr. Sturdyvant, sir.
01:20:55.041 --> 01:20:58.500
I don't know what fellas
you had playing them songs,
01:20:58.583 --> 01:21:02.583
but if I could play them,
I'd set them down in the people's lap.
01:21:02.666 --> 01:21:05.416
Now, you told me
I could record them songs.
01:21:05.500 --> 01:21:06.958
There's nothing I can do about that.
01:21:07.041 --> 01:21:10.666
Like I say, it's $5 apiece.
That's what I'll pay ya.
01:21:10.750 --> 01:21:12.041
I'm doing you a favor.
01:21:12.125 --> 01:21:15.541
If you write any more, I'll help
you out and take 'em off your hands.
01:21:15.625 --> 01:21:18.750
The price is $5 apiece. Just like now.
01:21:43.250 --> 01:21:44.458
Hey, watch it, now.
01:21:45.041 --> 01:21:47.041
Shit. You stepped on my shoe.
01:21:47.125 --> 01:21:48.375
Excuse me there, Levee.
01:21:48.458 --> 01:21:49.458
Look at that.
01:21:50.500 --> 01:21:52.375
Nigga, you stepped on my shoe.
01:21:52.458 --> 01:21:54.916
- What you do that for?
- Said I'm sorry.
01:21:55.708 --> 01:21:59.541
You gonna step on my goddamn shoe.
You done fucked up my shoe.
01:22:00.875 --> 01:22:02.666
Look at what you done to my shoe, nigga.
01:22:03.458 --> 01:22:05.958
I ain't step on your shoe.
What you wanna step on my shoe for?
01:22:06.041 --> 01:22:07.040
Man said he was sorry.
01:22:07.041 --> 01:22:10.125
How the hell he gonna be sorry
when he done ruined my shoe?
01:22:10.791 --> 01:22:12.083
Come talk about sorry.
01:22:12.166 --> 01:22:14.708
Nigga, you stepped on my shoe,
you know that?
01:22:16.791 --> 01:22:20.708
- See what you done done?
- I said, "Excuse me." Now it's over.
01:22:20.791 --> 01:22:23.666
- What you want me to do, huh?
- Wanna go and fuck up my shoe like that.
01:22:23.750 --> 01:22:26.208
I ain't step on your shoe.
Huh? Look at this.
01:22:26.291 --> 01:22:29.666
- Okay, come on, now.
- Naw, naw. Look at what you done.
01:22:30.250 --> 01:22:32.541
Look at that. That's my shoe.
01:22:32.625 --> 01:22:35.458
You did it. You did it!
01:22:35.541 --> 01:22:37.000
You fucked up my shoe.
01:22:37.666 --> 01:22:40.750
You stepped on my shoe
with them raggedy-ass clodhoppers.
01:22:40.833 --> 01:22:43.833
Ain't nobody studying
about you and your shoe.
01:22:44.375 --> 01:22:46.250
I said, "Excuse me."
01:22:46.333 --> 01:22:49.333
If you can't accept that,
then the hell with it.
01:22:50.958 --> 01:22:52.208
What you want me to do?
01:22:54.041 --> 01:22:55.875
You stepped on my shoe.
01:23:01.750 --> 01:23:04.500
He… He stepped on my shoe. He did.
01:23:05.958 --> 01:23:08.833
Honest. Cutler, he stepped on my shoe.
01:23:08.916 --> 01:23:11.375
What he do that for?
Toledo, what you do that for?
01:23:14.083 --> 01:23:15.083
Cutler, help.
01:23:16.166 --> 01:23:17.625
He stepped on my shoe.
01:23:17.708 --> 01:23:18.708
Cutler!
01:23:20.833 --> 01:23:22.625
It's okay, Toledo. I'll help you.
01:23:23.208 --> 01:23:24.208
Come on, Toledo.
01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:36.000
Oh, no.
01:23:47.625 --> 01:23:48.833
Don't…
01:23:53.708 --> 01:23:55.708
Don't look at me like that.
01:23:58.666 --> 01:24:00.250
Don't look at me like that.
01:25:29.416 --> 01:25:32.583
♪ You can swing it, you can bring it ♪
01:25:32.666 --> 01:25:35.791
♪ You can dance at any hall ♪
01:25:35.875 --> 01:25:39.208
♪ You can slide across the floor ♪
01:25:39.291 --> 01:25:42.291
♪ You'll never have to stall
Oh, my jelly roll ♪
01:25:42.375 --> 01:25:43.833
♪ My jelly roll ♪
01:25:43.916 --> 01:25:45.375
♪ Oh, my jelly roll ♪
01:25:45.458 --> 01:25:47.041
♪ My jelly roll ♪
01:25:47.125 --> 01:25:49.583
♪ Oh, my jelly roll ♪
01:25:49.666 --> 01:25:52.333
♪ Please, baby, let me have it all ♪
01:26:53.000 --> 01:26:56.375
♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
01:26:56.458 --> 01:27:00.750
♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
01:27:04.250 --> 01:27:08.291
♪ My bell rang this morning ♪
01:27:08.375 --> 01:27:12.291
♪ Didn't know which way to go ♪
01:27:15.541 --> 01:27:19.166
♪ I had the blues so bad ♪
01:27:19.250 --> 01:27:23.875
♪ I sit right down on my floor ♪
01:27:27.416 --> 01:27:30.916
♪ I felt like going on the mountain ♪
01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:35.166
♪ Jumping over in the sea ♪
01:27:38.500 --> 01:27:42.041
♪ I felt like going in the mountain ♪
01:27:42.125 --> 01:27:46.250
♪ Jumping over in the sea ♪
01:27:49.208 --> 01:27:52.708
♪ When my daddy stay out late ♪
01:27:52.791 --> 01:27:57.041
♪ He don't care a thing for me ♪
01:27:57.065 --> 01:28:08.065
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