Every time I play
this number I think of old
Big
Bill
Brunsley, old
Tampa
Red, old
Memphis
Slim,
old
Leroy
Carter, and old
Scrapper
Blackwell,
and don't forget the little dog
Tampa
Red had.
He's
in the picture with us too.
That little dog used to drink more
whiskey than
Tampa
Red did.
Yeah,
we all made a picture together one time.
One night they told me to say, old big
Bill
Bruiser told me say,
never worry about nobody.
Say you play what you play
and let the other man play what he play.
Ain't nobody plays what you play,
because you play your own.
That's what I like him for today.
He's gone but
God bless him
wherever he's at.
So I used to play this piece all the time, yeah,
and old
Big
Bill
would go get his guitar. I used to call this thing,
when I first started learning how to play piano,
Lover's
Land.
That was something.
It was
Lover's
Land too, but when I'd get to playing it,
everybody started oozing out one by one,
going somewhere.
And I used to like to hear old
Big
Bill
when he'd get down with me on it
and he'd start making that guitar
sound like this.
That's the way it used to
sound.
Boy, that's a sound.
Only guitars could make that sound,
you know.
And then I'd put the little groovy to it like this,
going out now, going home now, going
get on down the line now.