1 00:01:20,625 --> 00:01:23,833 My bell rang this morning 2 00:01:24,541 --> 00:01:27,666 Didn't know which way to go 3 00:01:33,250 --> 00:01:36,333 My bell rang this morning 4 00:01:37,208 --> 00:01:40,750 Didn't know which way to go 5 00:01:40,833 --> 00:01:42,833 Yeah, Ma! 6 00:01:42,916 --> 00:01:43,916 Yeah, baby! 7 00:01:44,958 --> 00:01:48,208 I had the blues so bad 8 00:01:49,166 --> 00:01:53,166 I sat down on my floor 9 00:01:58,333 --> 00:02:00,958 Daddy, Daddy 10 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:04,958 Please come home to me 11 00:02:10,583 --> 00:02:13,083 Daddy, Daddy 12 00:02:13,625 --> 00:02:17,625 Please come home to me 13 00:02:21,916 --> 00:02:24,708 I'm on my way 14 00:02:25,833 --> 00:02:30,416 Crazy as I can be 15 00:03:13,333 --> 00:03:15,500 Daddy, Daddy 16 00:03:16,250 --> 00:03:19,708 Please come home to me 17 00:03:23,833 --> 00:03:26,583 Daddy, Daddy 18 00:03:26,666 --> 00:03:28,750 Please come home to me 19 00:03:33,083 --> 00:03:35,625 I'm on my way 20 00:03:36,416 --> 00:03:39,875 Crazy as I can be 21 00:03:52,958 --> 00:03:53,958 Hey 22 00:03:54,791 --> 00:03:55,791 Hey, Daddy 23 00:03:57,291 --> 00:03:59,958 Please come home to me 24 00:04:01,541 --> 00:04:02,583 Hey 25 00:04:02,666 --> 00:04:04,083 Oh, yeah! 26 00:04:04,166 --> 00:04:07,000 I'm on my way 27 00:04:07,583 --> 00:04:11,000 Crazy as I can be 28 00:05:00,375 --> 00:05:02,583 Testing, testing, one, two, three. 29 00:05:02,666 --> 00:05:04,750 Testing, one, two, three. 30 00:05:04,833 --> 00:05:07,416 - Testing, testing, one, two-- - Got that list? 31 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:09,375 Uh, I got it. Don't worry about it. 32 00:05:09,458 --> 00:05:11,583 I'm holding you responsible. You keep her in line. 33 00:05:11,666 --> 00:05:14,791 I'm not putting up with any shenanigans. You hear, Irv? Irv? 34 00:05:16,583 --> 00:05:17,583 Irv? 35 00:05:19,291 --> 00:05:20,291 Irv! 36 00:05:21,125 --> 00:05:23,958 Not putting up with any Royal Highness, Queen of the Blues bullshit. 37 00:05:24,041 --> 00:05:27,250 Mother of the Blues, Mel. Mother of the Blues. 38 00:05:48,416 --> 00:05:51,166 Heh. You should've heard Levee at the club last night, Toledo. 39 00:05:51,250 --> 00:05:53,041 Trying to talk to that gal Ma had with her. 40 00:05:53,125 --> 00:05:56,000 You ain't got to tell me. I know how Levee do. 41 00:05:56,083 --> 00:05:58,708 Levee tried talking to her and got his feelings hurt. 42 00:05:59,416 --> 00:06:00,666 I want you to get her in here, 43 00:06:00,750 --> 00:06:02,833 record those songs on that list, and get her out. 44 00:06:02,916 --> 00:06:03,750 Just like clockwork. 45 00:06:03,833 --> 00:06:05,458 Like clockwork, Mel. 46 00:06:05,541 --> 00:06:08,291 And that horn player, the one who gave me those songs, 47 00:06:08,375 --> 00:06:09,833 is he going to be here today? 48 00:06:09,916 --> 00:06:12,583 - I want to hear more of that sound. - How you boys doing, Cutler? 49 00:06:12,666 --> 00:06:14,250 Fine, Mr. Irvin. 50 00:06:14,333 --> 00:06:15,708 Where's Ma? She with ya? 51 00:06:15,791 --> 00:06:16,833 I don't know. 52 00:06:16,916 --> 00:06:18,876 She told us to be here at 1:00. That's all I know. 53 00:06:19,750 --> 00:06:21,208 Where's the, uh, horn player? 54 00:06:21,291 --> 00:06:24,583 Levee's supposed to be here same as we is. I reckon he'll be here in a minute. 55 00:06:37,125 --> 00:06:39,916 Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, Chicago. 56 00:06:40,625 --> 00:06:42,945 He ain't from 'round here now. 57 00:06:56,125 --> 00:06:59,083 Come on in. I'll get you fed and ready to make some music. 58 00:06:59,166 --> 00:07:00,041 Right. 59 00:07:00,125 --> 00:07:01,250 Right down the hall. 60 00:07:02,208 --> 00:07:03,968 Where's Ma? How come she isn't with the band? 61 00:07:04,041 --> 00:07:07,500 Everything's under control, Mel. I got everything under control. 62 00:07:08,083 --> 00:07:10,625 Cutler, here's the list of songs we're going to record. 63 00:07:14,458 --> 00:07:17,166 Why isn't she here? And where's that horn player? 64 00:07:28,708 --> 00:07:30,458 What we got there, Toledo? 65 00:07:30,541 --> 00:07:31,791 Eh, we got, uh... 66 00:07:35,416 --> 00:07:38,166 Mmm. "Prove It on Me," "Hear Me Talking to You," 67 00:07:38,250 --> 00:07:40,583 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Moonshine Blues." 68 00:07:40,666 --> 00:07:42,500 Oh. Them ain't the songs Ma told me. 69 00:07:42,583 --> 00:07:45,541 I wouldn't worry about it if I was you. Ma'll get it straightened out. 70 00:07:45,625 --> 00:07:46,833 "Moonshine Blues." 71 00:07:46,916 --> 00:07:49,708 That's one of them songs Bessie Smith sang, I believes. 72 00:07:49,791 --> 00:07:51,750 Eh, Slow Drag's right. I wouldn't worry about it. 73 00:07:51,833 --> 00:07:54,083 Levee know what time he's supposed to be here? 74 00:07:54,166 --> 00:07:56,708 Levee left the hotel talking about he was gonna buy shoes. 75 00:07:56,791 --> 00:07:58,831 Says it's the first time he beat you shooting craps. 76 00:07:59,791 --> 00:08:02,625 - I ain't thinking about no four dollars. - Levee sure was. 77 00:08:02,708 --> 00:08:03,809 Let me get a hit of that. 78 00:08:03,833 --> 00:08:05,351 That four dollars liked to burn a hole in his pocket. 79 00:08:05,375 --> 00:08:06,875 He's supposed to be here at 1:00. 80 00:08:07,458 --> 00:08:10,458 - That's some good Chicago bourbon. - Look here, Cutler! 81 00:08:11,125 --> 00:08:14,166 - I got me some shoes. - Ooh! 82 00:08:14,250 --> 00:08:16,541 Nigga, I ain't studying you. 83 00:08:16,625 --> 00:08:19,041 How much you pay for something like that, Levee? 84 00:08:19,125 --> 00:08:21,666 Eleven dollars. Four dollars of it belong to Cutler. 85 00:08:21,750 --> 00:08:24,791 Ooh! Levee say if it wasn't for Cutler, he wouldn't have no new shoes. 86 00:08:24,875 --> 00:08:26,666 I ain't thinking about Levee or his shoes. 87 00:08:26,750 --> 00:08:29,291 Let's get ready to rehearse. 88 00:08:29,375 --> 00:08:32,375 I'm with you on that score. Don't want to be here all night. 89 00:08:32,458 --> 00:08:34,138 Ain't but four songs on the list. 90 00:08:34,208 --> 00:08:35,750 Last time there was six songs. 91 00:08:35,833 --> 00:08:38,875 Yeah. Now I'm ready. 92 00:08:41,041 --> 00:08:43,125 I can play some good music now. 93 00:08:45,833 --> 00:08:48,750 Damn! They done changed things around. 94 00:08:48,833 --> 00:08:50,666 Don't never leave well enough alone. 95 00:08:50,750 --> 00:08:55,125 Yeah, everything changing all the time. Even the air you breathing change. 96 00:08:55,208 --> 00:08:59,916 Yeah, you got, uh, monoxide, hydrogen, changing all the time. 97 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,250 Skin changing. Different molecules. Everything. 98 00:09:03,333 --> 00:09:05,000 Nigga, what is you talking about? 99 00:09:05,083 --> 00:09:08,000 I'm talking about the room, I ain't talking about no skin and air. 100 00:09:08,083 --> 00:09:11,250 I'm talking about something I can see. I ain't talking about no molecules. 101 00:09:11,333 --> 00:09:13,934 I know what you talking about. You don't know what I'm talking about. 102 00:09:13,958 --> 00:09:17,625 That door. You see that door? That's what I'm talking about. 103 00:09:17,708 --> 00:09:19,000 Door wasn't there before. 104 00:09:19,083 --> 00:09:23,125 You wouldn't know your right from left. And damn if that door wasn't there. 105 00:09:23,208 --> 00:09:25,351 If you talking about they done switched rooms, you right. 106 00:09:25,375 --> 00:09:27,017 But don't go telling me that door wasn't there. 107 00:09:27,041 --> 00:09:29,351 Damn the door and let's do this. I want to get out of here. 108 00:09:29,375 --> 00:09:32,458 Toledo started all that about the door. I'm just saying that things change. 109 00:09:32,541 --> 00:09:35,958 What you think I was saying? Things change. The air and everything. 110 00:09:36,041 --> 00:09:38,250 Now you gonna say you was saying it. 111 00:09:38,333 --> 00:09:40,791 You gonna fit two propositions on the same track, 112 00:09:40,875 --> 00:09:43,083 run them into each other, and 'cause they crash, 113 00:09:43,166 --> 00:09:44,875 you gonna say it's the same train? 114 00:09:44,958 --> 00:09:47,625 Now this nigga talking about trains. 115 00:09:47,708 --> 00:09:52,541 We done went from the air to the skin to the door and now trains. 116 00:09:52,625 --> 00:09:56,208 Toledo, I'd just like to be inside your head for five minutes 117 00:09:56,291 --> 00:09:57,625 just to see how you think. 118 00:09:57,708 --> 00:10:00,375 You done got more shit piled up and mixed up in there 119 00:10:00,458 --> 00:10:01,892 than the devil got sinners. 120 00:10:01,916 --> 00:10:03,750 You been reading too many goddamn books. 121 00:10:03,833 --> 00:10:05,791 What you care about how much I read? 122 00:10:06,833 --> 00:10:08,517 I'm gonna ignore you 'cause you're ignorant. 123 00:10:08,541 --> 00:10:10,541 - Let's rehearse the music. - All right. 124 00:10:10,625 --> 00:10:12,250 You ain't gotta rehearse that. 125 00:10:12,333 --> 00:10:14,208 Ain't nothing but old jug-band music. 126 00:10:14,291 --> 00:10:15,931 They need one of them jug bands for this. 127 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,040 Don't make no difference to me, long as we get paid. 128 00:10:18,083 --> 00:10:20,500 That ain't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about art. 129 00:10:20,583 --> 00:10:22,916 What's drawing got to do with it? 130 00:10:23,541 --> 00:10:25,458 Where you get this nigga from, Cutler? 131 00:10:25,541 --> 00:10:27,666 He sound like one of them Alabama niggas. 132 00:10:27,750 --> 00:10:29,750 It's Slow Drag, all right. 133 00:10:29,833 --> 00:10:31,208 Just play the piece, nigga. 134 00:10:31,291 --> 00:10:34,416 If you want to be one of them, uh, what you call virtuosos or something, 135 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:36,125 you're in the wrong place. 136 00:10:36,208 --> 00:10:39,000 You ain't no King Oliver or Buddy Bolden. 137 00:10:39,083 --> 00:10:41,916 You're just an old trumpet player come a dime a dozen. 138 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,000 Talking about art. 139 00:10:43,041 --> 00:10:45,625 What is you? I don't see your name in lights. 140 00:10:45,708 --> 00:10:49,000 I just play the piece. Whatever they want. I don't criticize other people's music. 141 00:10:49,583 --> 00:10:51,833 I ain't like you, Cutler. I got talent. 142 00:10:51,916 --> 00:10:53,125 - Oh, shit. - Ooh. 143 00:10:53,208 --> 00:10:55,625 Me and this horn, we's tight. 144 00:10:55,708 --> 00:10:57,916 If my daddy had a knowed I was gonna turn out like this, 145 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,375 he woulda named me Gabriel. 146 00:10:59,458 --> 00:11:00,583 Oh! 147 00:11:00,666 --> 00:11:02,833 I'm gonna get me a band and make me some records. 148 00:11:03,666 --> 00:11:05,750 I done give Mr. Sturdyvant some of my songs I wrote, 149 00:11:05,833 --> 00:11:07,976 and he say he gonna let me record them when I get my band together. 150 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,333 I just gotta finish the last part of this song. 151 00:11:10,416 --> 00:11:13,833 I knows how to play real music, not this old jug-band shit. 152 00:11:13,916 --> 00:11:14,750 I got style. 153 00:11:14,833 --> 00:11:16,500 Oh, everybody got style. 154 00:11:16,583 --> 00:11:19,708 Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. 155 00:11:19,791 --> 00:11:21,166 Everybody got it. 156 00:11:21,250 --> 00:11:23,000 Everybody can't play like I do. 157 00:11:23,083 --> 00:11:24,916 Everybody can't have their own band. 158 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,400 Until you get your own band where you can play what you want, 159 00:11:27,458 --> 00:11:29,041 play the piece and stop complaining. 160 00:11:29,125 --> 00:11:32,041 I told you when you came on here, this ain't none of them hot bands. 161 00:11:32,125 --> 00:11:35,541 This is an accompaniment band. You play Ma's music when you're here. 162 00:11:35,625 --> 00:11:37,250 I got sense enough to know that. 163 00:11:37,333 --> 00:11:39,226 I could look at y'all and see what kind of band it is. 164 00:11:39,250 --> 00:11:41,410 I could look at Toledo and see what kind of band it is. 165 00:11:41,458 --> 00:11:44,833 Oh, now Toledo ain't said nothing to you. Don't get Toledo started now. 166 00:11:44,916 --> 00:11:46,958 Is you all gonna rehearse the music or ain't you? 167 00:11:47,041 --> 00:11:49,041 How many times you done play them songs? 168 00:11:49,125 --> 00:11:51,750 - What you gotta rehearse for? - This a recording session. 169 00:11:51,833 --> 00:11:53,684 I want to get it right the first time and get on out of here. 170 00:11:53,708 --> 00:11:55,833 Well, y'all go on and rehearse, then. 171 00:11:55,916 --> 00:11:58,708 I'm going to finish this song for Mr. Sturdyvant. 172 00:12:02,375 --> 00:12:05,000 Levee, I don't want no shit. You rehearse like everybody else. 173 00:12:05,083 --> 00:12:06,791 You in the band just like everybody else. 174 00:12:06,875 --> 00:12:09,083 Mr. Sturdyvant gonna have to wait. It's the band's time. 175 00:12:09,166 --> 00:12:12,333 I'm ready if you want to rehearse. I said there ain't no point in it. 176 00:12:12,416 --> 00:12:13,875 Ma ain't here. What's the point? 177 00:12:13,958 --> 00:12:18,541 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." One, two, you know what to do. 178 00:12:27,666 --> 00:12:31,208 No, no, no. No, no. We ain't doing it that way. 179 00:12:31,291 --> 00:12:33,541 We doing my version. That's what Mr. Irvin told me. 180 00:12:33,625 --> 00:12:35,000 Say it's on the list he gave. 181 00:12:35,083 --> 00:12:36,351 Let me worry about what's on the list. 182 00:12:36,375 --> 00:12:38,375 What sense it make to rehearse the wrong version? 183 00:12:38,458 --> 00:12:40,218 You supposed to rehearse what you gonna play. 184 00:12:40,291 --> 00:12:42,184 - That's the way they taught me. - That's what I'm trying to say. 185 00:12:42,208 --> 00:12:43,851 You trying to tell me what we is and ain't gonna play, 186 00:12:43,875 --> 00:12:45,351 and that ain't none of your business. 187 00:12:45,375 --> 00:12:47,208 Your business is to play what I say. 188 00:12:47,291 --> 00:12:48,291 Oh. I see now. 189 00:12:48,333 --> 00:12:50,791 You done got jealous 'cause Mr. Irvin using my version. 190 00:12:50,875 --> 00:12:53,000 What I got to be jealous of you about? 191 00:12:53,083 --> 00:12:55,267 The day I get jealous of you, I may as well lay down and die. 192 00:12:55,291 --> 00:12:58,000 Levee started all that 'cause he too lazy to rehearse. 193 00:12:58,083 --> 00:13:01,000 Where's the paper? Look at the paper. See what it say. 194 00:13:01,083 --> 00:13:02,226 Gonna tell me I'm too lazy to rehearse. 195 00:13:02,250 --> 00:13:03,767 We ain't talking about the paper. 196 00:13:03,791 --> 00:13:06,031 We talking about you understanding where you fit in here. 197 00:13:06,083 --> 00:13:08,625 - You play what I say. - I don't care what you play. 198 00:13:08,708 --> 00:13:11,708 Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up. I don't care what you play. 199 00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:13,583 You boys know what's keeping Ma? 200 00:13:14,583 --> 00:13:16,083 Uh... 201 00:13:16,166 --> 00:13:19,000 Can't say, Mr. Irvin. She'll be along directly, I reckon. 202 00:13:19,083 --> 00:13:20,208 Well, you go ahead. 203 00:13:20,291 --> 00:13:23,541 Mr. Irvin... About these songs... 204 00:13:24,208 --> 00:13:25,375 Whatever's on the list. 205 00:13:25,458 --> 00:13:26,978 I'm talking about this "Black Bottom." 206 00:13:27,333 --> 00:13:29,833 - It's on the list. - Yes, sir, I know it's on the list. 207 00:13:29,916 --> 00:13:32,756 But I just want to know which version. We got two versions of that song. 208 00:13:32,791 --> 00:13:35,500 Oh, Levee's version. We're using Levee's arrangement. 209 00:13:36,416 --> 00:13:39,056 Okay, got that straight. Now about this "Moonshine Blues." 210 00:13:39,125 --> 00:13:41,750 Yeah, we'll work it out with Ma, Cutler. 211 00:13:41,833 --> 00:13:44,208 You boys just rehearse whatever's on that list. 212 00:13:46,375 --> 00:13:48,333 See, I told you! 213 00:13:48,416 --> 00:13:51,708 It don't mean nothing when I say it. You got to wait for Mr. Irvin to say it. 214 00:13:51,791 --> 00:13:52,875 I told you the way it is. 215 00:13:52,958 --> 00:13:55,416 The sooner you understand it ain't what you say, 216 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:58,250 or what Mr. Irvin say, it's what Ma say that count. 217 00:13:58,333 --> 00:14:00,708 I don't care what you play. Don't matter to me. 218 00:14:00,791 --> 00:14:03,333 Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up. I don't care what you play. 219 00:14:03,416 --> 00:14:06,250 Thank you. All right, let's, uh, play this "Hear Me Talking to You" 220 00:14:06,333 --> 00:14:08,434 till we figure out what's going on with this "Black Bottom." 221 00:14:08,458 --> 00:14:12,291 One, two, you know what to do. 222 00:14:49,541 --> 00:14:52,333 Don't nobody say when it comes to Ma. She gonna do what she wanna do. 223 00:14:52,416 --> 00:14:54,500 Mr. Irvin the one putting out the record. 224 00:14:54,583 --> 00:14:55,934 He gonna put out what she want him to put out. 225 00:14:55,958 --> 00:14:58,517 Levee confused about who the boss is. He don't know Ma's the boss. 226 00:14:58,541 --> 00:15:00,500 You know how many records she sold in New York? 227 00:15:00,583 --> 00:15:03,666 And you know what's in New York? Harlem. Harlem's in New York. 228 00:15:03,750 --> 00:15:05,226 So what if they didn't sell in New York? 229 00:15:05,250 --> 00:15:07,142 We packed them in in Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta. 230 00:15:07,166 --> 00:15:10,291 We ain't in Memphis. We in Chicago. We in a recording session. 231 00:15:10,375 --> 00:15:12,625 Mr. Sturdyvant and Mr. Irvin say what's gonna be here. 232 00:15:28,541 --> 00:15:30,166 You heard what the man told you. 233 00:15:30,250 --> 00:15:32,875 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Levee's arrangement. 234 00:15:32,958 --> 00:15:34,875 There you go. That's what he told you. 235 00:15:34,958 --> 00:15:37,125 I don't know why y'all want to pick with me about it. 236 00:15:37,208 --> 00:15:39,666 I'm with Slow Drag. Let's go and get it rehearsed. 237 00:15:39,750 --> 00:15:42,500 All right, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Levee's version. 238 00:15:42,583 --> 00:15:45,000 How that first part go again there, Lev? 239 00:15:45,083 --> 00:15:46,083 It go like this. 240 00:15:52,125 --> 00:15:53,708 That's to get the people's attention. 241 00:15:53,791 --> 00:15:56,583 That's when you and Slow Drag come in with the rhythm, 242 00:15:56,666 --> 00:15:58,333 me and Cutler play on the breaks. 243 00:15:58,416 --> 00:16:00,351 The man asked how the part go. Ain't ask for all that. 244 00:16:00,375 --> 00:16:01,750 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." 245 00:16:02,333 --> 00:16:04,750 One, two, you know what to do. 246 00:16:13,125 --> 00:16:17,791 Hey, hey, hey. Y'all gotta keep up now. You playing in the wrong time. 247 00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:20,666 Will you let us play this song? We been playing before you was born. 248 00:16:20,750 --> 00:16:22,291 Trying to tell us how to play. 249 00:16:22,375 --> 00:16:24,000 All right. Let's try again. 250 00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:25,625 Wait a minute. Let me fix this. 251 00:16:25,708 --> 00:16:27,333 This string starting to unravel, 252 00:16:27,416 --> 00:16:29,875 and you know I want to play Levee's music right. 253 00:16:29,958 --> 00:16:32,517 If you was any kind of musician, you'd take care of your instrument. 254 00:16:32,541 --> 00:16:34,125 Keep it in tip-top order. 255 00:16:34,208 --> 00:16:37,208 If you was any kind of musician, I'd let you be in my band. 256 00:16:37,291 --> 00:16:38,666 - Shit. - Damn! 257 00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:41,708 Slow Drag, watch them big-ass shoes you got. 258 00:16:41,791 --> 00:16:43,250 Ain't nobody done nothing to you. 259 00:16:43,333 --> 00:16:44,250 You done stepped on my shoes. 260 00:16:44,333 --> 00:16:45,833 Then move them out the way. 261 00:16:45,916 --> 00:16:47,516 You was in my way. I wasn't in your way. 262 00:16:47,541 --> 00:16:50,291 Any man who takes a whole week's pay and puts it on some shoes, 263 00:16:50,375 --> 00:16:51,625 understand what I mean, 264 00:16:51,708 --> 00:16:53,958 what you walk around on the ground with, is a fool. 265 00:16:54,041 --> 00:16:55,201 And I don't mind telling him. 266 00:16:55,250 --> 00:16:56,833 What difference it make to you? 267 00:16:56,916 --> 00:16:59,083 Ain't nothing wrong with having nice shoes. 268 00:16:59,958 --> 00:17:01,625 - Look at Toledo. - Ooh! 269 00:17:02,833 --> 00:17:04,041 What? 270 00:17:06,208 --> 00:17:07,541 What was that about Toledo? 271 00:17:08,125 --> 00:17:11,041 Nigga got them clodhoppers. Old brogans. 272 00:17:11,125 --> 00:17:13,375 He ain't nothing but a sharecropper. 273 00:17:14,250 --> 00:17:15,416 Hey, Slow Drag. 274 00:17:17,166 --> 00:17:18,541 Play something for me. 275 00:17:23,166 --> 00:17:26,291 A man gotta have some shoes to dance like this. 276 00:17:27,333 --> 00:17:30,583 He can't dance like this with them clodhoppers Toledo got. 277 00:17:30,666 --> 00:17:33,791 That's the trouble with colored folks, always looking to have a good time. 278 00:17:33,875 --> 00:17:35,851 More niggas have got killed trying to have a good time 279 00:17:35,875 --> 00:17:37,458 than God got ways to count. 280 00:17:38,250 --> 00:17:41,875 When the world goes wrong And I got the blues 281 00:17:41,958 --> 00:17:45,333 What the hell having a good time mean? That's what I want to know. 282 00:17:45,416 --> 00:17:47,541 Got to be more to life than just having a good time. 283 00:17:47,625 --> 00:17:49,958 If there ain't, then this is a piss-poor life we're living 284 00:17:50,041 --> 00:17:51,833 if that's all there is to be got out of it. 285 00:17:53,541 --> 00:17:56,000 Niggas been having a good time before you was born, 286 00:17:56,083 --> 00:17:58,583 and they gonna keep having a good time after you gone. 287 00:17:58,666 --> 00:18:01,458 Nobody talking about making the lot for the colored man 288 00:18:01,541 --> 00:18:02,958 better for him here in America. 289 00:18:03,041 --> 00:18:05,458 Ain't nobody thinking about what kind of life, 290 00:18:05,541 --> 00:18:07,059 the world they gonna leave for the young'uns. 291 00:18:07,083 --> 00:18:10,208 It's just, "Show me a good time. That's all I want." 292 00:18:10,291 --> 00:18:12,333 Aw. It just makes me sick. 293 00:18:12,416 --> 00:18:14,125 Good times is what makes life worth living. 294 00:18:14,208 --> 00:18:15,083 Uh-huh. 295 00:18:15,166 --> 00:18:18,208 Hey, I know how to have a good time as well as the next man. 296 00:18:18,708 --> 00:18:20,166 Yeah. 297 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. 298 00:18:23,750 --> 00:18:26,125 I said, the colored man ought to be doing more 299 00:18:26,208 --> 00:18:28,458 than trying to have a good time all the time. 300 00:18:30,666 --> 00:18:32,458 Well, what is you doing, nigga? 301 00:18:32,541 --> 00:18:34,208 You're talking all them highfalutin ideas 302 00:18:34,291 --> 00:18:36,171 about making a better world for the colored man. 303 00:18:36,208 --> 00:18:37,875 What is you doing to make it better? 304 00:18:37,958 --> 00:18:42,000 You playing the music and looking for your next piece of pussy same as we is. 305 00:18:42,083 --> 00:18:43,583 What is you doing? 306 00:18:43,666 --> 00:18:46,750 It ain't just me, fool. I said everybody. 307 00:18:46,833 --> 00:18:50,250 You think I'm gonna solve the colored man's problem all by myself? 308 00:18:50,333 --> 00:18:53,083 I said "we." You understand that? 309 00:18:53,166 --> 00:18:56,250 We? That's every living colored man in the world 310 00:18:56,333 --> 00:18:59,000 got to do his share, got to do his part. 311 00:18:59,083 --> 00:19:01,416 I ain't talking about what I'm gonna do or you gonna do, 312 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:04,083 or Cutler, Slow Drag, anybody else. 313 00:19:04,166 --> 00:19:08,291 I'm talking about what all of us gonna do together. 314 00:19:08,375 --> 00:19:10,250 That's what I'm talking about, nigga. 315 00:19:11,666 --> 00:19:13,750 Well, why ain't you just say that then? 316 00:19:16,125 --> 00:19:19,166 Toledo, I don't know why you waste your time with this fool. 317 00:19:19,791 --> 00:19:21,351 I ain't gonna be too many more of your fools. 318 00:19:21,375 --> 00:19:22,875 Ain't nobody studying you. 319 00:19:22,958 --> 00:19:25,416 All right, I ain't nobody. Don't pay me no mind. 320 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:27,000 Ain't nobody but the devil. 321 00:19:27,083 --> 00:19:28,625 There you go. That's who I am. 322 00:19:28,708 --> 00:19:30,434 I'm the devil. I ain't nothing but the devil. 323 00:19:30,458 --> 00:19:33,333 I know a man sold his soul to the devil. 324 00:19:33,416 --> 00:19:36,916 Name of Eliza Cotter. Lived in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. 325 00:19:37,958 --> 00:19:40,791 Devil came by and he upped and sold him his soul. 326 00:19:40,875 --> 00:19:43,958 Nigga, how you know this man done sold his soul to the devil? 327 00:19:44,041 --> 00:19:46,208 You talking some old-woman foolishness. 328 00:19:46,291 --> 00:19:48,583 Everybody know. It wasn't no secret. 329 00:19:48,666 --> 00:19:51,066 He went around working for the devil and everybody knowed it. 330 00:19:51,125 --> 00:19:53,708 Carried him a bag. One of them carpet bags. 331 00:19:53,791 --> 00:19:56,333 Folks say he carried the devil's papers and whatnot 332 00:19:56,416 --> 00:19:58,750 where he put your fingerprint on the paper with blood. 333 00:19:58,833 --> 00:20:00,553 Where he at now? That's what I want to know. 334 00:20:00,625 --> 00:20:02,875 He can have my whole handprint if he want to. 335 00:20:02,958 --> 00:20:04,625 Showed up one day all fancied out 336 00:20:04,708 --> 00:20:07,416 in the finest clothes you ever seen on a colored man. 337 00:20:08,166 --> 00:20:11,166 Pocketful of money, just living the life of a rich man. 338 00:20:11,833 --> 00:20:14,000 Had him a string of women he run around with 339 00:20:14,083 --> 00:20:15,666 and throw his money away on. 340 00:20:15,750 --> 00:20:18,166 One of the fellas of them gals he was messing with 341 00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:20,625 got fixed on him wrong and Eliza killed him. 342 00:20:20,708 --> 00:20:22,625 And laughed about it. 343 00:20:22,708 --> 00:20:25,000 Sheriff come and arrest him and let him go. 344 00:20:25,083 --> 00:20:27,333 Trial come up. Judge cut him loose. 345 00:20:27,416 --> 00:20:28,250 Cut him loose 346 00:20:28,333 --> 00:20:30,666 and give him a bottle of whiskey. 347 00:20:30,750 --> 00:20:32,601 Folks ask what done happened to make him change, 348 00:20:32,625 --> 00:20:35,875 and he tell them straight-out he done sold his soul to the devil 349 00:20:35,958 --> 00:20:37,684 and asked them if they wanted to sell theirs, too, 350 00:20:37,708 --> 00:20:39,416 'cause he could arrange it for them. 351 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:42,375 Hold on. What happened to this fella? That's what I want to know. 352 00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:45,250 Last I heard, he headed up north with that bag of his, 353 00:20:45,333 --> 00:20:47,208 handing out $100 bills on the spot 354 00:20:47,291 --> 00:20:49,625 to whoever wanted to sign on with the devil. 355 00:20:49,708 --> 00:20:51,958 Hmm. I sure wish I knew where he went. 356 00:20:52,041 --> 00:20:53,517 He wouldn't have to convince me long. 357 00:20:53,541 --> 00:20:55,125 Hell, I'd even help him sign people up. 358 00:20:55,208 --> 00:20:59,166 Nigga, God gonna strike you down with that blasphemy you talking. 359 00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:01,875 Oh, shit. God don't mean nothing to me. 360 00:21:01,958 --> 00:21:04,458 Let him strike me. Here I am, standing right here. 361 00:21:04,541 --> 00:21:06,017 What you talking about he gonna strike me? 362 00:21:06,041 --> 00:21:08,750 Here I am. Let him strike me. I ain't scared of him. 363 00:21:08,833 --> 00:21:10,625 All right. You gonna be sorry. 364 00:21:10,708 --> 00:21:12,308 You gonna fix yourself to have bad luck. 365 00:21:12,333 --> 00:21:13,809 Ain't nothing gonna work out for you. 366 00:21:13,833 --> 00:21:15,250 - Bad luck? - Yeah. 367 00:21:15,333 --> 00:21:16,833 What I care about bad luck? 368 00:21:17,708 --> 00:21:19,208 You talking simple. 369 00:21:19,291 --> 00:21:21,250 I ain't had nothing but bad luck all my life. 370 00:21:21,333 --> 00:21:24,250 Couldn't get no worse. What the hell I care about bad luck? 371 00:21:24,333 --> 00:21:26,083 I eat it every day for breakfast. 372 00:21:26,166 --> 00:21:29,041 You dumber than I thought you was, talking about bad luck. 373 00:21:29,833 --> 00:21:30,833 All right, nigga. 374 00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:34,000 You'll see. 375 00:21:34,583 --> 00:21:35,916 Can't tell a fool nothing. 376 00:21:37,125 --> 00:21:38,250 You'll see. 377 00:21:47,875 --> 00:21:49,000 Oh. There you go. 378 00:21:50,583 --> 00:21:51,666 Over there. 379 00:21:51,750 --> 00:21:53,583 Whoa! 380 00:22:00,375 --> 00:22:01,666 What are you doing? 381 00:22:02,333 --> 00:22:04,958 Cutler, your boys' sandwiches are here. 382 00:22:05,458 --> 00:22:07,125 - Cutler? - Lady-- 383 00:22:07,208 --> 00:22:08,892 - This is a brand new car. - Lady-- 384 00:22:08,916 --> 00:22:10,125 Ain't had but a ding. 385 00:22:10,208 --> 00:22:13,291 - Okay, lady-- - What you gonna do? 386 00:22:13,375 --> 00:22:14,208 - Ma! - I'm talking-- 387 00:22:14,291 --> 00:22:16,309 I got eyes, you got eyes. What are you gonna do? 388 00:22:16,333 --> 00:22:17,434 - Listen to me-- - What happened? 389 00:22:17,458 --> 00:22:19,017 Tell this man who I am. Get him straight. 390 00:22:19,041 --> 00:22:20,875 Tell this man who he's messing with. 391 00:22:20,958 --> 00:22:23,333 Officer, what's the matter? What's the problem? 392 00:22:23,416 --> 00:22:24,976 When I walked up on the incident, this lady-- 393 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,833 - Sylvester wrecked Ma's car. - I... I did not. The man hit me. 394 00:22:27,916 --> 00:22:29,436 You want it in a nutshell? 395 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:30,892 We got her charged with assault and battery. 396 00:22:30,916 --> 00:22:33,083 - Assault and what for what? - Sylvester was driving-- 397 00:22:33,166 --> 00:22:34,892 I can tell you what happened if you wanna know. 398 00:22:34,916 --> 00:22:37,375 That's my nephew. That's Sylvester. He was driving my car-- 399 00:22:37,458 --> 00:22:39,625 - We don't know whose car it is. - That's Ma's car. 400 00:22:39,708 --> 00:22:41,041 I bought and paid for that car. 401 00:22:41,125 --> 00:22:42,833 That's what you say. We gotta check it out. 402 00:22:42,916 --> 00:22:44,125 What's the problem? 403 00:22:44,208 --> 00:22:45,125 I was calling the paddy wagon 404 00:22:45,208 --> 00:22:47,666 to haul them to the station, sort everything out. 405 00:22:47,750 --> 00:22:49,892 - She's aggressive with the other driver-- - He got ugly with me. 406 00:22:49,916 --> 00:22:52,184 - I don't know why you tell that lie. - You let me tell the story? 407 00:22:52,208 --> 00:22:54,333 Well, if you gonna tell it, tell it right. 408 00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:04,041 Like I said, while I was waiting for the paddy wagon, 409 00:23:04,125 --> 00:23:05,845 I turn to hear this guy's side of the story. 410 00:23:05,875 --> 00:23:07,515 She won't let him get a word in edgeways. 411 00:23:07,541 --> 00:23:10,208 He steps in front of her to tell his version of things, 412 00:23:10,291 --> 00:23:11,125 she pushes him to the ground. 413 00:23:11,208 --> 00:23:12,583 She ain't hit him. He just fell. 414 00:23:12,666 --> 00:23:14,601 If that don't beat all to hell. I ain't touched the man. 415 00:23:14,625 --> 00:23:17,250 All right, Ma. Officer, can I speak to you for a minute? 416 00:23:17,333 --> 00:23:18,333 I got things to do. 417 00:23:18,416 --> 00:23:20,291 He bumped into me and fell down. 418 00:23:20,375 --> 00:23:22,333 Flopping on the ground like a rag doll. 419 00:23:23,541 --> 00:23:24,958 I ain't touch the man. 420 00:23:32,750 --> 00:23:33,875 All right, Ma. 421 00:23:33,958 --> 00:23:35,500 Come on. Let's go. Move it out. 422 00:23:36,083 --> 00:23:37,101 I got it all taken care of. 423 00:23:37,125 --> 00:23:38,750 Clear it out. Come on. Let's go. 424 00:23:38,833 --> 00:23:40,208 What's going on? What did you do? 425 00:23:40,291 --> 00:23:41,166 Sturdyvant, get on away from me. 426 00:23:41,250 --> 00:23:43,351 That's the last thing I need, to go through your shit. 427 00:23:43,375 --> 00:23:45,666 - Everybody move along. - It's not the place. 428 00:23:45,750 --> 00:23:47,000 Here, Ma. 429 00:23:47,916 --> 00:23:49,250 Let me take your things. 430 00:23:50,875 --> 00:23:52,625 - I don't believe we've met. - Hi. 431 00:23:52,708 --> 00:23:54,726 That's my nephew Sylvester, and that there's Dussie Mae. 432 00:23:54,750 --> 00:23:56,583 - Oh, hello. - Everybody here? 433 00:23:56,666 --> 00:23:58,125 They're in the band room. 434 00:23:58,208 --> 00:24:01,375 - Ma, why don't you sit and relax? - I ain't for no sitting. 435 00:24:01,458 --> 00:24:03,916 - Where's the bathroom? - Uh, down that hall. 436 00:24:04,416 --> 00:24:07,916 Honey, call down there and see about my car. I need my car fixed today. 437 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,416 Why y'all keep it so hot in here? 438 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:11,916 Y'all want to make records, better get a fan on. 439 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,458 I got it, Ma. I'll take care of everything. 440 00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:31,041 She's late and already-- 441 00:24:31,125 --> 00:24:33,750 I talked to her last night. Got everything straight. 442 00:24:33,833 --> 00:24:35,958 You stay out of the way. Let me handle it. 443 00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:37,833 You handled it last time, remember? 444 00:24:37,916 --> 00:24:41,500 She marches in like she owns the place, complains about the building being cold, 445 00:24:41,583 --> 00:24:44,000 trips over a mic wire, then threatens to sue me. 446 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,291 I ain't never been in a recording studio. 447 00:25:03,416 --> 00:25:04,583 Where the band at? 448 00:25:04,666 --> 00:25:06,583 They off somewhere rehearsing. 449 00:25:08,166 --> 00:25:10,250 Come over here and let me see that dress. 450 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:13,416 That dress look nice. 451 00:25:15,250 --> 00:25:17,833 I'm gonna take you tomorrow to get you some things 452 00:25:17,916 --> 00:25:19,666 before I take you down to Memphis. 453 00:25:20,416 --> 00:25:23,666 They got some clothes up here they ain't got in Memphis. 454 00:25:24,458 --> 00:25:26,791 - I want you to look nice for me, hmm? - Mmm-hmm. 455 00:25:26,875 --> 00:25:29,750 You gonna travel with the show, you gotta look nice. 456 00:25:29,833 --> 00:25:32,458 I just need me some new shoes. These hurt my feet. 457 00:25:32,541 --> 00:25:35,916 Oh, don't you be messing around with no shoes that pinch your feet. 458 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,875 Ma knows something about bad feet. Mmm. 459 00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:44,916 Oh, Lord 460 00:25:47,208 --> 00:25:50,333 These dogs of mine 461 00:25:51,208 --> 00:25:55,041 They sure do hurt me 462 00:25:55,125 --> 00:25:58,375 All the time 463 00:26:00,333 --> 00:26:02,500 Reason why? 464 00:26:02,583 --> 00:26:05,625 I don't know 465 00:26:07,833 --> 00:26:13,708 Lord, I beg to be excused 466 00:26:20,125 --> 00:26:21,166 Okay. 467 00:26:21,916 --> 00:26:24,500 Go on, get my slippers out my bag over yonder. 468 00:26:30,375 --> 00:26:34,291 I can't wear me no sharp-toed shoes 469 00:26:36,083 --> 00:26:38,666 I went for a walk 470 00:26:39,541 --> 00:26:41,041 I stopped to talk 471 00:26:43,833 --> 00:26:50,125 Oh, how my corns did bark 472 00:26:50,833 --> 00:26:53,833 I just want some of them yellow ones. 473 00:26:53,916 --> 00:26:55,666 About a half size bigger. 474 00:26:55,750 --> 00:26:58,541 We'll get you whatever you need. Sylvester too. 475 00:26:58,625 --> 00:26:59,905 Sylvester, tuck your clothes in. 476 00:26:59,958 --> 00:27:02,458 Straighten them up and look nice. Like a gentleman. 477 00:27:02,541 --> 00:27:03,851 Look at Sylvester with that hat on. 478 00:27:03,875 --> 00:27:07,250 Take that hat off inside. Come over here and leave that piano. 479 00:27:07,333 --> 00:27:10,875 I ain't doing nothing to the... piano. I'm... l... looking at it. 480 00:27:10,958 --> 00:27:13,208 Baby, come over here and sit down. Come on. 481 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:16,083 Soon as Mr. Irvin come back, 482 00:27:16,166 --> 00:27:18,833 I'm gonna have him take you down, introduce you to the band. 483 00:27:19,583 --> 00:27:21,791 Cutler gonna show you how your part go. 484 00:27:21,875 --> 00:27:24,666 When you get your money, send some of it home to your mama. 485 00:27:24,750 --> 00:27:27,916 - Let her know you're doing all right. - Okay. 486 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,250 Ma, I called down to the garage and checked on your car. 487 00:27:32,333 --> 00:27:36,000 It's just a scratch, and they'll have it ready for you this afternoon. 488 00:27:36,083 --> 00:27:38,250 They'll send it over with one of their fellows. 489 00:27:38,333 --> 00:27:39,708 Better have my car fixed right. 490 00:27:39,791 --> 00:27:43,166 I ain't going for that. Brand-new car. They better fix it like new. 491 00:27:52,458 --> 00:27:54,583 Irvin, what is that I hear? 492 00:27:54,666 --> 00:27:56,708 I know they ain't rehearsing Levee's "Black Bottom." 493 00:27:56,791 --> 00:27:58,166 I know I ain't hearing that. 494 00:27:58,250 --> 00:28:00,208 Ma, it's what I wanted to talk to you about. 495 00:28:00,291 --> 00:28:02,500 Levee's version, it really picks it up. 496 00:28:02,583 --> 00:28:06,208 I ain't studying Levee nothing. I know what he done to that song. 497 00:28:06,291 --> 00:28:08,833 I don't like to sing it that way. I'm doing it the old way. 498 00:28:08,916 --> 00:28:11,416 That's why I brought my nephew in here to do the voice intro. 499 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:15,000 That's what people want now, Ma. They want something they can dance to. 500 00:28:15,083 --> 00:28:17,208 Levee's arrangement gives the people what they want. 501 00:28:17,291 --> 00:28:20,000 It makes them excited, forget about their troubles. 502 00:28:20,083 --> 00:28:24,166 I don't care what you say, honey. Levee ain't messing up my song. 503 00:28:24,250 --> 00:28:26,916 If he got what the people want, let him take it somewhere else. 504 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,416 I'm singing Ma Rainey's song, not Levee's song. 505 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:31,083 Now that's all there is to it. 506 00:28:31,666 --> 00:28:34,750 Carry my nephew on down there. Introduce him to the band. 507 00:28:34,833 --> 00:28:36,958 I promised my sister I'd look out for him, 508 00:28:37,041 --> 00:28:40,291 so he's gonna do the voice intro to the song my way. 509 00:28:40,375 --> 00:28:41,458 We just figured-- 510 00:28:41,541 --> 00:28:45,541 Who's this "we"? What you mean "we"? Come talking this "we" stuff. Who "we"? 511 00:28:46,125 --> 00:28:47,708 Me and Sturdyvant. We decided-- 512 00:28:47,791 --> 00:28:50,250 You decided, huh? I'm just a bump on a log. 513 00:28:50,333 --> 00:28:52,184 I'm just gonna go whichever way the river drift. 514 00:28:52,208 --> 00:28:54,000 Is that it? You and Sturdyvant decided? 515 00:28:54,083 --> 00:28:56,125 - No. We just thought-- - I ain't got no good sense. 516 00:28:56,208 --> 00:28:59,541 I know nothing about music or what a good song is or what ain't. 517 00:28:59,625 --> 00:29:01,208 You know more about my fans than I do. 518 00:29:01,291 --> 00:29:03,833 It's not that. It's more of what the people want. 519 00:29:05,291 --> 00:29:09,458 Tell you something, Irvin, and you can go up there and you can tell Sturdyvant too. 520 00:29:10,083 --> 00:29:13,375 What you all say don't count with me, you understand? 521 00:29:13,458 --> 00:29:16,375 Ma listen to her heart. Ma listen to the voice inside her. 522 00:29:16,458 --> 00:29:17,833 That's what count with Ma. 523 00:29:18,625 --> 00:29:20,250 Carry my nephew on down there. 524 00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:23,500 Tell Cutler he'll do the voice intro to the "Black Bottom" song. 525 00:29:23,583 --> 00:29:25,166 Levee ain't messing up my song. 526 00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:27,059 If that don't set right with you and Sturdyvant, 527 00:29:27,083 --> 00:29:29,583 I can carry my black bottom on back down South to my tour, 528 00:29:29,666 --> 00:29:31,625 'cause I don't like it up here noways. 529 00:29:32,291 --> 00:29:34,125 Okay, Ma. 530 00:29:35,125 --> 00:29:36,125 I don't care. 531 00:29:38,583 --> 00:29:40,625 - I just thought-- - Damn what you thought! 532 00:29:40,708 --> 00:29:43,125 What you look like trying to tell me how to sing my song. 533 00:29:43,208 --> 00:29:45,833 That Levee and Sturdyvant shit, I ain't going for it. 534 00:29:47,708 --> 00:29:51,041 Sylvester, go introduce yourself. I'm through playing with Irvin. 535 00:29:51,125 --> 00:29:53,875 Uh... Where I go? Which way they at? 536 00:29:55,041 --> 00:29:57,375 Come on. I'll carry you down there myself. 537 00:29:57,458 --> 00:29:59,208 Can I go? I want to see the band. 538 00:29:59,291 --> 00:30:00,541 No. Come on, Sylvester. 539 00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:03,708 Okay, Ma. Have it your way, 540 00:30:04,291 --> 00:30:06,166 but we'll be ready to go in 15 minutes. 541 00:30:06,250 --> 00:30:08,291 We'll be ready to go when Madam says so. 542 00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:10,083 That's the way it go around here. 543 00:30:12,166 --> 00:30:13,208 Perfect. 544 00:30:32,291 --> 00:30:34,250 Cutler, this here my nephew Sylvester. 545 00:30:34,333 --> 00:30:37,541 He'll do the voice intro on "Black Bottom" using the old version. 546 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:39,916 What? Mr. Irvin said we're using my version. 547 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,541 I ain't studying you or Mr. Irvin. 548 00:30:41,625 --> 00:30:43,601 Cutler, get him straightened out on how to do his part. 549 00:30:43,625 --> 00:30:44,785 I ain't thinking about Levee. 550 00:30:44,833 --> 00:30:47,000 These folks done messed with the wrong person. 551 00:30:47,083 --> 00:30:50,791 Cutler gonna teach you how to do your part. Go ahead and get it straight. 552 00:30:50,875 --> 00:30:52,958 Don't worry about what nobody else say. 553 00:30:55,666 --> 00:30:58,250 Hey, come on in, boy. I'm Cutler. 554 00:30:58,333 --> 00:31:01,875 That's Toledo, Levee, and Slow Drag over there. 555 00:31:01,958 --> 00:31:04,166 - Sylvester, huh? - Sylvester Brown. 556 00:31:04,250 --> 00:31:05,750 I wrote a version of that song, 557 00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:08,541 what picks it up and sets it down in the people's lap, 558 00:31:08,625 --> 00:31:10,416 and here she come talking this. 559 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,000 You don't need that old circus bullshit. I know what I'm talking about. 560 00:31:14,083 --> 00:31:16,291 You gonna mess up the song, Cutler, and you know it. 561 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:17,809 I ain't gonna mess up nothing. Ma say-- 562 00:31:17,833 --> 00:31:19,458 I don't care what Ma say! 563 00:31:20,041 --> 00:31:22,500 I'm talking about what the intro gonna do to the song. 564 00:31:22,583 --> 00:31:25,392 The peoples in the North ain't gonna go for that old tent-show nonsense. 565 00:31:25,416 --> 00:31:27,101 - They wanna hear some music. - Nigga. 566 00:31:27,125 --> 00:31:29,791 I done told you time and again. Ma say what to play, not you. 567 00:31:29,875 --> 00:31:32,833 You ain't here to be doing no creating. You play whatever Ma say. 568 00:31:32,916 --> 00:31:35,208 I might not play nothing. I might just quit. 569 00:31:35,291 --> 00:31:38,208 Nigga, don't nobody care if you quit. Whose heart you gonna break? 570 00:31:38,291 --> 00:31:39,458 Levee ain't gonna quit. 571 00:31:39,541 --> 00:31:41,666 He need to make money to keep him in shoe polish. 572 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. 573 00:31:47,666 --> 00:31:50,125 I don't think nobody give a damn. Sylvester, look here. 574 00:31:50,208 --> 00:31:52,791 The band plays the intro, and then you say, 575 00:31:52,875 --> 00:31:55,208 "All right, boys, you done seen the rest." 576 00:31:55,291 --> 00:31:56,833 "Now I'm gonna show you the best." 577 00:31:56,916 --> 00:31:59,833 "Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black bottom." 578 00:32:00,416 --> 00:32:03,541 You got that? Heh. All right, let me hear you do it one time. 579 00:32:05,791 --> 00:32:08,083 All right, boys, you done s... s... 580 00:32:09,583 --> 00:32:10,625 ...seen the rest. 581 00:32:12,541 --> 00:32:14,166 Now I'm gonna show you the best. 582 00:32:15,125 --> 00:32:19,166 Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black b... b... b... 583 00:32:21,166 --> 00:32:22,250 ...bottom. 584 00:32:22,333 --> 00:32:26,791 All right, Cutler. Let me see you fix that. 585 00:32:27,500 --> 00:32:28,958 Straighten that out. 586 00:32:29,041 --> 00:32:31,750 Slow Drag, whoo, you hear this shit? 587 00:32:31,833 --> 00:32:34,583 How in the hell the boy gonna do the part if he can't even talk? 588 00:32:34,666 --> 00:32:37,750 Who... Who's you to tell me what to do, nigga? 589 00:32:37,833 --> 00:32:41,041 This ain't your band. Ma tell me to d... do it, I'mma do it. 590 00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:44,375 So you can go to hell... n... n... nigga. 591 00:32:47,041 --> 00:32:50,625 B... Boy, ain't nobody studying you. Cutler, go on and fix that. 592 00:32:51,208 --> 00:32:53,750 You fix that and I'll shine your shoes for you. 593 00:32:53,833 --> 00:32:55,375 Go on and fix that one. 594 00:32:55,458 --> 00:32:58,958 You say, uh, you Ma's nephew? 595 00:32:59,041 --> 00:33:00,750 Yeah, so what that mean? 596 00:33:00,833 --> 00:33:03,250 Oh, I ain't meant nothing. I was just asking. 597 00:33:03,333 --> 00:33:05,250 Let's rehearse so the boy can get it right. 598 00:33:05,333 --> 00:33:07,083 I ain't rehearsing nothing. 599 00:33:07,166 --> 00:33:08,750 Just wait till I get my band together. 600 00:33:08,833 --> 00:33:11,458 I'm gonna record that song and show you how it's supposed to go. 601 00:33:11,541 --> 00:33:14,375 We can do it without Levee. Sylvester, you remember your part? 602 00:33:14,458 --> 00:33:17,666 Yeah, I... I remember pretty g... good. 603 00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:20,958 Well, come on. Let's do it then. All right? 604 00:33:24,041 --> 00:33:25,041 Levee. 605 00:33:30,583 --> 00:33:32,625 Good, you boys are rehearsing, I see. 606 00:33:32,708 --> 00:33:36,375 Yessir, we rehearsing. We know them songs real good. 607 00:33:36,458 --> 00:33:39,041 Good. Say, Levee, did you finish that song? 608 00:33:39,750 --> 00:33:41,750 Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant. I got it right here. 609 00:33:42,333 --> 00:33:45,041 I wrote that other part just like you say. It go like... 610 00:33:45,625 --> 00:33:48,125 You can swing it You can bring it 611 00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:51,041 You can dance at any hall 612 00:33:51,125 --> 00:33:54,291 You can slide across the floor You'll never have to stall 613 00:33:54,375 --> 00:33:56,250 My jelly roll 614 00:33:56,333 --> 00:33:58,392 Then I wrote that part for the other people to dance, 615 00:33:58,416 --> 00:34:00,184 like you say, for them to forget about their troubles. 616 00:34:00,208 --> 00:34:03,083 Good. I'll see about your songs as soon as I get the chance. 617 00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:05,750 - I'll just take this. - Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant. 618 00:34:06,416 --> 00:34:08,083 Soon as you get the chance. 619 00:34:11,333 --> 00:34:12,934 You hear Levee? You hear this nigga? 620 00:34:12,958 --> 00:34:14,583 "Yessir, we's rehearsing, boss." 621 00:34:14,666 --> 00:34:17,583 I heard him. Seen him too. Shuffling them feet. 622 00:34:17,666 --> 00:34:20,041 Yeah, well, Levee can't help it none. 623 00:34:20,125 --> 00:34:24,291 He's spooked up by the white man. Ain't had time to study 'em. 624 00:34:24,375 --> 00:34:27,125 I studies the white man, I got him studied good. 625 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. 626 00:34:30,750 --> 00:34:32,708 Come tell me I'm spooked up by the white man. 627 00:34:32,791 --> 00:34:35,541 You let one mess with me, I'll show you how spooked up I am. 628 00:34:35,625 --> 00:34:38,541 The man come in here, call you a boy, 629 00:34:38,625 --> 00:34:41,208 tell you to get up off your ass and rehearse, 630 00:34:41,291 --> 00:34:43,458 and you ain't had nothing to say except, "Yessir!" 631 00:34:46,166 --> 00:34:49,375 I can say "yessir" to whoever I please. What you got to do with it? 632 00:34:49,458 --> 00:34:52,458 I know how to handle white folks. I been handling them for 32 years. 633 00:34:52,541 --> 00:34:54,041 You gonna tell me how to do it? 634 00:34:54,125 --> 00:34:56,541 Just 'cause I say "yessir," don't mean I'm spooked up by him. 635 00:34:56,625 --> 00:34:59,000 I know what I'm doing. Let me handle him my way. 636 00:34:59,083 --> 00:35:00,559 Well, go and handle it then. 637 00:35:00,583 --> 00:35:02,416 Toledo, you always messing with somebody. 638 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:06,125 Always agitating somebody with that old philosophy bullshit. 639 00:35:06,208 --> 00:35:08,541 You stay out of my way about what I do and say. 640 00:35:08,625 --> 00:35:11,083 I'm my own person. Just let me alone. 641 00:35:11,166 --> 00:35:15,000 All right, all right. Levee, you right. I apologize. 642 00:35:15,083 --> 00:35:17,791 Ain't none of my business you spooked up by the white man. 643 00:35:17,875 --> 00:35:20,250 See, that's the shit I'm talking about. 644 00:35:20,333 --> 00:35:22,166 Y'all back up and leave Levee alone. 645 00:35:22,250 --> 00:35:24,833 Oh, come on, Levee. We was all just having fun. 646 00:35:24,916 --> 00:35:27,184 Toledo ain't said nothing about you he ain't said about me. 647 00:35:27,208 --> 00:35:28,368 You just taking it all wrong. 648 00:35:28,416 --> 00:35:29,625 I ain't meant nothing by it. 649 00:35:29,708 --> 00:35:31,500 Levee got to be Levee! 650 00:35:32,125 --> 00:35:35,041 He don't need nobody messing with him about the white man! 651 00:35:35,875 --> 00:35:39,000 'Cause you don't know nothing about me. You don't know Levee. 652 00:35:39,083 --> 00:35:41,333 You don't know nothing about what kind of blood I got! 653 00:35:41,416 --> 00:35:43,375 What kind of a heart I got beating here! 654 00:35:46,125 --> 00:35:47,708 I was eight years old 655 00:35:48,291 --> 00:35:50,708 when a gang of white mans come into my daddy's house 656 00:35:50,791 --> 00:35:53,208 and have to do with my mama any way they want. 657 00:35:54,708 --> 00:35:59,291 We was living in Jefferson County, about eight miles outside of Natchez. 658 00:35:59,375 --> 00:36:02,666 My daddy's name was Memphis. Memphis Lee Green. 659 00:36:02,750 --> 00:36:07,041 Had him near 50 acres of good farming land. I'm talking good land. 660 00:36:07,125 --> 00:36:08,708 Grow anything you want. 661 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,500 He done gone off of shares and bought this land 662 00:36:11,583 --> 00:36:14,125 from Mr. Hallie's widow woman after he done passed on. 663 00:36:14,208 --> 00:36:17,166 Folks called him a uppity nigger 'cause he done saved and borrowed 664 00:36:17,250 --> 00:36:19,875 to where he could buy this land and be independent. 665 00:36:21,125 --> 00:36:22,833 It was coming on planting time, 666 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:26,916 and my daddy went into Natchez to get him some seed and fertilizer. 667 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,500 Called me, say, "Levee, you the man of the house now." 668 00:36:33,333 --> 00:36:35,458 "Take care of your mama while I'm gone." 669 00:36:38,416 --> 00:36:39,958 I wasn't but a little boy. 670 00:36:41,541 --> 00:36:42,875 Eight years old. 671 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,083 My mama... 672 00:36:48,291 --> 00:36:51,416 was frying up some chicken when them mans come in the house. 673 00:36:52,333 --> 00:36:54,125 Must have been eight or nine of 'em. 674 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 675 00:36:59,958 --> 00:37:04,541 just like you take hold of a mule and make it do what you want. 676 00:37:08,541 --> 00:37:10,041 There was my mama... 677 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:13,208 with a gang of white mans. 678 00:37:17,750 --> 00:37:19,666 She tried to fight 'em off. 679 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,750 I could see where it wasn't gonna do her any good. 680 00:37:25,041 --> 00:37:27,125 I didn't know what they was doing to her, 681 00:37:27,208 --> 00:37:30,541 but I figured whatever it was, they might as well do to me too. 682 00:37:32,666 --> 00:37:36,625 My daddy had a knife he kept around there for hunting and working and whatnot. 683 00:37:36,708 --> 00:37:39,708 And I knew where he kept it. I went and got it. 684 00:37:42,125 --> 00:37:47,125 I'm gonna show you how spooked up I was by the white man. 685 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,875 I tried my damnedest to cut one of them's throat. 686 00:37:53,208 --> 00:37:54,750 I hit him on the shoulder. 687 00:37:55,875 --> 00:37:57,595 He reached back, grabbed hold of that knife, 688 00:37:57,625 --> 00:38:00,041 and whacked me across the chest with it. 689 00:38:05,833 --> 00:38:07,416 That's what made them stop. 690 00:38:08,833 --> 00:38:11,041 They was scared I was gonna bleed to death. 691 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,791 My mama wrapped me in a blanket, 692 00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:18,000 carried me two miles down to the Furlow place 693 00:38:18,083 --> 00:38:20,333 and they drove me up to Doc Albans. 694 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. 695 00:38:25,125 --> 00:38:27,375 They carried me to Miss Etta, the midwife, 696 00:38:28,541 --> 00:38:30,000 and she fixed me up. 697 00:38:32,333 --> 00:38:33,791 My daddy came back 698 00:38:34,791 --> 00:38:37,708 and acted like he done accepted the facts of what happened. 699 00:38:38,208 --> 00:38:40,583 He got the names of them mans from Mama. 700 00:38:41,708 --> 00:38:43,000 He found out who they was, 701 00:38:43,083 --> 00:38:45,333 and then we announced we was moving out that county. 702 00:38:45,416 --> 00:38:47,916 We said goodbye to everybody, all the neighbors. 703 00:38:50,375 --> 00:38:53,375 My daddy went and smiled in the face of one of them crackers 704 00:38:53,458 --> 00:38:54,916 who had been with my mama. 705 00:38:57,125 --> 00:38:58,708 Smiled in his face... 706 00:38:59,958 --> 00:39:01,625 and sold him our land. 707 00:39:03,833 --> 00:39:06,500 We moved over with relations in Caldwell. 708 00:39:07,208 --> 00:39:09,000 He got us settled in, 709 00:39:09,708 --> 00:39:12,875 and then he took off one day. I ain't never seen him since. 710 00:39:18,041 --> 00:39:19,375 He sneaked back. 711 00:39:21,125 --> 00:39:22,666 Hiding up in the woods, 712 00:39:23,541 --> 00:39:26,083 laying to get them eight or nine men. 713 00:39:29,083 --> 00:39:31,500 He got four of them before they got him. 714 00:39:39,666 --> 00:39:41,625 They tracked him down in the woods. 715 00:39:44,166 --> 00:39:45,625 Caught up with him, hung him... 716 00:39:47,166 --> 00:39:48,333 set him afire. 717 00:39:53,208 --> 00:39:56,875 My daddy wasn't spooked up by the white man. No, sir. 718 00:39:57,958 --> 00:40:00,208 And that taught me how to handle them. 719 00:40:01,291 --> 00:40:05,791 I seen my daddy go up and grin in this cracker's face. 720 00:40:08,375 --> 00:40:11,541 Smile in his face and sell him his land. 721 00:40:11,625 --> 00:40:15,208 All the while, he's planning how he's gonna get him 722 00:40:16,083 --> 00:40:17,625 and what he's gonna do to him. 723 00:40:19,333 --> 00:40:21,208 That taught me how to handle them. 724 00:40:23,166 --> 00:40:27,000 So you all just back up and leave Levee alone about the white man. 725 00:40:27,833 --> 00:40:31,416 I can smile and say "yessir" to whoever I please. 726 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:33,458 I got my time coming to me. 727 00:40:36,791 --> 00:40:39,416 You all just leave Levee alone about the white man. 728 00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:00,583 Everybody 729 00:41:03,375 --> 00:41:06,666 Everybody come from different places in Africa, right? 730 00:41:06,750 --> 00:41:08,416 Different tribes and things. 731 00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:11,958 Soon awhile they began to make one big stew. 732 00:41:12,666 --> 00:41:16,583 You had your, uh, carrots and your peas, 733 00:41:16,666 --> 00:41:18,541 and your potatoes over here. 734 00:41:18,625 --> 00:41:21,000 And over there, you had your meat and nuts, 735 00:41:21,083 --> 00:41:23,208 uh, okra, corn. 736 00:41:23,291 --> 00:41:28,041 And you mix it up, cook it real good to where the flavors flow through. 737 00:41:28,125 --> 00:41:29,875 And then you got one thing. 738 00:41:29,958 --> 00:41:32,041 You got a stew. 739 00:41:33,041 --> 00:41:36,041 Now you take and you eat that stew. 740 00:41:36,125 --> 00:41:40,541 You take and you make your history with that stew. 741 00:41:41,708 --> 00:41:45,250 But you look around and you see some carrots over there, 742 00:41:45,333 --> 00:41:48,083 and some peas over here. 743 00:41:48,875 --> 00:41:53,208 And... that stew is still there. 744 00:41:54,583 --> 00:41:58,708 Hmm. You done made your history and it's still there. 745 00:42:00,708 --> 00:42:03,541 You can't eat it all. 746 00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:07,958 What you got? 747 00:42:08,916 --> 00:42:12,000 You got some leftovers. That's what it is. 748 00:42:15,583 --> 00:42:21,875 See, we's the leftovers. The colored man, he is the leftovers. Huh. 749 00:42:36,166 --> 00:42:38,083 What's the colored man gonna do with himself? 750 00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:42,708 That's what we're waiting to find out. 751 00:42:48,750 --> 00:42:53,875 But first he's got to know that he's a leftover. 752 00:43:22,750 --> 00:43:23,750 Mr. Irvin. 753 00:43:27,416 --> 00:43:29,500 I ain't got nothing to do with it, but... 754 00:43:31,041 --> 00:43:32,541 the boy can't do the part. 755 00:43:32,625 --> 00:43:34,625 He stutters right through it every time. 756 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:38,875 It's a whole different bottom, though. It's a whole different style. 757 00:43:38,958 --> 00:43:41,875 Relax and breathe, and everything's gonna be all right. 758 00:43:41,958 --> 00:43:44,208 I'm just gonna cue you in... 759 00:43:44,291 --> 00:43:47,166 I know where the four is, man. Don't got to tell me nothing. 760 00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:51,125 You're gonna smile and say the line. Then we gonna get goin'. 761 00:43:51,208 --> 00:43:53,208 - Cutler. - Ma'am? 762 00:43:53,291 --> 00:43:55,750 I know it's on the four... 763 00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:58,875 Levee got his eyes in the wrong place. You better school him, Cutler. 764 00:43:58,958 --> 00:44:02,208 Come on, Levee. Let's get ready to play. Keep your mind on your work. 765 00:44:02,291 --> 00:44:05,500 Okay, boys. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. 766 00:44:06,083 --> 00:44:09,000 "Moonshine Blues" first. "Moonshine Blues," Ma. 767 00:44:09,083 --> 00:44:11,723 I ain't doing no moonshine nothing. I'm doing "Black Bottom" first. 768 00:44:11,750 --> 00:44:13,583 Come on, Sylvester. Where's Sylvester's mic? 769 00:44:13,666 --> 00:44:15,250 Irvin, get him a mic. 770 00:44:15,333 --> 00:44:18,833 Uh... Ma, the boys say he can't do it. 771 00:44:19,416 --> 00:44:22,958 Who? Who say he can't do it? What boys say he can't do it? 772 00:44:24,125 --> 00:44:25,791 The band, Ma. The boys in the band. 773 00:44:27,916 --> 00:44:28,958 What band? 774 00:44:30,833 --> 00:44:31,958 Band work for me. 775 00:44:32,041 --> 00:44:34,625 He stutters, Ma. They say he stutters. 776 00:44:34,708 --> 00:44:36,541 I don't care if he do. 777 00:44:36,625 --> 00:44:39,791 I promised the boy he could do the part, so he gonna do it. 778 00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:43,458 And that's all there is to it. He don't stutter all the time. 779 00:44:43,541 --> 00:44:45,166 Get a microphone down here for him. 780 00:44:45,250 --> 00:44:46,625 We don't have time. We can't-- 781 00:44:46,708 --> 00:44:48,458 If you wanna make a record, find the time. 782 00:44:48,541 --> 00:44:51,125 I ain't playing with you. I could walk out of here right now. 783 00:44:51,208 --> 00:44:53,458 Go back to my tour. I don't need to go through all this. 784 00:44:53,541 --> 00:44:55,916 Go get the boy a microphone. 785 00:45:01,625 --> 00:45:04,208 Levee, I know you had something to do with this. Watch yourself. 786 00:45:04,291 --> 00:45:05,291 It was Cutler. 787 00:45:05,375 --> 00:45:08,250 It was you. You the only one... 788 00:45:08,333 --> 00:45:09,958 The boy stutter. He can't do the part. 789 00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:11,541 Can or can't, he gonna do it. 790 00:45:11,625 --> 00:45:13,791 - You ain't got nothing to do with it. - I don't care. 791 00:45:13,875 --> 00:45:17,083 - He can sing the whole song. - Well, all right. Thank you. 792 00:45:17,166 --> 00:45:19,125 He's only getting one chance. The cost of this-- 793 00:45:19,208 --> 00:45:21,750 Damn the cost. You always talking about the cost. 794 00:45:21,833 --> 00:45:24,713 I make more money for this outfit than anybody else you got put together. 795 00:45:24,791 --> 00:45:27,416 If he mess up, he'll do it till he get it right. 796 00:45:30,875 --> 00:45:33,291 Come on, baby. Come on. Come. 797 00:45:33,916 --> 00:45:37,416 Stand right there. Hold your hands like I told you to. Okay. Come on. 798 00:45:38,625 --> 00:45:40,541 All right. Don't worry about messing up. 799 00:45:40,625 --> 00:45:42,708 You mess up, we'll do it till you get it right. 800 00:45:42,791 --> 00:45:44,958 All right. Play it for him, Cutler. 801 00:45:45,041 --> 00:45:45,916 All right. 802 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,583 One, two, you know what to do. 803 00:45:51,375 --> 00:45:52,375 All right, boys, 804 00:45:53,208 --> 00:45:57,041 you done seen the best. 805 00:45:57,833 --> 00:45:59,125 Now I'm gonna show you the rest. 806 00:45:59,750 --> 00:46:03,666 Ma Rainey's gonna show you her b... b... b... 807 00:46:03,750 --> 00:46:06,041 black b... bottom. 808 00:46:06,583 --> 00:46:10,000 That's real good, baby. You take your time. You'll get it right. 809 00:46:10,083 --> 00:46:12,083 Okay, Ma. We're ready to go. 810 00:46:12,166 --> 00:46:14,875 - Where's my Coke? - "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," boys. 811 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. 812 00:46:18,833 --> 00:46:19,750 What's the matter, Ma? 813 00:46:19,833 --> 00:46:21,916 Where's my Coke? I need a cold Coca-Cola. 814 00:46:22,458 --> 00:46:23,833 Uh, Ma, look... 815 00:46:24,875 --> 00:46:26,125 I forgot the Coke. 816 00:46:26,708 --> 00:46:29,416 Let's do it without it, huh? Just this one song. What say, boys? 817 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:33,083 Damn what the band say. You supposed to have my Coca-Cola. You knew that. 818 00:46:33,166 --> 00:46:34,886 I ain't doing nothing without my Coca-Cola. 819 00:46:35,416 --> 00:46:36,936 - Shit. - Just a minute here, Ma. 820 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,375 You come in an hour late-- 821 00:46:38,458 --> 00:46:40,958 Get out my face. Irvin, I told you keep him away from me. 822 00:46:41,041 --> 00:46:43,101 I'm tired of her nonsense. I'm not gonna put up with this. 823 00:46:43,125 --> 00:46:45,000 Let me. Ma, listen. 824 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. 825 00:46:48,458 --> 00:46:51,291 Sylvester's standing there ready to go, the band's all set up. 826 00:46:51,375 --> 00:46:52,833 Let's do this one song. 827 00:46:52,916 --> 00:46:55,000 Too cheap to buy me a Coca-Cola. I'll buy my own. 828 00:46:55,083 --> 00:46:57,083 Slow Drag, Sylvester. Go on, baby. 829 00:46:57,166 --> 00:47:01,125 Get me three bottles of Coca-Cola, ice cold. Get y'all something too. 830 00:47:01,208 --> 00:47:02,448 - Keep the change. - Yes, ma'am. 831 00:47:03,208 --> 00:47:04,958 Irvin, get away from me. Shit. 832 00:47:05,041 --> 00:47:07,458 You can wait till I get my Coca-Cola. Ain't gonna kill you. 833 00:47:07,541 --> 00:47:09,958 Okay, Ma. Get your Coke. 834 00:47:10,041 --> 00:47:11,500 Gentlemen, the band room. 835 00:47:12,083 --> 00:47:14,166 Christ sakes, get your Coke. 836 00:47:18,708 --> 00:47:19,875 Cutler. 837 00:47:21,500 --> 00:47:23,208 Come here a minute. I need to talk to you. 838 00:47:41,916 --> 00:47:45,125 What's all this shit about "the boys in the band said"? 839 00:47:45,208 --> 00:47:47,166 I tells you what to do. 840 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. 841 00:47:50,708 --> 00:47:52,250 We just say 'cause the boy stutter. 842 00:47:52,333 --> 00:47:54,416 I know he stutters. Don't you think I know? 843 00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:55,833 This is what gonna help him. 844 00:47:55,916 --> 00:47:57,166 We thought it'd be easier-- 845 00:47:57,250 --> 00:47:58,976 He gonna do the part. I don't wanna hear any more of this shit 846 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,000 about what the boys in the band says. 847 00:48:05,916 --> 00:48:09,625 And I want you to find somebody to replace Levee when we get to Memphis. 848 00:48:09,708 --> 00:48:11,333 Levee ain't nothing but trouble. 849 00:48:11,416 --> 00:48:12,666 Levee all right. 850 00:48:12,750 --> 00:48:15,250 He plays good music when he puts his mind to it. 851 00:48:15,333 --> 00:48:17,500 - He know how to write music too. - I don't care. 852 00:48:17,583 --> 00:48:18,684 He ain't nothing but bad news. 853 00:48:18,708 --> 00:48:21,166 Find somebody else. He the ringtail leader. 854 00:48:21,250 --> 00:48:23,666 I know it was his idea who to say who can do what. 855 00:48:23,750 --> 00:48:27,208 Dussie Mae! Sit your ass down and stop flaunting yourself around. 856 00:48:27,291 --> 00:48:28,375 I ain't doing nothing. 857 00:48:28,458 --> 00:48:30,583 Just go somewhere and stay out of the way. 858 00:48:48,625 --> 00:48:51,458 You can slide across the floor 859 00:48:51,541 --> 00:48:54,916 You'll never have to stall My jelly roll 860 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,833 Oh, my jelly roll My jelly roll 861 00:48:59,916 --> 00:49:02,833 Hi. I just wanted to see what it look like down here. 862 00:49:03,625 --> 00:49:04,958 Well, come on in. 863 00:49:05,791 --> 00:49:06,791 I don't bite. 864 00:49:09,125 --> 00:49:10,565 I didn't know you could write music. 865 00:49:10,625 --> 00:49:13,416 I just thought you was jiving me at the club last night. 866 00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:15,666 No, baby. I knows how to write music. 867 00:49:15,750 --> 00:49:18,000 I done give some of my songs to Mr. Sturdyvant. 868 00:49:18,083 --> 00:49:19,583 He say he gonna let me record 'em. 869 00:49:19,666 --> 00:49:21,375 I'm gonna have my own band. 870 00:49:21,458 --> 00:49:25,541 Hey, Toledo. Ain't I give Mr. Sturdyvant some of my songs I wrote? 871 00:49:26,125 --> 00:49:27,916 Don't get Toledo mixed up in nothing. 872 00:49:29,708 --> 00:49:31,666 You gonna have your own band, sure enough? 873 00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:36,333 Levee Green and his Footstompers. 874 00:49:36,416 --> 00:49:39,791 A man what's gonna get his own band need to have a woman like you. 875 00:49:39,875 --> 00:49:43,166 A woman like me need a man to bring it and put it in my hand. 876 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,642 I don't need nobody getting something for nothing 877 00:49:45,666 --> 00:49:47,458 and leave me standing in my door. 878 00:49:47,541 --> 00:49:51,041 That ain't Levee's style, sugar. I knows how to treat a woman. 879 00:49:51,625 --> 00:49:54,625 Buy her presents and things. Treat her like she want to be treated. 880 00:49:54,708 --> 00:49:57,833 That's what they all say till it come time to be buying the presents. 881 00:49:57,916 --> 00:50:01,625 When we get down to Memphis, I'm gonna take you out, 882 00:50:01,708 --> 00:50:03,375 show you a good time. 883 00:50:04,208 --> 00:50:06,291 Show you Levee know how to treat a woman. 884 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,000 Ma. 885 00:50:14,750 --> 00:50:18,916 This "Moonshine Blues," that's one of them songs that Bessie Smith sangs, I believe. 886 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:20,000 Bessie what? 887 00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:21,791 I ain't thinking about Bessie. 888 00:50:22,333 --> 00:50:24,973 Shit. I taught Bessie. Bessie ain't doing nothing but imitating me. 889 00:50:25,041 --> 00:50:28,166 What I care about Bessie? I don't care if she sell a million record. 890 00:50:28,250 --> 00:50:31,250 She got her people. I got mine. I don't care what nobody else do. 891 00:50:31,333 --> 00:50:33,000 Ma was the first. Don't you forget it. 892 00:50:33,083 --> 00:50:34,476 Nobody said nothing about all that. 893 00:50:34,500 --> 00:50:36,601 - I'm saying that's the song she sang. - I've been doing this a long time. 894 00:50:36,625 --> 00:50:39,666 Ever since I was a little girl. I don't care what nobody else do. 895 00:50:39,750 --> 00:50:42,250 Shoot. That's what get me so mad with Irvin. 896 00:50:43,583 --> 00:50:45,434 White folks try to be put out with you all the time. 897 00:50:45,458 --> 00:50:47,750 Too cheap to buy you a damn Coca-Cola. 898 00:50:47,833 --> 00:50:50,291 I lets them know it, though. Ma don't stand for no shit. 899 00:50:51,041 --> 00:50:52,083 Shoot. 900 00:50:52,166 --> 00:50:55,166 They wanna take your voice and trap it in all them fancy boxes 901 00:50:55,250 --> 00:50:59,666 with all them buttons and dials, and then too cheap to buy you a Coca-Cola. 902 00:51:00,250 --> 00:51:02,166 Don't cost but a nickel a bottle. 903 00:51:06,833 --> 00:51:08,791 They don't care nothing about me. 904 00:51:11,958 --> 00:51:15,083 All they want is my voice. 905 00:51:18,750 --> 00:51:20,083 Well, I done learned that. 906 00:51:22,125 --> 00:51:24,208 And they gonna treat me the way I want to be treated 907 00:51:24,291 --> 00:51:25,916 no matter how much it hurt 'em. 908 00:51:29,666 --> 00:51:32,500 They back there right now calling me all kinds of names. 909 00:51:32,583 --> 00:51:34,541 Calling me everything but a child of God. 910 00:51:35,166 --> 00:51:38,541 But they can't do nothing else 'cause they ain't got what they wanted yet. 911 00:51:39,375 --> 00:51:43,000 As soon as they get my voice down on one them recording machines, 912 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. 913 00:51:48,375 --> 00:51:50,125 They ain't got no use for me then. 914 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,083 I know what I'm talking about. You watch. 915 00:51:54,791 --> 00:51:57,500 And Irvin, he right there with the rest of them. 916 00:51:57,583 --> 00:51:59,333 He don't care nothing about me either. 917 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 918 00:52:03,333 --> 00:52:05,083 was to sing for some of his white friends. 919 00:52:05,166 --> 00:52:07,000 Huh. I know how they do. 920 00:52:07,083 --> 00:52:09,666 Yeah. Shit, you colored and you can make 'em some money, 921 00:52:09,750 --> 00:52:14,041 then you all right with them, otherwise you just a dog in the alley. 922 00:52:14,958 --> 00:52:16,666 I done made them more money from my records 923 00:52:16,750 --> 00:52:19,208 than all them other recording artists they got put together, 924 00:52:19,291 --> 00:52:23,125 and then they wanna balk about how much this session is costing them. 925 00:52:23,208 --> 00:52:25,375 I can't see how it's costing as much as they say. 926 00:52:25,458 --> 00:52:28,208 Shit, it ain't. I don't pay that kind of talk no mind. 927 00:52:32,250 --> 00:52:35,000 - I already got my fellas picked out. - Mmm-hmm. 928 00:52:35,083 --> 00:52:39,208 I'm getting me some good fellas. Know how to play real sweet music. 929 00:52:39,291 --> 00:52:42,583 You get your own band, we'll see about this stuff you talking. 930 00:52:43,208 --> 00:52:45,916 I just wanna show you I knows what the womens like. 931 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:48,875 They don't call me Sweet Lemonade for nothing. 932 00:52:48,958 --> 00:52:50,666 Stop it now. Somebody gonna come in here. 933 00:52:50,750 --> 00:52:51,750 No, they ain't. 934 00:52:53,166 --> 00:52:54,166 Look here, sugar. 935 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,666 What I wants to know is, 936 00:52:57,416 --> 00:53:02,250 can I introduce my red rooster to your brown hen. 937 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. 938 00:53:21,708 --> 00:53:24,250 Mmm. Damn, baby. 939 00:53:24,333 --> 00:53:27,166 Now I know why my grandpappy sat on the front porch 940 00:53:27,250 --> 00:53:30,375 with a straight razor when my grandma hung out the wash. 941 00:53:30,458 --> 00:53:32,000 You crazy! 942 00:53:32,083 --> 00:53:34,250 Whoo! 943 00:53:36,958 --> 00:53:40,958 I bet you sound like the midnight train to Alabama 944 00:53:41,041 --> 00:53:43,625 when it crosses the Mason-Dixon Line. 945 00:53:47,833 --> 00:53:50,083 How you get so crazy? 946 00:53:50,166 --> 00:53:53,333 It's women like you that drive me so... 947 00:53:54,958 --> 00:53:56,666 Good God. 948 00:53:57,250 --> 00:53:59,833 Happy birthday to the lady with the cakes. 949 00:54:13,208 --> 00:54:15,000 Sure done got quiet in here. 950 00:54:19,125 --> 00:54:21,208 I never could stand no silence. 951 00:54:22,333 --> 00:54:25,458 I always got to have some music going on in my head somewhere. 952 00:54:26,250 --> 00:54:27,875 It keeps things balanced. 953 00:54:27,958 --> 00:54:30,125 Music will do that. It fills things up. 954 00:54:31,458 --> 00:54:34,875 The more music you have in the world, the fuller it is. 955 00:54:34,958 --> 00:54:37,916 I can agree with that. I got to have my music too. 956 00:54:38,541 --> 00:54:40,875 White folk don't understand about the blues. 957 00:54:41,875 --> 00:54:44,541 They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. 958 00:54:46,208 --> 00:54:49,041 They don't understand that that's life's way of talking. 959 00:54:50,208 --> 00:54:51,750 You don't sing to feel better. 960 00:54:52,625 --> 00:54:55,500 You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life. 961 00:54:57,750 --> 00:55:00,208 The blues help you get out of bed in the morning. 962 00:55:02,041 --> 00:55:04,250 You get up knowing you ain't alone. 963 00:55:05,958 --> 00:55:07,791 There's something else in the world. 964 00:55:09,208 --> 00:55:12,666 Something's been added by that song. 965 00:55:15,458 --> 00:55:16,458 Mmm. 966 00:55:19,541 --> 00:55:22,125 This be an empty world without the blues. 967 00:55:24,333 --> 00:55:25,166 Yeah. 968 00:55:25,250 --> 00:55:28,708 I try to take that emptiness and fill it up with something. 969 00:55:29,500 --> 00:55:31,125 Ooh! 970 00:55:33,833 --> 00:55:37,208 I ain't started blues way of singing. Blues always been there. 971 00:55:37,291 --> 00:55:39,059 But if they wanna call me the Mother of Blues, 972 00:55:39,083 --> 00:55:41,208 that's all right with me. It don't hurt none. 973 00:55:43,708 --> 00:55:46,500 Sure did take y'all a long time. Sylvester, get Irvin. 974 00:55:46,583 --> 00:55:47,708 Tell him we ready to go. 975 00:55:47,791 --> 00:55:48,791 I'll grab Levee. 976 00:55:59,083 --> 00:56:00,083 Ah... 977 00:56:07,333 --> 00:56:09,708 Ma got her Coke, Levee. We about ready to start. 978 00:56:09,791 --> 00:56:11,851 - Get this off me. - Okay. 979 00:56:11,875 --> 00:56:15,833 - Okay, gotta go. - Just go! 980 00:56:30,041 --> 00:56:33,583 Okay, boys. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take one. 981 00:56:34,916 --> 00:56:37,625 Two, you know what to do. 982 00:56:40,125 --> 00:56:45,250 All right, boys, you... you... d... done... 983 00:56:48,208 --> 00:56:49,333 Take two. 984 00:56:50,125 --> 00:56:51,208 All right, boys, 985 00:56:51,291 --> 00:56:54,458 you done seen the rest. Now I'm gonna show you the best. 986 00:56:54,541 --> 00:56:58,208 Ma Rainey's gonna show you her... B... B... B... 987 00:57:01,875 --> 00:57:03,000 Take... 988 00:57:05,250 --> 00:57:06,250 Hmm. 989 00:57:12,416 --> 00:57:15,208 Ma, can we just do it without the... 990 00:57:17,375 --> 00:57:18,458 Take six. 991 00:57:26,375 --> 00:57:27,500 Take seven. 992 00:57:30,875 --> 00:57:31,916 All right, boys, 993 00:57:32,625 --> 00:57:36,000 you done seen the rest. Now I'm gonna show you the best. 994 00:57:36,708 --> 00:57:38,958 Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black bottom. 995 00:57:39,583 --> 00:57:42,875 Way down South in Alabamy 996 00:57:44,250 --> 00:57:47,541 I got a friend they call Dancin' Sammy 997 00:57:48,791 --> 00:57:52,416 Who's crazy About all the latest dances 998 00:57:53,041 --> 00:57:57,333 Black bottom stomps And the new baby prances 999 00:57:57,416 --> 00:58:01,833 The other night at a swell affair 1000 00:58:02,416 --> 00:58:05,916 Soon as the boys Found out that I was there 1001 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:10,541 They said, "Come on, Ma Let's go to the cabaret" 1002 00:58:11,625 --> 00:58:15,208 When I got there, they began to say 1003 00:58:16,250 --> 00:58:19,916 "I wanna see that dance They call the black bottom" 1004 00:58:20,958 --> 00:58:23,083 "I wanna learn that dance" 1005 00:58:24,916 --> 00:58:29,458 "Wanna see the dance They call your big black bottom" 1006 00:58:30,166 --> 00:58:32,833 It'll put you in a trance 1007 00:58:34,500 --> 00:58:38,166 All the boys in the neighborhood 1008 00:58:38,250 --> 00:58:42,958 They say "Your black bottom is really good" 1009 00:58:44,250 --> 00:58:48,041 "Come on and show me Your black bottom" 1010 00:58:48,958 --> 00:58:52,208 "I wanna learn that dance" 1011 00:58:53,583 --> 00:58:57,583 I wanna see the dance They call the black bottom 1012 00:58:58,416 --> 00:59:01,041 I wanna learn that dance 1013 00:59:02,750 --> 00:59:07,750 Wanna see you do the dance You call your big black bottom 1014 00:59:07,833 --> 00:59:10,666 It'll put you in a trance 1015 00:59:12,208 --> 00:59:15,958 Early one morning 'Bout the break of day 1016 00:59:17,208 --> 00:59:21,041 Grandpa told Grandma, I heard him say 1017 00:59:21,916 --> 00:59:25,916 "Get on up and show your old man Your black bottom" 1018 00:59:26,416 --> 00:59:30,416 I wanna learn that dance Yes, sir 1019 00:59:31,500 --> 00:59:34,833 I wanna learn that dance 1020 00:59:38,583 --> 00:59:41,625 Okay, that's good, Ma. That sounded great. Good job, boys. 1021 00:59:41,708 --> 00:59:43,625 See? I told you you could do it! 1022 00:59:43,708 --> 00:59:45,684 - He did good. - All you gotta do is set your mind to it. 1023 00:59:45,708 --> 00:59:47,309 - He did better than I thought he would. - My baby. 1024 00:59:47,333 --> 00:59:51,208 - Mwah. That's my baby. - Hey, boy. Hey, boys, Ma. 1025 00:59:51,291 --> 00:59:55,416 - Yeah! - Hey, let's do "Moonshine Blues" next? 1026 00:59:56,083 --> 00:59:57,125 "Moonshine Blues," boys. 1027 00:59:57,208 --> 01:00:00,958 Irv? Something happened with the recording. Check that mic. 1028 01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:03,583 One, one, one, two, check, one-- 1029 01:00:03,666 --> 01:00:05,375 No. The problem's with the kid's mic. 1030 01:00:06,791 --> 01:00:08,666 Oh, Christ Almighty! 1031 01:00:09,250 --> 01:00:11,000 - Ma, we didn't record the song. - Shit! 1032 01:00:11,083 --> 01:00:12,684 What you mean you didn't record the song? 1033 01:00:12,708 --> 01:00:14,267 What were you and Sturdyvant doing up there? 1034 01:00:14,291 --> 01:00:15,601 Levee must have kicked the plug out. 1035 01:00:15,625 --> 01:00:16,541 I ain't kicked nothing. 1036 01:00:16,625 --> 01:00:18,333 If Levee had his mind on what he was doing. 1037 01:00:18,416 --> 01:00:21,250 If it ain't one thing, it's another. Straighten your black ass out. 1038 01:00:21,333 --> 01:00:23,208 Hell, it ain't my fault. I ain't done nothing. 1039 01:00:23,291 --> 01:00:24,333 It's the cord, Mel. 1040 01:00:24,416 --> 01:00:26,333 The cord's all chewed up. We need another cord. 1041 01:00:26,416 --> 01:00:28,041 - The most disorganized... - Ma? 1042 01:00:28,125 --> 01:00:29,601 - Waste of my time. - Where's she going? 1043 01:00:29,625 --> 01:00:31,083 - Shit. - Ma? Ma! 1044 01:00:31,666 --> 01:00:32,500 Ma? 1045 01:00:32,583 --> 01:00:35,458 If you walk out of this studio, you're through. You're washed-up. 1046 01:00:35,541 --> 01:00:37,291 Chrissakes, Mel! Ma! 1047 01:00:37,375 --> 01:00:40,250 Ma, come back here! Ma, please! 1048 01:00:43,083 --> 01:00:44,083 Listen, Ma. 1049 01:00:45,125 --> 01:00:46,833 These records are gonna be hits. 1050 01:00:47,541 --> 01:00:49,458 They are gonna sell like crazy. 1051 01:00:49,541 --> 01:00:51,416 Hell, even Sylvester will be a star. 1052 01:00:52,666 --> 01:00:53,833 Fifteen minutes. 1053 01:00:55,125 --> 01:00:58,583 That is all I am asking, Ma. Just 15 minutes. 1054 01:01:03,333 --> 01:01:06,208 Fifteen minutes. You hear me, Irvin? Fifteen minutes. 1055 01:01:06,291 --> 01:01:09,375 Then I'm gonna carry my black bottom on back down to Georgia, you hear me? 1056 01:01:09,458 --> 01:01:11,208 Fifteen minutes. 1057 01:01:14,958 --> 01:01:17,166 You boys go ahead and take a break. 1058 01:01:17,250 --> 01:01:19,541 Fifteen minutes. We'll be ready to go. 1059 01:01:20,500 --> 01:01:22,333 Don't make no difference to me if she leave. 1060 01:01:22,416 --> 01:01:24,375 I'm ready to get on outta here, anyway. 1061 01:01:24,458 --> 01:01:25,583 If I was Mr. Irvin, 1062 01:01:25,666 --> 01:01:28,458 I'd go on and get them cords and things hooked up right. 1063 01:01:28,541 --> 01:01:31,333 If Levee kept his mind on his work, we wouldn't be in this fix. 1064 01:01:31,416 --> 01:01:32,625 We'd be up there finishing up. 1065 01:01:32,708 --> 01:01:35,041 Now we gotta see if that boy can get that part right. 1066 01:01:35,125 --> 01:01:37,375 He got one eye on the gal and the other on his trumpet. 1067 01:01:37,458 --> 01:01:39,184 Nigga, don't you know that's Ma's gal? 1068 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. 1069 01:01:42,291 --> 01:01:44,809 Your ass gonna be out there scraping the concrete, lookin' for a job, 1070 01:01:44,833 --> 01:01:45,851 you keep messing around with her. 1071 01:01:45,875 --> 01:01:48,583 I ain't done nothing to the gal. I just asked her her name. 1072 01:01:48,666 --> 01:01:51,059 If you sayin' I can't do that, Ma'll just have to go to hell. 1073 01:01:51,083 --> 01:01:53,708 I'm through with it. Try talking to a fool. 1074 01:01:53,791 --> 01:01:57,666 Some mens got it worse than others. Some mens is excited to be a fool. 1075 01:01:59,458 --> 01:02:02,083 I knows about it. The excitement is something else. 1076 01:02:02,166 --> 01:02:05,875 I done experienced it. Make you feel good to be a fool. 1077 01:02:06,458 --> 01:02:07,791 But it don't last long. 1078 01:02:07,875 --> 01:02:11,083 Over in a minute, then you got to tend with the consequences. 1079 01:02:11,166 --> 01:02:14,541 That's the best sense you made all day, talking about being a fool. 1080 01:02:14,625 --> 01:02:17,833 That's the only sensible thing you said today, admitting you was a fool. 1081 01:02:17,916 --> 01:02:21,375 Oh, I admits it, all right. Ain't nothing wrong with it. 1082 01:02:21,458 --> 01:02:24,375 I done been a little bit of everything. 1083 01:02:24,458 --> 01:02:27,166 Gonna be a bit more things before I'm finished with it. 1084 01:02:27,250 --> 01:02:29,375 But I ain't never been the same fool twice. 1085 01:02:29,458 --> 01:02:30,791 That's where we part ways. 1086 01:02:30,875 --> 01:02:33,208 But you been a fool. That's what counts. 1087 01:02:33,291 --> 01:02:35,416 Talking about I'm a fool for asking the girl her name, 1088 01:02:35,500 --> 01:02:37,125 and here you is one yourself. 1089 01:02:37,208 --> 01:02:39,000 I married a woman. A good woman. 1090 01:02:39,083 --> 01:02:42,125 To this day, I can't say nothing bad about this woman. 1091 01:02:42,208 --> 01:02:45,583 I married her with all the good intentions and graces of being hooked up, 1092 01:02:45,666 --> 01:02:47,875 bound to her for the rest of my life. 1093 01:02:47,958 --> 01:02:49,833 Looking for this woman to put me in my grave, 1094 01:02:50,416 --> 01:02:52,666 but she went out and joined the church. 1095 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:58,625 She got up there and got to seeing them good Christian men 1096 01:02:58,708 --> 01:03:00,791 and wondering why I ain't like that. 1097 01:03:01,375 --> 01:03:04,125 Soon she figured she hooked up to a heathen. 1098 01:03:04,208 --> 01:03:05,500 Couldn't live like that. 1099 01:03:06,750 --> 01:03:07,750 So she left. 1100 01:03:08,500 --> 01:03:09,625 Hmm. 1101 01:03:09,708 --> 01:03:14,416 I just sat down and I figured I was a fool 1102 01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:18,000 not to see that she needed something that I wasn't giving her, 1103 01:03:18,083 --> 01:03:20,416 else she wouldn't have been up there at the church. 1104 01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:22,000 So, yeah... 1105 01:03:22,833 --> 01:03:25,041 Toledo been a fool about a woman. 1106 01:03:26,416 --> 01:03:27,791 That's part of making life. 1107 01:03:28,958 --> 01:03:31,041 Toledo, what you call a fool 1108 01:03:31,125 --> 01:03:33,416 and what I call a fool are two different things. 1109 01:03:33,500 --> 01:03:37,666 A fool is responsible for what happen to him. 1110 01:03:37,750 --> 01:03:40,291 A fool cause it to happen. Like Levee. 1111 01:03:40,791 --> 01:03:44,583 He keep messing around with Ma's gal, his feet be out there scraping the ground. 1112 01:03:44,666 --> 01:03:46,750 - That's a fool. - Nothing gonna happen to Levee. 1113 01:03:46,833 --> 01:03:48,476 Levee ain't gonna let nothing happen to him. 1114 01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:51,434 Better not let Ma see you ask her. That's what the man's trying to tell you. 1115 01:03:51,458 --> 01:03:53,208 I don't need nobody to tell me nothing. 1116 01:03:53,291 --> 01:03:55,958 Toledo, all I'm saying is, from the looks of it, 1117 01:03:56,041 --> 01:03:58,375 from your story, I don't think life treated you fair. 1118 01:03:58,458 --> 01:03:59,750 Oh, life's fair. 1119 01:03:59,833 --> 01:04:00,958 Life ain't shit. 1120 01:04:01,041 --> 01:04:03,267 You can put it in a paper bag and carry it around with you. 1121 01:04:03,291 --> 01:04:05,500 It ain't got no balls. 1122 01:04:05,583 --> 01:04:08,333 Now death? Death got some style. 1123 01:04:08,416 --> 01:04:11,000 Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born. 1124 01:04:11,083 --> 01:04:12,500 That's how bad death is. 1125 01:04:12,583 --> 01:04:14,791 But you can rule over life. Life ain't nothing. 1126 01:04:14,875 --> 01:04:17,625 Nigga talking about life is fair and ain't got a pot to piss in. 1127 01:04:17,708 --> 01:04:19,708 All right. Now I'm gonna tell you something. 1128 01:04:19,791 --> 01:04:22,166 A nigga gonna be dissatisfied no matter what. 1129 01:04:22,250 --> 01:04:24,250 Niggas got a right to be dissatisfied. 1130 01:04:24,333 --> 01:04:27,291 Is you gonna be satisfied with a bone somebody done throwed you 1131 01:04:27,375 --> 01:04:29,458 when you done seen them eating a whole hog? 1132 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. 1133 01:04:32,708 --> 01:04:36,458 I'm talking about being satisfied with a bone somebody done throwed you. 1134 01:04:36,541 --> 01:04:40,125 That's what's the matter with y'all, you're satisfied sitting in one place. 1135 01:04:40,208 --> 01:04:41,750 Soon as I get my band together 1136 01:04:41,833 --> 01:04:44,333 and record them songs Mr. Sturdyvant done told me I can make, 1137 01:04:44,416 --> 01:04:47,500 I'm gonna be like Ma and tell the white man just what he can do. 1138 01:04:48,083 --> 01:04:49,625 Ma tell Mr. Irvin she leaving? 1139 01:04:49,708 --> 01:04:53,125 Mr. Irvin get down on his knees and beg her to stay. 1140 01:04:53,208 --> 01:04:56,333 That's the way I'm gonna be. Make the white man respect me. 1141 01:04:56,416 --> 01:04:58,375 The white man don't care nothing about Ma. 1142 01:04:58,458 --> 01:05:00,625 The colored folks made Ma a star. 1143 01:05:00,708 --> 01:05:03,375 The white folks don't care nothing about who she is 1144 01:05:03,458 --> 01:05:04,958 or what kind of music she make. 1145 01:05:05,041 --> 01:05:07,916 Let her go to one of them white folks hotel and see how big she is. 1146 01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,666 Hell, she can't even get a cab up here in the North. 1147 01:05:10,750 --> 01:05:13,083 I'mma tell you something. Reverend Gates. 1148 01:05:13,166 --> 01:05:15,500 Slow Drag, you know who I'm talking about. Reverend Gates. 1149 01:05:15,583 --> 01:05:19,333 Reverend Gates was, uh, coming up from Tallahassee to Atlanta 1150 01:05:19,416 --> 01:05:22,875 to see his sister who was sick at that time with the consumption. 1151 01:05:23,708 --> 01:05:26,583 The train come up through Thomasville, then past Moultrie, 1152 01:05:26,666 --> 01:05:29,083 and then ended up in this little town called Sigsbee. 1153 01:05:29,166 --> 01:05:31,166 You can stop telling that right there. 1154 01:05:31,250 --> 01:05:35,166 Ain't but one train come out of Tallahassee headed north to Atlanta. 1155 01:05:35,250 --> 01:05:36,458 It don't stop at Sigsbee. 1156 01:05:36,541 --> 01:05:38,875 The only train that stop at Sigsbee is the Santa Fe, 1157 01:05:38,958 --> 01:05:40,601 and you gotta transfer at Moultrie to get it. 1158 01:05:40,625 --> 01:05:42,291 Maybe that's what he done. I don't know. 1159 01:05:42,375 --> 01:05:44,458 I'm just telling you he got off at Sigsbee. 1160 01:05:44,541 --> 01:05:47,208 You telling it. Tell it your way. Just make up anything. 1161 01:05:47,291 --> 01:05:49,125 Leave him alone and let him finish. 1162 01:05:49,208 --> 01:05:50,708 Go on, tell it your way. 1163 01:05:50,791 --> 01:05:54,000 Reverend Gates got off this train in Sigsbee. 1164 01:05:54,083 --> 01:05:55,458 Figured he'd check the schedule 1165 01:05:55,541 --> 01:05:59,333 to make sure he arrived in time for somebody to pick him up. All right? 1166 01:05:59,416 --> 01:06:03,791 While he's there, it come upon him that he had to go to the bathroom. 1167 01:06:03,875 --> 01:06:05,875 Now, the only colored restroom they had 1168 01:06:05,958 --> 01:06:09,791 was an outhouse they had sitting way back, 200 yards or so from the train station. 1169 01:06:10,541 --> 01:06:13,916 While he's in the outhouse, the train go off and leave without him. 1170 01:06:14,541 --> 01:06:17,833 Now, he don't know where he is in this town. 1171 01:06:17,916 --> 01:06:19,875 In fact, he ain't never heard of it before. 1172 01:06:19,958 --> 01:06:22,083 I heard of it, and he ain't got off no train 1173 01:06:22,166 --> 01:06:24,208 coming outta Tallahassee in Sigsbee. 1174 01:06:24,791 --> 01:06:28,125 The man's standing there trying to figure out what he gonna do, 1175 01:06:28,208 --> 01:06:30,500 where this train done left him in this strange town. 1176 01:06:32,416 --> 01:06:33,625 It started getting dark. 1177 01:06:34,333 --> 01:06:36,708 He sees where the sun's getting low in the sky, 1178 01:06:36,791 --> 01:06:39,166 and he's trying to figure out what he gonna do, 1179 01:06:39,250 --> 01:06:40,809 when he noticed a couple of white fellas 1180 01:06:40,833 --> 01:06:42,875 standing across the street from the station. 1181 01:06:42,958 --> 01:06:44,875 Just standing there, watching him. 1182 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,750 Then two or three more fellas come up and join the other one. 1183 01:06:49,250 --> 01:06:53,250 Now he look around the station. He don't see no colored folks nowhere. 1184 01:06:53,750 --> 01:06:55,642 He don't know what's getting into these fellas' minds, 1185 01:06:55,666 --> 01:06:57,791 so he commence to walking. 1186 01:06:57,875 --> 01:07:01,000 He don't know where he walking. He walking down the railroad tracks 1187 01:07:01,083 --> 01:07:03,416 when he hear, "Hey, nigger." 1188 01:07:04,833 --> 01:07:06,250 Just like that. 1189 01:07:07,041 --> 01:07:08,458 "Hey, nigger." 1190 01:07:10,041 --> 01:07:11,208 He keep walking. 1191 01:07:12,083 --> 01:07:15,125 They call him some more. He kept walking. 1192 01:07:16,291 --> 01:07:19,833 Then he heard a gunshot. Yeah. He stopped then, you know. 1193 01:07:20,708 --> 01:07:21,916 They crowded around him. 1194 01:07:22,666 --> 01:07:23,791 He's standing there, 1195 01:07:24,583 --> 01:07:26,166 cross around his neck, 1196 01:07:26,250 --> 01:07:29,291 and the little Bible that he keep with him all the time. 1197 01:07:30,458 --> 01:07:34,083 They ask who he was. He said he was Reverend Gates 1198 01:07:34,166 --> 01:07:35,726 and he was on his way to see his sister 1199 01:07:35,750 --> 01:07:37,958 who was sick, and the train went off and left him. 1200 01:07:38,041 --> 01:07:40,916 And they said, "Yeah, nigger?" 1201 01:07:41,500 --> 01:07:43,166 "But can you dance?" 1202 01:07:47,125 --> 01:07:48,416 He looked at them 1203 01:07:49,125 --> 01:07:50,583 and commenced to dancing. 1204 01:07:53,333 --> 01:07:56,416 One of them reached up and tore his cross off his neck, 1205 01:07:56,500 --> 01:08:00,000 said he was committing heresy by dancing with a cross and a Bible. 1206 01:08:02,375 --> 01:08:04,958 Took his Bible and tore it up, 1207 01:08:05,041 --> 01:08:07,833 and had him dancing till they got tired of watching him. 1208 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. 1209 01:08:13,791 --> 01:08:16,416 Where the hell was God when all this was going on? 1210 01:08:17,458 --> 01:08:19,458 Why didn't God strike down them crackers 1211 01:08:19,541 --> 01:08:21,666 with some of this lightning you talking about to me? 1212 01:08:22,166 --> 01:08:23,958 Levee, you gonna burn in hell. 1213 01:08:24,041 --> 01:08:26,750 Why didn't God strike some of them crackers down? Tell me that. 1214 01:08:26,833 --> 01:08:29,875 That's the question. Don't come telling me this burning-in-hell shit. 1215 01:08:30,541 --> 01:08:31,958 He a man of God, 1216 01:08:32,041 --> 01:08:34,500 why didn't God strike some of them crackers down? 1217 01:08:35,541 --> 01:08:38,666 I'll tell you why. I'll tell you the truth. 1218 01:08:39,541 --> 01:08:41,875 God ain't never listened to no nigga's prayers. 1219 01:08:41,958 --> 01:08:44,278 God take the nigga's prayers and throw them in the garbage. 1220 01:08:44,333 --> 01:08:48,666 God don't pay niggas no mind. In fact, God hate niggas. 1221 01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:51,583 Hate them with all the fury in his heart. 1222 01:08:51,666 --> 01:08:54,333 Jesus don't love you, nigga. Jesus hate your black ass. 1223 01:08:54,416 --> 01:08:56,958 Come talking that shit to me. Talking about burning in hell. 1224 01:08:57,041 --> 01:08:58,916 God can kiss my ass. 1225 01:09:00,333 --> 01:09:04,666 You wanna blaspheme my God! That's my God! My God, you worthless-- 1226 01:09:04,750 --> 01:09:06,125 Let him go! 1227 01:09:06,208 --> 01:09:07,416 - You worthless! - Let him go! 1228 01:09:07,500 --> 01:09:10,541 - That's my God! Blaspheme my God. - Let it go! It don't mean nothing! 1229 01:09:11,500 --> 01:09:13,000 It don't mean nothing! 1230 01:09:13,583 --> 01:09:16,125 It's your God, huh? Is that right? 1231 01:09:18,708 --> 01:09:21,083 All right, I'm gonna give your God a chance. 1232 01:09:21,708 --> 01:09:23,583 I'm gonna give your God a chance. 1233 01:09:23,666 --> 01:09:25,916 I'm gonna give him a chance to save your black ass. 1234 01:09:26,458 --> 01:09:28,916 - Put that knife up! - Stay out of this, Toledo. 1235 01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:30,226 - That's no way to solve nothing. - Put that knife up! 1236 01:09:30,250 --> 01:09:33,166 I'm talking to Cutler's God! You hear me? 1237 01:09:33,250 --> 01:09:36,500 Cutler's God! I'm calling Cutler's God! 1238 01:09:37,708 --> 01:09:39,291 Come on and save this nigga. 1239 01:09:39,875 --> 01:09:42,125 Strike me down before I cut his throat. 1240 01:09:42,208 --> 01:09:45,041 - You gonna burn in hell, nigga. - I'm calling your God. 1241 01:09:45,666 --> 01:09:49,416 I'm gonna give him a chance to save you. I'm calling your God! 1242 01:09:50,166 --> 01:09:51,416 Cutler's God? 1243 01:09:51,500 --> 01:09:53,375 Come on and save this nigga. 1244 01:09:54,208 --> 01:09:56,416 Come on and save him like you did my mama. 1245 01:09:57,750 --> 01:10:00,000 Save him like you did my mama! 1246 01:10:02,541 --> 01:10:04,375 I heard her when she call you. 1247 01:10:06,083 --> 01:10:10,750 I heard her when she said, "Lord have mercy. Jesus help me." 1248 01:10:11,750 --> 01:10:15,375 "Please, God, have mercy on me, Lord. Jesus help me." 1249 01:10:16,958 --> 01:10:18,708 Did you turn your back? 1250 01:10:21,541 --> 01:10:24,083 Did you turn your back, motherfucker? 1251 01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:27,125 Did you turn your back? 1252 01:10:29,166 --> 01:10:30,166 Come on. 1253 01:10:31,375 --> 01:10:33,375 Come on and turn your back on me. 1254 01:10:35,416 --> 01:10:37,166 Turn your back on me! 1255 01:10:38,291 --> 01:10:39,625 Come on. Where is you? 1256 01:10:41,208 --> 01:10:43,333 Come on and turn your back on me! 1257 01:10:44,791 --> 01:10:48,625 Turn your back on me, motherfucker! I'll cut your heart out! 1258 01:10:49,791 --> 01:10:53,166 Come on. What's the matter? Where is you? 1259 01:10:54,125 --> 01:10:56,041 Come on and turn your back on me. 1260 01:10:57,041 --> 01:10:59,166 Come on, what you scared of? 1261 01:11:00,666 --> 01:11:04,500 Turn your back on me! Come on! 1262 01:11:10,500 --> 01:11:12,333 Coward motherfucker! 1263 01:11:17,208 --> 01:11:18,833 Your God ain't shit, Cutler. 1264 01:11:22,208 --> 01:11:23,625 Your God ain't shit. 1265 01:11:39,916 --> 01:11:44,041 Hello, central, give me 609 1266 01:11:44,750 --> 01:11:48,250 What it takes to get it In these hips of mine 1267 01:11:48,333 --> 01:11:51,000 Oh, you'll hear me talking to you 1268 01:11:51,583 --> 01:11:54,625 I don't bite my tongue 1269 01:11:56,958 --> 01:11:59,416 You wanna be my man 1270 01:11:59,500 --> 01:12:03,041 You better bring it with you When you come 1271 01:12:06,375 --> 01:12:08,916 You wanna be my man 1272 01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:12,958 Bring it with you when you come 1273 01:12:23,916 --> 01:12:25,708 Wonderful. We got that, boys. 1274 01:12:25,791 --> 01:12:26,875 Whoo-hoo! 1275 01:12:26,958 --> 01:12:29,250 Good session, Ma. We've got ourselves some winners! 1276 01:12:29,333 --> 01:12:31,333 Slow Drag, where you learn to play that bass at? 1277 01:12:31,416 --> 01:12:33,250 I heard it singing. I heard you. 1278 01:12:33,333 --> 01:12:35,093 You had that bass jumping all over the place. 1279 01:12:35,125 --> 01:12:36,291 I was following Toledo. 1280 01:12:36,375 --> 01:12:38,559 Nigga got them long fingers striding all over the piano. 1281 01:12:38,583 --> 01:12:41,184 - I was trying to keep up with him. - That's what you supposed to do. 1282 01:12:41,208 --> 01:12:42,976 - Play the music. - Cutler, you hear Slow Drag 1283 01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:44,875 on that bass spanking like you spank a baby? 1284 01:12:44,958 --> 01:12:46,666 Boom! 1285 01:12:47,291 --> 01:12:49,666 Levee, what were you doing? Why you playing all them notes? 1286 01:12:49,750 --> 01:12:52,958 Playing ten notes for every one you supposed to play. Don't call for all that. 1287 01:12:53,041 --> 01:12:55,559 You're supposed to improvise on the theme. That's what I was doing. 1288 01:12:55,583 --> 01:12:57,463 You're supposed to play the song like I sing it. 1289 01:12:57,500 --> 01:12:59,625 The way everybody else play it. 1290 01:12:59,708 --> 01:13:01,666 I was playing the song the way I felt it. 1291 01:13:01,750 --> 01:13:04,791 I'm trying to sing my song and you messing up my ear. 1292 01:13:04,875 --> 01:13:07,750 - You call that playing music? - Hey, I know what I'm doing. 1293 01:13:08,583 --> 01:13:10,583 Y'all back up and leave me alone about my music. 1294 01:13:10,666 --> 01:13:13,458 I done told you it ain't about your music. It's about Ma's music. 1295 01:13:13,541 --> 01:13:15,017 That's all right. I told you what to do. 1296 01:13:15,041 --> 01:13:17,000 What I care about what you and Cutler do? 1297 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. 1298 01:13:24,666 --> 01:13:27,083 - You keep messing with me-- - Nobody studying you. 1299 01:13:27,166 --> 01:13:29,000 All right, nigga. You fired. 1300 01:13:35,041 --> 01:13:37,666 You think I care about being fired? I don't care. 1301 01:13:37,750 --> 01:13:39,791 - You doing me a favor. - Cutler, Levee's out. 1302 01:13:39,875 --> 01:13:43,000 - He ain't playing in my band no more. - I'm fired? Good! 1303 01:13:43,083 --> 01:13:45,166 Best thing that ever happened to me. 1304 01:13:46,500 --> 01:13:48,250 I don't need this shit. 1305 01:14:31,791 --> 01:14:33,041 Okay. 1306 01:15:12,833 --> 01:15:14,625 Mel will be out with your money in a minute. 1307 01:15:14,708 --> 01:15:16,833 That's cash money. I don't want no check. 1308 01:15:17,375 --> 01:15:20,041 I'll see what I can do. I can't promise you nothing. 1309 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. 1310 01:15:22,708 --> 01:15:26,708 Listen, Ma. I talked to Sturdyvant, and he said... 1311 01:15:26,791 --> 01:15:28,625 Now I tried to talk him out of it, 1312 01:15:28,708 --> 01:15:32,583 but he said the best he can do is take $25 of your money 1313 01:15:32,666 --> 01:15:34,625 and give it to Sylvester. 1314 01:15:34,708 --> 01:15:36,166 Take what and do what? 1315 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. 1316 01:15:42,791 --> 01:15:44,101 He's supposed to have his own money. 1317 01:15:44,125 --> 01:15:45,958 He's supposed to get paid like everybody else. 1318 01:15:46,541 --> 01:15:48,666 You go on up there, and you tell Sturdyvant 1319 01:15:48,750 --> 01:15:50,708 that he better pay the boy his own money. 1320 01:15:50,791 --> 01:15:53,416 - Yeah, I talked to him-- - Talk to him again. 1321 01:15:53,500 --> 01:15:55,184 Tell him if he don't pay the boy his own money, 1322 01:15:55,208 --> 01:15:57,958 he'll never make another record of mine again. Tell him that. 1323 01:15:59,250 --> 01:16:02,166 You supposed to be my manager. Always talking about sticking together. 1324 01:16:02,250 --> 01:16:03,333 Start sticking. 1325 01:16:06,250 --> 01:16:08,500 - Get the boy his money! - Okay. 1326 01:16:09,208 --> 01:16:10,375 I'll see what I can do. 1327 01:16:41,541 --> 01:16:42,666 Hey, Ma. 1328 01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:45,416 Is there something wrong? 1329 01:16:45,500 --> 01:16:46,750 Is there a problem? 1330 01:16:47,416 --> 01:16:49,541 I want you to pay the boy his money. 1331 01:16:49,625 --> 01:16:51,166 Sure, Ma. I got it right here. 1332 01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:55,208 It's, uh, 200 for you and 25 for the kid, right? 1333 01:16:58,333 --> 01:16:59,500 Irvin misunderstood me. 1334 01:16:59,583 --> 01:17:01,708 It was all a mistake. It was all a mistake. 1335 01:17:02,541 --> 01:17:05,125 - A mistake, huh? - Sure, Ma. Made a mistake. 1336 01:17:05,791 --> 01:17:07,166 But he's paid, right? 1337 01:17:07,250 --> 01:17:08,541 The only mistake... 1338 01:17:09,541 --> 01:17:12,375 was when you found out I hadn't signed the release forms. 1339 01:17:12,458 --> 01:17:13,541 That was a mistake. 1340 01:17:14,333 --> 01:17:16,208 Come on. Sign the forms, huh? 1341 01:17:16,291 --> 01:17:18,625 - Dussie Mae, Sylvester, come on. - Ma, sign the forms. 1342 01:17:18,708 --> 01:17:20,458 Irvin, where's my car? 1343 01:17:20,541 --> 01:17:22,791 It's right out front. I got the keys right here. 1344 01:17:22,875 --> 01:17:25,291 Come on and sign these forms, huh? 1345 01:17:31,166 --> 01:17:32,333 Irvin, give me my keys. 1346 01:17:33,250 --> 01:17:36,166 Sure, Ma. Just... sign these forms. 1347 01:17:43,250 --> 01:17:45,130 Send them to my address. I'll get around to 'em. 1348 01:17:45,208 --> 01:17:47,916 Come on, Ma. I took care of everything, didn't I? 1349 01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:49,541 I straightened everything out. 1350 01:17:50,375 --> 01:17:51,375 Ma? 1351 01:17:55,208 --> 01:17:56,208 Please? 1352 01:18:15,875 --> 01:18:17,500 And you tell Sturdyvant, 1353 01:18:17,583 --> 01:18:20,500 any more mistakes and I can make my records someplace else. 1354 01:18:47,416 --> 01:18:51,250 I ain't gonna stand for it. Ain't gonna bring me no check down here. 1355 01:18:53,041 --> 01:18:54,801 Man give me a check last time. What happened? 1356 01:18:54,833 --> 01:18:56,642 We had to go all over Chicago to get it cashed. 1357 01:18:56,666 --> 01:18:59,500 See a nigga with a check, first thing they think is he stole it. 1358 01:18:59,583 --> 01:19:01,375 I ain't had no trouble cashing mine. 1359 01:19:01,458 --> 01:19:02,916 I don't visit no whore houses. 1360 01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:04,851 You don't know my business, so don't start nothing. 1361 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. 1362 01:19:08,416 --> 01:19:09,625 Don't y'all start nothing now. 1363 01:19:09,708 --> 01:19:11,934 What the hell I care what you're tired of? I wasn't talking to you. 1364 01:19:11,958 --> 01:19:14,208 - I was talking to this man. - Boys, I've got your pay. 1365 01:19:15,250 --> 01:19:18,500 Mr. Irvin told me you boys prefer cash, and that's what I have for you. 1366 01:19:19,083 --> 01:19:21,083 That was a good session you boys put in. 1367 01:19:21,166 --> 01:19:22,000 There's 25 for you. 1368 01:19:22,083 --> 01:19:24,958 Yes, sir, you boys really know your business. Twenty-five for you. 1369 01:19:25,041 --> 01:19:28,166 We're gonna get you back in here real soon. Twenty-five. 1370 01:19:28,250 --> 01:19:31,416 And have another session, so you can make some more money. 1371 01:19:31,500 --> 01:19:32,708 And 25 for you. 1372 01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:35,125 Uh, Mr. Sturdyvant, sir? 1373 01:19:37,875 --> 01:19:39,416 About them songs I give you? 1374 01:19:41,041 --> 01:19:43,500 Oh, yeah. Oh, Levee. Uh, I thought about it. 1375 01:19:43,583 --> 01:19:45,583 I don't think that people will buy them. 1376 01:19:45,666 --> 01:19:47,546 They're not the type of songs we're looking for. 1377 01:19:47,625 --> 01:19:50,666 Mr. Sturdyvant, sir. I done already got my band picked out. 1378 01:19:50,750 --> 01:19:54,291 I got some real good fellas. They know how to play real good music. 1379 01:19:54,375 --> 01:19:57,083 I know if the peoples hear the music, they'll buy it. 1380 01:19:57,166 --> 01:20:00,250 Uh, Levee, I'll be fair with you. They're not the right songs. 1381 01:20:00,333 --> 01:20:03,250 Mr. Sturdyvant, peoples is tired of hearing jug-band music. 1382 01:20:03,333 --> 01:20:06,291 The people in the big city? They want something with some fire to it. 1383 01:20:06,375 --> 01:20:08,458 Harlem, Detroit, DC. 1384 01:20:08,541 --> 01:20:11,666 Okay, I'll tell you what. I'll give you $5 apiece for 'em. 1385 01:20:11,750 --> 01:20:16,583 I don't want $5, Mr. Sturdyvant. I wants to record them songs like you say. 1386 01:20:16,666 --> 01:20:18,809 Like I say, they're not the kind of songs we're looking for. 1387 01:20:18,833 --> 01:20:21,250 Mr. Sturdyvant, you asked me to write them songs. 1388 01:20:21,333 --> 01:20:23,791 Why didn't you tell me that when I first give them to you? 1389 01:20:23,875 --> 01:20:25,791 You told me you was gonna let me record them. 1390 01:20:25,875 --> 01:20:27,351 What's the difference between then and now? 1391 01:20:27,375 --> 01:20:30,166 - I'll pay you for your trouble. - What's the difference? 1392 01:20:30,250 --> 01:20:31,583 That's what I wanna know. 1393 01:20:32,166 --> 01:20:34,041 I had my fellas play your songs. 1394 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. 1395 01:20:37,583 --> 01:20:39,541 You got to hear me play them. 1396 01:20:39,625 --> 01:20:42,666 You ain't heard me play them. That's what's gonna make them sound right. 1397 01:20:42,750 --> 01:20:44,083 Levee, I don't doubt that. 1398 01:20:44,166 --> 01:20:47,125 It's just that, I don't think they'd sell like Ma's records. 1399 01:20:48,458 --> 01:20:50,208 But I'll take 'em off your hands for you. 1400 01:20:51,916 --> 01:20:54,166 Mr. Sturdyvant, sir. 1401 01:20:55,041 --> 01:20:58,500 I don't know what fellas you had playing them songs, 1402 01:20:58,583 --> 01:21:02,583 but if I could play them, I'd set them down in the people's lap. 1403 01:21:02,666 --> 01:21:05,416 Now, you told me I could record them songs. 1404 01:21:05,500 --> 01:21:06,958 There's nothing I can do about that. 1405 01:21:07,041 --> 01:21:10,666 Like I say, it's $5 apiece. That's what I'll pay ya. 1406 01:21:10,750 --> 01:21:12,041 I'm doing you a favor. 1407 01:21:12,125 --> 01:21:15,541 If you write any more, I'll help you out and take 'em off your hands. 1408 01:21:15,625 --> 01:21:18,750 The price is $5 apiece. Just like now. 1409 01:21:43,250 --> 01:21:44,458 Hey, watch it, now. 1410 01:21:45,041 --> 01:21:47,041 Shit. You stepped on my shoe. 1411 01:21:47,125 --> 01:21:48,375 Excuse me there, Levee. 1412 01:21:48,458 --> 01:21:49,458 Look at that. 1413 01:21:50,500 --> 01:21:52,375 Nigga, you stepped on my shoe. 1414 01:21:52,458 --> 01:21:54,916 - What you do that for? - Said I'm sorry. 1415 01:21:55,708 --> 01:21:59,541 You gonna step on my goddamn shoe. You done fucked up my shoe. 1416 01:22:00,875 --> 01:22:02,666 Look at what you done to my shoe, nigga. 1417 01:22:03,458 --> 01:22:05,958 I ain't step on your shoe. What you wanna step on my shoe for? 1418 01:22:06,041 --> 01:22:06,958 Man said he was sorry. 1419 01:22:07,041 --> 01:22:10,125 How the hell he gonna be sorry when he done ruined my shoe? 1420 01:22:10,791 --> 01:22:12,083 Come talk about sorry. 1421 01:22:12,166 --> 01:22:14,708 Nigga, you stepped on my shoe, you know that? 1422 01:22:16,791 --> 01:22:20,708 - See what you done done? - I said, "Excuse me." Now it's over. 1423 01:22:20,791 --> 01:22:23,666 - What you want me to do, huh? - Wanna go and fuck up my shoe like that. 1424 01:22:23,750 --> 01:22:26,208 I ain't step on your shoe. Huh? Look at this. 1425 01:22:26,291 --> 01:22:29,666 - Okay, come on, now. - Naw, naw. Look at what you done. 1426 01:22:30,250 --> 01:22:32,541 Look at that. That's my shoe. 1427 01:22:32,625 --> 01:22:35,458 You did it. You did it! 1428 01:22:35,541 --> 01:22:37,000 You fucked up my shoe. 1429 01:22:37,666 --> 01:22:40,750 You stepped on my shoe with them raggedy-ass clodhoppers. 1430 01:22:40,833 --> 01:22:43,833 Ain't nobody studying about you and your shoe. 1431 01:22:44,375 --> 01:22:46,250 I said, "Excuse me." 1432 01:22:46,333 --> 01:22:49,333 If you can't accept that, then the hell with it. 1433 01:22:50,958 --> 01:22:52,208 What you want me to do? 1434 01:22:54,041 --> 01:22:55,875 You stepped on my shoe. 1435 01:23:01,750 --> 01:23:04,500 He... He stepped on my shoe. He did. 1436 01:23:05,958 --> 01:23:08,833 Honest. Cutler, he stepped on my shoe. 1437 01:23:08,916 --> 01:23:11,375 What he do that for? Toledo, what you do that for? 1438 01:23:14,083 --> 01:23:15,083 Cutler, help. 1439 01:23:16,166 --> 01:23:17,625 He stepped on my shoe. 1440 01:23:17,708 --> 01:23:18,708 Cutler! 1441 01:23:20,833 --> 01:23:22,625 It's okay, Toledo. I'll help you. 1442 01:23:23,208 --> 01:23:24,208 Come on, Toledo. 1443 01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:36,000 Oh, no. 1444 01:23:47,625 --> 01:23:48,833 Don't... 1445 01:23:53,708 --> 01:23:55,708 Don't look at me like that. 1446 01:23:58,666 --> 01:24:00,250 Don't look at me like that. 1447 01:25:29,416 --> 01:25:32,583 You can swing it, you can bring it 1448 01:25:32,666 --> 01:25:35,791 You can dance at any hall 1449 01:25:35,875 --> 01:25:39,208 You can slide across the floor 1450 01:25:39,291 --> 01:25:42,291 You'll never have to stall Oh, my jelly roll 1451 01:25:42,375 --> 01:25:43,833 My jelly roll 1452 01:25:43,916 --> 01:25:45,375 Oh, my jelly roll 1453 01:25:45,458 --> 01:25:47,041 My jelly roll 1454 01:25:47,125 --> 01:25:49,583 Oh, my jelly roll 1455 01:25:49,666 --> 01:25:52,333 Please, baby, let me have it all