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Buttermilk
Traditional Old-Time, Song and Breakdown.
ARTIST: Miles Pratcher, vocal and guitar; Bob Pratcher, fiddle. Recorded in Como, Mississippi on September 22, 1959. From the Alan Lomax Collection Southern Journey V. 6: Sheep, Sheep, Don'tcha Know the Road? - Southern Music, Sacred and Sinful
MP3: Listen to: Miles Pratcher/Bob Pratcher
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes.
DATE: Early 1900s- 1959;
RECORDING INFO: Miles Pratcher/Bob Pratcher from the Alan Lomax Collection Southern Journey V. 6: Sheep, Sheep, Don'tcha Know the Road? - Southern Music, Sacred and Sinful
OTHER NAMES:
SOURCES: New World Records; "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die Anyhow" Field Recordings of Alan Lomax
NOTES: "Buttermilk" is from the black string band tradition in Mississippi. Alan Lomax recorded Miles Pratcher, vocal and guitar; Bob Pratcher, fiddle in Como, Mississippi on September 22, 1959.
The Pratcher brothers were neighbors of Fred McDowell in Como, and also farmers, but were of an earlier musical generation. Miles and Bob were repositories of the raggy country dance music that would have been heard at picnics and other social occasions in the fin-de-siecle Mississippi Hill Country. Lomax wrote of this performance in 1978 that he “always thought of this genre as a bluesy ballad in ragtime,” lying chronologically and stylistically “between black square dance music and the first true instrumental blues.” [ from "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die Anyhow" Field Recordings of Alan Lomax]
The Pratchers, Lomax wrote, “the blues are still happy. The Pratchers grinned bawdily through all their performances.”
Buttermilk- Miles Pratcher, vocal guitar; Bob Pratcher, fiddle;
Listen to: Miles Pratcher/Bob Pratcher
Long time, so glad.
Long time, so glad.
Long time, so glad.
Long time, so glad.
Take me back, take me back,
Now that's all right.
Gal, I had you, you wouldn' do,
Got me another 'un, don't want you.
Well then, take me—
So bad, long time, etc., ad lib.
Take me back, take me back.
Now that's all right.
Gal, I had you, you wouldn' do.
Got me another 'un, don't want you.
Then ta—me—
Run today.
So bad, long time,
O Lord, etc., ad lib.
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