Ruff Stuff Part 2 of 2

T.O.: If there's anything at all, that I could say, it's follow your heart, do what your heart tells you and follow your dreams. Actualize your dreams on every level from Freud and Young, from day-dreaming to night-dreaming.

D.J.: Thanks very much, Tary, for giving us some of your time in sharing your bluesy experiences with all of the subscribers and readers of Music Education at Suite 101.

T.O.: It was my pleasure.

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Ruff Stuff

T.D.Bell

Erbie Bowser

Jewish Jazz — Klezmer music

Good Morning Blues - Albert Murray

Train Whistle Guitar

An introduction to these songs off of the liner notes from the album, "Ruff Stuff":

These songs were recorded in Central Texas on a Roberts Quartertrack recorder on front porches and in kitchens and living rooms. The music is not polished; the voices and playing reflect hard lives lived in a harsh, hostile, racist environment, trying to have a little joy, get a little release when work was done and the evening breeze would dissipate the blistering heat of a Texas summer day. To shake it down, to move your hips, to look around and laugh and smile, to forget for a while . . . this was the goal of these bluesmen. Listen closely, this won't come again.

Grave Yard Blues by Bill Neely

Jack of Diamonds by Nathaniel "Bill" Barnes

Angel Child by Mance Lipscomb

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