The Band - Levon & Garth Backstage Jam + Sonny Boy Williamson Stories
Parental AdvisoryExplicit ContentLevon & Garth play a sweet little blues jam on accordion & guitar, leading into a couple awesome stories about the time The Hawks hung out with Sonny Boy Williamson shortly before his death in 1965. Danko appears a little slow here. I'm not sure if he was tired or stoned or what... Across the whole DVD this was pulled from, Levon lays the Arkansas s**t on pretty thick in the most wonderful ways: "He put the fear 'uh god in them sumbitches around southeast Arkansas. Baaaad ones, too. Boy, if they got the word that Sonny Boy was gonna cut their ass, they'd leave town..."
About Sonny Boy Williamson II
Alex or Aleck Miller, known later in his career as Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He was an early and influential blues harp stylist who recorded successfully in the 1950s and 1960s. Miller used various names, including Rice Miller and Little Boy Blue, before calling himself Sonny Boy Williamson, which was also the name of a popular Chicago blues singer and harmonica player. To distinguish the two, Miller has been referred to as Sonny Boy Wil...
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