You Gotta Lay Your Head
Posted in Honey on 11.01.05

October was a pretty great month for Honey, record number of vistiors/downloads and we are still here! The blues lists are coming together, though I’ll have to say it is a lot more fun to put together the reader choice list than it is to finish up my lists.

Lonnie McIntorsh was a memphis gospel singer who did a handful of solo songs as well as a handful of song as part of the Elder McIntorsh. Lonnie has a very tender voice, almost decepitivly so, this song “Sleep On Mother, Sleep On” features some quick instrumentation and Lonnie’s voice is almost too soft to really compete with the playing. It works because the softness of the voice and the crying delivery really plays well with the increasingly quick instrumentation.

Lonnie McIntorsh - Sleep On Mother, Sleep On

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By Kate on 11.01.05 9:09 pm

Top More-Than-Ten List – I’m not much for lists

1. Fattening Frogs for Snakes – Sonny Boy Williamson (Animal Category)

2. Hell Hound On My Trail – Robert Johnson (Animal Category)

3. Little Red Rooster – Howlin’ Wolf (Animal Category)

4. Hound Dog – “Big Mama” Thornton (Animal Category)

5. 32-20 Blues – Robert Johnson (Someone Done Somebody Wrong and Now They Gonna’ Suffer Category)

6. Prove It On Me – Ma Rainey

7. Bring It On Home – Sonny Boy Williamson

8. Hot Fingers – Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang

9. Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

10. You Got Something There – Blind Boy Fuller

11. Who Do You Love? – Bo Diddley

12. Stagger Lee – Taj Mahal

13. Southern Rag – Blind Blake

14. Special Stream Line – Bukka White

15. Dust My Broom – Elmore James

16. Little Son, Big Sun – Jimmie Vaughan

17. The Evening Mysteries of Ferry – John Fahey

18. Stackolee – Mississippi John Hurt

19. Miss Maybelle – R. L. Burnside

20. You Can Go Home – Reverend Gary Davis


By Rob Hutten on 11.03.05 11:24 am

Thanks, Peter, for this track. I hadn’t heard it before.

It’s a fascinating variation of The Christian’s Good-Night, most commonly known as I Bid You Goodnight, as recorded by Joseph Spence and the Pinder family.

Honey is one of the best things on the web… thanks again.
-Rob




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