I don't know whether its a liability or an asset; because, sometimes I feel like I'm three...
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Howard Armstrong:
I don't know whether its a liability or an asset; because, sometimes I feel like I'm three or four different people. I want to paint awhile and I just burn with that - just to paint, paint, paint, paint. Then, that cools off and then I wanna play by music, you know. That cool off, I wanna write poetry, I wanna do this, I wanna do something else. Actually, I feel sometimes like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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This man This man here
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This man is doing something that when he plays and sings the blues with that mandolin
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If you've been down in my part of the country
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And sleep of mornings and hear a guy going to work
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in a deck of overalls and a overall jacket
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with creases in the pants
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And he's on his way to work and hear him strumming on a mandolin and singing the blues
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or a guitar and singing the blues then you've had it
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You don't hear that now
Clip duration: 33 seconds
Views: 106
Timestamp in movie: 00h 50m 39s
Uploaded: 05 April, 2022
Genres: documentary, music
Summary: About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.
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00:08 Women fell for the dude head over heels
00:35 There were different ethnic groups here in this part of...
00:07 Cried screamed like a wildcat
00:22 And you know during that time there was a whole lot of black...
00:37 The woodpecker flew to the schoolhouse yard
00:12 But the sad part you see my poor ol' mother was...
00:13 A lot of people didn't care too much aboutJesus...
00:36 I'd hate to wake up anywhere and see that
00:25 I'm not ashamed to tell anybody my age
00:09 Preacher's a regular legalized pimp
00:13 I'm doing with my life every morning that I get up
00:31 Well anyway that's what we call steatopygic
00:12 Now there's the man Death He's the biggest pimp of...
00:13 You see a lot of people think that pornography
00:36 And my brother Roland played a homemade bass my dad made out...
00:34 Well the first string bands that I uh came in contact with
00:20 We couldn't play the blues you know for the white...
00:16 Didn't matter what the instrumentation was
00:08 He was so greedy after women
00:36 I met this young lady in 1932