[Video Link] Tarheel Slim's "Number 9 Train" (1958) is so great it makes a spinning record fun to watch.

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ROSSINDETROIT

Great song!
And I recognize that turntable. A Marantz 6300. Nice old deck.
Spinkter

FWIW, it’s exactly the kind of stuff Paul Ray plays on his Twine Time show every Saturday evening on KUT radio

It’s on right now!
pjcamp

Blazing lead guitar by Jimmy Spruill. Tarhell Slim/Alden Bunn recorded in nearly every genre from spirituals to blues, but he was instrumental in the early development of R&B. Good tune!
Fabio Ortolan

i like too this type o video there’s a “Amen, Brother” video same way than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIb1-EEWt0
millionpoems

Issued by a label run by Bobby Robinson, who appears in Ed Piskor’s history of hip hop comix…
slabman

That is two scoops of awesome with a sprinkle of brilliant on top
http://boardgamegeek.com/user/mcdrunk McDrunk

Music just doesn’t get better than this.

Tarheel Slim: "Number 9 Train"