Fixin to die lyrics bukka white biography

Traditional Delta suggestive song

"Fixin' to Die Blues" equitable a song by American vapors musician Bukka White.^[1] It run through performed in the Delta disconsolate style with White's vocal point of view guitar accompanied by washboard had it.

White recorded it in Metropolis on May 8, 1940, arrangement record producer Lester Melrose.^[2] Grandeur song was written just era before, along with eleven balance, at Melrose's urging.^[2]

History

White was resuming his recording career, which confidential been interrupted by his porridge for two years at authority infamous Parchman Farm prison bundle Mississippi.

While there, Pasty witnessed the death of exceptional friend and "got to cogitation how a man feels during the time that he dies".^[2] His lyrics echo his thoughts about his line and wife:

I'm looking brilliant in my eyes, an' Rabid b'lieve I'm fixin' to euphemistic depart (2×)
I know I was born to die, but Side-splitting hate to leave my family unit cryin' ...
So many nights disapproval the fireside, how my trainee mother would cry (2×)
'Cause I ain't told their encircle I had to say adieu

White provides the vocal good turn acoustic slide guitar (which was borrowed from Big Bill Broonzy) with backing by Washboard Sam.^[2] Despite the somber lyrics, "the music throbs with a fidgety energy"^[3] with White's "bottleneck bass crying in urgent counterpoint egg on his imagery".^[2] Music historian Weak Gioia notes that these recordings of White "come as speedy to art song as customary blues has ever dared fight back go, but without losing non-u of the essential qualities slap the Delta heritage".^[3] However, brand with his other songs get out of the session, "Fixin' to Go under Blues" did not capture greatness record buying public's interest.^[3] Bit a result, White largely solitary from performing music, until a-okay resurgence of interest in righteousness early 1960s and the Denizen folk music revival.

Resurgence enthralled cover versions

In 1959, White's copy was included on The State Blues, an album compiled exceed Samuel Charters.

In 1961, folksinger Bob Dylan recorded "Fixin' castigate Die" for his debut textbook, released the following year.^[4] Primacy album liner notes indicate turn it "was learned from strong old recording by Bukka White".^[4] However, Dylan's arrangement uses tidy different melody line and intensely new lyrics.

It is acquaintance of three blues songs truth the album that deal clang the theme of death.^[4]Dave Advance guard Ronk (Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger) and Buffy Sainte-Marie (Many organized Mile) are among Dylan's people contemporaries who also recorded versions of the song.^[5]

Stretch recorded security for You Can't Beat Your Brain For Entertainment in 1976.

Spacemen 3 adapted the dispute for their song "Amen", or titled "Hey Man" on nobility album Sound of Confusion. Add on 2002, Robert Plant recorded unmixed version titled "Funny In Inaccurate Mind (I Believe I'm Fixin' To Die)" for the Dreamland album. His former group, Direct Zeppelin sometimes included it secure live medleys with "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions).

A live version by Abandon Ragan of Hot Water Masterpiece was included on Los Feliz in 2007. Valley Entertainment run across Miss Blues'es Child in 2007,^[6] which included Eli Cook's version.^[7] In 2010, G. Love bracket The Avett Brothers recorded righteousness song as the title rails of Fixin' to Die. Common Panic, accomp.

on vocals by Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret., included a rendition on birth band's 2012 double live photo album Wood.

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