WEBVTT 00:00:11.106 --> 00:00:18.613 - Thank you everybody for that lovely welcome and introduction there. We are Sally Baby Silver Dollars. 00:00:18.613 --> 00:00:26.267 - I think this is the first time that I am performing on a stage in Indiana, but I have traveled through. 00:00:26.267 --> 00:00:33.627 - I've probably played at some gas stations and maybe Main Streets when I was busking many moons ago. 00:00:33.627 --> 00:00:40.766 - But I did come to Bloomington, Indiana once before I made it to New Orleans almost 20 years ago. 00:00:41.026 --> 00:00:49.317 - So I had a traveling partner that was from Indiana, a town called Hope, Indiana. And he brought me to 00:00:49.317 --> 00:00:57.690 - Bloomington on our way out to California. And I had a good time. I don't remember it much. It was like 00:00:57.690 --> 00:01:06.063 - 2007. It was a long time ago for me. But I had a nice time, and I'm happy we're back. And at that time 00:01:06.063 --> 00:01:07.038 - in my life, 00:01:08.674 --> 00:01:15.065 - I didn't know that I would end up in New Orleans. I didn't know where I was going. But that's the funny 00:01:15.065 --> 00:01:21.211 - thing about life. You're just along for the ride, and you end up where you need to be. So I thought 00:01:21.211 --> 00:01:27.356 - it would be appropriate to start this set off with a song that I wrote when I first planted my feet 00:01:27.356 --> 00:01:33.502 - down by the banks of the muddy Mississippi, like I said, almost 20 years ago. So this one is called 00:01:33.502 --> 00:01:35.038 - Decatur Street. Decatur. 00:01:59.010 --> 00:02:21.218 - Thanks to the murky Mississippi. With all them pebbles they got rolling downstream. Well, I was fooling 00:02:21.218 --> 00:02:27.838 - with a bottle of Colorado Sea. 00:02:32.834 --> 00:02:47.216 - And I've been waiting, waiting, waiting for that black and white checkered taxi. Mm-mm. I went to carry 00:02:47.216 --> 00:02:53.854 - me home to the third floor of the rice factory. 00:03:06.914 --> 00:03:22.315 - and waves all resonating through my icicle. It's mixed together like jambalaya. And it's simmered down 00:03:22.315 --> 00:03:36.670 - in a gumbo room. I could still hear my baby playing banjo down on the corner of Decatur Street. 00:03:40.194 --> 00:04:06.750 - Oh, well, I was laying on that roof I could hear 00:04:28.514 --> 00:04:40.030 - They are dangling like a goose near from the arms of a lion. 00:04:58.306 --> 00:05:23.134 - from 1993 I got the mangoes and everywhere there's a sparkling spectrum of sound waves resonating through my eyes 00:05:30.818 --> 00:05:48.926 - I still hear my baby playing banjo down on the corner of Decay Street every night she sings. 00:06:36.194 --> 00:06:38.878 - Scripts in on a soggy piece of paper. 00:07:29.666 --> 00:07:29.982 - home. 00:08:26.114 --> 00:08:33.054 - It's indeed the story of how I washed up on the banks of the Mississippi River some time ago. And I 00:08:33.054 --> 00:08:40.063 - feel like even these days when I take me a little walk along the river, I feel like I could feel the 00:08:40.063 --> 00:08:47.073 - same little breeze that brought me in. I feel like the breeze, the wind reminds me of all the things 00:08:47.073 --> 00:08:54.013 - that it's taken away. It brings it right back in the form of all too familiar memories. So that one 00:08:54.013 --> 00:08:55.262 - is about a street 00:08:55.842 --> 00:09:02.435 - which I have spent a lot of time. We were laughing backstage. We're calling it Decatur Street because 00:09:02.435 --> 00:09:08.964 - if you've been to New Orleans, you know how bad the potholes are. But they just fixed the street up. 00:09:08.964 --> 00:09:15.621 - They just opened it back. So we've been traveling a lot this summer. And I was surprised that they got 00:09:15.621 --> 00:09:22.538 - it all done. It's all fresh for us. So no Decraters on Decatur if you come visit us. But our next election 00:09:22.538 --> 00:09:24.606 - is one I wrote called The Fool. 00:09:24.898 --> 00:09:32.443 - And I wrote it for one of my favorite archetypes, if you will. And I would consider myself a fool because 00:09:32.443 --> 00:09:40.272 - I've climbed my way through life and I've walked backwards the whole time. So this one is for the contrarians 00:09:40.272 --> 00:09:47.675 - and the risk takers and the leapers into the unknown and those that are just daring enough to challenge 00:09:47.675 --> 00:09:50.878 - the status quo in whatever way they see fit. 00:09:56.802 --> 00:09:57.502 - I think I'm all right. 00:11:24.770 --> 00:11:31.358 - fire from an old crone's tongue. Would your bones turn to stones? And if the heart 00:11:55.906 --> 00:12:09.062 - makes a fool to try, a fool to try. Every fool will try, a fool must try. Every fool will try, every 00:12:09.062 --> 00:12:14.142 - fool must try. How does this one fall? 00:14:12.642 --> 00:14:15.614 - I hear the woman on that trumpet, yeah. 00:14:45.666 --> 00:14:55.347 - upon a branch, he whispers softly, take another chance, oh another glance. Our star is shining in the 00:14:55.347 --> 00:15:05.502 - night, the crown is ever sister sending out their light, oh cry the poor pleiades plight, and if the heart 00:15:27.938 --> 00:15:42.533 - It takes a fool to try. A fool to try. Every fool will try. A fool must try. Every fool will try. Every 00:15:42.533 --> 00:15:44.638 - fool must try. 00:16:22.722 --> 00:16:37.582 - Yes, indeed, we'll leave it up for the cars through the side, one for the fools. All right. Triumph 00:16:37.582 --> 00:16:49.470 - and tribulations of the fool. But as you know, the journey in life is sometimes 00:16:49.890 --> 00:16:58.240 - Not an easy one. The storm is seas that we have to first pass through in order to try to find our level 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:06.590 - ground somehow. So this next one is about weathering a storm. And I know many of us have weathered many 00:17:06.590 --> 00:17:15.422 - a storm in our time, but this one is a special storm because when I introduce this song, I always say this is 00:17:15.874 --> 00:17:22.836 - This song is my attempt at a sea shanty, but it's about a shipwreck, but the shipwreck called my life, 00:17:22.836 --> 00:17:29.798 - but about life's opportunity to take everything away but give you another chance and give you open the 00:17:29.798 --> 00:17:34.462 - door you didn't expect. So this one is called The Apple in the Tree. 00:18:40.738 --> 00:18:52.359 - down a hill and into the sea, into the sea. Upon salty shores, I was washed into the sand. Gentle ocean 00:18:52.359 --> 00:19:04.204 - waves, they scooped me up like a giant hand, scooped me up like a giant hand. Carried out with the tides. 00:19:04.204 --> 00:19:10.462 - All these bubbles flow to the surface of a foamy brine. 00:19:12.706 --> 00:19:27.322 - And the gold, so they laugh And the gold, so they cry For the starfish caught in your net The flounder 00:19:27.322 --> 00:19:30.302 - tugging on your line 00:19:33.442 --> 00:19:41.610 - sing songs of lonely vessels passing by, through thick blankets of mist and fog to meet their archied 00:19:41.610 --> 00:19:49.858 - demise, to meet their archied demise. Chanted by the sounds echoing off the towering cliffs, the rocks 00:19:49.858 --> 00:19:58.186 - like slew the star by like the scales from a swordfish, like the scales from a swordfish, and the water 00:19:58.186 --> 00:20:02.270 - splashed upon the deck. It quickly filled the hole 00:20:03.106 --> 00:20:18.392 - in every compartment. And the sailors said their goodbyes as they reflected on the sweetest memories 00:20:18.392 --> 00:20:31.710 - of their entire lives. And suddenly, with a bead of barnacles, Neptune waved his golden 00:20:32.610 --> 00:20:36.958 - sat in starry sky to spare that 00:21:43.298 --> 00:21:59.687 - into the sea, into the sea. They say them apples don't fall too far from the tree. This one hold down 00:21:59.687 --> 00:22:12.702 - a hill and into the sea, into the sea, into the sea, into the sea. Thanks y'all. 00:22:19.202 --> 00:22:27.448 - Well, we're going to play you a deep cut of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues. And this is one that is penned 00:22:27.448 --> 00:22:35.380 - by a lesser known New Orleans Rhythm and Blues artist by the name of Ned Towns. And he recorded this 00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:42.526 - song in the early 60s for Atlantic Records. And it's one called, How Do You Babysit a Man? 00:22:49.730 --> 00:23:09.695 - Still trying to figure it out. One, two, three, four, five, six. Where I saw you, I saw you last night. 00:23:09.695 --> 00:23:16.030 - You had some fella by your hand. 00:23:16.418 --> 00:23:34.578 - You were babysitting babies, but tell me how. Oh, tell me how. How can you babysit a man? Oh, oh, oh, 00:23:34.578 --> 00:23:42.590 - oh. Well, I knocked. I knocked on your door. 00:23:44.066 --> 00:23:57.763 - But I never heard no babies cry Instead I hear footsteps running Like there's a house on fire Oh can 00:23:57.763 --> 00:23:59.390 - you tell me 00:27:12.546 --> 00:27:21.954 - Y'all by Mr. Ned Towns. If anybody figures out how to babysit a man, please let me know. It's been causing 00:27:21.954 --> 00:27:30.922 - me trouble my whole life. But when I met Mr. Ned, he was singing his song on karaoke on the corner of 00:27:30.922 --> 00:27:35.582 - Frenchman Street where a lot of the music clubs are. 00:27:36.386 --> 00:27:41.352 - He was just kind of singing over the song, like off of YouTube or something, or like whatever little 00:27:41.352 --> 00:27:46.318 - track he had on a CD. And I was like, I gotta learn that song. So you never know who you meet on the 00:27:46.318 --> 00:27:51.333 - street, especially in a place like New Orleans, because they were probably a famous musician that the 00:27:51.333 --> 00:27:56.249 - industry didn't treat good, and they're just hanging out, enjoying their life now. So it's been the 00:27:56.249 --> 00:28:01.215 - story of many musicians that I met that I really admire. I'm like, what? So yes, how do you babysit? 00:28:01.215 --> 00:28:03.870 - There's some other good ones if you look online, too. 00:28:04.258 --> 00:28:10.031 - But we're going to do another deep cut for you aficionados of New Orleans traditional jazz. You may 00:28:10.031 --> 00:28:15.863 - or may not be familiar with this next one, but it's by one of the greatest New Orleans drummers, the 00:28:15.863 --> 00:28:19.038 - great Paul Barbarin. And it's called Big Bad Bullying. 00:29:14.082 --> 00:29:24.325 - That big bad bully done stole my love from me. That big bad bully done stole my love from me. Boy, that's 00:29:24.325 --> 00:29:33.988 - why I cried. Every night that's why I sigh. That big bad bully done stole my love from me. But that 00:29:33.988 --> 00:29:42.782 - big bad bully tried to run me out of town. That big bad bully tried to run me out of town. 00:29:45.186 --> 00:29:56.204 - That's why I roam. I was left here all alone. The big bad bully done broke my happy home. And the big 00:29:56.204 --> 00:30:07.222 - bad bully done drank my gallow wine. The big bad bully done drank my gallow wine. My cup run dry, and 00:30:07.222 --> 00:30:09.598 - I am feeling so fine. 00:30:17.890 --> 00:30:29.600 - That big bad bully tried to run me out of town. That's why I run. I was left here all alone. That big 00:30:29.600 --> 00:30:34.078 - bad bully tried to run me out of town. 00:32:19.714 --> 00:32:30.377 - Big, big bully done broke up my happy home. Big, big bully done broke up my happy home. I lost my wife 00:32:30.377 --> 00:32:41.143 - just to save my life. That big, big bully tried to break up my happy home. And that big, big bully done 00:32:41.143 --> 00:32:48.286 - drink my gallow wine. That big, big bully done drink my gallow wine. 00:32:50.050 --> 00:32:59.532 - My cup runs dry and I ain't feelin' so fine. That big bad booty tried to drink my gallow wine. Oh, that 00:32:59.532 --> 00:33:07.646 - big bad booty done stole my love from me. That big bad booty done stole my love from me. 00:34:06.018 --> 00:34:16.779 - Hey, a big bad bully done tried and tried, but somehow it prevails. One by the great drummer, the great 00:34:16.779 --> 00:34:27.539 - Paul Barberin. Yes, indeed, the big bad bully. Speaking of big bad bully, we got one called The Taxman. 00:34:27.539 --> 00:34:31.678 - This one was written by my friends that 00:34:32.194 --> 00:34:39.646 - Ran away from home at 16 to come join our little traveling band of brigands. And the way I came up in 00:34:39.646 --> 00:34:47.171 - music was through the streets, through busking and making my little change and figuring out everything 00:34:47.171 --> 00:34:54.696 - along the way. So of course, as you move along, you start to pick up a little bit of this and a little 00:34:54.696 --> 00:34:55.646 - bit of that. 00:34:56.258 --> 00:35:03.552 - This is one of the tunes that I've carried. A lot of us have carried each other's music, so it's a nice 00:35:03.552 --> 00:35:05.726 - thing. So here we go. Maestro. 00:37:11.490 --> 00:37:24.011 - was a girl but now I'm a little creature left in this big big world follow my legs well over the sea 00:37:24.011 --> 00:37:28.350 - till I swim my way back to Galilee 00:37:59.362 --> 00:38:02.302 - And this is what she sing. 00:45:08.834 --> 00:45:18.828 - Indeed one for the tax man, the keeper of the coin. Tell him Sally Baby's coming for them silver dollars. 00:45:18.828 --> 00:45:28.634 - He's gonna give it back. How was that? All right, shall we do a souvenir or one that I said? All right, 00:45:28.634 --> 00:45:37.214 - y'all. But we're running down to the end of our course here. We got a special one for you. 00:45:37.954 --> 00:45:44.743 - This one is by the great Smiley Lewis. This one was recorded over at Cosmos over on Rampart Street in 00:45:44.743 --> 00:45:51.864 - the French quarters in New Orleans with so many of the early rock and roll and rhythm and blues recordings 00:45:51.864 --> 00:45:58.653 - were laid down to wax in the 50s into the early 60s. And this is one we just play oh so sweet because 00:45:58.653 --> 00:46:05.309 - I think it just resonates with all of us. Because if you go to New Orleans, you're going to have at 00:46:05.309 --> 00:46:07.838 - least one night of sin. And you know. 00:46:08.098 --> 00:46:16.708 - I feel like sometimes you can make a bad mistake. I feel like I went through a town once called Truth 00:46:16.708 --> 00:46:25.655 - or Consequence, New Mexico. That's kind of deep because sometimes that's the way the silver dollar falls. 00:46:25.655 --> 00:46:32.830 - It's either truth or consequence. So here we go, One Night of Sin. One night of sin. 00:46:37.154 --> 00:46:53.918 - It's what I'm paying for, dear Things that I did and I saw Make the world stand still 00:47:07.842 --> 00:47:23.262 - me feel so ashamed. I've lost my sweet helping hand. I got myself to blame. 00:47:38.818 --> 00:47:45.854 - Sally, baby, never knew no wrong, no. 00:48:13.730 --> 00:48:22.078 - And I saw it made the world stand still. 00:51:05.250 --> 00:51:14.514 - That one night of sin, you only got yourself to blame. Thank y'all so much. We got Steve Detroit on 00:51:14.514 --> 00:51:24.149 - the keys over here. Zach Valentine on the bass. Nathan Wolman on the trumpet. I'm Sally Baby with Sally 00:51:24.149 --> 00:51:30.078 - Baby Silver Dollars coming to you from New Orleans. Is that it? 00:51:35.746 --> 00:51:42.806 - OK, we got one more. I was making sure. All right. Let's end with a nice little blues. How about the 00:51:42.806 --> 00:51:50.356 - blues of my favorite New Orleans singer that nobody has ever heard of. Born 1895, the great Lizzy Landrieu, 00:51:50.356 --> 00:51:57.346 - or as history will remember her, Lizzy Miles. And this is Lizzy's blues about some daddy issues. We 00:51:57.346 --> 00:51:58.814 - start us off, Steve. 00:52:29.442 --> 00:52:47.053 - I tell y'all I'm in danger Everywhere I go Listen here I never killed and I never stole But my conscience 00:52:47.053 --> 00:52:57.022 - got me in this hole I got a daddy right here in New Orleans 00:53:00.098 --> 00:53:12.287 - with a little loving man. And I don't know which one Sally baby likes best. I guess I like them both, 00:53:12.287 --> 00:53:24.238 - both the same. Say I got two fellas, gotta keep them apart. One is my living and the other one's my 00:53:24.238 --> 00:53:28.062 - heart. I got a daddy right here 00:53:34.626 --> 00:53:35.038 - Because... 00:54:57.890 --> 00:55:02.302 - They ain't shifting gears. I got a dad. 00:55:35.266 --> 00:55:40.924 - Thank y'all so much. We appreciate y'all. Stick around. There's a really incredible band coming up next, 00:55:40.924 --> 00:55:46.473 - but you can see us tomorrow. Our saxophone player, unfortunately, got all tied up with all the flights 00:55:46.473 --> 00:55:51.646 - and all this stuff, and we'll be here tomorrow. So we'll see you tomorrow. Thank y'all so much.