Furry Lewis

He absolutely HATED the song Joni Mitchell wrote about him.

This is a cool vid

Lots of the blues was formed with a nail some baling wire and a fence post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmuTvWIQyyo

No video, but:

"The way I feel" says Furry "is that your name is proper only to you, and when you use it you should get results from it. She shouldn't have used my name in no way, shape, form or faction without consultin' me 'bout it first. The woman came over here and I treated her right, just like I does everybody that comes over. She wanted to hear 'bout the old days, said it was for her own personal self, and I told it to her like it was, gave her straight oil from the can." He stares at the surrealistic photo on the Hejira cover. "But then she goes and puts it all down on a record, using my name and not giving me nothing! I can't stop nobody from talkie' 'bout Beale Street, 'cause the street belongs to everybody. But when she says 'Furry,' well that belongs to me!" (Though Joni Mitchell had no response to Furry's comments, her manager, Elliot Roberts, responded: "All she said about him was, 'Furry sings the blues' the rest is about the neighborhood. She doesn't even mention his last name. She really enjoyed meeting him, and wrote about her impressions of the meeting, He did tell her that he didn't like her, but we can't pay him royalties for that. I don't pay royalties to everybody who says they don't like me. I'd go broke.")
 

Memphis newspaper published this a few days ago:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/2017/03/03/beifuss-f...

Always liked this one.

Love Furry Lewis. Nice video, thanks.

This is one of his best recordings.  Good for Sunday mornings, coming down.

Hrre's the Allmusic Review:

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Review by Mark Deming

Recorded in informal sessions with blues archivist George Mitchell in 1967 (except for two songs recorded in similar circumstances in 1962), Good Morning Judge captures the aging Furry Lewis in fine and relaxed form, casually spinning out some of the most hypnotic acoustic blues ever captured by modern recording equipment. Stretching out his songs in a manner he couldn't have managed on his 78s of the 1920s, Lewis plays powerfully elemental slide guitar (the title cut sounds like something John Fahey could spend his whole life trying to re-create) and sings with a force that's both subtle and powerfully compelling. Unlike a great many veteran country blues artists who were rediscovered in the 1960s, Lewis' later recordings are in many ways just as compelling as the records he cut in his youth, and Good Morning Judge finds him conjuring a deep and powerful spell with the simplest of aural materials. Superb stuff.

>>>Guy has some unique technique. 

Indeed, he's as sassy as he is furry

>>>hated...Joni Mitchell...

He claims she didn't ask permission.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejira_

Hope he got over it.