{"id":1107,"date":"2016-05-16T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2024-05-23T04:10:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T08:10:23","slug":"where-were-you-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/where-were-you-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Were You, Baby? (Josh White)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Where Were You, Baby? (Josh White)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFitdbdHmfg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Josh White was one of my first musical heroes, and when I began to try to play blues, his songs figured prominently in that effort. That was one of the things that endeared me to Dave Van Ronk, who was heavily influenced by Josh&#8217;s work &#8212; though if memory serves, we didn&#8217;t actually get around to discussing Josh until we were already pretty close, since by the mid-1970s his work had generally fallen out of fashion. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1108 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Josh-White-Song-Book.jpg?resize=215%2C285&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Josh White Song Book\" width=\"215\" height=\"285\" \/>The 1960s generation of white urban blues fans tended to consider him too slick, and to prefer performers who sounded more rural, or who had had the grace to die back in the 1930s, or &#8212; perhaps most significantly &#8212; whom their parents hadn&#8217;t heard of.<\/p>\n<p>Josh was slick, indeed. His guitar work was smooth and clean, with a vibrato unequaled by anyone this side of Lonnie Johnson; his voice was light and sexy; his diction was immaculate; and he was an expert urban cabaret performer, the model for Harry Belafonte among many others.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote in his biography,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/josh.html\"><em> Society Blues<\/em><\/a>, my parents used to have regular arguments about the first time they saw Josh. It was at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and my father always remembered him as an earthy, masculine performer, glistening with <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1354 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/joshcovf.jpg?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"joshcovf\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/joshcovf.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/joshcovf.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>sweat as he sang rough blues and work songs. My mother, by contrast, remembered his elegant silk shirt, and the second shirt he changed into during the intermission. They agreed about the sweat, but my mother did not associate it with work songs &#8212; like most of Josh&#8217;s female admirers, she thought of him as suited to a more intimate environment.<\/p>\n<p>Josh did sing a lot of traditional blues and work songs, but he also sang pop songs, and British ballads, and some unique nightclub confections composed for him by professional Manhattan tunesmiths. According to the liner notes of his 1955 Elektra LP, <em>The St<\/em>ory of <em>John Henry\/Ballads, Blues, and Other Songs<\/em>, the lyrics of &#8220;Where Were You Baby&#8221; were by someone named Frank Warren &#8212; a songwriter of that name is credited with a few other compositions, including one recorded by the Black folksingers Joe and Eddie &#8212; and the music was Josh&#8217;s own. The notes added, &#8220;It has been a favorite of his audiences in recent years; its clever wording is always good for a chuckle and Josh&#8217;s unique phrasing milks every line of its full meaning.&#8221; To me, it is the perfect encapsulation of the mix of solid blues skills with sexy charm and humor that made him a cabaret star and suited him so perfectly that it seems kind of silly for anyone else to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but what the hell. I&#8217;ve loved this song since I first heard it, and very few people know it (except a coterie of hardcore Don McLean fans), and it&#8217;s a great piece of work. It also played a vital part in my musical education, since it was the first song I ever learned that required a diminished chord. 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