{"id":1920,"date":"2016-07-23T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2018-01-29T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:42:28","slug":"leave-pretty-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/leave-pretty-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Leave Me Pretty Mama (Germany\/Austria)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2JK5DttFVbs\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the one Van Ronk original on Dave&#8217;s first album, and another song I&#8217;d brought to Europe on cassette. I don&#8217;t remember where I took the time to figure out the guitar part, but in my memory it is forever linked to my first performance at a rock festival. (Which was also my last, but why mention that?)<\/p>\n<p>I was hitchhiking out of Salzburg, Austria, and it was getting late when a van pulled over and a bunch of long-haired guys said they weren&#8217;t going far, but if I needed a place to sleep I could come with them. They were members of a rock band, headed for a house in the country where they all lived together. Of course I said yes, and we spent the evening playing music, and it turned out they were having a rock festival on their land in a couple of weeks and offered me a spot on it. So I traveled around a bit, came back to their place, and did the gig.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing particularly memorable about the festival itself &#8212; aside from the moment when I went into the house to use the bathroom and interrupted the guitarist&#8217;s lovely lady friend shooting up &#8212; but the headliner was a<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1921\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Les-Brown-LP-300x294.jpg?resize=300%2C294\" alt=\"Les Brown LP\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/> Scottish singer and guitarist named Les Brown, who was living in Austria at the time. He was a fair blues fingerpicker and knew Van Ronk&#8217;s repertoire, so we hit it off and he took it upon himself to give me some tips on playing around northern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>His two main tips were that there was lots of work in Germany and I shouldn&#8217;t take a gig for under 200 Deutschmarks (about a hundred dollars). That sounded like a lot to me, but I headed west and spent a month or so wandering from T\u00fcbingen up to M\u00fcnster, and booked a half-dozen gigs for a couple of months in the future &#8212; my first tour of anyplace, ever. At that point American folk-blues guitarists were an easy sell in Germany: I&#8217;d just walk into a club with my guitar case, say I wanted to book a gig, and they&#8217;d book me. Not a single manager asked to hear me before giving me the job.<\/p>\n<p>It was also very easy to find places to sleep &#8212; if I was playing on the street I&#8217;d put a sign on my guitar case saying I needed a bed for the night, or if I didn&#8217;t feel like playing I could go into a pub that catered to young people and ask the bartender for advice. I remember one giving me the address of a student commune, and I went over and rang the bell, and a young woman opened the door, stark naked. I explained what I wanted, and she took me to a big room with several mattresses on the floor and pointed out which one I could have for the night. It was like that in the 1970s. (And no, I didn&#8217;t sleep with her. She was on another mattress, and we both were there to sleep.)<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1923 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hildegard_doebner.jpg?resize=239%2C240\" alt=\"hildegard_doebner\" width=\"239\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hildegard_doebner.jpg?w=239&amp;ssl=1 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hildegard_doebner.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of other memories of that month or so &#8212; a run-in with the cops while sleeping in a park in Dusseldorf, for example &#8212; but to finish up for the moment, I had the good fortune to wangle a guest set followed by a gig at the legendary Folkclub Witten, the oldest folk club in that part of Germany (maybe in all of Germany), run by a force of nature named Hildegard Doebner. I don&#8217;t remember much about the gigs, but she was wonderful, and when I later met and worked for Lena Spencer at the Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs, I was instantly reminded of\u00a0 Hildegard.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing: Les performed a song at the Austrian rock fest that has stuck with me ever since, and I just hunted it up on the internet and present it for your delectation. He wrote out the words and recommended learning it for the US soldier bars, and I didn&#8217;t want to do that circuit, so never learned it completely, but I got the chorus just by hearing Les sing it through. It turns out to have been recorded in 1961 by a Germany-based<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=03XaPHRhAFU\"> country singer named Eddie Wilson<\/a>, and the chorus went:<\/p>\n<p>Dankesch\u00f6n, Bittesch\u00f6n, Wiedersehn,<br \/>\nNoch ein Bier, kommen sie Hier.<br \/>\nGrosser und kleiner und nicht verstehn,<br \/>\nI wish I could sprechen sie Deutsch.<\/p>\n<p>None of which has anything to do with &#8220;If You Leave Me, Pretty Mama,&#8221; a lovely example of Dave Van Ronk&#8217;s early style, except that I played it that afternoon for Les and remembering it triggered the chain of memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the one Van Ronk original on Dave&#8217;s first album, and another song I&#8217;d brought to Europe on cassette. I don&#8217;t remember where I took the time to figure out the guitar part, but in my memory it is forever linked to my first performance at a rock festival. 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