{"id":3876,"date":"2018-07-21T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2018-07-23T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:33:21","slug":"satisfied-and-tickled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/satisfied-and-tickled\/","title":{"rendered":"Satisfied and Tickled Too (John Hurt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Satisfied and Tickled Too\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9fvXBQ8gpaM?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>What goes around comes around, sometimes in very nice ways. I don\u2019t remember if it was a few months or a year, or even two, but in any case sometime after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/so-different-blues\/\">Dominic Kakolobango<\/a> spent a week taping his favorite records out of my collection, I was in his apartment in Brussels listening to his taped selection of Mississippi John Hurt songs.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3883 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mississippi-John-Hurt-voa.jpg?resize=300%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mississippi-John-Hurt-voa.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Mississippi-John-Hurt-voa.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I had always named Hurt as one of my favorite singers and guitarists, and played a bunch of his songs, but like most people I thought of his playing as relatively simple and straightforward compared to the work of people like Willie McTell, Blind Blake, or Lemon Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>So there I was in Brussels, Dominic was at work, and I figured I\u2019d learn a couple of songs I\u2019d always liked. And, for the first time, instead of just playing rough approximations of what I heard, I decided to listen carefully and try to figure out exactly what Hurt was doing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026which opened up a new world. Because if you actually pay attention to what he played, John Hurt was a superbly quirky guitarist. I\u2019ve already posted about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/richlands-woman\/\">Richlands Woman,<\/a>\u201d which I recall as the first song I worked out that day, with its wonderfully economical choice of bass notes. Then I moved on to \u201cSatisfied and Tickled Too,\u201d and found it was missing half a measure, or added half a measure, or was missing or added a beat, but in any case did it consistently in every verse.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-772\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/John-Hurt-Today.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/John-Hurt-Today.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/John-Hurt-Today.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/John-Hurt-Today.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>That was an interesting experience, because I first tried to count the beats along with his recording, and work it out logically, but I kept getting confused\u2026 so I decided to just play along with him, over and over, learning the song like a toddler learns to talk.<\/p>\n<p>It worked, and this became one of my favorite songs. Now I usually play it with my wife Sandrine on clarinet, and she learned the timing the same way \u2013 first tried to count it, then just surrendered and played along till it felt natural.<\/p>\n<p>The song is related to a piece the Memphis Jug Band recorded as\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3884 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/You-May-Go.jpg?resize=200%2C259&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" \/>\u201cYou May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back,\u201d and may ultimately derive from a verse-and-chorus sheet music hit from 1898 by Ben Harney\u00a0 (whom I&#8217;ve discussed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/tell-old-bill\/\">an earlier post<\/a>) &#8212; though none of the three songs shares much more than the tag line. Hurt&#8217;s is my favorite by far, sung from the point of view of a woman who is confident that &#8220;it&#8221; will bring her lover back &#8212; &#8220;it&#8221; clearly being\u00a0 her <em>todalo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There has been lots of speculation among blues scholars about the derivation of this word, producing a range of more or less unlikely folk etymologies, but the meaning is clear enough in context: \u201cI pull my dress up to my knees\/Give my todalo to whom I please.\u201d And, once one knows that, it clarifies some other mysteries, like the title of Duke Ellington\u2019s \u201cEast St. Louis Toodle-oo,\u201d a euphemistic mis-spelling, suggesting a cheery and childish goodbye rather than a local specialty in one of the fabled jazz towns of the Prohibition era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What goes around comes around, sometimes in very nice ways. 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