{"id":814,"date":"2016-04-20T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=814"},"modified":"2024-07-13T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T16:55:21","slug":"stealin-stealin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/stealin-stealin\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealin&#8217;, Stealin&#8217; (Sam Charters&#8217; reissues)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stealin&#039;, Stealin&#039;\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5I-4y2GL0I?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>If there is one reason I ended up where and who and what I am today, it is that I had an older half-brother who was into acoustic blues. Dave was nineteen years older than me, and apparently he was a great guitarist, though <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-815 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/The-Country-Blues.jpg?resize=275%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Country Blues\" width=\"275\" height=\"268\" \/>I never heard him during my childhood, because he didn&#8217;t like to play in front of people. But he had all the right records, and there were a few years when I guess he didn&#8217;t have a regular place to live, or anyway a place for the records, so he left them with us. That&#8217;s where I first heard Joseph Spence, and Jelly Roll Morton, and he had all the first round of country blues reissue albums, starting with the canonical, seminal <em>The Country Blues<\/em>, compiled by Samuel B. 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We all knew &#8220;Walk Right In&#8221; and &#8220;Stealin'&#8221; &#8212; even if we got them from Jim Kweskin, Dave Van Ronk, or the Rooftop Singers rather than directly from Cannon&#8217;s Jug Stompers or the Memphis Jug Band &#8212; because Charters chose those songs to represent those groups on that LP.<\/p>\n<p>It also included the first reissue of a Robert Johnson song, and tracks by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/midnight-hour-blues\/\">Leroy Carr<\/a>, Washboard Sam, and Lonnie Johnson, which actually led to a wonderfully tiny tempest in the hardcore bluesophile teapot: some rival collectors were so incensed at the inclusion of these obviously urban blues performers in a collection of country blues<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-818 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Really-the-country-blues.jpg?resize=201%2C196&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Really the country blues\" width=\"201\" height=\"196\" \/> that they rushed out their own anthology, <em>Really! The Country Blues<\/em>, which didn&#8217;t include any urban artists. It was great, too, and my brother had both of them, so I also got to hear Tommy Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Maggie Campbell&#8221; and Skip James singing &#8220;Devil Got My Woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t actually play many of the songs on <em>The Country Blues<\/em>, but both &#8220;Stealin'&#8221; and &#8220;Walk Right In&#8221; were so ubiquitous that I couldn&#8217;t avoid learning them, just by osmosis &#8212; hell, I remember Arlo Guthrie&#8217;s version of &#8220;Stealin&#8217;,&#8221; and Jose Feliciano&#8217;s performance of &#8220;Walk Right In,&#8221; with verses in Spanish and Yiddish. 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