If You Lose Your Money - Sonny & Brownie cover

I am putting up too many videos. I said I would quit when I needed glasses. But I keep hearing good songs on Pandora free radio. This one uses straight harp and trying to do the job of two guys (Sonny and Brownie) is hard on the wind. I looked at video lessons on how to play harp like Sonny Terry. But I guess I would rather just sound like me.

It's good to be unemployed (retired, I guess). Picture perfect Iowa summer morning with nice temps. Fishing at Prairie Rose and Nishna Bend. No fish. Lots of seaweed snags. Many wildflowers and birds. Birds: dickcissels, red cap sparrow, house sparrows, chimney swifts, barn swallows, cliff swallows, king birds, kingfisher, Canada geese and lots of goose poop, coots, great blue heron, mourning doves, meadowlark, killdeers, kestrel, cardinal, bluejays, brown thrashers, starlings, robins, red wing blackbirds, cowbird.

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Comment by Uncle John on July 25, 2017 at 2:22pm

Thanks, James O.  Maybe some fish next time.

Comment by James O Lunsford on July 25, 2017 at 1:34pm

Nice harp playing with the gitar all them Birds eating the fish Keep making those videos keeping Us entertained with that Uncle John style

Comment by Uncle John on July 25, 2017 at 11:59am

Oh yeah, Andries.  Clapton and Cream did kind of  a psychedelic blues version.  One thing I think Clapton could have done better at is giving credit to the blues forefathers that did the song previously.  But in this odd case, he may have done his version before Sonny and Brownie did theirs.

Comment by Uncle John on July 25, 2017 at 11:55am

Thanks, Andries.  It is a pretty cool old tie with painted roses and flowers, probably from circa 1930.  You know, I do recall Clapton doing a version of the song.  I will go try to find it on youtube.

Comment by A.D.EKER on July 25, 2017 at 11:47am

Geeszz Uj sounds like Bird Paradise where you been fishing! but thats a fooling woman there on your knotted tie,not that im interested she to small to get a good look at, but its suits you Dandy on your Sunday Best Ya! but do you have rezon to believe someone will? Home everyday must be a big change for her aswell! whit the kids away and just the Cats and you two! a good thing you got someting to keep busy whit !! did not know it was from brownie & mcgee, know it by the brit E.Clapton. 

Comment by Uncle John on July 25, 2017 at 11:40am

Wes,  Dave, Bones, Alan, and Richard, thanks for the kind words, friends.  Now I have license to step up the video production!  Look out! 

Bones, I really wish I could use a stomp box, but I suck at it even more than I suck on the harp.  It's okay to suck at harp, but not so okay to suck at stomp box.

LOL on the fumes, Richard.  They sanitize the harp.

Comment by Richard Sundberg on July 25, 2017 at 11:22am
Don't know if I'm in the Pawn Shop, bail bonds, or double whiskey with my ham and egg cafe. Thanks for the paragraph about summer mornings, fishing, and birds, tons of birds! Some of us poor folk have to work for and sweat even if we are retired. You conjured up a beautiful watercolor portrait of summer morning. I'm to young to know what shits and giggles mean, unless it's a Canadian goose thing. Keep discovering tunes on Pandora, we all need our UJ fix! You have it wrong, Sonny Terry needs to watch your modernized harp! If he's still around that is. If You Lose Your Money, great stuff Uncle, harp as well on whiskey fumes!
Comment by AGP # on July 25, 2017 at 10:55am

Good Tune 'UJ', I only wish I had some money to lose, and some people say I lost my mind when I caught the CBG bug!, plus you my friend, can be never be accused of putting up too many Videos, we want more !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Jeff 'Bones' Reilly on July 25, 2017 at 9:46am
Great tune Sir you need a stomp box set up on your Rocking chair, yes its nice to be retired taking time to smell the roses and listen to the Red Robin sing his morning song .
Comment by Dave Lynas on July 25, 2017 at 9:24am
Nice Uncle. Never too many vids Uncle. Thanks for a show.

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