Chords for Stefan Grossman

_ So when I was 15, before I could play Mississippi Blues, I said to my mother and father, I want
to learn how to play guitar.
_ And they said, [A] great.
_ _ [A] Better than your brother who's playing saxophone.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ And my parents were real leftist _ Brooklyn [D#] communists.
And so _ their advice was, go down to Greenwich Village.
That's where all _ the beats were, and _ communists.
_ Go down there and go to the Folklore [C#] Center and get yourself a Pete Seeger record or a
Woody Guthrie record, and then you can learn how to play guitar from those records.
_ [C] So I went down to Greenwich Village, I went into the Folklore Center, and I was [N] looking
through _ the records, a bunch of white people on these covers, and there was Pete Seeger.
And he had a banjo.
_ _ _ He didn't know how to play this.
_ _ _ _ _ [B] And then there was Woody Guthrie, and he looked really cool, he was like [A] this with a guitar.
And I said, yeah, look at that one, that should help.
And [E] I was just about ready to walk out of the store when I saw another rack of LPs,
and they were all black people. _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] Wow, _ what's that all about?
_ And I lived in a very _ _ interracial neighborhood, and we played basketball together.
I mean, it was a crazy neighborhood, Hasidic Jews, _ _ _ black guys, and playing handball was just fun.
But guitar players, I wasn't aware that there was this whole culture of black musicians.
And I was struck right away, _ not by the, _ that they were black, white, purple, whatever,
but the names.
_ _ Bo Weaver Jackson, _ _ _ Tampa Red, _ _ Blind Willie McTell, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Reverend
Gary Davis, _ _ Blind Lemon Jefferson.
_ _ _ What a name.
_ _ I have my first son, he's going to be called Blind Lemon Jefferson. _ _ _ _
_ And then as I picked up the next record, and this is true,
_ [D#] Martin Coffey, Eric Clapton, and John Renborn, they were picking up the same record in different
parts of Great Britain.
This is true, actually.
Very funny.
And it was a record that had on one side Josh White, and on the other side, _ _ Big Bill Brunsie.
_ _ Whoa, how can you have a name like Big?
_ Just a Big, Big Bill.
And so I took the record, took that record and the Woody [G] Guthrie record home, _ and I put
the Woody record on first, _ and he was going, _ _ _
_ _ I've been doing some [Em] hard trap.
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that all [G] about?
[D#] One of my, oh, they're [B] crazy.
Then I put Big Bill Brunsie on, and he was [G] playing like this.
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