Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

And they gonna treat me the way I want to be treated

I might not play nothing. I might just quit.

Levee left the hotel talking about he was gonna buy shoes.

He's supposed to get paid like everybody else.

Ain't but one train come out of Tallahassee headed north to Atlanta.

Start sticking.

White folks try to be put out with you all the time.

Good, you boys are rehearsing, I see.

Yes, sir, you boys really know your business. Twenty-five for you.

Tell you something, Irvin, and you can go up there and you can tell Sturdyvant too.

Wonderful. We got that, boys.

I don't need nobody getting something for nothing

Different tribes and things.

♪ "I wanna see that dance They call the black bottom" ♪

Keep it in tip-top order.

so he's gonna do the voice intro to the song my way.

Yeah. Shit, you colored and you can make 'em some money,

It was coming on planting time,

A fool cause it to happen. Like Levee.

You're supposed to play the song like I sing it.

I'm ready if you want to rehearse. I said there ain't no point in it.

I ain't step on your shoe. What you wanna step on my shoe for?

where this train done left him in this strange town.

♪ Please, baby, let me have it all ♪

It's just a scratch, and they'll have it ready for you this afternoon.

Damn what the band say. You supposed to have my Coca-Cola. You knew that.

No. The problem's with the kid's mic.

Straighten them up and look nice. Like a gentleman.

Straighten that out.

When you get your money, send some of it home to your mama.

Right down the hall.

Skin changing. Different molecules. Everything.

I says what the matter is with the band. I say who can and can't do what.

Come talking that shit to me. Talking about burning in hell.

This be an empty world without the blues.

I done give Mr. Sturdyvant some of my songs I wrote,

I didn't know you could write music.

Clear it out. Come on. Let's go.

Say it's on the list he gave.

I could see where it wasn't gonna do her any good.

I knows about it. The excitement is something else.

Mr. Sturdyvant gonna have to wait. It's the band's time.

I knows how to play real music, not this old jug-band shit.

- Get the boy his money! - Okay.

Levee, what were you doing? Why you playing all them notes?

laying to get them eight or nine men.

I wouldn't worry about it if I was you. Ma'll get it straightened out.

Nigga got them long fingers striding all over the piano.

I ain't rehearsing nothing.

You got that? Heh. All right, let me hear you do it one time.

Now you take and you eat that stew.

How in the hell the boy gonna do the part if he can't even talk?

Go back to my tour. I don't need to go through all this.

Ain't nobody studying you.

and you ain't had nothing to say except, "Yessir!"

There you go. That's who I am.

He reached back, grabbed hold of that knife,

That's when you and Slow Drag come in with the rhythm,

Come on, what you scared of?

He's standing there,

Irvin misunderstood me.

I done experienced it. Make you feel good to be a fool.

Oh, I ain't meant nothing. I was just asking.

I wrote that other part just like you say. It go like…

He bumped into me and fell down.

That's what we're waiting to find out.

He gonna put out what she want him to put out.

Something's been added by that song.

run them into each other, and 'cause they crash,

Why isn't she here? And where's that horn player?

As long as it ain't no check. I ain't got no use for a check.

Last time there was six songs.

They was scared I was gonna bleed to death.

What kind of a heart I got beating here!

And 25 for you.

You got some leftovers. That's what it is.

He's supposed to have his own money.

Levee ain't gonna quit.

She's late and already...

What? Mr. Irvin said we're using my version.

Now he look around the station. He don't see no colored folks nowhere.

♪ "I wanna learn that dance" ♪

- He did better than I thought he would. - My baby.

Like I said, while I was waiting for the paddy wagon,

I said, the colored man ought to be doing more

She ain't hit him. He just fell.

Mr. Sturdyvant, sir. I done already got my band picked out.

I got sense enough to know that.

I got it, Ma. I'll take care of everything.

You say, uh, you Ma's nephew?

Always agitating somebody with that old philosophy bullshit.

You let one mess with me, I'll show you how spooked up I am.

Look at what you done to my shoe, nigga.

One of them reached up and tore his cross off his neck,

Carry my nephew on down there.