James Cotton - Cotton Crop Blues download song

First hard-rock/heavy-metal/garage-rock/punk-rock antecedent ever, by the gitarist Pat Hare

Pat Hare is ripping here. The tone is fantastic.

lyric: ain't gonna' raise no mo' cotton I tell you the reason why I say so ain't gonna' raise no mo' cotton tell you the reason why I say so well if you don't get nothin' fo' ya' cotton then you'll seed so doggone low, well like raisin' a good cotton crop just like a lucky man shootin' dice well like raisin' a good cotton crop just like a lucky man shootin' dice work all the summer to make yo' cotton fall come and still ain't no price oh now, I have plowed so hard baby colds got all in my hands I have plowed so hard baby colds have got all in my hands I wanna' tell you people it nothin' for po' farmin' man

I love this tune. Pat Hare's guitar work on this is exceptional.

Yes! This is the Original, Genuine Article, Real Deal. Heavy stuff. This and Jimmy Reed High and Lonesome were way ahead of their times.

Bad Ass! Pat Hare rocks the guitar. Thanks for posting.

1:36 the point where you sell your soul to the devil for the blues :D

This is a tough record to find and it rocks hard!!!! I love it!

I wish they make distortion pedal that sound like this

Metal in the fifties?

One of the greatest blues recordings of all time. People who heard this back in 1954 probably shit their pants in fear.

we're all here from diving into the depths of Wikipedia heavy metal articles aren't we

What a great sound! Pat Hare's amp sounds like it's right on the verge of a complete melt down (or mental break down!) Listen to how he locks into the downbeat with the kick drum. So powerful.

Sick tone in that guitar. Could be the guitar equivalent of Howlin Wolf’s vocal on Evil.

Kudos to producer Sam Phillips for NOT trying to clean up Pat Hare's guitar! This kind of experimentation was what made Phillips some kind of genius. Same thing happened with the guitar amp for the song "Rocket 88"; the amp got damaged before the recording session and gave out a distorted sound. Instead of using a different amp, Phillips decided to crank up the distortion because it sounded different.

Right here, the roots of hard rock.

That's Pat Hare pushing his Fender amp just a little past what it was made for and ... It's the sound of Rock and Roll way back then!

Devastating guitar work by the father of shred!   No matter how loud and how crazy you play guitar you will never equal this...Never!

This was one of the first things I learned how to play when I started figuring out lead guitar. 

proto heavy metal ?