Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down download song

jesus christ .... this is why I started to learn guitar as a kid. Got nowhere near it. So just watch and listen to it now. Most folks have no idea that these guys are the 'real' guitar greats and that most music comes from these roots ....... apart from shit like Beyonce of course :)

"If you pay attention - What I sing, the guitar sings too, and what the guitar says, I say." Spoken like the true legend he is...

The more I listen to the real bluesmen the less I bother with the rockers who copied them, and I grew up with the rock.

This man is not human...Honestly..just perfect.

im convinced that this is one of the best mississippi blues recordings ever made. 

who ever was the camera man thank you.

that is some killer rhythm guitar playing right there.

These Blues guitarists are in an entirely different genre than rock and roll but in the Blues world he has to be the best.

One of the nicest, most brilliant performers I ever saw

A lotta guys have their idols.  Some say John Hurt, some says Blind Willie (Johnson or McTell, whichever), or Son House, or Leadbelly.  For me?  It's Mississippi Fred McDowell. And the worst part?  I can't even get close to being able to play like the man.  Love him until the end, though!

This guy is so underrated it's unbelievable. They don't rank him in the top 100 guitarists or the top 30 blues guitarists. I'm put him near the top of each list.

If this doesn't Get you Moving, You are Dead, Call the Funeral Home....

It is so weird to see a lot of untalented guitarists in Rolling Stone's Greatest Guitarists list, and not this man. Look at his flawless technique. He definitely knows his way through the keyboard, and gives a unique tone when strumming. He is easily in the top 100. And, him not being in that list makes me think, either who made that list is retarted, or they choose whom to put to the list by "how much they are liked or listened", not by how talented they are. Such a shame.

Well, so much for taking lessons. You won't get this good. Even Johnny Winter couldn't have played like Fred.

Saw Fred in 1965 at the American Folk Blues Festival along with J B Lenoir, Buddy Guy, Shaky Horton, Dr Ross & Big Mama Thornton. An experience that always will live in my memory as one of the greatest concerts of all time. Up there with the Band, Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters & Sister Rosetta Tharpe. These guys didn't need autotune or any hype - they just played from the heart to touch the heart. Feel so priveleged to have been there & seen so many incredible musicians...

his right hand is rock solid.  that strum pattern is so intricate.  amazing...

He came to my college around 69 or 70, and I was assigned to take him around for the day. We spent an hour with two guitars where he tried to show me how to play that chugging riff. I was inches from him and I still couldn't get it! Amazing! very nice guy though.

Mr. McDowell lived in Como,Mississippi for years..he use to pump gas at a gas station next to the train tracks. Awesome man!

Fred was a magician, playing rhythm & lead simultaneously & making it work so well, & sounding like he was playing in a duo or trio with another guitarist or two instead of solo!