{"id":1504,"date":"2017-05-19T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2017-05-17T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T08:42:22","slug":"song-of-the-week-make-me-a-pallet-on-the-floor-by-sam-chatmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Make Me a Pallet on the Floor&#8221; by Sam Chatmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Make Me a Pallet on the Floor&#8221; by Sam Chatmon:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AkEhtfPN084\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;See My Jumper Hanging on the Line&#8221; by R.L. Burnside<\/a>, which was a film from the excellent Alan Lomax Archive YouTube channel. Casting around the channel landed me this wonderful film of Sam Chatmon, who was a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KrLzQa1ygU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mississippi Sheiks<\/a>, singing this unbelievably wonderful song. He describes it as\u00a0 &#8220;blues type, but not a blues.&#8221; I love the lyrics, and Chatmon is a superb guitar player.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Make%20Me%20a%20Pallet%20on%20the%20Floor%22%20by%20Sam%20Chatmon\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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