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Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: crimmer on October 10, 2014, 11:41:42 PM

Title: wonder is this song was inspiration for gator blood
Post by: crimmer on October 10, 2014, 11:41:42 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64T6ugyWXAA, and bits like 1min 52 sec sound very similar, he he , I knew gator blood reminded me of one of my old blues songs:))

Title: Re: wonder is this song was inspiration for gator blood
Post by: border_reiver on October 10, 2014, 11:49:26 PM

Nope, more like "Poor Black Mattie" by R.L. Burnside. The riff is basically the same.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fQ3arzonUs

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12cgEQSTYxg

Asked GF about this on the 19th of August 2012. But he answered as expected ;)

"I generally leave in-depth discussion of Mark's alone on the forum."

Title: Re: wonder is this song was inspiration for gator blood
Post by: crimmer on October 11, 2014, 01:34:22 AM

yeap totally forgot about this one by Burnside ,another one in my record collection as well,lol. and played slower see what you mean :)) just love the overlap, between all these great blues artists  (at least we got a blues topic going :)),he he . and that's were we can see marks roots coming out these days , all these great old  blues and folk artists he's listened too who have influenced us and especially marks music too :))

Title: Re: wonder is this song was inspiration for gator blood
Post by: Pottel on October 11, 2014, 07:04:05 PM

first vid (of RL) was more alike, the second somehow does sound different