Eli Framer

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Eli Framer recorded only two titles, I believe, in Atlanta in 1929. I don't think anything is known about him in the biographical sense, but he is supposed to have been from Alabama. He accompanied himself out of E position in standard tuning for "Framer's Blues", and does a nifty job of it, with strong thumb-popped bass notes. From his singing, he sounds like he may have been an older man when he recorded. This is a terrific cut, and the extent to which he barely varies his accompaniment ends up giving the whole rendition a sort of "lost in time" quality and cumulative impact. That sense of sameness or repetition is strikingly broken when he goes long at the end of the opening line of his fifth verse. I like the idea of him having his own blues named for him, and think we should all have such songs. Mama, I'm gwine to the river, set down there by myself Say, I'm goin' to the river, babe, gonna set down there by myself Told the woman I love, she don't want nobody else Say, if it wasn't for my Mother, then this girl I love Say, is it wasn't for my Mother, baby, then the girl I love Give my body to the fishes, Lord, my soul to the Lord above Say, my Mama fussed with me, when I was young and wild Say, my Mama fussed with me, when I was young and wild "Mama, you oughta consider, Mama, Lord, you done been a child." Well, I ain't gwonna marry, babe, I swear I ain't gwonna settle down Well, I ain't gwonna marry, babe, I swear I ain't gwonna

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