
Enjoying a wintertime sun while playing Louis Armstrong's theme song. There are many versions on youtube and here's a great one www.youtube.com Here's some more info about the song "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", also known as "Sleepy Time Down South", is a 1931 jazz song written by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René. It was sung in the movie Safe in Hell by Nina Mae McKinney, and became the theme song of Louis Armstrong, who recorded it almost a hundred times during his career. The song is now considered a jazz standard. The lyrics concern the Great Migration in the United States, the movement of African-Americans from the South to cities in the North, with the singer talking about the "dear old Southland... where I belong", and contain many racial stereotypes. Armstrong's popularity among African American audiences dropped because of the song, but at the same time it helped the trumpeter to make his fan base broader. There is a 1942 film short of the song where Armstrong and others played slaves and farm workers. The arrangement is in standard tuning, key of F and was made by Duck Baker; he never recorded this and it was only available through a series of jazz fingerstyle cassette taped lessons for Stefan Grossman in the seventies (out of print now). I'm playing the "Dome" nylon string archtop made by Daniel Slaman. www.nylonstringjazzguitar.com The guitar is slightly amplified by an AER Acoustic Cube amp (first generation 1993)
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