001you in everyone oh yeah I know I'm loud mm-hmm can you hear me thank you for coming to Chautauqua my name is John Pratt it has truly been a wonderful day of Chautauqua once again we are honored to be able to bring in the best speakers and performers from all over the country to expose our students by day and by evening we have the opportunity to share that with our amazing community and I know somewhere near me now that I'm dark I won't be able to see everyone but I always have some thank yous that I have to give out this is my 24th Chautauqua and so next ring will be my 25th by the way those of you who have phones with calendars you know because I don't okay go ahead and put in
002the date okay this is April 15th okay we're going to enjoy tax day April 15th you got it okay and the evening concert for Chautauqua is going to be a lady by the name of Kerry Butler ke rry Butler Kerry Butler is a Tony nominated Broadway star she's currently starring in the musical production of Beetlejuice she was the third Belle on Broadway in Beauty and the Beast she was in lame is robbed she was in the original Broadway production of hairspray and Little Shop of Horrors and so be sure and put that on your calendar I want to make sure I special thank yous tonight we couldn't do it without wonderful community financial support from people like the Decatur County Visitors commissioned Levinson's carpet Decatur County REMC I have an amazing arsenal of support we
003have a very very very supportive administration from mr. hunter and and mrs. Williams does so much for me and then we have mrs. Koch Meyer and mr. hip skin and mr. Peters that allow us to make this happen and I also always have to say what an amazing school board and supportive that we have and I know one of my great volunteers is Gayle roof and she's been busy hustling helping me speaking of those wonderful volunteers I'm so fortunate to have some great teacher helpers they do so much for me Heather comer Brianna Crouch our these are the kind of people that just really make it a pleasure to be able to come to work every day of course there's my inspiration every day that I always have to thank my lovely wife Jill and
004my amazing daughter Claire as well and and inevitably I always have to remember Scott Moore and as gtv crew do an amazing job of taping the whole thing we have a wonderful light and sound crew that really go above and beyond the call of duty mr. Dustin Smith and his crew we thank you so much for everything you do Stephanie Overmeyer extraordinaire volunteer Tammy who my forgetten not hearing anyway I'll do it at the end if I forgot someone now it's time for by the way I don't want to talk too long but we started the day with Kerry Kennedy okay pretty cool right okay that our students were being exposed to this great humanitarian who who is doing amazing stuff and we go from that we had Alcatraz prison guard we had an Iranian
005hostage survivor we had so many wonderful people tomorrow we get the great Martha Nix Wade who's going to be sharing her story but now it's time for Mack Arnold's story you know I got to tell you we I always say Chautauqua is a celebration of diversity and the greatness that exists within each one of us and part of that diversity is music so we are so fortunate tonight to have not a blues musician we have an iconic blues musician by the name of Mack Arnold who has brought his band from Greenville South Carolina South Carolina ah random thought up in the top left 15 Chautauqua's in a row Jeff M Zeller from the chamber of commerce and I gotta tell you I get so much support thank you so much for being here every single
006time Dan Manus the mayor of Greensburg can we give them all a nice round of applause back to Mack Arnold Mack Arnold has played with all the blues legends Muddy Waters BB King John Lee Hooker ever heard of somebody called Jimi Hendrix James Brown okay that is the quality of the individual and the thing that I love best about him he's got the world's greatest laughs okay I just love this guy please give a nice round of applause for Mack Arnold and a plateful blues [Applause] how about it everybody you're doing alright I don't know if I like this snowman that's alright it just kind of we had you know it just kind of comes and goes so earlier today I was talking about Little Walter and Little Walter play he was a harmonica player
007played with muddy waters man with one of the greatest harmonica players ever far as I'm concerned and he totally inspired me even then you know course later I run into Mack Arnold with played with muddy waters and then that was even a bigger inspiration and so now you know eighteen years later we're still playing together this crew right here and yeah it's been a ride we still rolling but one of the places I learned to write music was done at Mack Ronald's house cuz we got together every Sunday and he would be cooking chicken and vonda be cooking beans and they had to garden down there just kind of giving that Mack goes down down this long road at the end down in the woods almost and that's uh and that's kind of when we
008got our inspiration we're writing and just and just have a good time with it you know and we've been doing it ever since so I'm gonna play a little harmonica for you for it and I'm also gonna play a little song I wrote cuz it's on me [Music] watches baby watching me my love for you a real one of us a them bit by I still what you need baby yeah yeah yeah what you need [Music] yeah yeah yeah what you need it's not leaving Austin Brady on the guitar [Music] [Applause] [Music] chocolate box shoes ever color with a haunting machen sies we tell no long Joe so late Mills all around so you can see you're putting what you need babe yeah yeah yeah [Music] I live in Jiangsu now babe I'll comb them
009hair the baby I'm comb your hair fly your fat baby in a hot tub alene lose your castle baby I'll be your king what you need [Music] yeah yeah fine I'm gonna break it down and I'm gonna do some little Walter for you [Music] [Laughter] [Music] that's a diatonic come on I'm gonna break out the chromatic it's only baby fridge a max hot tower yes what a beautiful place you guys have what a beautiful school great great beautiful people we've met a lot of you like to meet more of you but dang it is cold up here [Music] joy and a bottom and Glee be up everything I need is in my loving come keep the lover coming keep coming keep the lover coming and everything will be alright praise about Elvis my Georgia homeboy
010to a big Mercedes and I'm a kisses blue or keep the lover coming keep the lover coming [Music] people love it coming everything will be alright [Music] whole lot of families living on the street their poor children ain't got nothing to eat keep the lover coming keep the lover coming people overcoming the everything will be alright you man is him take all the home to rob that wrong so keep the love a cover he loved coming keep it coming whoever sane [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right ladies and gentlemen how y'all doing a little technical deep coaches but we'll be alright alright y'all like the blues alright well we got it for you as you heard this man's played with a lot of great people like Tyrone Davis John Lee Hooker Muddy Waters Big Mama Thornton
011and he's right here for you right here tonight can you make him feel good please welcome all the way from Greenville South Carolina mr. Mack our own [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I used to live in Chicago home long years ago I never will forget all the hard time living in wind and snow I never will forget living in the ghetto well I learned how to sing a blues while living in Chicago well in 1965 I met a man named AC Reed he blew up gentle saxophone man was sure to please we bed blues everywhere everywhere we go well well I never will forget living in the ghetto in 1966 I met a man named Eddie waters and a slide play alive play slide guitar after we played blues everywhere from New York Jeffrey's birth
012hippie and well I never will forget living in the ghetto well well well well well [Music] awesome ladies and gentlemen then I met another blues singer about a name of Tyrone Davis we sang you play a lot he would run the ladies crazy we played all the clubs Southside Chicago well well well well well I never will forget living in the ghetto I made a guitar player singer about a name a Buddy Guy played a song the songs he wrote made everybody cry he played everywhere around Chicago well well well well well I never will forget living in the ghetto okay you know I've been around the school's world for so long over half the blues singers I've met y'all ready go no for saving me and letting me grow old well well well well
013I never will forget oh I'm gonna say it again y'all you know I've been around this bull girl for so long hold the half the blues I will forget living in the ghetto well well well well well living in the ghetto in a ghetto oh well well Liberty ghetto [Music] well I never will forget [Music] [Applause] we're from Greenville South Carolina we are Matt Cardle plate full of Blues we're just so happy to be here tonight and we're so glad that you all showed up as well we're gonna play our song from our latest CD and by the way we have CDs and if you wanna take some great American blues home with you tonight with the CDs to be out in the hall as you're out I'll be out there with you all right
014we're gonna take it to the swamps y'all ready for the swamps of old face max Hightower back home loves dizzy dizzy only to talk Australasia come on y'all let's get the party started [Music] well Amos Moser was occasioned who live by self in the swamps trapped banana in the fall with him I just knock come in here with his tongue way older Louisiana law gonna get Jamis everybody blame his old man to make him mean as a snake we named butts moles it was the boys daddy's using alligator meat tie rope around his weight though I'm in the swamps named doc Nilsa industry ride and I rhythm but son that you didn't believe in Russia good evening bout to the man of the cloth call ma mesmo was a hell of a man he can
015drop the beat you said the meanest navidad and just use one hand that's all - a friend was in the swamp tarpon alligator skin you went in the swamp try to get the boy but he never come out of here hello I wanna win the Louisiana chef with you [Music] about 45 miles off estupidos in was a cat named dog meal shop food arrived and I named him after the man of the car was a cat named named him after the man of the cloth calling me baisemeaux thank you so much this is such a wonderful day we had a great time today here at the high school it's always great to go back to school in orders I'd sure like it recognize him I tell you this man he's incredible I did the Soul
016Train show from 1971 to 1975 and this gentleman is is so energetic he's so creative you're liminal trained running on the tracks in Chicago you can see them wheels going like this well let's give a big round of applause y'all - Fred Craig he's the man I'm telling you now here's the guy that did the animation for the Soul Train Show I say cars could say who's been inside [Music] don't talk they never talk well only in the world trouble we'd be if they never told told me things ever talk that way [Music] ready my take [Music] Desktop [Music] well they never talk if you can say well baby when you say [Music] I got a special request from a special gentleman right here at the high school this song we're going to send out
017to mr. Pratt this song is entitled driving wheel [Music] my baby no doubt the West she don't off the rava seal my better don't have the wrong [Music] Oh wait a minute [Music] I want every time [Music] to say the whole tree I said yes [Music] like poetry [Music] baby yes well you get to start potatoes Angie [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's my great pleasure to be able to play with some wonderful kids young adults and I'm just so happy that they're playing music to keep the music scene alive give a big round of applause to the jazz band right here at the high school [Applause] [Music] so wonderful that's a wonderful thing one of these people are gonna be great one of these days maybe two of them but I'm happy if just one out
018of the group become a famous person playing music it means a lot to me it means them what to the music industry thank you all so very much thank you thank you it's my great pleasure [Applause] well while they coming down I'll I'll tell you all whole story you're about this gasoline can I'm from a family of 13 siblings from down in Greenville County South Carolina and my one of my older brothers wanted my father to buy a guitar that was my father was very religious he was he was Baptist Church he was and he would didn't allow guitar in the house so my brother waited until he went to Florida pick oranges when fall 1946 while he was gone he took one his gas cans like this and cut holes in it and maybe
019guitar and took it to school and he won first place for sure until well I was basically a toddler at that time and it just I was just so enthused about that and he was happy as a lark wouldn't anyone touches get there after that and even how I just get to her in the ball where the cotton and everything were putting into the word of cotton he couldn't let my dad know that he had an either and I would wait til he go home leave the barn he'd get dressing he'd take off and go someplace I'd get his guitar and start strumming just get turned I'll learn to strum only get to her while he was gone he would come home next day come back in the house even mad as a wasp who
020had bands oh my guitar but no one would say anything not dare enough to tell him that I had to get our ally in well this guitar rock Don in the family from 1946 to 1516 years ago one of my older brothers and I were sitting around the house reminiscing and the subject came up about the old guitar we used to have in the house back in the day and I'd forgotten it he kept talking to men it all came back I said oh my goodness I gotta find a can so I started looking for a can I had people in Georgia North Carolina Tennessee Alabama Mississippi all those people that where we made circles tell them I want you to find me a 10 can one gallon can well took took about a year
021for that to come about and the way it came about I was having one of my friends that has a little tire shop in his backyard switch the tires around on my car and I looked in the corner of his shop there was a king oh man I just know that's my cans for my gasoline for the lawnmower I'll buy you some more kids I'll buy you today's kids you don't need that old camp well he gave in gave me the can the can has taken us all around the United States to Europe about nine times and here we are tonight playing the old can and I want to do this song for you this song is from a colonel and plate full of booze and it's entitled don't burn my corn bring it to
022[Music] baby you sweet up there fees we started burn so tis good to me don't burn my diary [Music] don't squash my opinions don't find my boy don't squash my happy start cooking one thing you need to know don't burn my cornbread don't squash my happiness don't burn my god don't watch my happy [Music] Razia [Music] I'm out here on this road heading home to the baby I'll never let you go don't burn my cornbread don't squash my happy don't burn my cornbread you're gonna squash my happy [Music] I miss you so much babe so glad we still meet I don't burn my corn don't squash my happy don't burn the back go on really don't cause my happy don't burn gorman we're gonna squash my happy [Music] yeah we'll slow the pace down a
023little bit do a song from a gentleman I just love graciousness sage the wealth its gentleness from down there the Delta of Mississippi this song is entitled don't throw your love on me so strong [Music] [Applause] [Music] don't pull your level missiles oh hey baby don't pull your level me so slow [Music] you're laughing like a faucet you can turn it off you know I like what you put down I like what you put down [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] awesome resonate assuming [Applause] [Music] maybe when you change your mind baby baby when you change your mind you're gonna shock the whole well overlooking for me [Music] [Applause] thank you so much we all love song right here we just love doing this song all the time this song is entitled Sweet Home
024Chicago [Music] baby don't you go come Oh baby don't you wanna go back and see the play Sweet Home Chicago [Music] combo [Music] Hey [Music] back at Sabre play Sweet Home Chicago well two is a better and safer place Sweet Home Chicago [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh hi baby don't you say Sweet Home Chicago [Music] [Applause] [Music] you know I need you sir [Music] I'm sorry baby okay senator you go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] don't put your love around [Music] wait [Music] nope [Music] [Applause] [Music] I miss you so [Music] and I'll add this up my speed now the let you go [Music] yeah it's been a great night you all it's really great all day I've enjoyed myself so much and once again let's give the band a big round of applause you all
025the Jazz man right here at this wonderful high school we're gonna close the show out with a little song that we wrote and we wrote it for the south of the north carolinians but we brought it to you tonight well if you're like it we always say it ain't no thing unless you got that Twain how y'all do it this song is entitled cackalacky Twain and it goes like this [Music] no when I'm in your town my my style and my catches huh who's our power - something's wrong when I see our hair [Music] I got my can in my hand if you like the blues and your man Cindy all night long when I play [Music] with a cackle [Music] hello bass max hat our Michael James dizzy dizzy home - lead guitar Austin
026raesha but y'all know what y'all know what it's getting late gather round stop your feet down a house down for Lee like John Wayne don't sit don't wallow say winter catalyzed it was [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Applause]