The Rough Guide To The Best Country Blues You've Never Heard

Country Blues / Traditional Blues
premiera polska: 2018-12-12
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Gatefoldowe etui
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Niezwykła kolekcja rarytasowych nagrań zapomnianych gigantów amerykańskiego country blues, to jeden z najwcześniejszych, niemal archetypicznych gatunków muzyki bluesowej. W realiach XIX wiecznego południa Stanów Zjednoczonych bluesmanem zostawał chłopak, który nie mógł pracować na plantacji, głównie z powodu kalectwa (najczęściej problemów ze wzrokiem), stąd taka nadreprezentacja niewidomych bluesmenów w tym środowisku.
Na tym wyjątkowym albumie usłyszymy wybitnych przedstawicieli gatunku jak Little Hat Jones, Carl Martin, "Funny Papa" Smith, Lottie Kimbrough & Winston Holmes, Fred McMullen & Ruth Willis, The Two Poor Boys, Papa Egg Shell, Spark Plug Smith, Uncle Bud Walker, Willie Baker, Pearl Dickson, Mississippi Matilda, John Byrd & Washboard Walter czy Charlie McCoy.
Editor's info:
Mysteries abound for many of these obscure country blues artists who cut a handful of sides in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although just the nicknames alone will fire any blues connoisseur’s imagination, from the likes of Papa Egg Shell and Little Hat Jones to Uncle Bud Walker and Spark Plug Smith, these tracks are essential listening and offer a unique insight into early country blues.

John Byrd & Washboard Walter’s beautiful duet ‘Wasn't It Sad About Lemon’ is a tribute to the great Texas bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson shortly after his death. Likewise, The Two Poor Boys (Joe Evans & Arthur McClain) pay their respects to the great man with ‘Two White Horses In A Line’, a classic rendition of Lemon’s ‘See That My Grave Is Kept Clean’ with the use of the mandolin showing the clear influence of hillbilly music. Charlie McCoy was another mandolin player and one of the major blues accompanists of his time, and here he shows his versatility by singing the sentimental ‘Always In Love With You’, a far cry from the intense sound of many of his Delta blues brethren.

This collection features many oddities including the novel musical partnership of Lottie Kimbrough & Winston Holmes, with Kimbrough’s vocal power and unique song arrangements embellished by the yodels and vocalised bird calls of Holmes. Kimbrough is joined by other country blues divas Mississippi Matilda, whose masterpiece ‘Hard Working Woman’ shows off her breathless falsetto to great effect, and Pearl Dickson of which little is known other than that her classic ‘Twelve Pound Daddy’ was one of just four sides recorded in 1927.

The Texas blues guitarist "Funny Papa" Smith is one of the exceptions on this album in that he recorded some twenty issued sides. A fascinating figure who took the pseudonym "The Howlin’ Wolf" long before Chester Burnett arrived on the scene, he was one of the pioneers of the Texas blues style.

Lawrence Casey aka Papa Egg Shell gained his nickname because of his premature baldness, and ‘Goin' Up the Country’, a wonderful take on the ‘Kansas City Blues’, displays his fluid and dextrous picking style to the full. Egg Shell is one of many very fine guitarists included in this collection who are now long forgotten, giving further proof of the sheer wealth of intriguing and remarkable material that comes to light when digging that bit deeper into the annals of country blues.

utwory:
1. Little Hat Jones: Kentucky Blues
2. Carl Martin: Crow Jane
3. Johnnie Head: Fare Thee Blues - Part 1
4. "Funny Papa" Smith: Honey Blues
5. Lottie Kimbrough & Winston Holmes: Lost Lover Blues
6. Fred McMullen & Ruth Willis: Just Can't Stand It
7. Jack Gowdlock: Rollin' Dough Blues
8. The Two Poor Boys: Two White Horses In A Line
9. Bob Campbell: Shotgun Blues
10. Charlie McCoy: Always In Love With You
11. Papa Egg Shell: I'm Goin' Up The Country - Part 1
12. Ollis Martin: Police And High Sheriff Come Ridin' Down
13. Spark Plug Smith: In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
14. Tom Dickson: Death Bell Blues
15. Uncle Bud Walker: Look Here Mama Blues
16. Willie Baker: No No Blues
17. Walter Coleman: Mama Let Me Lay It On You
18. Pearl Dickson: Twelve Pound Daddy
19. Jack O' Diamonds: The Ducks Yas Yas
20. Mississippi Matilda: Hard Working Woman
21. John Byrd & Washboard Walter: Wasn't It Sad About Lemon
22. Will Weldon: Hitch Me To Your Buggy And Drive Me Like A Mule
23. Willie Reed: Texas Blues
24. Mooch Richardson: T And T Blues
25. Vol Stevens: Baby Got The Rickets

wydano: 2018-03-30
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