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  • CD Alabama Black Country Dance Bands - Daddy Stovepipe
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    Expira: 12/03/2024

    CD Alabama Black Country Dance Bands - Daddy Stovepipe

    -Titulo Original : Audio CD - ALABAMA BLACK COUNTRY DANCE BANDS - Daddy Stovepipe-Fabricante : DOC-Descripcion Original: Alabama: Black Country Dance Bands (1924-1949) collects the recorded work of Mississippi Sarah and Daddy Stovepipe, Bogus Blind Ben Covington, and the Mobile Strugglers, together constituting a mixed bag of primarily vaudeville and dance-oriented pieces. Daddy Stovepipes eight sides with wife Mississippi Sarah are among the best jug band breakdowns on record, encompassing themes from the Bible to the Depression in consistently magnificent style. In Burleskin Blues and the glorious The Spasm, Sarah and Stovepipe are at their liveliest, funniest, and raunchiest, swapping insults and threats, Stovepipe rapping his rhymes against the pounding rhythm of his wifes jug, and Sarah wailing her blues to her husbands screaming harmonica. Bogus Blind Ben Covington (Bogus because he wasnt actually blind) was probably a pseudonym for Ben Curry, a banjo player and medicine show entertainer whose repertoire consisted of such comic pieces as I Heard the Voice of a Pork Chop. His performances are typically less captivating than those of Mississippi Sarah and Daddy Stovepipe but are at times very amusing and always valuable as provocative glimpses into the songster tradition. The two tracks by the Mobile Strugglers, recorded over ten years after the last pieces by either Covington or Stovepipe, conclude the collection with an unusually gritty string-band style. The duets by Mississippi Sarah and Daddy Stovepipe, along with the six minutes of the Mobile Strugglers, represent some of the most thrilling sounds to come out of the period, or out of the state, whose contributions to early blues and country music are generally overlooked. Recommended, with high spots including the lead vocal and mandolin/violin backup on the Strugglers Fattenin Frogs and Mississippi Sarahs spoken protest that Ive got too many men to have any sense...
  • CD Complete Recorded 1 - JEFFERSON BLIND LEMON
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    CD Complete Recorded 1 - JEFFERSON BLIND LEMON

    -Titulo Original : Audio CD - COMPLETE RECORDED 1 - JEFFERSON BLIND LEMON-Fabricante : DOC-Descripcion Original: Blind Lemon Jefferson was a commercial sensation, the large sales of his first releases revealing to Paramount and the other record companies the existence of a species of blues beyond the vaudeville stage, and of an untapped market waiting to buy it. This first, of Documents four volumes of Blind Lemon Jeffersons complete recorded output, serves to remind us that those sales werent simply the result of novelty. Jefferson was also a musical sensation, combining a piercing, wide-ranging voice with deft, imaginative guitar picking. For the first purchasers of those records, the experience was altogether different; usually, the only comparison available would have been with the work of their local blues singer, and its very difficult now to recapture the astonishment that must have resulted from putting Long Lonesome Blues on the wind-up record player for the first time. Nevertheless, this two excellently remastered CD does enable the listener to get some way towards re-enacting that experience. Volume 1, in particular, conveys the same sense that one gets from Robert Johnson or Louis Armstrong, that here is a musician who can do anything, and who brings to the musical tradition in which he grew up a genius that makes him its master as well as its heir. Useful booklet notes are included from Jefferson mavin Bob Groom, and Volume 1, at least, should ornament any blues collection worthy of the name...
  • CD Georgia Blues 1928-33 - Barton
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    CD Georgia Blues 1928-33 - Barton

    -Titulo Original : Audio CD - GEORGIA BLUES 1928-33 - Barton-Fabricante : DOC-Descripcion Original: Included here are six assorted sides by Curley Weaver, plus one with Clarence Moore; the only pairing by Eddie Mapp & Guy Lumpkin; the six sides by Slim Barton & Eddie Mapp, plus one with James Moore; the Mapp-Moore-Lumpkin; and the five sides by Fred McMullen, plus the two where he accompanied Ruth Willis. The net result is a splendid anthology of Georgia blues, superbly evoking the Atlanta of the late 1920s and early 30s. These, of course were the days when giants like Willie McTell walked the earth, but a local music scene is always as much about the minor figures, and shadowy though the Mapps and Lumpkins are, they are vital components in the construction as a whole. Weaver himself was never a giant on McTells scale, but he was an important artist, who played a significant role in shaping the citys music at the time, appearing as accompanist to several artists, as well as recording extensively in his own right. In fact, my favourite track of all his work is included here - No No Blues, bursting with energy, the slide guitar brilliantly rhythmic and the vocals driving the song along with an urgency he never seemed to quite match on his other records (not even on other versions of the same song). Fred McMullen did not record very much, and he is something of a mystery, but his De Kalb Chain Gang is a classic prisoners blues, and his accompaniments to Ruth Willis and others suggest that he must have been known around town, even if the evidence collected in later years tells us otherwise. Barton, Mapp. Moore and Lumpkin are minor figures, whose 15 minutes of fame occurred when they recorded all at the same time in Long Island for the QRS label. The music is never as gripping as Weavers or McMullens, but it is nevertheless most interesting - driving dance tunes like Decatur Street Drag, which has some tough guitar work from Lumpkin (although it all grinds to a bit of a standstill towards the end), old-fashioned rags like Hot Like That, slow blues in the solo Wicked Treating. All in all, this is a useful and thoroughly enjoyable addition to the documentation of blues in Georgia, filling out what we know about Weaver, focusing on the enigmatic McMullen and shining some light in a few long-dark corners that deserve at least a little attention...
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