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ponedjeljak, 04.11.2013.

Smoky Babe & Herman E. Johnson - Louisiana Country Blues

Styles: Louisiana Blues, Country Blues, Acoustic Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 1996
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 183,4 MB
Time: 78:47
Art: full

1. I'm Broke And I'm Hungry - 2:57
2. Too Many Women - 2:46
3. Two Wings - 2:13
4. Mississippi River - 3:16
5. My Baby She Told Me - 2:36
6. Rabbit Blues - 3:25
7. Black Ghost - 5:02
8. Ain't Got No Rabbit Dog - 3:18
9. Bad Whiskey - 2:42
10. Black Gal - 3:50
11. My Baby Put Me Down - 3:14
12. Going Back Home - 2:50
13. Regular Blues - 2:34
14. I Just Keeps On Wanting You - 2:48
15. You Don't Know My Mind - 3:52
16. Motherless Children - 4:04
17. Depression Blues - 4:45
18. She's A-Looking For Me - 3:20
19. She Had Been Drinking - 2:31
20. I'm Growing Older - 5:09
21. Po' Boy - 3:21
22. Leavin' Blues - 3:14
23. Piano Blues - 2:19
24. Where The Mansion's Prepared For Me - 2:30


Personnel:
Smoky Babe - guitar, vocals (tracks 1-13)
Herman E. Johnson - guitar, vocals (14-24)
Henry Thomas - harmonica, guest
Sally Dotson - vocals, guest
Willie Dotson - vocals, guest

Notes: Smoky Babe (Robert Brown) was born in 1927 in Itta Bena, Mississippi, a farming area some fifty miles from Clarksdale, the country blues capital of the world. His background consists of the stuff of which country blues singers are madea few months of school, early years as a sharecropper on a plantation raising cotton, corn, and garden vegetables, frequent moves to other plantations when the crops petered out or he "didn't get paid right," a spell in city slums while working on a "hot truck" (a carrier of hot steel) in the mill at Bessemer, Alabama, while at the same time in the evenings he worked gigs in Black night clubs where he played for dimes, quarters, and half dollars dancers tossed to the stage. These recordings were made in 1960 by Harry Oster in Scotlandville, La., and were previously issued on Folklyric LP 118 and Arhoolie LP 2019.

Herman E. Johnson of Scotlandville, Louisiana, summed up in eloquent words what had been the formative roots of most gifted blues singers:
"I had a good religious mother, a good religious father; they both was members of the Baptist Church. I have one brother an' one sister, an' they is members of the Baptist Church, an' apparently I was the on`iest jack (maverick) of the family. I don't belong to any church.
So my life was just that way, to keep out of trouble, drink my little whiskey, an' go an' do little ugly things like that, but just in a cue-tee (quiet) way. An' in 19 an' 27 I taken up the habit of playin' the guitar, an' I imagine it must have been the good Lord give me the talent to compose things."
These recordings were made in 1961 by Harry Oster in Baton Rouge, La., and were previously issued on Arhoolie LP 1060. arhoolie.com


Louisiana Country Blues



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subota, 02.11.2013.

Smoky Babe - Hottest Brand Goin'

Styles: Acoustic Country Blues, Piedmont Blues
Recorded: 1961
Released: 1989
Label: Prestige/Bluesville
File: mp3 @256kbps
Size: 77.62 MB
Time: 42:01
Art: Front

1. Now Your Man Done Gone - 3:12
2. Hottest Brand Goin' - 4:04
3. Something Wrong With My Machine - 3:37
4. Insect Blues - 3:50
5. Long Way From Home - 3:14
6. I'm Goin' Back To Mississippi - 3:19
7. Melvanie Blues - 2:34
8. Locomotive Blues - 3:58
9. Ocean Blues - 3:09
10. Boogy Woogy Rag - 2:34
11. Coon Hunt - 3:41
12. Cold, Cold Snow - 4:00

Personnel:
Robert Brown 'Smoky Babe' - Guitar, Vocals
Clyde Causey - Harmonica tr.8,11
Henry Thomas - Harmonica tr.3

Notes: Born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, Robert Brown had found his way by the age of 20 to Scotlandville, Louisiana. The folklorist Harry Oster recorded him on numerous occasions in 1959-61 for his own Folk-Lyric label and for Storyville and Prestige/Bluesville. His subseguent life is obscure.
In 'Hottest Brand Goin'', a song that provided the title for the original LP issue of 'The Blues Of Smoky Babe' Smoky cheerfully promotes the Cocono gas station where he was employed. As Harry Oster remarks in his notes, 'his lyrics follow the natural flow of talk...he shifts smoothly back and forth between speaking and singing'. Autobiography is also the impulse behind 'Long Way From Home' and 'I'm Goin' Back To Mississippi', and even blues with less specific resonance like 'Cold, Cold Snow' or 'Insect Blues' blend the commonplace and the personal to striking effect, emphasized by guitar playing that is unfailingly muscular, confident and rhythmically sure.

Hottest Brand Goin'

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