Show Me the Way Home, Honey

ponedjeljak, 27.01.2014.

Blind Arvella Gray - The Singing Drifter

Styles: Acoustic Country Blues, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Chicago Blues, Songster
Label: Conjuroo
Released: 1972/2005
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 125,0 MB
Time: 53:45
Art: front + back

1. There's More Pretty Girls Than One - 2:21
2. John Henry - 7:01
3. Arvella's Work Song - 3:20
4. Take Your Burden To The Lord - 4:03
5. When The Saints Go Marching In - 4:19
6. Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor - 2:40
7. Those Old Fashioned Alley Blues - 7:48
8. Gander Dancing Song - 4:24
9. Stand By Me - 2:23
10. What Will Your Record Be - 2:14
11. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again (Previously Unreleased) - 2:40
12. Motherless Children Have A Hard Time (Previously Unreleased) - 3:49
13. Take My Hand Precious Lord (Previously Unreleased) - 2:55
14. Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord (Previously Unreleased) - 2:08
15. Standing By The Beside Of A Neighbor (Outtake) (Bonus Track) - 1:34

Personnel:
Blind Arvella Gray - Dobro, Vocals

Notes: Blind Arvella Gray's real or imagined life story is, in some respects, a more complete creative statement than the actual music he made. Born Walter Dixon in Texas in 1906, he lost his eyesight and two fingers on his left hand due to a shotgun mishap (Gray's account of the incident involved several different plot possibilities), and he turned to street singing to keep things afloat. At some point in the 1940s he landed in Chicago, where he became a fixture at the Maxwell Street open-air flea market, playing his National Steel guitar and singing a mixed bag of blues, gospel, spirituals, work songs, and field hollers. By the early '70s he had released three 45s on his own Gray Records label, had four songs on a British import album called Blues from Maxwell Street, and had been featured in the video documentary And This Is Free. On September 22, 1972, he recorded his only album, The Singing Drifter, at Sound Unlimited Studios in Harvey, IL. The LP was issued on the tiny Birch Records label that same year, and quickly sold out its limited run in the Chicago area, where Gray's Maxwell Street presence had made him somewhat of a local celebrity. This reissue of The Singing Drifter on Conjuroo Recordings contains the complete original album, and adds four bonus tracks (plus an unlisted fifth bonus track, an alternate take of "Standing by the Bedside of a Neighbor"). Gray was hardly a skilled guitarist, as the missing fingers on his left hand limited him to slide playing, and he wasn't a particularly distinctive singer, either. What he had working for him was a certain joyful élan, which is why seeing him in person was undoubtedly more powerful than hearing him on record. The rhythms and vocal lines are very similar here track to track, which gives The Singing Drifter the illusion of being one long street song. The exceptions are a spirited rendition of what was Gray's unofficial theme piece, "John Henry," and a pair of field hollers, "Arvella's Work Song" and "Gander Dancing Song," where Gray sings accompanied only by his light handclapping. As an embodiment of the old street singer and songster tradition, Gray was undoubtedly a delight to see and hear at the market on a fine summer's morning, but a good deal of his presence is lost when all you have is his voice and guitar in the speakers. The Singing Drifter is certainly a valuable archival release, and those who saw him perform on Maxwell Street (Gray died in 1980) will treasure this disc for the memories it provokes, but it is truthfully a rather so-so musical document. In the end, it was Gray's physical presence as he stood playing that National Steel on the corner, and the long, storied journey (embellished or not) he took to get there, that was the real creative act.

The Singing Drifter



• Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues
• Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows (1926-1937)


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ponedjeljak, 18.11.2013.

Blind Willie McTell - Searching The Desert For The Blues

Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues, Pre-War Blues, Songster
Label: Pristone Audio
Released: 2009
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 182,3 MB
Time: 79:36
Art: front

1. Stole Rider Blues - 3:12
2. Mama, Tain't Long Fo' Day - 3:06
3. Mr. McTell Got The Blues (take 2) - 2:18
4. Three Women Blues - 2:49
5. Dark Night Blues - 2:53
6. Statesboro Blues - 2:39
7. Loving Talking Blues - 2:41
8. Come On Around To My House Mama - 3:07
9. Kind Mama - 2:59
10. Drive Away Blues - 3:21
11. Talkin' To Myself - 3:12
12. Southern Can Is Mine - 3:16
13. Broke Down Engine Blues - 3:10
14. Painful Blues - 3:01
15. Scarey Day Blues - 3:08
16. Low Rider's Blues - 3:18
17. Georgia Rag - 3:06
18. Rollin' Mama Blues - 3:04
19. Lonesome Day Blues - 3:12
20. Mama Let Me Scoop For You - 3:17
21. Searching The Desert For The Blues - 3:11
22. Warm It Up To Me - 2:54
23. Savannah Mama - 3:21
24. Love-Makin' Mama - 2:59
25. Lord, Send Me An Angel - 2:50
26. Lay Some Flowers On My Grave - 3:19


Notes: The king of 12-string acoustic blues - 26 of the very best.
In astonishing newly XR-remastered sound quality - surely the best ever!

Like many pre-war Blues artists, Blind Willie McTell recorded for a number of record companies, often at the same time, under a variety of pseudonyms. Fortunately for the lover of vintage blues, none of these was the notorious Paramount record company, and as a result we have a body of work which not only stands up musically, but in terms of recording and pressing quality as well - unlike the recordings of the likes of Charley Patton, Blind Blake and Blind Lemon Jefferson, for example.
In some respects this ought to make the audio restorer's job easier, you might think. Alas, life is rarely that simple - with higher quality originals to begin with, one inevitably aims higher and is less able to settle for anything less than excellence.
In compiling this CD, I initially worked on some 40 tracks by Blind Willie McTell, in many cases from two or three different sources. Each was taken a considerable way along the road of restoration and remastering in order that a judgment could be made (a) between different copies of the same recording, and then (b) between the complete set to narrow it down to a full CD (and I apologise here both for having to leave some excellent material out, and for leaving some rather small gaps between tracks in order to squeeze as much on as possible).
Then comes the painstaking job of "finishing" - a near-forensic examination of each track, looking for individual clicks, surface swishes and other extraneous noises, and attempting to remove or reduce them, one by one, as well as varrying out further final noise and hiss reduction. For a set such as this, which had already taken several weeks to assemble, this finishing work took a further three full days of intensive effort to complete.
What do I hope to achieve with all this effort? The finest-sounding a most representative collection of pre-war recordings by McTell ever assembled. No doubt some will dispute the track selections - especially some are here on musical merit., others on sonic merit - but put together as a whole I do feel this considerably improves on all previous issues of this material that it's been my pleasure to listen to over the years. I hope you'll feel similarly!

Searching The Desert For The Blues

Covers pdf



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• Mance Lipscomb - Texas Songster •


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nedjelja, 20.10.2013.

Mance Lipscomb - Texas Songster Vol. 4: Live! At The Cabale

Styles: Texas Blues, Country Blues, Songster
Label: Arhoolie Records
Released: 1999
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 159,1 MB
Time: 69:29
Art: full

1. Baby, Don't You Lay It on Me - 2:21
2. Meet Me in the Bottom - 2:33
3. You Gonna Miss Me - 2:48
4. Keep on Truckin' - 1:52
5. Trobule in Mind - 2:51
6. Tom Moore Blues - 3:38
7. Mance's Short-haired Woman - 3:38
8. Tra-La-Ra-La Doodle All Day - 2:24
9. Shine on Harvest Moon - 2:22
10. Run, Sinner, Run - 2:33
11. Key to the Highway - 3:22
12. Rock Me, Mama - 3:37
13. Wonder Where My Easy Rider Done Gone - 2:36
14. Late Night Blues & Boogie Woogie - 5:13
15. Early Days Back Home - 11:06
16. Cocaine Done Killed My Baby - 2:24
17. I Wonder Why - 4:43
18. It Ain't Gonna Rain No More - 2:21
19. You Gonna Quit Me, Baby - 2:30
20. When the Saints Go Marching In - 2:16
21. Mother Had a Sick Child - 2:13

Tracks 1-19 recorded at The Cabale, Berkeley, California, 1964. Tracks 20 & 21 recorded in Sacramento, California, 1972.
All performances previously unreleased, except track 8 & 9 which were issued on Arhoolie LP #1026 and track 10 on Arhoolie LP #1033.

Notes: Mance Lipscomb made many albums, and it was a wise decision on compiler Chris Strachwitz's part to focus on songs that were not available on previous CDs by the singer. Repertoire aside, this is very much of a piece with the "songster" style Lipscomb projects on other recordings: good-natured acoustic tunes that draw from boogie, ragtime, and folk, with a warm vocal delivery and accomplished guitar picking. Some of the songs, in fact, will be pretty familiar to most blues fans, if not always duplicated by Lipscomb on other CDs: "Meet Me in the Bottom," "Trouble in Mind," "Key to the Highway," "Rock Me Mama," and "Baby Don't You Lay It on Me" (which sounds close to the folk standard "Baby Let Me Follow You Down"). One of the tracks, incidentally, is largely a 12-minute spoken story, "Early Days Back Home." ~ Richie Unterberger Contains previously unreleased tracks. Recorded live in 1964 at The Cabale, Berkeley, California. This is part of Arhoolie's Lipscomb series. Vol.4 Of Texas Songster Series Rec.Live In 1964

Live! At The Cabale



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• Mississippi John Hurt - The Complete Studio Recordings (3-disc set) •


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četvrtak, 17.10.2013.

Mance Lipscomb - Texas Songster Vol. 3: Captain, Captain

Styles: Acoustic Texas Blues, Country Blues, Songster, Blues Revival
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 1998
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 156,5 MB
Time: 68:22
Art: front

1. Captain, Captain! - 3:10
2. Ain't You Sorry - 2:20
3. Night Time is the Right Time - 4:00
4. Mr. Tom's Rag (Guitar Solo) - 2:07
5. I Want To Do Something For You - 2:34
6. Long Tall Girl Not Stuck On Me - 2:43
7. Rag in A - 1:27
8. Going Up North to See My Pony Run - 4:01
9. Santa Fe Blues - 3:10
10. Frankie and Albert - 1:50
11. Sentimental Piece in G (Guitar Solo) - 3:04
12. Farewell Blues - 3:49
13. Shortly George - 2:41
14. Angel Child - 3:37
15. Black Rat - 2:14
16. Tom Moore's Farm (Take 2) - 3:30
17. Foggy Bottom Blues - 3:12
18. Heel and Toe Poka - 1:42
19. Going Back to Georgia - 2:07
20. Easy Rider Blues - 3:10
21. Why Did You Leave Me - 3:10
22. Me and My Baby - 2:40
23. Mance's Talking Blues - 2:05
24. Segregation Done Past (story- no guitar) - 3:49


Tracks 1-12 and 24 recorded in Berkeley, California, April, 1966.
Tracks 13-15 recorded in Navasota, Texas, August 12, 1960.
Track 16 recorded in Navasota, June 30, 1960.
Tracks 17-23 recorded in Navasota, August 13, 1960.

Notes: Eight of these 24 tracks come from an April 1966 session and were originally released on LP (Arhoolie F 1033 (Mance Lipscomb Vol. 4 from 1967)); the other 16 are previously unissued, five of them sourced from April 1966, the rest from 1960. It's entirely typical of Mance Lipscomb's output: versatile, relaxed, and samey-sounding acoustic blues with some prominent ragtime and folk influences. The 1960 material doesn't boast fidelity as strong as the 1966 takes (though it's certainly adequate), and has more of a down-home flavor; the 1966 tracks sound more innocuous and front-porch-relaxed by contrast. ~Richie Unterberger


Texas Songster Vol. 3: Captain, Captain



• Leadbelly - The Definitive Leadbelly [Catfish] •
• Various - Good For What Ails You •

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srijeda, 16.10.2013.

Mance Lipscomb - Texas Songster Volume 2: You Got To Reap What You Sow

Styles: Texas Blues, Country Blues, Songster, Blues Revival
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 1993
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 177,5 MB
Time: 77:33
Art: full

1. Charlie James - 3:37
2. Come Back Baby - 4:03
3. Spanish Flang Dang - 2:03
4. You Got To Reap What You Sow - 2:30
5. Cocaine Done Killed My Baby - 1:23
6. Joe Turner Killed A Man - 4:34
7. Bumble Bee - 3:16
8. Boogie In "A" - 2:30
9. Hattie Green - 3:43
10. Silver City - 3:36
11. The Titanic - 3:16
12. If I Miss The Train - 4:08
13. Lord Thomas - 1:40
14. Tom Moore Blues - 5:40
15. So Different Blues - 3:05
16. Tall Angel At The BAr - 2:42
17. Mama, Don't Dog Me - 4:12
18. Long Way To Tipperary - 2:59
19. Willie Poor Boy - 3:29
20. You Rascal You - 3:41
21. I Looked Down The Road And I Wondered - 3:51
22. Sentimental Blues - 2:42
23. Police Station Blues - 2:40
24. Missouri Waltz - 2:04


rec. Berkeley, May 2, 1964 by Chris Strachwitz, released 1964 Arhoolie F 1023.
This is expanded version of F 1023 with 13 previously unissued songs (9, 13-24)

Personnel:
Mance Lipscomb - Vocals, Guitar

Note: Mance Lipscomb was a great songster, someone who knew hundreds of songs and could deliver any and all of them in different but effective ways. He sang blues, spirituals, old folk numbers, and his own tunes. Lipscomb had few rivals when it came to telling stories, setting up situations, creating characters, and depicting incidents. This 24-song reissued disc from 1964 puts Lipscomb in a perfect context, ripping through various songs and talking about everything from drugs to domestic conflict and police worries to spiritual concerns.

Texas Songster Volume 2: You Got To Reap What You Sow



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• Various - Texas Blues •


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subota, 12.10.2013.

Mance Lipscomb - Texas Songster

Styles: Texas Blues, Country Blues, Songster, Blues Revival
Released: 1989
Label: Arhoolie
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 157.4 MB
Time: 59:16
Art: full

1. Sugar Babe (Lipscomb) - 2:06
2. Goin' Down Slow (Oden) - 3:07
3. Freddie (Lipscomb) - 2:42
4. Jack O'Diamonds (Lipscomb) - 4:05
5. Baby Please Don't Go (Williams) - 1:47
6. One Thin Dime (Lipscomb) - 2:59
7. Shake, Shake Mama (Lipscomb) - 2:53
8. Ella Speed (Lipscomb) - 2:36
9. Mama Don't Allow (Lipscomb) - 2:26
10. Ain't It Hard (Lipscomb) - 3:16
11. 'Bout a Spoonful (Lipscomb) - 3:27
12. Take Me Back (Lipscomb) - 1:59
13. Rag in "G" (Lipscomb) - 2:02
14. Big Boss Man (Dixon, Smith) - 3:09
15. You Gonna Quit Me, Baby (Lipscomb) - 2:38
16. Blues in G (Lipscomb) - 4:11
17. Mama, Don't Dog Me (Lipscomb) - 3:23
18. Willie Poor Boy (Lipscomb) - 3:02
19. Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night (Lipscomb) - 2:48
20. Knocking Down Windows (Lipscomb) - 2:25
21. Nobody's Fault But Mine - 1:27
22. Motherless Children (Lipscomb, Traditional) - 2:40

rec. 1960-64; contains all of "Texas Sharecropper and Songster" (Arhoolie F 1001, Aug 1960) and much of "Texas Songster in a Live Performance" (Arhoolie F 1026, 1965)

Personnel:
Mance Lipscomb - Guitar, Vocals
Chris Strachwitz - Producer, Engineer

Notes: “Mance Lipscomb, a Texas sharecropper for most of his life, was born in 1895. When not farming in his hometown of Navasota, he assumed the role of local entertainer and songstera versatile singer/musician who could handle a hardened blues just as easily as a soft children's song. Although Lipscomb didn't begin recording until he was nearly 65, he left behind a remarkably rich catalog of Texas blues before he died in 1976.
Country blues, that sparse, mostly raw and rootsy form directly linked to slave worksongs and field hollerswas his specialty. Equipped with a voice that could convey a range of emotions, Lipscomb was also an impressive guitarist, as this anthology reveals. Most of the 22 songs on 'Texas Songster' are originals, the best being 'Sugar Babe,' an obscure ditty written by Lipscomb when he was a teen; 'Ella Speed,' a bluesy ballad that remains one of his better-known numbers; and 'Bout a Spoonful,' a clever song about sex.
Lipscomb never quite achieved the popularity in mainstream blues circles as another Texas bluesman, Sam `Lightning' Hopkins. But it wasn't because he didn't deserve the recognition. Listen to this disc, read the excellent liner notes by Chris Strachwitz (the folklorist who discovered him) and Mack McCormick, and you'll agree that Lipscomb is one of the music form's great unsung heroes.” ~Review by Robert Santelli

Texas Songster



• Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows (1926-1937) •
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subota, 05.10.2013.

Leadbelly - The Definitive Leadbelly [Catfish] (3 Disc set)

Styles: Country Blues, Acoustic Blues, Folk-Blues, Folksongs, Songster
Released: 2002
Label: Catfish
Art: front


Notes: For some reason very few people know about this compilation. I'm not sure why, as it's definitely the best Leadbelly compilation on the market. The sound quality is great, it's comprehensive without being too long, and it's got great liner notes. The way the songs are divided on the discs is great too. Disc one contains most of the big hits, making it a sort of greatest hits album, while discs two and three contain more rarities and alternate takes. Definitely recommended for any Leadbelly fan or anyone looking for an introduction to the artist. ~ Aaron Smith



Disc 1

1. Grasshopper In My Pillow - 2:47
2. Tight Like That - 3:11
3. C.C. Rider - 2:58
4. Wll You Know I Had To Do It - 2:54
5. Alberta - 3:07
6. Sweet Mary Blues - 2:57
7. New Orleans - 3:15
8. New York City - 3:02
9. Baby, Don't You Love Me No More? - 2:53
10. Thirty Days In Th E Work House - 2:32
11. You Cain' Loose-A-Mee Cholly - 2:59
12. Midnight Special - 2:04
13. L'm Leavin' On The Midnight Train - 4:18
14. Fannin' Street - 3:26
15. Goodnight Irene - 1:53
16. Pick A Bale Of Cotton - 1:45
17. Black Girl - 2:09
18. Turn Yo' Radio On - 2:12
19. Childrens Blues - 2:28
20. John Henry - 4:01
21. Corn Bread Rough - 2:07
22. Can't You Line 'em - 2:56
23. Ella Speed - 2:45
24. Tell Me Baby - 2:57
25. Go Down, Old Hannah - 4:59

File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 171.8 MB
Time: 72:47

The Definitive Leadbelly Disc 1


Disc 2

1. Somebody's Diggin' My Potatoes - 3:59
2. Dancing With Tears In My Heart - 2:45
3. Salty Dog - 3:01
4. Whoa Back Up - 2:12
5. Sukey Jump - 1:06
6. How Long - 4:33
7. Eagle Rock Rag - 2:46
8. Laura - 1:40
9. Big Fat Woman - 1:11
10. My Friend Blind Lemon - 3:05
11. Easy Mr Tom - 2:04
12. New Black Snake - 3:11
13. Matchbox Blues - 3:03
14. Death Letter Blues, Pt. 1 - 3:00
15. Death Letter Blues, Pt. 2 - 3:00
16. Bourgeois Blues - 5:37
17. We're In The Same Boat, Brother - 2:20
18. Jean Harlow - 2:28
19. Howard Hughes - 3:02
20. Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea - 1:33
21. When I Was A Cowboy - 2:15
22. T B Blues - 3:09
23. Alabama Bound - 3:05
24. Shout On (Honey I'm All Out And Down) - 2:11
25. He Never Said a Mumbling Word - 2:50

File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 163.8 MB
Time: 69:17

The Definitive Leadbelly Disc 2


Disc 3

1. It Was Early One Morning - 2:25
2. Good Morning Blues - 2:53
3. Tom Hughes Town - 3:04
4. Bull Cow - 2:44
5. Looky Looky Yonder - 2:59
6. The Blood Done Sign My Name - 2:20
7. Tell Me Baby, What Was Wrong With You - 3:16
8. Brimingham Jail (Down In The Valley) - 1:50
9. Red Cross Store Blues - 3:07
10. Sail On , Little Girl, Sail On - 3:16
11. Roberta - 2:59
12. Jim Crow Blues - 2:25
13. Gray Goose - 1:57
14. I'm On My Last Go-Round - 3:12
15. Stewball - 2:25
16. Spring Time In The Rockies - 3:04
17. Ain't Going To The Well No More - 1:07
18. Take This Hammer - 2:15
19. Rock Island Line - 2:36
20. Midnight Special - 3:05
21. Sylvie - 0:59
22. I'll Be Down On The Last Bread Wagon - 3:21
23. Chinatown - 1:07
24. I'm Alone Because Of You - 2:53
25. Leaving Blues - 3:34

File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 154.2 MB
Time: 65:05

The Definitive Leadbelly Disc 3



• Various - Good For What Ails You •
• Funny Papa Smith - The Original Howling Wolf •

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petak, 27.09.2013.

Various - Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows (1926-1937)

Styles: Old-Timey, Appalachian, Minstrel, String Bands, Acoustic Blues, Jug Band, Songster
Label: Old Hat Records
Released: 2005
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 167,4 + 163,2 MB
Time: 73:07 + 71:16
Art: front

Disc 1
1. Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah - The Spasm - 2:52
2. Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett - Tanner's Boarding House - 3:05
3. Lil McClintock - Don't Think I'm Santa Claus - 3:06
4. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Hokum Blues - 3:14
5. Shorty Godwin - Jimbo Jambo Land - 2:57
6. Fiddlin' John Carson & His Virginia Reelers - Gonna Swing On The Golden Gate - 2:57
7. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Papa's 'Bout To Get Mad - 2:59
8. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was A Married Man - 3:14
9. Jim Jackson - Bye, Bye, Policeman - 3:03
10. Walter Smith - The Bald-Headed End Of A Broom - 2:56
11. Allen Brothers - Bow Wow Blues - 3:21
12. Beans Hambone & El Morrow - Beans - 2:53
13. Stovepipe #1 and David Crockett - A Chicken Can Waltz The Gravy Around - 3:08
14. Grant Brothers & Their Music - Tell It To Me - 2:57
15. Carolina Tar Heels - Ain't No Use Working So Hard - 3:08
16. Walter Cole - Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean - 2:47
17. Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet - C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - 2:54
18. Banjo Joe - My Money Never Runs Out - 2:53
19. Henry 'Ragtime Texas' Thomas - Railroadin' Some - 3:19
20. Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Traveling Man - 2:55
21. Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop - G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again - 3:01
22. Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers - Baby All Night Long - 2:47
23. Chris Bouchillon - Born In Hard Luck - 3:19
24. Memphis Sheiks - He's In The Jailhouse Now - 3:11

Disc 2
1. Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley - Gonna Tip Out Tonight - 3:09
2. Sam McGee - Chevrolet Car - 3:09
3. Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers - It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - 2:58
4. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Bring It With You When You Come - 2:45
5. Blind Sammie - Atlanta Strut - 3:11
6. Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - Go Along Mule - 3:07
7. Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band - Casey Bill - 2:48
8. Frank Stokes - I Got Mine - 3:06
9. Chris Bouchillon - Hannah - 2:57
10. Bogus Ben Covington - Adam & Eve In The Garden - 2:42
11. Alec Johnson & His Band - Mysterious Coon - 3:15
12. Carolina Tar Heels - Her Name Was Hula Lou - 2:59
13. Three Tobacco Tags - Reno Blues - 2:39
14. Papa Charlie Jackson - Scoodle Um Skoo - 3:17
15. Frank Hutchison - Stackalee - 3:05
16. Walter Smith - The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough - 2:59
17. Hezekiah Jenkins - Shout You Cats - 3:08
18. Tommie Bradley - Nobody's Business If I Do - 2:58
19. Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - Sweet Sixteen - 2:52
20. Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright - Ticklish Reuben - 2:40
21. Jim Jackson - I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop - 2:52
22. Dallas String Band with Coley Jones - Shine - 3:01
23. Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers - The Gypsy - 3:21
24. J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers - Kiss Me Cindy - 2:06

Notes: Before motion pictures... before radio... before television... the traveling medicine shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking their tonics, elixirs, and miracle cures, and with them came a host of singers, dancers, comedians, banjo pickers, blues shouters, jug blowers, string ticklers, and minstrel men. The shows died out by mid-20th century, but not before a handful of seasoned veterans left their musical legacy on phonograph records. Here are 48 classic performances by such colorful names as Pink Anderson, Daddy Stovepipe, Shorty Godwin, Gid Tanner, Banjo Joe, the Three Tobacco Tags, and many more—well over two hours of this extraordinary music. A 72-page color booklet details the fascinating history of the medicine shows with a profusion of rare photographs, artifacts, illustrations, full discography, and song descriptions. Three years in the making, the new release from Old Hat Records is a groundbreaking survey of music from the American medicine show, that peculiar form of theater that merged entertainment with merchandising. Good For What Ails You is a two-CD set that delivers a generous mix of 48 songs, many available nowhere else, first recorded nearly 80 years ago and now remastered with digital clarity.

Good For What Ails You was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Album Notes and Best Histornical Album. ~ Old Hat Records

“Like Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, these 48 tracks provide a fine introduction to what Greil Marcus called ‘the old, weird America.’ If nothing else, such a cornucopia of delights will cure the modern day blues.” –Casper Llewellyn Smith, Guardian Unlimited, July 16, 2006

Bluebird“Factor in assorted skillet lickers, jug stompers, fruit jar drinkers, ramblers, crackers, tarheels and tobacco tags, and you have a buried history of vernacular music, therapeutic culture and politics second to none. Recommended; or rather, prescribed.” –Brian Morton, The Wire, November 2005

“When you go out on tour and play with different bands every day, or you play in bars all the time, your tastes start to become very selective... What I’m listening to most of the time at present is an album called Good For What Ails You, which is an album of songs that people used to listen to at medicine shows all over the States. It’s quite an interesting album and I think that people would be well advised to pick it up.” –Jack White, White Stripes, December 2005

Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937



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srijeda, 25.09.2013.

Leadbelly - Take This Hammer

Styles: Songster, Minstrel, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Blues
Label: RCA/Bluebird
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 182,7 MB
Time: 79:49
Art: front

1. Pick a Bale of Cotton - 3:00
2. Alabama Bound - 3:05
3. Yellow Gal - 2:59
4. Midnight Special - 3:07
5. Rock Island Line - 2:37
6. Whoa Back, Buck - 3:07
7. Good Morning Blues - 2:54
8. Leavin' Blues - 3:02
9. TB Blues - 3:08
10. Red Cross Store Blues - 3:08
11. Sail on Little Girl, Sail On - 3:16
12. Roberta - 3:01
13. Alberta - 3:12
14. I'm on My Last Go Round - 3:08
15. Grey Goose - 2:57
16. Didn't Ol' John Cross The Water - 3:09
17. Stewball - 3:01
18. Take This Hammer - 2:59
19. Can't You Line 'Em - 2:55
20. Julianne Johnson - 3:14
21. Ham an' Eggs - 2:59
22. Easy Rider - 3:13
23. New York City - 3:03
24. Worried Blues - 3:13
25. Don't You Love Your Daddy No More - 3:06
26. You Can't Lose-a-Me Cholly - 3:05


Personnel:
Leadbelly - Guitar, Vocals
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Vocals

Notes: Leadbelly - When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 5...Leadbelly: Take This Hammer
Audio CD - RCA/Bluebird 82876-50957-2
CD Release Date - May 6, 2003
The fifth issue in Bluebird's Secret History of Rock & Roll project is the first by a single artist; the previous four have all been various-artists compilations. All feature excellent sound and decent if not exceptional packaging. This set, the complete RCA Victor recordings of Leadbelly, is up to that standard. All of the 26 tracks here were recorded in June of 1940 and released at various times as 78s by Bluebird. Some of the material includes virtually definitive versions of "Midnight Special," "Rock Island Line" (primarily because of the quality of the recording itself; the performance is awesome, but all of Leadbelly's performances of this song are), "Easy Rider," "Grey Goose," "TB Blues," "Don't You Love Your Daddy No More," the title track, "Stewball," and "I'm on My Last Go 'Round." This alone is reason enough for any fan of Leadbelly to purchase the CD, and these transfers are so fine, so warm, and so true sounding that they mark a new standard in remastering material from worn master tapes. (Give a listen to the back-to-back tracks "Good Morning Blues" and "Leaving Blues" -- they sound as if Leadbelly is hanging on your couch singing these songs.) The music here doesn't sound like archival material; it sounds alive and it becomes possible to hear what those who were initially knocked out by Leadbelly were able to experience. For anyone interested in Leadbelly's music, this is as essential as the Folkways recordings -- and in some ways, more so. ~ Thom Jurek

Take This Hammer

Appendix: An album that I have posted 13 09. 2013. Leadbelly - Take This Hammer obviously has the wrong image and some of the figures in notes, everything else is fine. I got this album from a friend of five or six years ago, why he has only 13 tracks I don't know. Maybe it's issue some smaller label from Eastern Europe or something.



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Oznake: Leadbelly, Songster, Minstrel, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Blues
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petak, 13.09.2013.

Leadbelly - Take This Hammer

Styles: Songster, Minstrel, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Blues
Recorded: 1940
Released: 1965/2003
Label: Bluebird
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 90.9 MB
Time: 39:42
Art: front

1. Pick a Bale of Cotton - 3:00
2. Alabama Bound - 3:05
3. Yellow Gal - 2:59
4. Midnight Special - 3:07
5. Rock Island Line - 2:37
6. Whoa Back, Buck - 3:07
7. Good Morning Blues - 2:54
8. Leaving Blues - 3:02
9. TB Blues - 3:08
10. Red Cross Store Blues - 3:08
11. Sail on Little Girl, Sail On - 3:16
12. Roberta - 3:01
13. Alberta - 3:12

Personnel:
Leadbelly - Guitar, Vocals
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Performer


Notes: Although the gimmicky subtitle of this release is "The Secret History of Rock & Roll," this music stands apart from merely being an influence on rockers 20 years later. The valuable release has all of the music recorded by folk/blues singer-guitarist Leadbelly during two sessions he cut for Victor in 1940. Thirteen of the 26 selections have Leadbelly joined by the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet and these were originally released as Midnight Special. The other 13 numbers are solo vehicles for Leadbelly that range from traditional story-telling to blues; highlights include the classic "Good Morning Blues," "TB Blues," "Sail On Little Girl, Sail On," "Alberta, "Roberta" and "Alabama Bound." Although a few of the numbers are a bit primitive, this set is an excellent introduction to the historic and wide-ranging music of Leadbelly.

Take This Hammer



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Oznake: Leadbelly, Songster, Minstrel, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Blues
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