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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'
Originally posted by Bluebird Jun 2009 at 'On muddy Sava riverbank'
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