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John Dee Holeman - Bull Durham Blues
Styles: Piedmont Blues, Acoustic Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues, Texas Blues
Released: Jun 8, 1999
Label: Music Maker
File: mp3 @320k/s
Size: 103 MB
Art: full
1. Give Me Back My Wig (Hopkins, Taylor) - 4:12
2. Step It up and Go (Traditional) - 3:11
3. Little Country Gal (Spann) - 3:15
4. Sweet Home Chicago (Johnson) - 3:53
5. Hello Central (Hopkins) - 3:12
6. Early Morning Blues (Morganfield) - 3:06
7. Crow Jane (Traditional) - 2:26
8. Mistreated Blues (Traditional) - 4:51
9. Big Boss Man (Dixon, Smith) - 3:40
10. Stranger Blues (Traditional) - 3:16
11. Hambone (Traditional) - 2:20
12. God Loves His Children (Flatt, Scruggs) - 2:48
13. Chapel Hill Boogie (Holeman) - 2:56
Personnel:
All songs performed by
John Dee Holeman - Guitar, Vocals, Hambone
Täj Mähäl - Bass (4), Guitar (13), Piano (8), Hambone (11)
Notes: Piedmont bluesman John Dee Holeman mixes a little Texas into his North Carolina guitar approach, even covering Lightnin' Hopkins' "Give Me Back My Wig" as the first track of Bull Durham Blues, his debut album. Holeman isn't as irascible as Hopkins, with a gentle vocal approach that's closer to Mississippi John Hurt in demeanor, and his guitar playing isn't as distinctive as either Hopkins or Hurt, but he gets the job done with a good deal of charm. On songs like the easy, relaxed "Crow Jane" (a wonderful example of how to use the floating verses that are in every good bluesman's tool kit), the gentle "Little Country Gal," and the slightly paranoid "Stranger Blues," Holeman conjures up a timeless, back porch feel without getting too generic about it. The half-spoken, half-rapped "Hambone" is a clear highlight, with Holeman doing the hambone with a buckdancer's grace. Recorded in 1998 in Pinnacle, N.C., Bull Durham features Taj Mahal on several tracks helping out on bass, guitar, piano and the hambone, too.
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