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Johnie Lewis - Alabama Slide Guitar
Styles: Country Blues
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 1970
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 138,6 MB
Time: 59:03
Art: front
1. Hobo Blues - 4:31
2. He Met Me On A Thursday Mornin - 3:53
3. Uncle Sam Ain't No Woman - 3:45
4. Can't Hardly Get Along - 2:56
5. My Little Gal - 3:57
6. North Carolina Blues - 3:46
7. I'm Gonna Quit My Baby - 3:34
8. Baby, Listen To Me Howl - 4:26
9. You Gonna Miss Me (About Dr. Martin Luther King) - 2:31
10. Mistake In Life (Handsome Stranger) - 2:56
11. I Got To Climb A High Mountain (About Dr. Martin Luther King) - 3:15
12. My Mother Often Told Me - 2:31
13. Lewis' Little Girl Done Stole A Black Cat Bone - 4:23
14. Jumpin' Jive - 1:17
15. Poor Boy - 2:21
16. Guitar Blues (Hound Dogs On My Track) - 3:09
17. Comb My Baby's Hair - 2:52
18. Oh Lord, Tell Me Right From Wrong - 2:53
Personnel:
Johnie Lewis - Guitars, Vocals, Harmonica (13), Kazoo (14)
Charlie Musselwhite - Harmonica (5)
Notes: Johnie Lewis was a decent, if unexceptional, singer and guitarist in the Southern rural style, particularly accomplished at playing slide. Though he was born in Alabama and grew into adulthood in Georgia, Lewis spent most of his life in Chicago, moving the city in the 1930s. A painter by profession, Lewis only pursued music as an avocation, but through one of his painting jobs, he came to the notice of a filmmaker doing a documentary about Chicago blues. His appearance in that film lead to recording sessions for Arhoolie in the early '70s.
Eighteen songs recorded by Lewis in 1970 except "My Little Gal" (Jan 1971 with Charlie Musselwhite). If Lewis were one of the few practitioners of the Southern country slide blues guitar, this would be an important document. But the fact is that because there are so many similar performers in the style who recorded more prolifically and with greater imagination, it's just a solid journeyman entry in the field. Lewis does have an affable storytelling manner to his songwriting, and gets in some nifty laidback slide licks; a couple of the more ambitious tunes were inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King. ~ Richie Unterberger
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