Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Country Blues
Released: 1993
Label: Discovery
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 86,2 MB
Time: 37:38
Art: full
1. Milwaukee Blues (Poole) - 3:06
2. Rocks and Gravel (Lipscomb) - 3:15
3. Guitar Rag (Weaver) - 3:10
4. Frankie and Albert (Traditional) - 3:15
5. Huggin' and Chalkin' (Goell) - 1:28
6. Amos Johnson Rag (McGee) - 2:24
7. Bachelor Blues (Moore) - 4:20
8. Railroad Blues (McGee) - 2:24
9. Blues in the Bottle (Hunt) - 2:26
10. Variations on the Saturday Night Rub (Broonzy) - 2:21
11. Don't Seem Right (Faust) - 3:08
12. County Line Road (James) - 3:38
13. Spanish Fandango (Traditional) - 2:01
Note: A rarity in today's field of acoustic blues pickers; a guitarist with encyclopedic knowledge who never sounds academic. James embraces a wide scope of fingerpicking styles -- Piedmont school ragtime, hokum ("Huggin' and Chalkin'"), country (Sam McGee is the source of two tunes here), and slide (his showstopping take on Sylvester Weaver's "Guitar Rag") with super technique, humor, and a relaxed ease that borders on cockiness. Only one original here, but that situation was to be rectified on Steve's follow-up.
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