Diamond Jim Greene - Just A Dream

Size: 128,2 MB
Time: 53:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues
Art: Full

01. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (2:33)
02. Guitar Man (3:11)
03. This Old House (2:58)
04. Skin Game Blues (3:34)
05. Just A Dream (4:35)
06. Canned Heat Blues (3:05)
07. Blady Mae (2:47)
08. Oreo Cookie Blues (3:31)
09. Cypress Grove (3:23)
10. You Got To Reap What You Sow (3:10)
11. Booger Rooger Blues (3:35)
12. She Don't Know (3:07)
13. Window Payne Blues (2:49)
14. Devil Got My Woman (3:27)
15. Kind Hearted Woman (2:57)
16. John Henry (5:00)

"Diamond" Jim's first CD, recorded in 1995, is on the renowned Dutch record label, Black Magic. Joining Jim are harmonica ace Keith Dunn originally from the Boston Massachusetts area and Dutch guitarist Willem van Dullemen. This CD explores 16 acoustic pre-war blues tunes featuring Jim's vocals with resonator and acoustic guitars, or vocals with guitar and harmonica, or vocals with 2 guitars and harmonica. Deep, dyed-in-the-wool country blues of Tampa Red, Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, Skip James and other seminal giants. "He's one of the most authentic Delta blues players ... like Robert Johnson reborn." - Los Angeles Times.

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Diamond Jim Greene - Surrounded

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:25
Size: 131.4 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Delta blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Shake 'em On Down
[5:15] 2. Right Now
[4:14] 3. Please Don't Fly Away
[2:39] 4. Ophelia
[2:58] 5. Big Leg Woman
[3:36] 6. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
[2:20] 7. Screamin' And Cryin' Blues
[5:47] 8. Take Time
[4:24] 9. I Gotta Quit You
[5:56] 10. Prison Blues
[3:29] 11. Talk That Talk
[4:10] 12. Wide River To Cross
[4:04] 13. Crossroads
[4:57] 14. Golden Bird

When I was about 7 or 8 years I saw Blind Arvella Gray playing a National Steel resonator guitar on Ellis avenue near 63rd Street on the south side of Chicago. This was around 1958 or ’59. There was a large crowd of adults around him and when he finished the song he was playing, the adults begged him to play it again. Mr. Gray told the crowd ” I cain’t keep playin’ dis stuff fo’ nuthin’ now, dis is how I make my livin’!.” The adults around him could not get their hands inside their pockets fast enough. Arvella had a tin cup clipped to the lapel of his jacket pocket which the adults filled up with half dollars and quarters. Some of the coins spilled onto the sidewalk. Me being the closest person to the sidewalk, began picking up the overflow of coins and stuffed them inside Mr. Gray’s jacket pocket. Of course, I was taking my little cut for my labor, after which Mr. Gray launched into the tune again. I have not been the same since. After that day, I made it my mission in life to see and hear every guitar player who came into view on the streets and taverns in Chicago and there were plenty. My sound today is a combination of those guitar players, singers, harmonica and piano players.

This recording calls to mind a modern day Robert Johnson, Tampa Red, Bo Carter or Blind Willie McTell playing with a trio of horns and a solid rhythm section.

Surrounded mc
Surrounded zippy

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