James 'Son' Thomas & Others - Blues At Home 10

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:27
Size: 154.4 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[1:11] 1. Mama Don't Allow
[3:42] 2. Little Red Car (Take 1)
[2:44] 3. Stop Arguing Over Me
[3:44] 4. 61 Highway Blues
[2:54] 5. Boogie Children (Take 1)
[1:33] 6. Three Days I Cried
[2:12] 7. I Love You Baby
[3:02] 8. Catfish Blues (Take 1)
[4:08] 9. Catfish Blues (Take 2)
[3:02] 10. Standing At The Crossroads
[2:48] 11. Cairo Blues
[1:54] 12. Bottle It Up And Go
[1:15] 13. Bumble Bee Blues (Take1)
[2:04] 14. Forty-Four Blues
[1:32] 15. Boogie Till The Break Of Day
[2:29] 16. Beefsteak Blues
[4:31] 17. Big Fat Mama (Take 2)
[4:52] 18. Bull Cow Blues
[2:30] 19. Stop And Listen
[2:53] 20. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:45] 21. European Country Blues
[2:24] 22. I Wanna Boogie
[2:07] 23. Shake 'em On Down
[2:03] 24. Four Women Blues
[1:58] 25. Baby Please Don't Go

The tenth volume of the “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features Leland, Mississippi, bluesman James “Son” Thomas (born 1926) along with his uncle Joe Cooper, both hailing from Yazoo County, Mississippi, and Leland blues artist Eddie Cusic. Thomas, Cooper, and Cusic were discovered in the late ‘60s by researcher Bill Ferris, and Thomas and his uncle’s music are featured in Ferris’s book Blues from The Delta. “Son” Thomas also appeared in several blues LP anthologies issued in the UK during the late ‘60s and in some documentary films produced by the Center For Southern Folklore. From the ‘80s until his death in 1995, James “Son” Thomas was in the folk music circuit, recording several albums and performing all over the world. He was also active as a sculptor, whose themes spanned from animal figures to abstract figurative clay heads, in some cases true multimedia works, as actual teeth were found by Thomas at a local dentist’s.

The 25-track collection featured on this CD presents some of Thomas’s most genuine music ever published on record, alone and with his partners, who also played some additional blues and boogies by themselves. The material was recorded during several informal sessions held in 1976, 1978, and 1982 at the artists’ private homes in Leland and Greenville, Mississippi. The 1982 interview is featured in volume 14 of the series. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered from the original tapes in 2013. —Giambattista Marcucci

Blues At Home 10

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Eddie Cusic - Leland Mississippi Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:26
Size: 117.8 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:44] 1. Gonna Lose A Good Man
[5:22] 2. Worry You Off My Mind
[3:05] 3. Pretty Thing
[2:43] 4. Cut You Loose
[2:42] 5. Feelin' Good
[4:00] 6. Ludella
[2:55] 7. Big Boss Man
[3:43] 8. Catfish Blues
[3:28] 9. Little Angel Child
[3:21] 10. Reconsider Baby
[2:41] 11. I Walk The Water
[2:42] 12. Stop Arguing Over Me
[3:15] 13. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
[2:53] 14. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[2:34] 15. You Don't Have To Go
[3:12] 16. You Don't Love Me

One of the last living true country blues artists, Eddie Cusic was born on January 4, 1926 just south of Leland, and grew up helping his family tend the fields. He got his first taste of guitar, like many before him, by playing the one-stringed diddly-bow with a knife or broken bottleneck. When the 1950s rolled around, Eddie formed the Rhythm Aces with blues legend Little Milton Campbell. Campbell has long attested to the early influence that Eddie had on his style. It s easy to romanticize Eddie. By day, he is an undiscovered bluesman toiling in a mundane job. By night, he is a blues troubadour, using his rough-hewn vocals, powerful string snapping, and wonderfully refrained timing to provide the fuel for his late-night house party romps. Quite simply, Eddie bleeds delta blues. While most of Eddie s repertoire consists of well-worn classics, he is a wonderful interpreter of the tradition, melding these blues standards into something wholly original.

Leland Mississippi Blues

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Eddie Cusic - I Want to Boogie

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues
Time: 49:09
Size: 113,1 MB
Covers: Full

(3:08) 1. Pretty Thing
(3:24) 2. Reconsider Baby
(3:45) 3. Catfish Blues
(5:24) 4. Worry You off My Mind
(2:46) 5. Cut You Loose
(4:02) 6. Ludella
(3:30) 7. Little Angel Child
(2:54) 8. Big Boss Man
(2:36) 9. You Don't Have to Go
(3:15) 10. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
(2:41) 11. I Walk the Water
(2:44) 12. Stop Arguing over Me
(2:56) 13. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
(2:45) 14. Feelin' Good
(3:13) 15. You Don't Love Me

Eddie Cusic is the Mississippi bluesman who taught a young Little Milton Campbell to play. But until this 1998 debut, Cusic had amazingly gone unrecorded. This field recording, done live at Cusic's house, rectifies that situation and consequently brings another fine acoustic blues artist to the light. Cusic's music is pure Mississippi blues, and that stylistic derivation can't be stressed strongly enough. Even when Eddie is playing urban electric blues tunes like Muddy's "Hoochie Coochie Man," and Lowell Fulson's "Reconsider Baby," Willie Cobb's "You Don't Love Me" or Jimmy Reed's "Pretty Thing" (wrongly credited on this disc to Cusic), "You Don't Have to Go," or "Big Boss Man," the sound and style delivered is pure back-porch country-blues. The large part of his repertoire relies on old warhorses like "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," "Ludella," "Feelin' Good," and "Catfish Blues," but the individual stamp Cusic brings to these old standbys with nothing more than his rough-hewn voice and simple but driving guitar makes this previously unrecorded bluesman a wonderful repository of tradition with his own wrinkle to it. A strong debut that also makes the first new "blues discovery" since the halcyon days of the 1960s. -- Allmusic.

I Want to Boogie

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