Jack Owens, Eugene Powell - The Last Giants Of Mississippi Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 77:43
Size: 177.9 MB
Styles: Mississippi blues, Delta blues
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[2:50] 1. Jack Owens - Cherry Ball
[3:25] 2. Jack Owens - Hard Times
[4:39] 3. Jack Owens - Devil
[3:47] 4. Jack Owens - You Leavin'
[2:19] 5. Jack Owens - No Lovin'
[2:50] 6. Jack Owens - Please Give Me Your Money
[4:02] 7. Eugene Powell - 44 Blues
[4:10] 8. Eugene Powell - Suitcase Full Of Troubles
[3:22] 9. Eugene Powell - Police In Missisippi
[3:17] 10. Eugene Powell - Born In Texas
[3:25] 11. Eugene Powell - Good Mornin', Little Schoolgirl
[4:10] 12. Eugene Powell - Blues In Texas
[4:48] 13. Eugene Powell - Goin' Up The Country
[3:14] 14. Eugene Powell - When I Leave Town
[3:07] 15. Eugene Powell - Mississippi River
[3:54] 16. Eugene Powell - Mean Mistreating Mama
[2:58] 17. Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Hard Times (Feat. Bud Spires)
[4:00] 18. Jack Owens & Bud Spires - My Baby's Gone
[3:08] 19. Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Keep On Rumblin
[4:40] 20. Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Cool Water
[5:28] 21. Jack Owens & Bud Spires - Devil (Feat. Bud Spires)

The three musicians on this disc offer a stunning insight into the enduring heart of the blues -- both the roots of the tree and the mature flower. Guitarist Jack Owens is the greatest living exponent of a style associated with his hometown of Bentonia, MS, and her most famous son, Skip James. Owens accompanies his intense, rising tenor voice with an eerie minor tuning; he is joined on some cuts by his partner, harpist Bud Spires, who proves to be a brilliant musical associate. Accomplished guitarist Eugene Powell hails from Utica, MS, and was known throughout the Delta as a virtuoso in the early decades of the 20th century. His recording career began in 1936 with the Bluebird label. Well into their 80s, both artists are active both in the studio and on blues-festival stages world-wide. ~Larry Hoffman

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Eugene Powell (Sonny Boy Nelson) - Police In Mississippi Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:30
Size: 74.4 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 1978
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Police In Mississippi Blues
[4:19] 2. Fourty Four Blues
[3:12] 3. Blues Leaping From Texas
[5:03] 4. Blues In G
[3:33] 5. Blues Jumped A Rabbit
[4:01] 6. Old Home Blues (Instrumental)
[2:53] 7. Reminiscences
[3:25] 8. Meet Me In The Bottom
[2:31] 9. Dark Road Blues

Guitar, Vocals – Eugene Powell. Recorded in Greenville, Miss, August 8, 1976.

Eugene Powell was born on December 23, 1908, in Utica, Mississippi. Most of the sources agree that he began to play the guitar at the age of eight, but The Dead Musicians Directory says that he began to play at the age of seven. The beginning of the musical Mississippi heritage for Powell was also the beginning for Charley Patton. Powell grew up in the Chatmon family when they moved to Bolton, Mississippi. Powell’s instrumental interplay began in Hollandale with Henderson Chatmon and his sons. Powell became a sometime member and recording member of the Mississippi Sheiks. Powell played many instruments including banjo, violin, harmonica, horn, and guitar, but he played lead guitar most of the time. His guitar was a Silvertone. He inserted an aluminum resonator into it like those found on the National guitar. He also fitted a seventh string, using the twelve string model as his inspiration. His playing style stood out as one of the greatest Blues soloist of his time. (Brian O’Connor, The Dead Musicians Directory). ~Eric Tucker

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