Time: 69:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Chicago Blues
Art: Full
01. Little Girl (3:02)
02. One More Time (2:00)
03. Humpty Dumpty (1:54)
04. I Got It (2:18)
05. Whoop It Up (3:20)
06. All My Money Gone (2:54)
07. Prison Bound (2:17)
08. Bad Blood (3:03)
09. Let Me Ride Your Mule (2:29)
10. Meet Me In The Bottom (2:12)
11. Money Taking Woman (1:55)
12. I Got To Find That Woman (1:47)
13. You Got Your Business (2:06)
14. I'm Leaving Baby (2:22)
15. My Baby Walked Out In 1954 (2:16)
16. You Make Me Feel So Good (2:43)
17. Back To Chicago (5:09)
18. Tired Of Your Smiling (3:27)
19. Moaning And Groaning (3:06)
20. Heard My Doorbell Ring (4:44)
21. My Trainfare Out Of Town (3:44)
22. Lula Mae (2:19)
23. Jackson Bound (3:25)
24. Walking Slow (5:15)
Although the mandolin is not an instrument commonly associated with Chicago blues, it has been used by Chicago-based string bands or on Chicago-made recordings by artists such as Carl Martin, Charles and Joe McCoy, and Yank Rachell. However, the only artist to use it successfully in the later electric blues format was Mississippi-born bluesman Johnny Young.
An important figure in blues history, Young loved the rough-and-tumble string band tradition of the Delta, a style that readily co-existed with blues.
Young's initial 1947 Chicago classic, "Money Taking Women," exhibits the same exuberant down-home sound, fusing blues with the older country breakdown traditions. The string band ensemble sound suited street performance as well, whether in Memphis or in Chicago's open air Maxwell Street Market, where Young and his cronies were brought in off the streets to record. Over the years, Young's mandolin activity declined as Chicago's African-American blues audience demanded a more modern and urban sound. Since Young was also a skilled guitarist and a fine vocalist, he easily weathered the transition.
During the late '60s, an emerging white blues-revival audience proved eager for Young's mandolin styling. Unlike Yank Rachell, whose mandolin playing retained an older string band feel, Young's style was firmly grounded in a more contemporary postwar blues idiom, and he interacted well with other electric blues artists. Throughout his life, he had worked with the major figures of blues history, including Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Walter Horton, and Otis Spann. He was, he insisted, born to be a musician. When interviewed shortly before he died, he said he had struggled all his life trying to make it in the music business. An emotional man, he hoped he would live long enough to make enough money to buy a house. He never made it. ~Barry Lee Pearson
An important figure in blues history, Young loved the rough-and-tumble string band tradition of the Delta, a style that readily co-existed with blues.
Young's initial 1947 Chicago classic, "Money Taking Women," exhibits the same exuberant down-home sound, fusing blues with the older country breakdown traditions. The string band ensemble sound suited street performance as well, whether in Memphis or in Chicago's open air Maxwell Street Market, where Young and his cronies were brought in off the streets to record. Over the years, Young's mandolin activity declined as Chicago's African-American blues audience demanded a more modern and urban sound. Since Young was also a skilled guitarist and a fine vocalist, he easily weathered the transition.
During the late '60s, an emerging white blues-revival audience proved eager for Young's mandolin styling. Unlike Yank Rachell, whose mandolin playing retained an older string band feel, Young's style was firmly grounded in a more contemporary postwar blues idiom, and he interacted well with other electric blues artists. Throughout his life, he had worked with the major figures of blues history, including Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Walter Horton, and Otis Spann. He was, he insisted, born to be a musician. When interviewed shortly before he died, he said he had struggled all his life trying to make it in the music business. An emotional man, he hoped he would live long enough to make enough money to buy a house. He never made it. ~Barry Lee Pearson
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