Time: 47:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Delta Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front
01. Chasing the Wind (4:20)
02. In You There's Another (Give Me Some Time) (4:30)
03. Rachel (4:50)
04. Stray Star (4:43)
05. Solitude With Company (5:05)
06. My Addiction Is You (5:02)
07. You Fled from Me (3:48)
08. Always in Your Hand (4:47)
09. My Girlfriend (5:25)
10. First One Door Then... (4:33)
All the songs are composed by Brazilian poet Assunção de Maria and legendary from Mississippi Delta guitarist and singer Jesse Robinson . Produced by Robertinho de Recife Special guest:The Williams Brothers (Chasing the Wind)
A creative collaboration centered around the Mississippi blues guitar is infusing the career of a longtime Jackson favorite and opening the horizon for more cultural exchanges with Brazil.
That includes a key state export opportunity: native music and homegrown talent. ~Written by Sherry Lucas
Blues musician Jesse Robinson’s CD “Stray Star,” recorded in Jackson and in Rio de Janeiro with Mississippi and Brazilian artists, is the first product in a project wedding Mississippi blues with Brazilian poetry.
Robinson, who last year performed for millions as a guest at São Paulo’s huge Virada Cultural festival, tapped talents additional to his acclaimed and expressive guitar work. Heretofore a singer? “Of course. But not in the public,” he adds, a chuckle muffled by his signature push-broom mustache. “I guess a lot of us could say that.”
Not so many could say they heard newly minted fans chanting their name in Brazilian streets.
The project is the passion of top Brazilian guitarist, producer and composer Robertinho de Recife, who sees connections and parallels between the two cultures, the plantation and rural roots of their music and expression and the rivers — the Mississippi River here and Rio São Francisco in Brazil — that’ve defined their respective regions.
A creative collaboration centered around the Mississippi blues guitar is infusing the career of a longtime Jackson favorite and opening the horizon for more cultural exchanges with Brazil.
That includes a key state export opportunity: native music and homegrown talent. ~Written by Sherry Lucas
Blues musician Jesse Robinson’s CD “Stray Star,” recorded in Jackson and in Rio de Janeiro with Mississippi and Brazilian artists, is the first product in a project wedding Mississippi blues with Brazilian poetry.
Robinson, who last year performed for millions as a guest at São Paulo’s huge Virada Cultural festival, tapped talents additional to his acclaimed and expressive guitar work. Heretofore a singer? “Of course. But not in the public,” he adds, a chuckle muffled by his signature push-broom mustache. “I guess a lot of us could say that.”
Not so many could say they heard newly minted fans chanting their name in Brazilian streets.
The project is the passion of top Brazilian guitarist, producer and composer Robertinho de Recife, who sees connections and parallels between the two cultures, the plantation and rural roots of their music and expression and the rivers — the Mississippi River here and Rio São Francisco in Brazil — that’ve defined their respective regions.
Stray Star