K.C. Douglas : Big Road Blues / K.C.'s Blues

Born in Mississippi, Douglas (as many others) moved to California in 1945 to work in the naval shipyards. By 1947 he played the San Francisco and Oakland blues scene. In 1948 he recorded 'Mercury Boogie' (aka Mercury Blues) with his trio and lots of rock and pop artists covered his song. In the early 1960s K.C. Douglas recorded for Chris Strachwitz (Arhoolie and Prestige Bluesville). In the 1970s he performed with a quartet in the East Bay area (before his death in 1975).

Album: Big Road Blues
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1961
Styles: Blues
Time: 39:41
Size: 91,5 MB
Covers: Full

(3:28) 1. Big Road Blues
(2:55) 2. Howling Blues
(2:35) 3. Move to Kansas City
(3:06) 4. Buck Dance
(3:25) 5. Tore Your Playhouse Down
(4:09) 6. Bottle up and Go
(3:36) 7. Whiskey Headed Woman
(3:13) 8. Catfish Blues
(5:04) 9. K.C.'s Blues
(3:54) 10. Canned Heat
(4:11) 11. Key to the Highway

Big Road Blues

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Album: K.C.'s Blues
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1961
Styles: Blues
Time: 41:16
Size: 95,0 MB
Covers: Full

(3:05) 1. Broken Heart
(4:07) 2. Henhouse Blues
(2:31) 3. Wake Up, Working Woman
(3:30) 4. Rootin' Ground Hog
(3:11) 5. Meanest Woman
(3:54) 6. Born in the Country
(2:29) 7. Love Me All Night Long
(3:16) 8. Tell Me
(2:38) 9. No More Cryin'
(4:01) 10. K.C.'s Doctor Blues
(3:58) 11. You Got a Good Thing Now
(4:29) 12. Watch Dog Blues

K.C.'s Blues

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Various - I Have to Paint My Face

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: From LL
Released: 1995
Styles: Blues
Time: 76:33
Size: 177,7 MB
Covers: Full

(2:50) 1. Sam Chatmon - I Have to Paint My Face
(2:32) 2. K.C. Douglas - Big Road Blues
(3:54) 3. Sam Chatmon - I Stand and Wonder
(3:43) 4. Big Joe Williams - Texas Blues
(2:06) 5. K.C. Douglas - Night Shirt Blues
(2:49) 6. K.C. Douglas - Mercury Blues
(5:10) 7. Sam Chatmon - Hollandale Blues
(3:20) 8. Japser Love - The Slop
(3:35) 9. R.C. Smith - Stella Ruth
(3:54) 10. Sam Chatmon - God Don't Like Ugly
(1:22) 11. Wade Walton - Rooster Blues
(2:25) 12. R.C. Smith - Barbershop Rhythm
(2:46) 13. R.C. Smith - Going Back to Texas
(3:22) 14. Sidney Maiden - Blues and Trouble
(2:54) 15. R.C. Smith - Lonely Widower
(3:54) 16. R.C. Smith - Lost Love Blues
(2:00) 17. Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues
(1:25) 18. Japser Love - Love's Honeydripper
(3:42) 19. Japser Love - Desert Blues
(4:46) 20. Willie Thomas - One Thin Dime
(5:36) 21. Willie Thomas - Butch's Blues
(4:45) 22. Willie Thomas - Forty Four Blues
(3:34) 23. Sidney Maiden - Chicago Blues

In the summer of 1960 Chris Strachwitz had made his first trip through Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi with British blues scholar, Paul Oliver and his wife Valerie. Paul's homework and dedication to meet, interview and record a good many older blues artists for a series of programs sponsored by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was in large measure responsible for the success of that first trip. This CD brings you the sounds of the Mississippi blues as we were able to meet and document them during that very hot and humid summer. The rediscovery of several historic blues legends like Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Bukka White, Big Boy Crudup along with the discovery of the remarkable Fred McDowell, was still to come!
“...wonderful music, not only Chatmon's poignant and sometimes bitter songs but also driving and exciting sides by Robert Curtis Smith, the famous barber Wade Walton and Jasper Love; very few of these artists had other opportunities to make more recordings and that's a great pity...everything is excellent and there are no low points. Another one to get, definitely.” -- Blues Gazette.

I Have to Paint My Face
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