Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1988
Styles: Blues
Time: 39:24
Size: 90,7 MB
Covers: Full
(3:31) 1. Roll and Tumble
(4:26) 2. Little Boy Blue
(2:43) 3. Rusty Nail
(3:20) 4. Long Lonesome Road
(3:55) 5. Mole's Moan
(5:08) 6. Highway 61
(5:59) 7. Write Me a Few Lines
(3:55) 8. Easy Rider
(2:57) 9. Steel Guitar Rag
(3:25) 10. Catfish
Leroy Jodie Pierson (born October 1947) is not only a great musician, he's also a collector, promotor and producer and lives and works in the St. Louis area. In his younger days he spent time in the deep south, performing informally with many blues legends. It was the great Son House who brought Pierson out on stage in Beloit for his first public performance. Leroy plays delta fingerpicking style on a rare National ElectroResonator guitar. In the early 1970s Pierson returned to St. Louis and taught blues classes at Washington University and he helped to form the Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts. He also wrote liner notes for blues albums and anthologies. Mid 1970s he released a compilation on his Boogie Disease label and some time afterwards he founded Nighthawk Records. His love for reggae music brought him to Kingston, Jamaica in 1979. He produced several reggae bands in the Kingston studios. The U.S. Information Agency asked Leroy Pierson and in 1985 The Leroy Pierson Band and Rockin' Dopsie played in Jamaica the World Music Festival. Two years later he toured 5 weeks in Africa and the Middle-East. Finally in 1988 Pierson released his own album "Rusty Nail", with Russell Horneyer on bass and Geoffrey Sietz on drums and fiddle. On this album, Pierson performs two songs ("Highway 61" and "Write Me a Few Lines") written by his mentor Fred McDowell and one song ("Little Boy Blue"), written by another mentor Robert Lockwood. Three songs he wrote himself ("Rusty Nail", "Long Lonesome Road" and "Easy Rider"). His guitar work is outstanding.
Rusty Nail