Time: 57:46
File: Flac
Released: 1996
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, tray
1. I Don't Need Your Help To Get The Blues (3:55)
2. I Wonder Why (3:56)
3. Let's Straighten It Out (6:39)
4. I'll Play The Blues For You (6:01)
5. Scratch My Back (6:13)
6. I Intend To Take Your Place (4:27)
7. Lonesome Road (4:30)
8. Born In Missosuri (5:13)
9. Losin' Hand (4:12)
10. I Kicked The Habit (4:23)
11. Rainy Night In Georgia (5:06)
12. Key To The Highway (3:07)
When Millage Gilbert plucked the strings of a guitar with his right thumb, his left hand sliding across the fretboard — the two were in perfect harmony — you could hear his whole life. There was a joyous influence of the Southern gospel of his childhood from Jackson, Mississippi, where he played the acoustic guitar alongside his older brothers in the church band, raising the spirit with hymns that shook the sanctuary. The jaunty, toe-tapping and heavily improvisational blues of his second home in Kansas City, the midwest music hub that — in the 1960s — opened his eyes to the power of intimate, underground performances. The simmering jazz of the dimly lit clubs he frequented, first as a guest and then as a nightly performer. It all gelled together into what he liked to call “downhome blues,” like the famous song by one of his idols, the singer Z.Z. Hill. But Gilbert didn’t play or perform quite like anybody else.
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