4cd box with 100 cuts by Bo Carter, The Mississippi Sheiks & friends. The Chatman Brothers (Lonnie, Sam, Bo and Harry) with Walter Vinson and Charlie McCoy were a musical force to be reckoned with down around Bolton, Mississippi in the early 1930s performing and recording in various line-ups of hot string bands that included The Jackson Blue Boys, Chatman’s Foot Stompers, The Mississippi Mud Steppers and The Chatman Brothers. Most ferociously prolific of all were The Mississippi Sheiks who loped around country juke joints, white dances, barbeques and roadhouses blasting out their reels, rags, hard blues and hokum numbers. Every now and then some assortment of Chatman musicians would enter the studio and out would come a hot number that would reverberate around the south – songs like Sittin’ On Top Of The World, She’s Crazy About Her Loving, Sales Tax, Bootleggers Blues, Stop And Listen Blues and other powerful stuff like the two tracks Bob Dylan took up on ‘World Gone Wrong’ sixty-odd years later, I Got Blood In My Eyes For You and The World Is Going Wrong. Chatman brother Bo, known as Bo Carter, soon realised that he could earn more money without the band and decided to go solo. His recordings show that he was a considerable talent who, despite coming from an area that contained a vast store of traditional blues styles, wrote tunes that were consistently more inventive and original than any of his contemporaries – his brothers included. Guitarist John Miller recognizes Bo as “one of the bona-fide geniuses of country blues. Bo was probably the most sophisticated of all country blues men from a harmonic viewpoint, playing with perfect facility in five tunings and showing consistent originality in his melodic and rhythmic concepts”. Lyrically he was a master of the double entendre. Titles like The Ins And Outs Of My Girl, Your Biscuits Are Big Enough For Me, Same Thing The Cats Fight About, My Pencil Won’t Write No More, Banana In My Fruit Basket, Don’t Mash My Digger So Deep and What Kind Of Scent Is This? mesh nicely with the harder, but no less melodic straight blues of Whiskey Blues, Shake ‘Em On Down, To Her Burying Ground and the divine I Want You To Know – one of his most beautiful compositions. These cuts demonstrate perfectly why Bo Carter was such a popular blues artist in his day and why, eighty years since these first recordings, he’s revered by blues fans the world over.
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 79:18
Size: 183,3 MB
Covers: Full
(3:09) 1. Good Old Turnip Greens
(3:14) 2. Sweet Alberta
(3:07) 3. It Ain't No Good, Pt. 1
(2:46) 4. It's Hot Like That
(3:01) 5. Blue Heaven Blues
(2:53) 6. Your Friends Gonna Use It Too, Pt. 1
(3:04) 7. Sitting On Top of the World
(3:15) 8. The Jazz Fiddler
(3:32) 9. Stop and Listen Blues
(2:52) 10. Alma Waltz
(3:00) 11. Grind So Fine
(3:00) 12. It Still Ain't No Good
(3:01) 13. Mississippi Low Down
(3:22) 14. Seen Better Days
(3:26) 15. Frost Texas Tornado Blues
(3:08) 16. Jake Leg Blues
(3:34) 17. Bootleggers' Blues
(2:55) 18. I'm an Old Bumble Bee
(3:12) 19. Your Good Man Caught the Train and Gone
(3:24) 20. Unhappy Blues
(3:29) 21. Please Don't Wake It Up
(2:49) 22. I've Got the Whole World In My Hand
(3:21) 23. Same Thing the Cats Fight About
(3:11) 24. Times Is Tight Like That
(3:21) 25. You Gonna Need Me
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc A
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc A artwork
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 79:45
Size: 184,1 MB
Covers: Full
(3:36) 1. Northern Starvers are Returning Home
(2:58) 2. My Pencil Won't Write No More
(3:09) 3. Banana In Your Fruit Basket
(3:11) 4. Sorry Feeling Blues
(3:20) 5. Twist It Baby
(2:44) 6. The Law Gonna Step On You
(2:49) 7. Howling Tom Cat Blues
(3:26) 8. What Kind of Scent Is This
(3:25) 9. The World is Going Wrong
(3:20) 10. She's a Bad Girl
(3:16) 11. Kind Treatment
(3:15) 12. Living In a Strain
(2:57) 13. Too Long
(3:03) 14. I Want You to Know
(3:09) 15. Last Go Round
(2:53) 16. Beans
(3:02) 17. Nobody Knows My Baby
(3:04) 18. Please Don't Drive Me From Your Door
(3:12) 19. Bed Spring Poker
(3:17) 20. I Got Blood In My Eyes for You
(3:32) 21. Shooting High Dice
(3:09) 22. She's Crazy About Her Lovin'
(3:28) 23. He Calls That Religion
(3:01) 24. Hitting the Numbers
(3:18) 25. It's Done Got Wet
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc B
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc B artwork
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 75:04
Size: 173,3 MB
Covers: Full
(3:10) 1. I Am the Devil
(3:13) 2. She's Got Something Crazy
(3:24) 3. You'll Work Down to Me Someday
(3:12) 4. Somebody's Got to Help Me
(3:07) 5. Sales Tax
(3:01) 6. Lean To One Woman
(3:08) 7. I Can't Go Wrong
(3:03) 8. Dead Wagon Blues
(2:36) 9. She's Going to Her Lonesome Grave
(2:46) 10. Fingering With Your Fingers
(3:00) 11. Don't Cross Lay Your Daddy
(2:24) 12. Don't Do It No More
(2:59) 13. Old Shoe Blues
(2:58) 14. Let Me Roll Your Lemon
(3:05) 15. To Her Burying Ground
(2:57) 16. When Your Left Eye Go To Jumping
(2:58) 17. Spotted Sow Blues
(3:00) 18. All Around Man
(2:59) 19. You Better Know Your Business
(2:46) 20. Dinner Blues
(3:17) 21. Cigarette Blues
(3:15) 22. If You Don't Want Me, Please Don't Dog Me Around
(2:52) 23. Wake Me Just Before Day
(2:47) 24. Stir It Now
(2:55) 25. Please Don't Give My Love Away
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc C
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc C artwork
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 2012
Styles: Blues
Time: 76:11
Size: 175,5 MB
Covers: Full
(2:52) 1. Pussy Cat Blues
(2:58) 2. The Ins and Outs of My Girl
(3:13) 3. Bo Carter's Advice
(2:53) 4. Doubled Up In a Knot
(2:09) 5. Your Biscuits are Big Enough for Me
(2:58) 6. Don't Mash My Digger So Deep
(2:38) 7. Flea on Me
(2:28) 8. Got to Work Somewhere
(3:11) 9. Shake 'Em On Down
(3:25) 10. Whiskey Blues
(2:48) 11. Shoo That Chicken
(3:03) 12. Old Devil
(3:15) 13. Country Fool
(3:15) 14. Santa Claus
(3:17) 15. Be My Salty Dog
(3:22) 16. Ways Like a Craw Fish
(2:50) 17. Lucille, Lucille
(3:32) 18. The County Farm Blues
(3:20) 19. Border of New Mexico Blues
(3:07) 20. Arrangement for Me Blues
(3:03) 21. Trouble, Oh Trouble
(3:04) 22. My Baby
(3:07) 23. Policy Blues
(3:13) 24. Tush Hog Blues
(3:00) 25. What You Want Your Daddy To Do
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc D
Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks Disc D artwork