Showing posts with label Sonny Boy Nelson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sonny Boy Nelson. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Eugene Powell (Sonny Boy Nelson) - Police In Mississippi Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 32:30
Size: 74.4 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 1978
Art: Front

[3:29] 1. Police In Mississippi Blues
[4:19] 2. Fourty Four Blues
[3:12] 3. Blues Leaping From Texas
[5:03] 4. Blues In G
[3:33] 5. Blues Jumped A Rabbit
[4:01] 6. Old Home Blues (Instrumental)
[2:53] 7. Reminiscences
[3:25] 8. Meet Me In The Bottom
[2:31] 9. Dark Road Blues

Guitar, Vocals – Eugene Powell. Recorded in Greenville, Miss, August 8, 1976.

Eugene Powell was born on December 23, 1908, in Utica, Mississippi. Most of the sources agree that he began to play the guitar at the age of eight, but The Dead Musicians Directory says that he began to play at the age of seven. The beginning of the musical Mississippi heritage for Powell was also the beginning for Charley Patton. Powell grew up in the Chatmon family when they moved to Bolton, Mississippi. Powell’s instrumental interplay began in Hollandale with Henderson Chatmon and his sons. Powell became a sometime member and recording member of the Mississippi Sheiks. Powell played many instruments including banjo, violin, harmonica, horn, and guitar, but he played lead guitar most of the time. His guitar was a Silvertone. He inserted an aluminum resonator into it like those found on the National guitar. He also fitted a seventh string, using the twelve string model as his inspiration. His playing style stood out as one of the greatest Blues soloist of his time. (Brian O’Connor, The Dead Musicians Directory). ~Eric Tucker

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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Various Artists - Louisiana Blues 1936: Complete recordings of Sonny Boy Nelson with Mississippi Mathilda and Robert Hill

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1998
Styles: Delta Blues
Time: 52:55
Size: 122,0 MB
Covers: Full

(3:29) 1. Mississippi Mathilda - A. & V. Blues
(2:57) 2. Mississippi Mathilda - Hard Working Woman
(2:53) 3. Mississippi Mathilda - Happy Home Blues
(2:50) 4. Sonny Boy Nelson - Long Tall Woman
(2:45) 5. Sonny Boy Nelson - Low Down
(2:33) 6. Sonny Boy Nelson - Lovin' Blues
(2:38) 7. Sonny Boy Nelson - Street Walkin'
(2:35) 8. Sonny Boy Nelson - If You Don't Believe I'm Leaving, Baby
(2:08) 9. Sonny Boy Nelson - Pony Blues
(2:11) 10. Robert Hill - I Had a Gal for the Last Fifteen Years
(3:00) 11. Robert Hill - Tell Me What's Wrong With You
(2:55) 12. Robert Hill - You Gonna Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old
(2:32) 13. Robert Hill - G Blues
(2:34) 14. Robert Hill - Just Smilin'
(3:21) 15. Robert Hill - Pal, How I Miss You Tonight
(2:36) 16. Robert Hill - Lumber-Yard Blues
(2:54) 17. Robert Hill - I'm Going to Write and Tell Mother
(3:05) 18. Robert Hill - It Is So Good
(2:49) 19. Robert Hill - Hill's Hot Sauce

This compilation brings us the complete recorded pre-war blues of Sonny Boy Nelson (Eugene Powell), Mississippi Mathilda and Robert Hill, recorded in the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans on October 15th, 1936. It was Bo Carter who introduced them to the Bluebird Company. At the time of the session Mathilda and Eugene were married. Powell grew up on a plantation and learned guitar, mandolin and bonjo from his half-brother Bennie Wilson. They played local picnics and country suppers and this made Powell a skilful guitar picker and entertainer. After Wilson's death, Powell formed a new team with guitar player Willie Harris. Much less is known about harmonica player Robert Hill, who shared the session with Powell. His style bears some similarity with that of Jazz Gillum. Hill's repertoire suggests a man who had worked in medicine shows, performing popular tunes, hokum numbers, instrumentals and vocal blues.

Louisiana Blues 1936