Various - Classic Delta & Deep South Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:34
Size: 154.7 MB
Styles: Acoustic delta blues
Year: 2018
Art: Front

[2:37] 1. Big Bill Broonzy - C.C. Rider
[2:26] 2. Roosevelt Sykes - Woman In Elaine, Arkansas
[3:01] 3. Son House - Death Letter Blues
[2:46] 4. K.C. Douglas - Your Crying Won't Make Me Stay
[3:33] 5. Bukka White - Columbus, Mississippi Blues
[1:57] 6. Cat-Iron - I'm Goin’ To Walk Your Log
[3:20] 7. Clifton Chenier - Why Did You Go Last Night
[3:54] 8. Sam Chatmon - I Stand And Wonder
[3:59] 9. Johnny Young - Sleeping With The Devil
[2:47] 10. Shortstuff Macon - Short Stuff's Corinna
[2:01] 11. Big Joe Williams - Married Woman Blues
[3:01] 12. Little Brother Montgomery - Up The Country Blues
[4:48] 13. John Littlejohn - Dream
[3:40] 14. Doctor Ross - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:31] 15. David Honeyboy Edwards - Catfish Blues
[3:41] 16. Memphis Slim - M & O Blues
[4:19] 17. Scott Dunbar - Forty-Four
[5:03] 18. Son House - Sun Goin' Down
[4:03] 19. Mississippi Fred Mcdowell - Frisco Line
[2:58] 20. Big Bill Broonzy - Diggin' My Potatoes

Mississippi, particularly the Delta, lays claim to being the land where the blues began. Forged in the crucible of poverty and racial oppression, blues flourished there as nowhere else, evolving into what most critics consider the deepest or most intense strain of the blues tradition. During the Great Migration, music changed consistently, adapting to its new surroundings like St. Louis and Chicago, while retaining its connection to its down home Delta roots. This collection celebrates the diversity and dissemination of the blues’ most powerful and influential voices.

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Various - The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (2-Disc Set)

The material was collected from the blues expert Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner in the fall of 1980 on an extensive trip through the United States - in the form of so-called field-recordings - recordings that reflect the artist in his natural environment and not in the studio. They put 10,000 miles (16.000km) with the car back, consumed 180,000 feet (54km) analog magnetic tape and took hundreds of photos to the various aspects of Country Blues, as well as work songs, Fife & Drum Band music, so-called Field Hollers and original gospel music to be documented. There were 35 artists included, some of which are thus the first time ever appeared on record.

Album: The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:50
Size: 93.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1981/2008
Art: Front

[ 5:27] 1. Guitar Frank - Lonesome Road Blues
[ 4:27] 2. Memphis Piano Red - The Train Is Comin'
[ 3:11] 3. Flora Molton - What's The Matter Now
[ 4:10] 4. Lottie Murrell - Trouble Late Last Night
[ 2:58] 5. Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World
[ 2:06] 6. James 'Son' Thomas - Rock Me, Mama
[ 1:51] 7. Hammie Nixon - Corinna, Corinna
[10:46] 8. Cora Fluker - Talkin' 'bout Jesus
[ 2:50] 9. Walter Brown - So Hard To See
[ 2:59] 10. Archie Edwards - Bear Cat Mama Blues

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Album: The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:52
Size: 91.3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1981/2008
Art: Front

[4:45] 1. Bowling Green John Cephas - Reno Factory
[4:01] 2. Lonnie Pitchford - My Babe
[2:47] 3. Sam Stretch Shields - Bluebird Blues
[3:46] 4. Flora Molton - The Titanic
[1:23] 5. Joe Savage - Mean Ol' Frisco
[3:02] 6. Arzo Youngblood - I Can't Be Successful
[2:38] 7. Cedell Big G Davis - I Don't Know Why
[3:20] 8. Othar Turner - Tango Twist
[3:17] 9. Guitar Slim - Come On In My Kitchen
[4:57] 10. Guitar Slim - Lula's Back In Town
[3:17] 11. Boyd Rivers - You Got To Move
[2:33] 12. Boogie Bill Webb - Big Road Blues

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Sam Chatmon - Hollandale Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:51
Size: 68.4 MB
Styles: Delta blues
Year: 1977/2006
Art: Front

[2:19] 1. St. Louis Blues
[3:33] 2. That's All Right
[2:54] 3. Stoop Down Girl
[2:43] 4. Baby Please Come Back To Me
[3:13] 5. I'm A Fool About Your Loving
[3:14] 6. Prowling Ground Hog
[2:27] 7. Go Back Old Devil
[3:00] 8. Used To Be
[1:06] 9. Blues When It Rains
[3:06] 10. Good Eat Meat Boy
[2:13] 11. Let's Get Drunk Again

Rec. August 6, 1976 at Sam Chatmon's home in Hollandale, MS.

Sam was born in Bolton, Mississippi, on January 10, 1899 (some sources say 1897, but his grave and his comments on The New Mississippi Sheiks album say 1899) on John Gettis's plantation near Jackson. Chatmon's family was well-known in Mississippi for their musical talents. His father Henderson Chatmon, a native of Terry, Mississippi, was an ex-slave who played the fiddle for square dances. He lived to be 105 years old and had nine sons and two daughters, all of whom seemed to have his musical ability. Chatmon's mother played the guitar.

Chatmon became interested in the guitar at the age of six, taking it down off the wall to play while his family worked in the fields and replacing it before they came home. His famous older brothers (Sam was the ninth child) Lonnie Chatmon and Bo (Armentor Chatmon) Carter performed with Walter Vinson as the Mississippi Sheiks. Sam became a member of the family's string band at a young age. The family played, according to Robert Palmer, ballads, ragtime, spirituals, popular Tin Pan Alley songs and country dance music. At the end of World War I, the Chatmon brothers formed a string band, perferring to play blues and waltzes on a regular basis for white audiences in the 1920's because it paid better. Sam also played with the Mississippi Sheiks occasionally.

In 1928 the Chatmons moved to the Delta to a town named Hollandale. The band disbanded in 1935, but in 1936 Sam and Lonnie Chatmon recorded twelve duets for Bluebird. After the death of his brothers, Sam Chatmon became part of the New Mississippi Sheiks and played with Walter Vinson, Carl Martin, and Ted Bogan. Sam did not record during the 1940's. Instead he worked on area plantations around Hollandale. He was rediscovered in 1960 by Ken Swerilas, who talked Sam into performing again. Sam Chatmon became known primarily then as a folk blues artist. He recorded on the Arhoolie label and later with others.

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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.

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