Sidney Maiden - Trouble An' Blues

Size: 89,7 MB
Time: 37:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1994
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

01. Buy Me An Airplane (3:17)
02. Sweet Little Woman (3:09)
03. My Black Name (3:47)
04. Sidney's Fox Chase (2:25)
05. San Quentin Blues (3:42)
06. Tell Me, Somebody (2:48)
07. Blues An' Trouble (4:59)
08. Hand-Me-Down Baby (2:02)
09. Sidney's Worried Life Blues (2:43)
10. Me And My Chauffeur (2:38)
11. Coal Black Mare (3:07)
12. I'm Goin' Back Home (3:10)

Born in Mansfield, LA in 1923, singer and harmonica blower Sidney Maiden made his mark on the blues with the classic "Eclipse of the Sun." In the '40s, Maiden moved to California where he first met guitarist K.C. Douglas. They bonded immediately since they both had a purist attitude towards rural blues and didn't compromise that style of playing once they left the south. They played clubs on the West Coast, and recorded "Eclipse of the Sun" in 1948 for the Down Town label run by Bob Geddins. It would be the first and only hit for Maiden. Four years later a session was recorded for Imperial with the Blues Blowers (including Douglas), followed in 1953 by "Hurry Hurry Baby" for the Flash label. In 1961 Maiden participated in a recording session, set up by Arhoolie Records boss Chris Strachwitz, reuniting him with Douglas for Trouble an' Blues released on Bluesville. Since then Maiden has performed sporadically in the Fresno area in both solo and group situations. ~Al Campbell

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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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