Time: 65:50
Size: 150.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front
[4:34] 1. Flatfoot Sam - Come On To My Place
[5:03] 2. Big Mitch Ivanoff - Goodbye Baby
[3:42] 3. Slaughterhouse Blues - One Too Many
[2:48] 4. Automatic Slim - John Hurt
[3:39] 5. Mark Santanna - Easier Way
[3:48] 6. Nate Myers & The Aces - Porch Light
[3:01] 7. Gary Harrington - The Girl Can Cook
[4:11] 8. Reggie Wayne Morris - Rocket Science
[2:33] 9. Mike Easton - Deep Water Stomp
[5:18] 10. Roger 'hurricane' Wilson - Tribute To Danny
[2:36] 11. Mark Santanna - Hey Baby
[4:30] 12. Blind Joe Death - Bricks In My Pillow
[4:08] 13. Automatic Slim - 3 Kings
[2:11] 14. Blind Joe Death - Sowing Wild Oats
[4:42] 15. B Block Blues Band - Journey's End
[6:59] 16. Roger 'hurricane' Wilson - Just One More White Boy Singing The Blues
[2:01] 17. Eli Charleston - Champagne Charlie Is My Name
Ask an old-time musician and he’ll likely tell you that the blues is a “feeling.” Ask a musicologist and you might hear something about the “12-bar” blues. Ask a contemporary blues performer and you might still hear about 12 bars, but now more in terms of where and how often they play in the span of a good week or two. This collection is a tribute to the working blues musicians of South Central Pennsylvania who crisscross the Mason-Dixon line on a regular basis playing the circuit of bars, hotels, clubs, and showrooms that run from Harrisburg to Philly, straight south to Baltimore, down to Washington, D.C., and back around again.
The blues started working its way out of the South in the 1920s riding on the backs of itinerant musicians and spreading even further via phonograph records and radio. Blues music that “began as an expression of African Americans’ rural southern experience,” writes the nation’s leading blues scholar, David Evans (who has, by the way, family ties in Harrisburg), “migrated to the urban north” and evolved in myriad directions, though always maintaining its essential character as an “intensely personal music.” As you listen to the tracks on this CD, you’ll experience blues across a range of eras and genres, a true reflection of the best players and the kinds of blues popular in Harrisburg’s own backyard. Acoustic ragtime, Piedmont and Mississippi Delta, Chicago blues, full-tilt boogie, soul and gospel blues, Texas jump, swamp blues '" it’s all here, ingredients in the quintessential South Central Pennsylvania blues mixture.
“The standard misconception about the blues is that it's sitting-around, crying-in-your-beer music," says Mitch Ivanoff of Krypton City Blues Revue. “It is quite the antithesis of that... It's about sharing in the human experience and the joy of knowing you're not alone in this world...Blues is about life, and we're all living it." So, with ace bass-player and producing whiz Harry Werner at the helm, drop this “coin” into the slot and take a ride on the South Central blues line. ~Jerry Zolten
The blues started working its way out of the South in the 1920s riding on the backs of itinerant musicians and spreading even further via phonograph records and radio. Blues music that “began as an expression of African Americans’ rural southern experience,” writes the nation’s leading blues scholar, David Evans (who has, by the way, family ties in Harrisburg), “migrated to the urban north” and evolved in myriad directions, though always maintaining its essential character as an “intensely personal music.” As you listen to the tracks on this CD, you’ll experience blues across a range of eras and genres, a true reflection of the best players and the kinds of blues popular in Harrisburg’s own backyard. Acoustic ragtime, Piedmont and Mississippi Delta, Chicago blues, full-tilt boogie, soul and gospel blues, Texas jump, swamp blues '" it’s all here, ingredients in the quintessential South Central Pennsylvania blues mixture.
“The standard misconception about the blues is that it's sitting-around, crying-in-your-beer music," says Mitch Ivanoff of Krypton City Blues Revue. “It is quite the antithesis of that... It's about sharing in the human experience and the joy of knowing you're not alone in this world...Blues is about life, and we're all living it." So, with ace bass-player and producing whiz Harry Werner at the helm, drop this “coin” into the slot and take a ride on the South Central blues line. ~Jerry Zolten
Blues Society Of Central Pennsylvania: In Our Backyard mc
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