Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:53
Size: 125.6 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[3:20] 1. Shake Shake Mama
[3:56] 2. Crazy 'bout An Automobile
[4:13] 3. Mama Tain't Long For The Day
[4:11] 4. Travelin' Riverside Blues
[2:41] 5. Keep On Truckin' Mama
[3:34] 6. Tootie Blues
[2:32] 7. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burnin'
[2:28] 8. I Got To Love Somebody
[4:53] 9. Midnight Special
[2:12] 10. Shuffle Rag
[2:59] 11. Can't Be Satisfied
[3:43] 12. What's The Matter Now
[2:32] 13. Meat Shakin' Woman
[4:45] 14. Broke Down Engine
[2:50] 15. She's 19 Years Old
[3:56] 16. Cigarette Blues
Toby Walker, winner of the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge in 2002 in the “Solo/Duo” category, and formerly known as Little Toby Walker, adds to the pantheon with his latest album, a compendium of sixteen cover songs. Some of the tunes are familiar, such as “Midnight Special” and “Travelin’ Riverside Blues,” some more obscure, but all are noteworthy and Walker imparts his own proficient twist to them.
Deploying an impressive array of vintage guitars — conveniently catalogued in the liner notes for the delectation of interested musicians — Walker explores a range of styles. Texas blues is exemplified by songs of Blind Willie Johnson and Mance Lipscomb. “Broke Down Engine” by Blind Willie McTell, “Tootie Blues” by Blind Blake, and “Meat Shakin’ Woman” by Blind Boy Fuller represent the Piedmont sub-genre. Delta blues are featured in Robert Johnson’s “Travelin’ Riverside Blues,” and in songs by Muddy Waters and Big Bill Broonzy, who both took the Delta to Chicago. Mississippi hill-country blues is here with Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “What’s the Matter Now,” although Walker’s rendition displays more melody that the typical mesmerizing drone of other hill country songs. There’s even a version of “Cigarette Blues” by Bo Carter, master of hokum blues and the amusing sexual double entendre.
Deploying an impressive array of vintage guitars — conveniently catalogued in the liner notes for the delectation of interested musicians — Walker explores a range of styles. Texas blues is exemplified by songs of Blind Willie Johnson and Mance Lipscomb. “Broke Down Engine” by Blind Willie McTell, “Tootie Blues” by Blind Blake, and “Meat Shakin’ Woman” by Blind Boy Fuller represent the Piedmont sub-genre. Delta blues are featured in Robert Johnson’s “Travelin’ Riverside Blues,” and in songs by Muddy Waters and Big Bill Broonzy, who both took the Delta to Chicago. Mississippi hill-country blues is here with Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “What’s the Matter Now,” although Walker’s rendition displays more melody that the typical mesmerizing drone of other hill country songs. There’s even a version of “Cigarette Blues” by Bo Carter, master of hokum blues and the amusing sexual double entendre.
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:13
Size: 119.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front
[3:08] 1. Baby Please Don't Go
[4:47] 2. She's Into Something
[3:53] 3. Everything I Want
[2:47] 4. Glory Glory
[3:45] 5. God Moves On The Water
[2:34] 6. Swing Bean
[3:09] 7. Dead Stray Dog
[3:32] 8. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:48] 9. Statesboro Blues
[3:31] 10. Putting On The Blakes
[2:22] 11. Ham Hound Crave
[2:51] 12. Roaches And Bedbugs
[3:41] 13. Highway
[2:47] 14. Put Something Stupid On The Tube
[2:34] 15. Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied
[2:56] 16. Custard Pie
"It’s exciting and deeply satisfying to hear a solo, unadorned singer/guitarist plying his trade with the ease and panache of Toby Walker. His years of woodshedding and playing in all kinds of venues has paid off and he now sounds like the grizzled bluesmen he has long admired. Toby is deeply immersed in old-time blues and ragtime and he’s got it all: impeccable fingerpicking chops, a soulful voice and a good sense of how to entertain. On “What You See is What You Get” he gives us original songs and instrumentals and creative reworking of the music of some of the masters of the genre, played with style and verve. You can’t beat that." ~Happy Traum
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