Son House - Field Recordings Volume 17

Styles : Country Blues, Mississippi Delta Blues, Bottleneck-Slide Guitar.

Released : 2011

Lable : Document Records

01 - Levee Camp Blues (Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams)

02 - Government Fleet Blues (Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams)
03 - Walking Blues (Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Leroy Williams)
04 - Shetland Pony Blues
05 - Camp Hollers (Son House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, poss. Willie Brown)
06 - Delta Blues (Son House, Leroy Williams)
07 - Special Rider Blues (test)

08 - Special Rider Blues

09 - Low Down Dirty Dog

10 - Depot Blues
11 - Interview Demonstration of Concert Guitar Tuning
12 - American Defence
13 - Am I Right Or Wrong

14 - Walking Blues (Death Letter)

15 - County Farm Blues
16 - The Pony Blues
17 - The Jinx Blues (No. 1)
18 - The Jinx Blues (No. 2)


When, in August and September, 1941, Alan Lomax, then ‘Assistant in Charge’ of the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress in Washington, undertook a field trip to record in Coahoma County, Mississippi, he had already conducted a considerable number of such trips, initially in the company of his father, John Lomax, back in 1933/4. Travelling with him in their Ford car was his wife Elizabeth. Also taking part in the project were John Work, whose idea it was to study the black culture of a limited area in Mississippi or Tennessee in detail, and Lewis Jones, both from Fisk University.
Having made a series of religious recordings after their arrival in Mississippi on Sunday, 31st August, they visited the Stovall Plantation to record a young man named McKinley Morganfield, who had been recommended to them as a good bluesman. Apart from his musical contribution he was instrumental in guiding Lomax to where he could find former Paramount recording artist Eddie James ‘Son’ House. In an interview Muddy told Lomax and John Work that while he admired and was influenced by the recordings of Robert Johnson, his major inspiration was Son House.
House was now living on a plantation near Robinsonville, a small town in Tunica County on Highway 61, where he worked as a tractor driver. On weekends he fronted a country band that included his close friend, guitarist Willie Brown, who had also recorded for Paramount, Fiddlin’ Joe Martin, who played several instruments, including guitar and mandolin, and harmonica player Leroy Williams. On 3rd September this group was assembled at Clack’s grocery store at Clack, Mississippi. The store was chosen as a recording location because it was only one of a few buildings in the area that had an electricity supply. A railroad track ran close by and on two of the recordings a train can be heard - Son’s solo recording of Charlie Patton’s big hit on Paramount, Pony Blues and Walking Blues (with the band) which was based on one of Son’s Paramount recordings, which now exists only as a test pressing but may have been issued commercially.
The first three performances feature the full band supporting Son’s vocal. Levee Camp Blues (originally untitled) fades out during the sixth verse, presumably due to lack of disc space. The intention was to re-record it. However, Government Fleet Blues contains ten verses, only four of which appear (and then in different form) in Levee Camp so I prefer to think of them as related but distinctly individual songs using the same melody.
Fiddlin’ Joe Martin indulges is in his element, in exchanges with Son during the accapella Camp Hollers, capturing the sounds of the levee camps. Delta Blues, which only features Son and Leroy, was House’s personal favorite from the session and it certainly is an absolutely magnificent performance.

In 1942 the Coahoma County study was resumed. Alan Lomax rated Son House, as a blues singer, even above Leadbelly and so was understandably anxious to record him again. The long recording session in Robinsonville had, been extremely successful. It begins with a brief test of an un-named piece that sounds for all the world as if it was recorded for Paramount. Slide-guitar accompanied and with an insistent beat reminiscent of “My Black Mama” it is a great shame that only this fragment remains. The intensity of Son’s performance on Special Rider Blues and Low Down Dirty Dog Blues is almost overpowering. They are fully realized and virtually flawless examples of the finest Delta blues. Only a little lighter in tone, Depot Blues uses a melody similar to Willie Brown’s railroad piece “M & O Blues”. A few months before Son had composed a patriotic song about the War, American Defense with its gloomy message “This war will last you for years” but expressing confidence that it would eventually be won. Was I Right Or Wrong, a raggy non-blues, ends abruptly. Lomax noted that Son forgot the ending. Although the next piece was titled Walking Blues it was in fact a different song to that recorded in 1930 and 1941. Initially, he told Lomax that it was “The Girl I Love Is Dead” but then changed his mind. It is in fact the song that, after his rediscovery, Son called “Death Letter Blues”, which, over the years, had evolved from Part 2 of his Paramount recording “My Black Mama”.
When Son had recorded for Paramount he had been asked to record a song that employed the ‘beat’ and melody of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” and had composed a stark piece about serving time on the county farm. By 1942 considerable lyric revision had taken place, although the slide guitar accompaniment was retained. The 1930 original of Mississippi County Farm Blues has six verses whereas the Library of Congress version has only 4 (and none in common with the Paramount) but all are really hard-hitting.
Son’s 1942 treatment of Pony Blues, with its ‘clip-clop’ rhythm, seems closer to the Charlie Patton original. The two versions of Jinx Blues, one of Son’s most masterly pieces, are considerably different and certainly can’t be considered as ‘Parts 1 and 2’ as they have sometimes been presented.
It was extremely fortunate that Lomax revisited House when he did as the following year House relocated to Rochester in New York State, on Lake Ontario, and the opportunity to capture him performing at his magnificent best would have been lost.

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Don Baker - Almost Illegal

Style : Harmonica Blues
Released : 1989
Lable : Bus Records

01 - Need Someone
02 - Hoochie Coochie Man
03 - Been Alone Too Long
04 - Bring It On Home
05 - Don's Train
06 - I Wish I Had Religion
07 - Used Shoe Blues
08 - Finnerty's Blues
09 - Same Old Blues
10 - Louise
11 - Almost Illegal


Biography
Don Baker is one of Ireland's most gifted musicians whose fans include; U2's Bono who publicly declared Don, "the greatest harmonica player in the world", and Charlie McCoy who described Don as "the best Rock & Blues Harmonica player" he has ever heard. Mark Feltham of Oasis rates Don “the best acoustic harmonica player alive”. Don is the author of several instruction books on the harmonica, which are on sale in several languages and are distributed throughout the world, as well as five teaching videos. He also adjudicates bi-annually at the World Harmonica Championships. In the 1993 film, “In the Name of the Father” starring Daniel Day Lewis and directed by Jim Sheridan, Don received critical acclaim for his role as Joe McAndrew, head of the IRA in the UK prison where Gerry Conlon was detained. Don has just completed filming a major role in a Hollywood comic caper movie titled “On The Nose” also starring Dan Ackroyd and Robbie Coltrane due for release 2001. The book "The Winner in Me - Don Baker's Story" by Jackie Hayden (director of Hot Press) has enjoyed success in the Irish Bestsellers list.

About LP
Released three singles on Bus Records in the mid80s.
Don's debut solo LP 'Almost Illegal' Don Baker on vocals & harmonica includes
Brian Downey on drums.

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Roger Hubbard - Brighton Belle Blues

Styles : Slide Guitar, Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues

Released : 1971

Lable : Blue Goose Records

01 - Crow Jane

02 - A Rag

03 - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor

04 - Brighton Belle Blues

05 - West Coast Blues

06 - Hellhound On My Trail

07 - Fightin' The Jug

08 - Detroit Blues

09 - Sloopy Rag

10 - Cigarette Blues

11 - Amanda Jane

12 - Kind Hearted Woman Blues

13 - Janda

14 - Satisfied

Born in 1950 in Brighton, England, Roger remains one of the UK's major exponents of the slide guitar.

At the age of 15 he was starting to play at folk clubs in the Brighton area. In 1968, continuing an interest in Country and Delta blues, he started his own club above "The Lewes Arms" in Lewes, Sussex. Along with fellow musicians Sam Mitchell and Dick Wardell, the club featured guest performances by Jo Ann Kelly and her brother Dave Kelly, Simon Prager, Steve Rye, Bob Hall, Graham Hine, Andy Fernbach and Tony McPhee (who was later to form the Groundhogs).

The club later moved to Brighton.

In 1971 Roger opened for Muddy Waters at The Gardener Centre, Brighton. He also appeared at the Cambridge Folk Festival and on the first pyramid stage at Glastonbury the same year.

In 1972 Muddy Waters was quoted in Sounds Magazine as saying,

"Roger Hubbard is as good as any blues guitarist in the U.K. or the United States".

His first album Brighton Belle Blues was recorded in 1970 by Nick Perls for his US Blue Goose label. Nick was a key figure on the American blues trail, rediscovering the likes of Son House and Skip James. Having played his 1935 National Steel Duolian for many years, Roger now plays an electric resonator guitar of his own design, known as "The Hub" as well as a steel resonator mandolin given to him by the AMI company in Munich.

Roger is currently gigging with his band Buick 6 as well as doing solo and duo work.

His song Home Lovin' Man was recorded by US blues man Eric Bibb on his 2003 album Natural Light .


Discography
Solo:
1971 Brighton Belle Blues - Blue Goose Records
2003 Danger Deep Mud - Deep Mud Records
2007 Out of my Hands - Deep Mud Records

Duo:
1993 Busy Bootin' (John Pearson & Roger Hubbard) - Taxim Records

(Band) Buick 6:
1989 Cypress Grove - Taxim Records
1995 Juice Machine - Taxim Records
1997 Foolin' With This Heart EP - Taxim Records
2008 Live At The Telegraph - Buick Records

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DK SOUL - 3 Minutes 30 Seconds (EP)

Styles : Blues, Reggae
Released : 2011

1 - 3 Minutes 30 Seconds
2 - In The Future
3 - Face (Movie 'Tokyo Taxi' OST)


Dk Soul is a promising young blues musician in South Korea.
3 minutes and 30 seconds is his first studio album. DK Soul singing a variety of genres about life and his music.
He began music under the influenced by Eric Clapton, Tommy Emmanuel, Adrian Byron Burns.

His musical achievement is not a efforts but a innate. of course, i don't mean he does not efforts. he won the grand prix at severals Acoustic Guitar Festival of South Korea.

This album has high praised from famous jazz vocalist Woong-San and music producers in Korea.

It's an honor to introduce my friend's album to my blog.

Son House - Son House In Seattle 1968

Styles : Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues
Released : 2011
Lable : Arcola

CD 1
01 - Intro - Son House talking
02 - Death Letter Blues
03 - Son House talking
04 - Government Fleet Blues
05 - Son House talking
06 - Empire State Express
07 - Son House talking
08 - I Want to Live So God Can Use Me

09 - Son House talking

10 - Preachin' Blues

11 - Son House talking

12 - Louise McGhee

CD 2

01 - My Black Mama pt. 1

02 - Interview

03 - Louise Johnson - All Night Long Blues

04 - Interview
05 - Charlie Patton - Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues
06 - Interview
07 - Willie Brown - M & O Blues
08 - Interview
09 - Rube Lacy - Ham Hound Crave
10 - Interview
11 - Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues
12 - Interview
13 - My Black Mama pt. 2


A unique and personal presentation of Delta blues legend Eddie James 'Son' House, Jr. recorded while visiting Seattle, this two-disc set comprises Son House's 1968 concert and interview, and features trademark renditions of classic blues songs such as Death Letter Blues, My Black Mama, and Preachin' Blues. Disc 2 also features performances by Louise Johnson, Charlie Patton, Willie Brown, Rube Lacy, and Robert Johnson, followed by Son House's recollections of these musicians and their work. As much a piece of blues history as a commercial release, Son House In Seattle 1968 is an essential addition to the canon of legendary Delta blues.

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Dago Red - Feel Like... Goin' On

Style : Acoustic Blues (Diatonic Harp)
Released : 2005
Lable : EDT

01 - Lord I Feel...
02 - Here Am I...Lord Send Me
03 - Burgeois Blues
04 - Bo Weavil
05 - Sittin' In Heaven'
06 - Kansas City Blues
07 - Another Man
08 - There Was A Time
09 - Key To The Highway
10 - Walk On
11 - Rollin' Night And Day (Bonus Track)

A band of blues and roots that will make the heart beat and foot.

They started playing in 1998 and have since released three CDs, in addition to tracks in dozens of compilations. They wrote songs for artists from the prestigious label "Crosscut records". They played the most important festivals in Italy in the Blues and the rest of Europe.

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