Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Charley Patton - Dirt Road Blues

Styles: Delta Blues
Label: Pristine Recordings
Released: 2008
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 139,3 MB
Time: 60:49
Art: front

1. Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues - 3:00
2. Down The Dirt Road Blues - 3:00
3. Pony Blues - 3:02
4. It Won't Be Long - 3:21
5. Pea Vine Blues - 3:06
6. Tom Rushen Blues - 3:08
7. A Spoonful Blues - 3:14
8. Shake It And Break It (But Don't Let It Fall, Mama) - 3:07
9. Elder Greene Blues - 3:04
10. Circle Round The Moon - 2:35
11. Some Of These Days I'll Be Gone - 2:52
12. When Your Way Gets Dark - 3:09
13. Heart Like Railwood Steel - 2:52
14. Jim Lee Blues, Part 1 - 3:00
15. High Water Everywhere, Part 1 - 3:00
16. Rattlesnake Blues - 2:49
17. Some Summer Day - 3:03
18. Moon Going Down - 3:18
19. Dry Well Blues - 3:22
20. Revenue Man Blues - 2:37


Notes: If the Delta country blues has a convenient source point, it would probably be Charley Patton, its first great star. His hoarse, impassioned singing style, fluid guitar playing, and unrelenting beat made him the original king of the Delta blues. Much more than your average itinerant musician, Patton was an acknowledged celebrity and a seminal influence on musicians throughout the Delta. Rather than bumming his way from town to town, Patton would be called up to play at plantation dances, juke joints, and the like. He'd pack them in like sardines everywhere he went, and the emotional sway he held over his audiences caused him to be tossed off of more than one plantation by the ownership, simply because workers would leave crops unattended to listen to him play any time he picked up a guitar. He epitomized the image of a '20s "sport" blues singer: rakish, raffish, easy to provoke, capable of downing massive quantities of food and liquor, a woman on each arm, with a flashy, expensive-looking guitar fitted with a strap and kept in a traveling case by his side, only to be opened up when there was money or good times involved. His records -- especially his first and biggest hit, "Pony Blues" -- could be heard on phonographs throughout the South. Although he was certainly not the first Delta bluesman to record, he quickly became one of the genre's most popular. By late-'20s Mississippi plantation standards, Charley Patton was a star, a genuine celebrity.
This Cd is from The first 9 Pristine Audio Blues releases, XR-remastered.

Dirt Road Blues



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Oznake: Charley Patton, Delta Blues