Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Brownie McGhee - Not Guilty Blues

Styles: Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues
Label: Magnum America
Released: 1996
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 115,2 MB
Time: 50:20
Art: front + back

1. Picking My Tomatoes - 2:49
2. Born For Bad Luck - 2:55
3. I'm Callin' Daisy - 2:41
4. My Barkin' Bulldog Blues - 2:38
5. Let Me Tell You 'Bout My Baby - 2:44
6. Be Good To Me - 2:51
7. Step It Up And Go - 2:48
8. Not Guilty Blues - 2:40
9. Money Spending Woman - 2:55
10. Death Of Blind Boy Fuller - 2:44
11. Barbecue Any Old Time - 2:50
12. Million Lonesome Women - 2:37
13. Workingman's Blues - 2:50
14. Dealing With The Devil - 2:38
15. Key To My Door - 2:51
16. I'm A Black Woman's Man #2 - 2:53
17. Try Me One More Time - 3:05
18. Swing Soldier Swing #2 - 2:43

Notes: Here's an 18-track collection of McGhee's earliest recordings, all of it emanating from sessions held in 1940 and the following year. Brownie's recordings as Blind Boy Fuller #2 are here, as well as the first recordings pairing him with longtime future partner Sonny Terry. His work with washboard player Oh Red and the mysterious Jordan Webb playing harmonica is every bit as effective, though, and tracks like "Picking My Tomatoes" and "Born For Bad Luck" get this set off to a wonderful start; the musical quotient stays high all, the way to the end. Everything is pulled off of old, beat-up 78s, and the quality is up and down on every track, but this as fine an early Brownie McGhee set as you'll come across.

Not Guilty Blues



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Oznake: Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues, Brownie McGhee

Alec Seward - Late One Saturday Evening

Styles:Country Blues
Release:May 21, 1996 (1966)
Label:Blues Alliance
File:mp3@320kbps
Size:102 MB
Time:42:39

1. What Has Annie Got - 3:09
2. Risin' Sun Shine On - 3:00
3. Her Ways Are So Sweet - 5:18
4. C.C. Rider - 4:47
5. Goin' Down Slow - 3:05
6. Rock Me Darlin' - 2:58
7. Late One Saturday Evening - 3:33
8. Blues All Around My Head - 2:50
9. Feel So Good - 1:37
10. Blues All Around My Head - 3:10
11. Trouble In Mind - 1:54
12. Creepin' Blues (Guitar Slim) - 2:40
13. Cousin John - 1:55
14. I Wish I'd Listened - 2:49

Personnel:
Alec Seward - Guitar, Vocals
Sonny Terry - Harmonica
Brownie McGhee - Guitar
Julia Carr - Vocals
Washboard Doc - Washboard

Notes: Informal without being slapdash, “Late One Saturday Evening” presents Alec Seward as he was: a consummate musician who most often performed for friends. While not aurally perfect, the disc imparts the boisterous, house-party intimacy that always separates the best ‘field’ recordings from most studio efforts. Seward’s skills are shown to be largely undiminished in comparison to his 1940s recordings as Guitar Slim with the duo Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly (check out Arhoolie LP 2005). On roughly half the cuts he plays guitar and sings solo; on the rest he is accompanied by various combinations of Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Washboard Doc, and singer Julia Carr. ~ Peter R. Aschoff, LIVING BLUES

Late One Saturday Evening



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Oznake: Alec Seward, Country Blues, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Members Edition

Size: 143,7 MB
Time: 62:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1996
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Country Blues, Harmonica Blues
Label: Members Edition
Art: Full

01. Drinkin' In The Blues (5:01)
02. Po Boy (2:43)
03. Everybody's Blues (6:43)
04. Trouble In Mind (3:14)
05. I'm A Stranger Here (4:01)
06. Down By The Riverside (3:14)
07. Walk On (3:11)
08. Blues For The Lowlands (4:46)
09. Right On That Shore (2:49)
10. Blowin' The Fuses (6:05)
11. Daisy (2:57)
12. Draggin' My Heart Around (2:55)
13. Harmonica Hop (2:40)
14. Don't Dog Your Woman (3:04)
15. Rock Me Mama (3:51)
16. Dirty Mistreater (3:00)
17. Beautiful City (2:23)

The joyous whoop that Sonny Terry naturally emitted between raucous harp blasts was as distinctive a signature sound as can possibly be imagined. Only a handful of blues harmonica players wielded as much of a lasting influence on the genre as did the sightless Terry (Buster Brown, for one, copied the whoop and all), who recorded some fine urban blues as a bandleader in addition to serving as guitarist Brownie McGhee's longtime duet partner.

Saunders Terrell's father was a folk-styled harmonica player who performed locally at dances, but blues wasn't part of his repertoire (he blew reels and jigs). Terry wasn't born blind, he lost sight in one eye when he was five, the other at age 18. That left him with extremely limited options for making any sort of feasible living, so he took to the streets armed with his trusty harmonicas. Terry soon joined forces with Piedmont pioneer Blind Boy Fuller, first recording with the guitarist in 1937 for Vocalion.

Terry's unique talents were given an extremely classy airing in 1938 when he was invited to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall at the fabled From Spirituals to Swing concert. He recorded for the Library of Congress that same year and cut his first commercial sides in 1940. Terry had met McGhee in 1939, and upon the death of Fuller, they joined forces, playing together on a 1941 McGhee date for OKeh and settling in New York as a duo in 1942. There they broke into the folk scene, working alongside Leadbelly, Josh White, and Woody Guthrie.

While Brownie McGhee was incredibly prolific in the studio during the mid-'40s, Terry was somewhat less so as a leader (perhaps most of his time was occupied by his prominent role in Finian's Rainbow on Broadway for approximately two years beginning in 1946). There were sides for Asch and Savoy in 1944 before three fine sessions for Capitol in 1947 (the first two featuring Stick McGhee rather than Brownie on guitar) and another in 1950.

Terry made some nice sides in an R&B mode for Jax, Jackson, Red Robin, RCA Victor, Groove, Harlem, Old Town, and Ember during the '50s, usually with Brownie close by on guitar. But it was the folk boom of the late '50s and early '60s that made Brownie and Sonny household names (at least among folk aficionados). They toured long and hard as a duo, cutting a horde of endearing acoustic duet LPs along the way, before scuttling their decades-long partnership amidst a fair amount of reported acrimony during the mid-'70s.

Thanks to MrWalker.
Members Edition



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Oznake: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Country Blues, Harmonica Blues

Brownie McGhee - Brownie's Blues

Styles: Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues
Label: Bluesville
Released: 1960
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 89,7 MB
Time: 39:12
Art: full

Digital Remastering, 1990 Kirk Felton
Fantasy Studios, Berkley

1. Jump, Little Children - 4:36
2. Lonesome Day - 5:25
3. One Thing For Sure - 3:20
4. The Killin' Floor - 3:41
5. Little Black Engine - 3:44
6. I Don't Know The Reason - 4:03
7. Trouble In Mind - 4:55
8. Everyday I Have The Blues - 5:15
9. Door To Success - 4:09


Notes: Brownie's Blues was originally released by Bluesville Records in 1962. Supported by his longtime accompanist Sonny Terry, as well as second guitarist Benny Foster, Brownie turns in a nicely understated record that's distinguished by surprisingly harmonically complex and jazzy guitar work. AMG

An interesting album in a number of ways. First of all, it's one of the few albums that have both Brownie and Sonny Terry on it in which only Brownie sings - not even a "whooop" from Sonny. One wonders why. You have to go back to a Savoy date from 1955 to see that happening again, and all the way back to 1952 date for Jackson to find Sonny singing and Brownie only accompanying on guitar. (Wonder how this made Sonny feel.)
It also marks the only time I know of when a second guitar was added when Sonny and Brownie were working alone together. Bennie Foster's guitar bolsters Brownie's work, but since such an addition was never used before or afterwards, it makes you wonder what made them try it here.
Anyway, some great tracks went down on this date. ONE THING FOR SURE reworks the "Gonna reap what you sow" idea in an 8-bar format. Memphis Slim's TROUBLE IN MIND is taken just a tad too slow and begins to drag a bit, but LITTLE BLACK ENGINE, a 24-bar blues taken in cut time, is a train song that is captivating and even swings nicely. A fine addition to the Brownie McGhee repertory. ~ Bomojaz

Brownie's Blues



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Oznake: Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues

Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee - Hometown Blues

Styles: Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues
Label: Mainstream/Legacy
Released: 1993
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 112,4 MB
Time: 49:04
Art: front

1. Mean Old Frisco - 2:44
2. Man Ain't Nothin' But A Fool - 3:06
3. The Woman Is Killing Me - 2:44
4. Meet You In The Morning - 2:35
5. Stranger Blues - 2:24
6. Feel So Good - 2:33
7. Forgive Me - 2:20
8. Sittin' On Top Of The World - 2:47
9. Crying The Blues - 3:05
10. Key To The Highway - 2:17
11. Ease My Worried Mind - 2:49
12. Bulldog Blues - 2:31
13. C.C. Rider - Where Did She Go - 2:14
14. Going Down Slow - 3:18
15. Bad Blood - 3:20
16. Lightnin's Blues - 3:04
17. Dissatisfied Woman - 2:27
18. Pawn Shop Blues - 2:37


Notes: Harmonica player Sonny Terry and guitarist Brownie McGhee formed one of the most enduring partnerships in the blues, lasting from before the second world war into the 1970's. Although their partnership had some ups and downs, they were certainly on an upswing when they recorded these sides for the Sittin' In With label during the years 1948-1952. Later re-released on the Mainstream label on compact disc and mp3 this compilation finds the duo playing a nice mix of electric R&B and acoustic duo tracks. They draw on traditional blues standards for the bulk of the material on this album, but with Terry's swooping harp and distinctive yodel and McGhee's deftly plucked guitar, they add a new spin on tracks like “Mean Old Frisco" and “Sittin' On Top of the World." After years of just knowing this partnership as an acoustic duo, it is fascinating to hear them play in an electric blues context with with addition of bass, drums and occasionally piano. It turns them into a rollicking little combo that could have held their own at any juke joint in post-war Chicago. This is a great introductory album for those who are interested in the duo as it presents them in a couple of different contexts and allows the listener to enjoy the full range of their talents. Definitely one to keep an eye out for. ~ allaboutjazz.com
Plenty of delightful interplay between McGhee and Terry recommends these 18 1948-1951 sides for producer Bobby Shad for his Sittin' in With label, but they predate the duo's later folk period by a longshot. Back then, they were still aiming their output solely at the R&B crowd -- meaning "Man Ain't Nothin' But a Fool," "Bad Blood," "The Woman Is Killing Me," and "Dissatisfied Woman" are straightahead, uncompromising New York-style blues. ~ AMG

This album has so many issues
Mainstream Records – S/6049 (1965) (first one)
Ace Of Hearts - AHT 182 (1969)
Festival Records - L 35074 (1974)
Decca - ND 472 (1974)
BGO Records - BGOLP 75 (1989)
Mainstream Records - JK 53625 (1993)

Hometown Blues



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Oznake: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues

Various - Pye Blues Legends In London (3-disc set)

In many respects, England was a more hospitable home for the blues in the mid-/late-1950's than America was -- where even labels such as Chicago's Chess usually limited their blues LPs to collections of singles. In England it was possible for artists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Josh White, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee to record entire LPs while touring. Pye/Nixa Records reissued these sides many times, but it wasn't until 2003 that the current owner of their library, Castle Communications, did a state-of-the-art digital remastering of their three classic U.K. albums, Broonzy's Tribute to Big Bill (1955), White's Blues and . . . (1956), and Terry and McGhee's Sonny, Brownie & Chris (1958), with full annotation. The music is a mix of virtuoso acoustic blues with some small jazz-style group accompaniment, from some top players, including Chris Barber and Phil Seamen, all of which is worth hearing and a lot of which is filled with surprises for all of us. ~Bruce Eder

Album: Josh White - Pye Blues Legends In London (Disc 1)
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:40
Size: 86.3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2003

[3:03] 1. How Long Blues
[5:40] 2. Careless Love
[2:58] 3. Oh Lula
[4:23] 4. St. Louis Blues
[3:41] 5. Kansas City Blues
[2:46] 6. I Had To Stoop To Conquer You
[2:57] 7. I Know How To Do It
[4:41] 8. Dink's Blues
[3:01] 9. Mint Julep
[4:24] 10. Good Morning Blues

Pye Blues Legends In London (Disc 1)

Oznake: Big Bill Broonzy, Josh White, Various, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Acoustic Blues

Brownie McGhee - The Story Of The Blues

Styles: Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues, Blues Revival
Label: Harmonic
Released: 2004
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 110,3 + 129,8 MB
Time: 70:50 + 59:31
Art: full

Disc 1: Born For Bad Luck
1. Picking My Tomatoes - 2:42
2. I'm Calling Daisy - 2:35
3. Me And My Dog Blues - 2:41
4. Born For Bad Luck - 2:49
5. Step It Up And Go - 25:12
6. Let Me Tell You 'bout My Baby - 2:39
7. Prison Woman Blues - 2:33
8. Be Good To Me - 2:45
9. My Barkin' Bulldog Blues - 2:33
10. Not Guilty Blues - 2:34
11. Coal Miner Blues - 2:42
12. Back Door Stranger - 2:40
13. Step It Up And Go N:2 - 2:42
14. Got To Find My Little Woman - 2:28
15. Dealing With The Devil - 2:32
16. I'm A Black Woman's Man - 2:48
17. Woman, I'm Done - 2:51
18. Death Of Blind Boy Fuller - 2:57

Disc 2: Back Home Blues
1. Key To My Door - 2:45
2. Million Lonesome Woman - 2:31
3. Ain't No Tellin' - 5:40
4. Try Me One More Time - 2:59
5. I Want To See Jesus - 2:28
6. Done What My Lord Said - 2:29
7. I Want King Jesus - 2:43
8. What Will I Do (Without The Lord) - 2:32
9. Key To The Highway - 2:37
10. I Don't Believe In Love - 2:59
11. So Much Trouble - 2:40
12. Good-Bye Now - 2:48
13. Jealous Of My Woman - 2:46
14. Unfair Blues - 2:44
15. Barbecue Any Old Time - 2:44
16. Workingman's Blues - 2:44
17. Sinful Disposition Woman - 2:31
18. Back Home Blues - 2:53
19. Deep Sea River - 2:36
20. It Must Be Love - 2:51
21. Swing, Soldier, Swing - 2:21


Notes: Brownie McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee.[3] As a child he had polio, which incapacitated his leg. His brother Granville "Sticks" or "Stick" McGhee was nicknamed for pushing young Brownie around in a cart. His father, George McGhee, was a factory worker known around University Avenue for playing guitar and singing. Brownie's uncle made him a guitar from a tin marshmallow box and a piece of board.[4] McGhee spent much of his youth immersed in music, singing with local harmony group the Golden Voices Gospel Quartet and teaching himself to play guitar. A March of Dimes-funded leg operation enabled McGhee to walk. Read more

The Story Of The Blues



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Oznake: Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues, Blues Revival, Brownie McGhee

Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee & Big Bill Broonzy - The Bluesmen

Styles: Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Piedmont Blues, Acoustic Blues
Label: Castle
Released: 1992
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 179,1 MB
Time: 78:15
Art: front + back

1. I Love You Baby - 2:00
2. Cornbread, Peas And Black Molasses - 2:30
3. That's How I Feel - 3:52
4. Gone But Not Forgotten - 2:30
5. Treated Wrong - 3:26
6. Brownie's Blues - 5:24
7. Southern Train - 2:43
8. Just A Dream - 4:42
9. Sonny's Blues - 3:19
10. You'd Better Mind - 2:09
11. Change The Lock On My Door - 3:23
12. Climbing On The Top Of The Hill - 3:01
13. When Do I Get To Be Called A Man - 3:18
14. Mindin' My Own Business - 2:51
15. Partnership Woman - 2:44
16. St. Louis Blues - 2:35
17. Southern Saga (Inc. Joe Turner Blues) - 8:09
18. Southbound Train - 3:15
19. Saturday Evening - 3:26
20. Glory Of Love - 2:39
21. It Feels So Good - 2:42
22. When The Sun Goes Down/Going Down This Road Feeling Bad - 7:28


Personnel:
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee tracks 1-12
Big Bill Broonzy tracks 13-22

Notes: The joyous whoop that Sonny Terry naturally emitted between raucous harp blasts was as distinctive a signature sound as can possibly be imagined. Only a handful of blues harmonica players wielded as much of a lasting influence on the genre as did the sightless Terry (Buster Brown, for one, copied the whoop and all), who recorded some fine urban blues as a bandleader in addition to serving as guitarist Brownie McGhee's longtime duet partner.
Saunders Terrell's father was a folk-styled harmonica player who performed locally at dances, but blues wasn't part of his repertoire (he blew reels and jigs). Terry wasn't born blind, he lost sight in one eye when he was five, the other at age 18. That left him with extremely limited options for making any sort of feasible living, so he took to the streets armed with his trusty harmonicas. Terry soon joined forces with Piedmont pioneer Blind Boy Fuller, first recording with the guitarist in 1937 for Vocalion.
Terry's unique talents were given an extremely classy airing in 1938 when he was invited to perform at New York's Carnegie Hall at the fabled From Spirituals to Swing concert. He recorded for the Library of Congress that same year and cut his first commercial sides in 1940. Terry had met McGhee in 1939, and upon the death of Fuller, they joined forces, playing together on a 1941 McGhee date for OKeh and settling in New York as a duo in 1942. There they broke into the folk scene, working alongside Leadbelly, Josh White, and Woody Guthrie.

Big Bill Broonzy was born William Lee Conley Broonzy in the tiny town of Scott, Mississippi, just across the river from Arkansas. During his childhood, Broonzy's family -- itinerant sharecroppers and the descendants of ex-slaves -- moved to Pine Bluff to work the fields there. Broonzy learned to play a cigar box fiddle from his uncle, and as a teenager, he played violin in local churches, at community dances, and in a country string band. During World War I, Broonzy enlisted in the U.S. Army, and in 1920 he moved to Chicago and worked in the factories for several years. In 1924 he met Papa Charlie Jackson, a New Orleans native and pioneer blues recording artist for Paramount. Jackson took Broonzy under his wing, taught him guitar, and used him as an accompanist. Broonzy's entire first session at Paramount in 1926 was rejected, but he returned in November 1927 and succeeded in getting his first record, House Rent Stomp, onto Paramount wax. As one of his early records came out with the garbled moniker of Big Bill Broomsley, he decided to shorten his recording name to Big Bill, and this served as his handle on records until after the second World War. Among aliases used for Big Bill on his early releases were Big Bill Johnson, Sammy Sampson, and Slim Hunter.

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Oznake: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Piedmont Blues, Acoustic Blues