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Jim Kweskin - Relax Your Mind

Styles: Folk Revival, Traditional Folk
Label: Vanguard
Released: 1965
File: mp3 @256K/s
Size: 82,6 MB
Time: 45:06
Art: front

1. Three Songs - A Look At The Ragtime Era (Sister Kate's Night Out) - 3:22
2. Hannah - 4:08
3. Bye And Bye - 3:39
4. The Cuckoo - 4:04
5. I Ain't Never Been Satisfied - 2:38
6. Eight More Miles To Louisville - 3:01
7. I Got Mine - 3:38
8. Buffalo Skinners - 5:28
9. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor - 3:10
10. Guabi Guabi - 3:12
11. My Creole Belle - 4:41
12. Relax Your Mind - 3:58

Personnel:
Jim Kweskin - Guitar, Vocals
Mel Lyman - Harmonica
Fritz Richmond - Washtub Bass, Vocals (10)
Marilyn Kweskin - Vocals (5)

Notes: Released in 1966, Relax Your Mind finds Jim Kweskin taking a break from his jug band for a mellow solo effort. He's joined by harp player Mel Lyman and washtub bassist Fritz Richmond for what amounts to a stripped-down jug band on a dozen tracks. Two of the tracks, "I Got Mine" and a long version of "Buffalo Skinners," were recorded live at Club 47 in Cambridge. Even stripped down, the arrangements of traditional songs like "The Cuckoo" are quite lively when placed side by side with the one-singer/one-guitar approach preferred by some revivalists. Kweskin's guitar and Richmond's bass keep time and fill in the background while Lyman adds asides and flourishes to Mississippi John Hurt's "My Creole Belle" and Grandpa Jones' "Eight More Miles to Louisville." Richmond helps out on the vocal of "Guabi Guabi," an African folk song recorded a couple years earlier by Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Marilyn Kweskin sings a fine lead on "I Ain't Never Been Satisfied." Overall, Relax Your Mind is a subdued recording, and lacks the irresponsible hijinks fans had come to expect from the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. Compared to other more traditional folk with barebones arrangements, however, Relax Your Mind is a lively affair. The album also shows that good folk recordings continued to be made after Dylan supposedly pulled the plug on the folk revival in 1965. The packaging of the 2003 reissue by Universe reprints the original liner notes and looks great. ~ AMG
More info (front and back Lp cover)

Relax Your Mind



• Sippie Wallace - Mighty Tight Woman
• Jim Kweskin - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)


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ponedjeljak, 09.09.2013.

Jim Kweskin - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

Styles: Traditional Folk, Folk Revival, Old-Timey
Label: Blix Street Records
Released: 2009
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 106,5 MB
Time: 45:26
Art: front

1. Some Of These Days - 4:34
2. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me - 3:15
3. Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) - 4:45
4. John Henry - 5:22
5. Blue Skies - 3:42
6. C Jam Blues - 3:26
7. Brother Can You Spare A Dime? - 5:26
8. Junco Partner - 3:54
9. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - 3:14
10. Exactly Like You - 3:45
11. Sweet Sue - 3:57


Personnel: im Kweskin (vocals, guitar, banjo); Samoa Wilson (vocals); Titus Vollmer's Bluezzboat (guitar, dobro); Bruce Millard (mandolin); Matt Leavenworth (fiddle); Leo Blanco (piano); John Ramsey, Jerry Deupree (drums); Mickey Bones (snare drum).

Notes: On National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, rock historian Ed Ward listed, among the most important bands of the early 60’s, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Byrds, “and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band.” Ward added: “I’m not kidding.”

Listening to the music here, you’ll understand why he wasn’t kidding. Jim Kweskin continues to perform his vast repertoire of folk, blues, swing, jug band and early standards with his own brand of infectious personal interpretations. His guitar finger picking of songs like Some of These Days and Exactly Like You is recognized by his peers and fans as some of the best there is. His selection of songs is vividly evocative of his many diverse influences such as Louis Jordan, Clancy Hayes, Fats Wallter, Milton Brown, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby and Pete Seeger.

Backed by the Jim Kweskin Band, a group of extraordinary musicians, this album features four tracks taken from Jim’s Now And Again album and three tracks from Samoa Wilson’s Live The Life album.

We feel confident that when you listen to this wonderful collection of songs you will certainly “enjoy yourself.”

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)



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Posted by muddy

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