Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Gus Cannon - Walk Right In [Stax]

Styles: Jug Band, Pre-War Blues, Minstrel, Folk-Blues, Acoustic Memphis Blues
Recorded: 1963
Released: 1999
Label: Stax
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 72,2 MB
Time: 31:31
Art: full

1. Narration - 2:58
2. Kill It - 2:10
3. Walk Right In - 2:29
4. Salty Dog - 2:22
5. Going Around The Mountain - 1:58
6. Ol' Hen - 2:33
7. Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight - 2:19
8. Ain't Gonna Rain No More - 2:50
9. Boll-Weevil - 2:42
10. Come On Down To My House - 1:24
11. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - 3:07
12. Get Up In The Morning Soon - 2:06
13. Crawdad Hole - 2:26

Personnel:
Gus Cannon - Banjo, Vocals
Milton Roby - Washboard
Will Shade - Jug

Notes: In June of 1963, 79-year-old Gus Cannon went into the studio in Memphis to cut his first recording in close to seven years, all a result of the Rooftoop Singers having made his "Walk Right In" into a number one single. The producers didn't ask for too much out of Cannon, to judge from the results -- just that he sit there with his banjo and old friends Will Shade (jug) and Milton Roby (washboard) backing him, and do his favorite songs. He introduces a few of them in separately indexed spoken passages, and runs through them in leisurely if dedicated fashion: the title track (which is much bluesier than the hit in Cannon's hands), "Salty Dog" (the best track here), "Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight," "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," and "Crawdad Hole." The album is almost an audio documentary tour through different corners of Cannon's life and career that, ideally, might've run to several volumes. ~ Bruce Eder

Walk Right In [Stax]



• Gus Cannon - Jug Band Blues Essentials
• Various - Jugband Specials

Oznake: Folk-Blues, Gus Cannon, Jug Band, Memphis Blues, Minstrel, Pre-War Blues

Van Hunt - Blues At Home 1: Recorded In Memphis, Tennessee (1976-1978)

Size: 162,7 MB
Time: 69:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Piano Blues, Memphis Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Sitting Here Drinking (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (3:39)
02. No More Dogging (Mose Vinson) (2:17)
03. Early in the Morning, About the Break of Day (Take 1) (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (4:33)
04. Early in the Morning, About the Break of Day (Take 2) (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:40)
05. Nobody's Business but Mine (2:18)
06. That’s All Right (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (2:46)
07. Forty-Four Blues (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (2:02)
08. Tin Pan Alley (Sweet Charlene & Mose Vinson) (2:37)
09. Mississippi River Blues (Take 1) (2:13)
10. Don't the Moon Look Lonesome (Take 2) (Mose Vinson) (2:42)
11. Just a Closer Walk With Thee (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:13)
12. You Don't Need Me No More (Mose Vinson) (2:43)
13. I Never Knew What Love Would Do (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (3:27)
14. Long Lonesome Road (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (3:11)
15. Careless Love (Mose Vinson) (1:56)
16. Corinna, Corinna (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:27)
17. Old Blue Jumped a Rabbit (Take 1) (Mose Vinson) (2:32)
18. Old Blue Jumped a Rabbit (Take 2) (Mose Vinson) (2:53)
19. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (Mose Vinson) (2:14)
20. The Darktown Strutters' Ball (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:06)
21. Crump and Jim Kinnane (1:13)
22. Jelly Selling Blues (Take 2) (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (2:25)
23. Troubled World (3:58)
24. Sunnyland Special (Van Hunt & Mose Vinson) (3:21)
25. Mose Vinson Discusses Old Blue Jumped a Rabbit (Mose Vinson) (1:30)
26. Mrs. Van Hunt Discusses Crump and Jim Kinnane (0:30)
27. Mrs. Van Hunt Discusses Bottleneck Technique (2:14)
28. Mrs. Van Hunt and Mrs. Ruth Ogilvie Discuss Repertoire (0:54)

Mbirafon presents its new “Blues At Home” CD Collection, with a wide range of artists and documents, that offer research-based, in-depth information for the public worldwide. With a sober and fluent design this new collection answers every demand of the modern blues audience who expect full usability with computers and mobile devices. Every volume has been carefully produced, giving listeners the all important confidence that the material featured is as high-quality as it is authentic.

On December 1972, with the help of the legendary harmonica player Hammie Nixon, using a professional portable equipment, I had the chance to start recording blues in Memphis. The documentary research continued in July 1976, ending in July 1982. A series of informal sessions was held during the course of my five trips through Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, featuring well known, but also little known, and unknown musicians. A collection of tapes and photographs was created and kept in my private archive. In order to preserve these materials I transferred to digital those I thought were best, and by 2013 the 15-volume “Blues At Home” CD Collection was ready for release.

The first volume of the Mbirafon “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features one of the most intense voices of the blues, Van Zula Carter Hunt. This central figure in the Memphis blues scene was born in 1901 in Somerville, Tennessee, but spent her whole life in Memphis, where she was living on South 4th Street when I met her in 1976. She started singing and playing at age five, performing with her brother and cousins in a group called Somerville Family Band. Around the late 1910s, she moved to Memphis and began her professional musical activity, traveling for several years with minstrel shows. She played with local blues artists such as Sleepy John Estes, Frank Stokes, Gus Cannon, and Memphis Minnie. In November 1930, she recorded “Selling The Jelly” (issued under the name of the Carolina Peanut Boys) in Memphis for Victor Records. She also recorded some gospel sides as a chorus member with Rev. E.D. Campbell for Victor in 1927. Van Hunt was rediscovered, through the referral of Dewey Corley, by Gene Rosenthal, who recorded her for the Adelphi label in 1969-1970.
Mose Vinson was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1917. He learned how to play the piano at the age of five from his mother, who played the organ at church. His father, also a musician and a piano player, taught him his first musical elements and some early blues. Vinson started playing in public in 1932 around the age of 15 and was spotted for his talent by some white managers in 1936. He studied and learned to read music, and joined a band in Nashville for six years. He recalled leaving Holly Springs at an early age and traveling in the areas of Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, reaching Memphis in 1945, where he lived for the rest of his life. While in Memphis, Mose’s piano style was influenced by several musicians, mostly active in local cabarets and nightclubs where he gained some of his musical experience. He also performed during those years with B.B. King for black audiences, recalling Memphis Slim and Walter Davis as well. During the ‘50s, he recorded for several labels, including Sun Records, with Joe Hill Louis and Jimmy De Berry. Mose Vinson stopped playing at clubs around 1962, and in 1969-1970 was rediscovered and recorded by Gene Rosenthal for Adelphi Records. One of the best-known and respected Memphis piano blues players, he performed in the River City and abroad until his death in 2002 at age 85.
Van Hunt’s daughter Sweet Charlene Peeples was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1936. She received her musical training mainly in church vocal groups and during the late 1940s and 1950s in local nightclubs. She performed professionally on several Memphis stages. A very reserved person, Charlene stopped her musical activities during the early 1970s, although she made a few public appearances in 1971 at both the River City Blues Festival and the Wolf Trap National Park Festival in Virginia, and at the Beale Street Music Festival in 1979. In 1976 and 1978, I had the chance to record various sessions with Mose Vinson, Van Hunt, and Sweet Charlene. This CD features four examples of Van Hunt on vocal and guitar, and various tracks accompanied by Mose Vinson’s piano. There are also blues and boogie solos by Mose Vinson plus four pieces sung by Sweet Charlene with his piano accompaniment. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes. ~Giambattista Marcucci

Blues At Home 1



• VA - Bukka White & Others: Blues At Home 7 •
• Sam Chatmon - Blues At Home 2 •

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Oznake: Van Hunt, Mose Vinson, Sweet Charlene, Memphis Blues, Piano Blues

VA - Bukka White & Others: Blues At Home 7

Size: 136,0 MB
Time: 58:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Country Blues, Piano Blues, Memphis Blues
Label: Mbirafon
Art: Front

01. Bukka White - I'm Getting Ready, My Time Done Come (2:55)
02. Bukka White - The Aberdeen Blues (3:21)
03. Bukka White - Booker T.'s Doctor Blues (4:52)
04. Bukka White - Brownsville, Tennessee (3:09)
05. Bukka White - My Theme Song (Bed Springs Blues) (4:04)
06. Bukka White - Talking About Old, Talking About Young (Feat. Hammie Nixon) (1:53)
07. Bukka White - Christmas Eve (2:57)
08. Dewey Corley - Stop And Listen (3:13)
09. Dewey Corley - Just A Dream (3:16)
10. Dewey Corley - Fishing In The Dark (2:48)
11. Dewey Corley - Blues Jumped A Rabbit (3:44)
12. Dewey Corley - Dresser Drawer Blues (2:24)
13. Dewey Corley - Yancey Special (1:55)
14. Dewey Corley - Big Legged Woman (3:57)
15. Laura Dukes - Stack O'lee Blues (2:21)
16. Laura Dukes - Jimmy, You Are My Heart And Soul (2:21)
17. Laura Dukes - I Got To Get Myself Somebody To Love (1:45)
18. Laura Dukes - Little Laura's Blues (3:02)
19. Laura Dukes - Doggone My Soul (1:58)
20. Laura Dukes - Bricks In My Pillow (1:58)

The three Memphis blues musicians featured in this album were all recorded on the memorable day of 27 December 1972: Bukka White at his home; Laura Dukes at Furry Lewis’ home; and Dewey Corley at Memphis Piano Red’s home.

The seventh volume of the “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features one of the major Mississippi bluesmen to be rediscovered during the blues revival of the '60s. Born near Houston, Mississippi, sometime between 1903 and 1909, Bukka White learned to play guitar and piano at an early age. From 1930 through 1940, he recorded for Victor, Vocalion, OKeh, and the Library of Congress several amazing titles characterized by strong rhythms, powerful bottleneck slide guitar, and original, very personal lyrics. In 1963, after nearly 20 years of obscurity, he was luckily rediscovered in Memphis, Tennessee. From that moment, Bukka entered the Blues Revival folk festival circuit, performing in the U.S. and abroad and also recording various albums, mostly in studios or during public appearances on concert stages and in coffeehouses. This CD features the complete relaxed session recorded at his private home in Memphis on December 22, 1972, in the stately presence of Sleepy John Estes and Hammie Nixon. Although very short in duration (23:29), the session delivers surprisingly crisp and clear sound quality and contains some of Bukka's most spirited and authentic material ever recorded after his rediscovery. Also featured on this CD is some unusual material by former jug band members Dewey Corley on piano and Laura Dukes on ukulele, recorded on the same day, December 22, 1972.
Son of the accordion player Will Corley, Dewey Corley was born in 1897 in Memphis, Tennessee; other sources report St. Louis, Missouri, or Halley, Arkansas. He left home when he was a boy and starting hoboing on freight trains until he settled in Memphis in 1916, where he lived ever since. As a child he learned how to play harmonica; then, in Memphis, the bull-fiddle (one-string bass), kazoo, jug, and piano. In 1934, he recorded for the OKeh label with the Memphis Jug Band, playing the jug. During the late '30s and '40s, he collaborated with several artists and bands, including Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band, Laura Dukes, Van Hunt, Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Joe Hill Louis, John “Piano Red” Williams' trio, and Willie Borum with whom he teamed up quite often. In 1940, the Application for a Social Security Number reports his home address as 316 Beale Street, and he was not married. According to Willie Borum, Dewey then married a "fat lady" whom Borum mentions as Mrs. Emma Corley. They separated later at an unknown date. Dewey sings about this woman in several blues featured on the CD. After World War II he started his own Beale Street Jug Band, performing on the bull-fiddle until the early '60s. Rediscovered by George Mitchell in 1967, he recorded several pieces on vocal, bull-fiddle, and kazoo, accompanied by Walter Miller on guitar, released on Arhoolie and Fat Possum Records. He also recorded material for Bengt Olsson and Gene Rosenthal (Adelphi Records) with different accompanists, Willie Morris among others. In 1969 and 1971, he participated in blues festivals held in Memphis and Wolf Trap National Park, Virginia. After the recordings I made in Memphis in December 1972, at John Williams' and Mose Vinson’s homes, Dewey fell into oblivion, and there is no report of further musical activities before his death in 1974.
Laura Dukes was born in 1907 in Memphis, Tennessee. Her father, Alex Dukes, had been a drummer in W.C. Handy's band at the turn of the century, just when Handy composed his three famous blues. One of four children, Laura made her first appearance on stage as a performer in 1912 at the age of five. Starting her professional activities in the early '20s as a dancer and singer in local clubs on Beale Street, she performed during the late 1920s and 1930s for medicine shows and carnivals touring in various states. She also regularly performed on Beale Street during those years. In 1933, she met the blues guitar player Robert Nighthawk (Robert McCollum) and learned guitar from him, but she soon preferred to switch to the banjo-ukulele. The two spent several years traveling together and performing, especially in juke joints in the East St. Louis area where they had met. In 1934 she recorded with the Memphis Jug Band; Laura knew and gigged with Dewey Corley when he played bull-fiddle with the band. From 1944 to circa 1956, she performed with the South Memphis Jug Band at house parties and clubs in and near Memphis. Between 1956 and 1966, she played only at home and for neighbors; she made a comeback in the late 1970s, appearing frequently in the Memphis area, in particular at the Blues Alley nightclub, and is featured in several documentary programs. She also worked for 27 years in a church nursery, taking care of children through the 1970s and '80s. The December 1972 recordings cut at Furry Lewis’s house present her only and probably best work as a solo performer for variety and skill on the ukulele. This material has been remastered and republished for the first time in its total integrity on this CD. The 1982 interview with Laura Dukes can be found in volume 14 of this series. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered in 2013 from the original tapes. ~Giambattista Marcucci

Bukka White & Others: Blues At Home 7



• VA - Chicago Blues: The Chance Era •
• Memphis Minnie - Queen Of The Blues •

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Oznake: Various, Bukka White, Dewey Corley, Laura Dukes, Memphis Blues, Country Blues, Piano Blues

VA - Chicago Blues: The Chance Era

Size: 164,3+166,0 MB
Time: 69:14+69:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1998
Styles: Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Memphis Blues
Label: Charly Records
Art: Front

CD 1:
01. John Lee Hooker - Miss Lorraine (3:01)
02. John Lee Hooker - I Love To Boogie (3:10)
03. Little Walter - That's Alright (Ora Nelle Blues) (2:37)
04. Homesick James - Lonesome Old Train (2:52)
05. Homesick James - Williamson Shuffle (2:37)
06. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - About To Lose My Mind (2:29)
07. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - My Baby Left Me (2:32)
08. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - Some Day Little Darling (3:07)
09. Lazy Bill Lucas - She Got Me Walking (3:00)
10. Lazy Bill Lucas - I Had A Dream (2:55)
11. JB Hutto - Price Of Love (2:59)
12. JB Hutto - Pet Cream Man (2:26)
13. JB Hutto - Lovin' You (2:29)
14. Homesick James - Whiskey Headed Woman (2:41)
15. Homesick James - 12th Street Station (2:39)
16. Homesick James - Wartime (2:55)
17. Johnny Williams - Silver Haired Woman (2:40)
18. Johnny Williams - Fat Mouth (2:32)
19. Willie Nix - Nervous Wreck (2:28)
20. Willie Nix - No More Love (2:49)
21. Homesick James - The Woman I Love (My Home Is In Georgia) (2:40)
22. Homesick James - Dirty Rat (2:19)
23. Jimmy Eager - Baby Please Don't Throw Me Down (2:58)
24. Jimmy Eager - I Should Have Loved Her More (2:55)
25. John Lee Hooker - Graveyard Blues (3:12)

CD 2:
01. John Lee Hooker - Road Trouble (2:53)
02. John Lee Hooker - Talkin' Boogie (3:04)
03. Little Walter - I Just Keep Loving Her (2:26)
04. Homesick James - Homesick (3:04)
05. Homesick James - Williamson Boogie (2:52)
06. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - Which One Do I Love (Sometimes I Wonder) (2:50)
07. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - Rhythm Rock Boogie (2:36)
08. Arthur 'Big Boy' Spires - Tired Of Being Mistreated (2:26)
09. Willie Nix - Just Can't Stay (2:38)
10. Willie Nix - All By Myself (2:48)
11. Lazy Bill Lucas - My Baby's Gone (2:41)
12. Lazy Bill Lucas - I Can't Eat,can't Sleep (2:44)
13. JB Hutto - Combination Boogie (2:14)
14. JB Hutto - Dim Lights (2:42)
15. JB Hutto - Things Are So Slow (3:04)
16. Homesick James - Johnnie Mae (2:44)
17. Homesick James - Farmer's Blues (3:07)
18. Homesick James - Lonesome Blues (2:46)
19. Sunnyland Slim - Roll,tumble And Slip (I Cried) (3:19)
20. Sunnyland Slim - Train Time (4 O'clock Blues) (3:14)
21. Homesick James - Long Lonesome Day (2:22)
22. Homesick James - Late Hours At Midnight (2:18)
23. JB Hutto - Now She's Gone (3:12)
24. Jimmy Eager - Please Mr. Doctor (2:50)
25. John Lee Hooker - 609 Boogie (2:50)

The opening two or three cuts on this 50-song, 140-minute compilation sound ominously rough and ragged, and I'm not talking about the music, but the sources. But then the quality rights itself, and the rest is above-average quality early Chicago blues. Chance Records was never as big as Chess, though they shared a few artists like John Lee Hooker (as John L. Booker) and Sunnyland Slim (as "Delta Joe") in common, but it managed to get its share of worthwhile blues and R&B records out during its four years of active life. John Lee Hooker opens disc one with a pair of wildly chaotic, raw blues tracks, "Miss Lorraine" and "I Love to Boogie," that were probably recorded in the back of a local record store. A single side by Little Walter dating from 1947, originally cut for Ora Nelle Records and issued by Chance as "Ora Nelle Blues," is another primordial treasure contained on this CD, and the surface noise of these early sides can be forgiven under the circumstances. Arthur "Big Boy Spires" stood to be Chance's answer to Muddy Waters, based on "Some Day Little Darling" and "My Baby Left Me," but the big surprise on these sides is Lazy Bill Lucas, an Arkansas-born bluesman, who attacks his songs (especially "I Had a Dream") with bristling aggressiveness at the piano and the microphone, ably backed by Louis Myers in a searing set of guitar workouts. J.B. Hutto only cut six commercial sides for Chance before vanishing into the relative obscurity of club performances in Chicago, and then re-emerging on the folk-blues revival scene courtesy of Vanguard Records a decade later. The six sides here are worth their weight in gold -- loud, defiant blues that manage to be both raw in sound and smooth in execution, with a crunchy yet dexterous guitar sound and wonderfully expressive vocals -- check out "Lovin' You," maybe the best piece of blues ever cut in Chicago that didn't come from Chess. The 14 cuts by Homesick James (John Williamson Henderson) here represent more of this man's music than almost anyone has heard in 45 years -- he also appears to have been the first artist to actually record for Chance. And lo and behold, Tampa Red also shows up -- sans guitar, alas -- as Jimmy Eager, doing a trio of cuts that outclass much of the rest of his late career output; cut in 1953, they mark the tail end of Red's commercial career as a full-time bluesman, and one only wishes that he, and not Vee Jay Records alumnus L.C. McKinley, were playing the guitar on those cuts, but he was signed to Victor, and they were even less amused than companies like Chess about label-hopping by their artists. ~Review by Bruce Eder

Chicago Blues: The Chance Era CD 1
Chicago Blues: The Chance Era CD 2



• Various Artists - Fonotone Records 1956-1969 (5 Disc Box set) •
• Various - Canned Heat Blues: Masters Of The Delta Blues •

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Oznake: Various, Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Memphis Blues

Memphis Minnie - Queen Of The Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 50:02
Size: 114.5 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, Memphis blues
Year: 1997
Art: Front

[3:08] 1. When the levee breaks
[3:06] 2. Joliet Bound
[3:07] 3. He's In The Ring (Doing The Same Old Thing)
[2:48] 4. Joe Louis Strut
[2:58] 5. New Orleans Stop Time
[2:49] 6. Blues Everywhere
[2:54] 7. Please Don't Stop Him
[2:43] 8. Has Anyone Seen My Man
[2:47] 9. I'd Rather See Him Dead
[2:22] 10. Call The Fire Wagon
[2:28] 11. Bad Outside Friends
[2:50] 12. Lonsome Shack
[2:32] 13. Pig Meat On The Line
[2:35] 14. Looking the world over
[2:41] 15. When You Love Me
[2:37] 16. Love Come And Go
[2:57] 17. Fashion Plate Daddy
[2:29] 18. Killer diller blues


Eighteen stellar selections recorded between 1929 and 1946 that clearly show what a potent musical force this woman truly was. Working with second and third husbands Kansas Joe McCoy and Ernest "Little Son Joe" Lawlars, this was a prime period for Minnie's creativity, going from the lowdown blues of "Has Anyone Seen My Man?" to the celebratory novelty of "Joe Louis Strut." Three of the tracks here ("Fashion Plate Daddy," "Killer Diller Blues" and "Please Don't Stop Him") are previously unissued, and the disc transfers are clean and sharp throughout. This perfect little primer set also includes the original version of "When the Levee Breaks," later recorded and partially credited to Led Zeppelin. ~Cub Koda

Queen Of The Blues

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• Little Milton - Live At Westville Prison
• VA - Copenhagen Blues Sessions Vol. 4

Oznake: Memphis Minnie, Chicago Blues, Memphis Blues

Robert Wilkins - The Original Rolling Stone

Styles: Acoustic Memphis Blues, Country Blues, Pre-War Country Blues
Label: Yazoo
Released: 1990
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 102,2 MB
Time: 44:09
Art: front

1. I'll Go with Her Blues - 3:07
2. Rolling Stone, Pt. 1 - 2:53
3. Get Away Blues - 3:33
4. Alabama Blues - 2:38
5. I Do Blues - 3:38
6. Long Train Blues - 3:06
7. That's No Way to Get Along - 2:53
8. Falling Down Blues - 2:38
9. Jailhouse Blues - 3:33
10. Losin' Out Blues - 3:11
11. Rolling Stone, Pt. 2 - 3:30
12. Old Jim Canan's - 2:58
13. Nashville Stonewall Blues - 3:24
14. Police Sergeant Blues - 3:01


Notes: Yazoo's Original Rolling Stone is a wonderful disc containing 14 of the 17 sides Robert Wilkins recorded before the war. Wilkins was one of the great country-blues artists, and these songs -- including "Rollin' Stone," "That's No Way to Get Along," "Jailhouse Blues" and "I'll Go with Her" -- became legendary, not only because the songs were terrific (which they are) but also because the performances are intense and haunting. Original Rolling Stone features these songs in the best fidelity possible, along with some fairly good liner notes, making this the best package of his most influential recordings.

The Original Rolling Stone



• Sherman Lee Dillon - 309 Blues •
• Memphis Willie B. - Hardworking Man Blues (Remastered) •

Oznake: Robert Wilkins, Memphis Blues, Country Blues, Prewar Blues

Memphis Jug Band with Cannon's Jug Stompers (4 Disc Box set)

Styles: Jug Band, Pre-War Country Blues, Acoustic Memphis Blues
Recorded: 1927-1930
Released: 2005
Label: JSP
Art: full


Among the recorded members were (at various times) Will Shade (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Charlie Burse (pronounced Bursey) (guitar, mandolin, and vocals), Charlie Nickerson (piano and vocals), Charlie Pierce (violin), Charlie Polk (jug), Tewee Blackman (vocals, guitar), “Hambone” Lewis (jug), Jab Jones (jug), Johnny Hodges/Hardge (piano), Ben Ramey (vocals and kazoo), Casey Bill Weldon (guitar and vocals), Memphis Minnie (guitar and vocals), Vol Stevens (vocals, violin, and mandolin), Milton Robie (violin), Otto Gilmore/Gilmer (drums and woodblocks), and Robert Burse (drums). Vocals were also provided by Hattie Hart, Memphis Minnie, Jennie Mae Clayton (Shade’s wife), and Minnie Wallace, with Charlie Burse often contributing beautiful harmony parts to Shade’s lead vocal lines. In the case of Memphis Minnie, the Memphis Blues Band accompanied her on two sides for Victor Records, recorded in 1930 when the band's career was "winding down".
The attributed names of the group led by Will Shade on various recording labels vary quite a bit, but recent scholarly consensus has led writers to compile all of these works under the over-arching rubric of the Memphis Jug Band. In addition to that name, alternative names found on record labels include the Picaninny Jug Band, Memphis Sanctified Singers, the Carolina Peanut Boys, the Dallas Jug Band, the Memphis Sheiks, the Jolly Jug Band and recordings credited to the individual performers Hattie Hart, Minnie Wallace, Casey Bill Weldon, Charlie Nickerson, Vol Stevens, Charlie Burse, “Poor Jab” Jones, and Will Shade, but actually performed with accompaniment by other Memphis Jug Band members.
The Memphis Jug Band played wherever they could find engagements, and busked in local parks. They were popular among white as well as black audiences. Musically they were flexible, playing a mixture of ballads, dance tunes, knock-about novelty numbers, and blues. Some of their songs mention hoodoo magical beliefs, and some members also contributed to gospel recordings, either uncredited or as part of the Memphis Sanctified Singers. In total, they made more than eighty recordings, first for Victor Records, then—as the Picaninny Jug Band—for the Champion-Gennett label, and finally for OKeh Records. The Victor recordings were made in Memphis and Atlanta, Georgia between 1927 and 1930, the Champion-Gennetts in Richmond, Indiana in August 1932, while the final sessions on Okeh were held in Chicago in November 1934. By that time, their style of music was no longer in demand, and Will Shade was no longer able to keep the musicians assembled as a group, although many of the individuals carried on working around Memphis until the 1940s.
In 1963 Will Shade recorded one last time with another Memphian, 79-year-old Gus Cannon, former leader of Cannon’s Jug Stompers, another popular jug band. They recorded the album Walk Right In, on Stax Records, a result of The Rooftop Singers having made Cannon's "Walk Right In" into a number one single. Will Shade on jug and Milton Roby on washboard perform a series of thirteen traditional songs, plus Cannon's great hit "Walk Right In," including "Narration," "Kill It," "Salty Dog," "Going Around," "The Mountain," "Ol' Hen", "Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight," "Ain't Gonna Rain No More," "Boll-Weevil," "Come On Down To My House," "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor," "Get Up In The Morning Soon," and "Crawdad Hole." The album is almost an audio documentary tour through different corners of Cannon's life and career that, ideally, might've run to several volumes.

Booklet

Oznake: Cannon's Jug Stompers, Country Blues, Jug Band, Memphis Blues, Memphis Jug Band, Prewar Blues

Sherman Lee Dillon - 309 Blues

Size: 113,3 MB
Time: 48:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Memphis Blues
Label: Wepecket Island Records
Art: Front

01. Oh, Red (2:33)
02. Down Home Blues (5:10)
03. Mean Conductor (3:17)
04. Can't Help Worryin' About Me (3:15)
05. Shame, Shame, Shame (3:09)
06. Today, I Started Loving You Again (5:32)
07. I'm Gonna Marry You (3:19)
08. Luberta (5:34)
09. I'm Gettin' Over (2:54)
10. You Win Again (3:58)
11. One More Beer (3:31)
12. I Just Want Your Love (3:45)
13. 309 Blues (2:49)

Personnel:
Sherman Lee Dillon, lead vocal, dobro, banjo and harmonica
Vinnie Pagano: drums and hand percussion
Don Barry: bass
'Ragtime' Jack Radcliffe: piano (1, 6, 7) and organ (2, 4, 8)
Art Manchester: sax (13) and clarinet (1)
Jack Gomes: trumpet (1 and 13)
Liz Simmons: backup vocal (2)
Patrons of F Jones Corner: backup vocals (11)

Sherman Lee is the living embodiment of Mississippi blues tradition. His lineage can be traced back through Sonny Boy Williamson and Willie Dixon and all the way back to Tommy Johnson. Don't believe it? Listen to this!

309 Blues



• Rock Bottom & Ben Waters - Going Nowhere Fast •
• Hook Herrera - Puro Mestizo •

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Posted by kamane

Oznake: Memphis Blues, Sherman Lee Dillon

Various - Oh Brother, Best Of Southern Blues

Styles: Early American Blues, Harmonica Blues, Acoustic Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Country Blues, Acoustic Memphis Blues
Label: Northquest
Released: 2005
File: mp3 @320K/s
Time: 29:18
Art: front

Disc 1
1. Bessie Tucker - Penitentiary - 3:33
2. Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Dealing With The Devil - 2:49
3. Muddy Waters - Burying Ground Blues - 2:32
4. Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues - 2:50
5. Lucille Hegamin - Land Of Cotton Blues - 3:05
6. Blind Boy Fuller - Bus Rider Blues - 2:43
7. Josh White - Blood River Blues - 2:49
8. Hot Lips Page - Uncle Sam Blues - 3:20
9. Big Maceo Merriweather - County Jail Blues - 2:52
10. Bumble Bee Slim - Hard Rocks In My Bed - 2:40

Disc 2
1. Tommy Johnson - Canned Heat Blues - 3:41
2. Charley Patton - High Sheriff Blues - 3:10
3. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Rock Me Mamma - 2:58
4. Son House - My Black Mama (Part 1) - 3:10
5. Tommy McClennan - Bottle It Up And Go - 2:50
6. Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues - 2:51
7. Robert Johnson - Phonograph Blues - 2:40
8. Roosevelt Sykes - Give Me Your Change - 3:04
9. Big Joe Williams - Please Don't Go - 2:50
10. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie - 3:21

Notes: Do you need an explanation or anything, what you hear is a true classic blues. This was the beginning. After that something happened, I call that the real Blues.

Oh Brother, Best Of Southern Blues

• The Hound Kings - Unleashed •
• Eric & Suzy Thompson - Dream Shadows •

Oznake: Various, Early American Blues, Harmonica Blues, Memphis Blues, Prewar Blues, Country Blues

Memphis Willie B. - Hardworking Man Blues (Remastered)

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:24
Size: 93.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic Memphis blues, Piedmont blues
Year: 1995/2007
Art: Front

[3:25] 1. Lonesome Home Blues
[3:33] 2. L & N Blues
[3:27] 3. Hardworking Man Blues
[3:41] 4. Dying Mother Blues
[3:08] 5. Honey Maker Blues
[3:33] 6. P 38 Blues
[3:19] 7. Funny Caper Blues
[2:20] 8. Good Potatoes
[3:16] 9. I Have Found Somebody New
[3:40] 10. Uncle Sam Blues
[3:36] 11. Wine Drinking Women
[3:20] 12. Car Machine Blues


Willie Borum, better known under his recording sobriquet of Memphis Willie B., was a mainstay of the Memphis blues and jug band circuit. Adept at both harmonica and guitar, Borum could add pep to any combination he worked in, as well as leaving a striking impression as a solo artist.

He was born in 1911 in Shelby County, Tennessee. He took to the guitar early in his childhood, being principally taught by his father and Memphis medicine show star Jim Jackson. By his late teens, he was working with Jack Kelly's Jug Busters, working for tips on the street with the occasional house party and country supper rounding out his meager paycheck. This didn't last long, as Borum joined up with the Memphis Jug Band, one of two outfits in existence at that time. The group frequently worked what later became W.C. Handy Park in Memphis, with touring stretching all the way down to New Orleans during the Mardi Gras. Sometime in the '30s he learned to play harmonica, being taught by no less a master than Noah Lewis, the best harp blower in Memphis and mainstay of Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers.

As his style began to move further away from a strict jug band approach, Willie B. began working on and off with various traveling Delta bluesmen, performing at various functions with Rice Miller, Willie Brown, Garfield Akers, and Robert Johnson. He finally got to make some records in New York under his own name in 1934 for Vocalion, but quickly moved back into playing juke joints and gambling houses with Son Joe, Joe Hill Louis, and Will Shade until around 1943, when he became a member of the U.S. Army.

It was a much different world he returned to and after a brief fling at trying to pick up where he left off, Borum soon cashed in his chips and started looking for a day job. That would have been the end of the story, except in 1961 -- with the folk and blues revival in full hootenanny steam -- Borum was tracked down and recorded an absolutely marvelous session at the Sun studios for Prestige's Bluesville label. It turned into a little bit of a career upswing for the next few years; Willie B. started working the festival and coffeehouse circuit with old Memphis buddies Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis. But then just as quickly, he dropped out of the music scene and eventually out of sight altogether. Willie B. reportedly died in Memphis during the early '70s. ~bio by Cub Koda

Recorded on August 12, 1961.

Memphis Willie B. (vocals, guitar, harmonica). Audio Remasterer: Phil DeLancie.

Hardworking Man Blues (Remastered)

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Oznake: Memphis Blues, Piedmont Blues, Memphis Willie B.