Show Me the Way Home, Honey

'Philadelphia' Jerry Ricks - Deep In The Well

Styles: Modern Acoustic Blues
Label: Rooster Blues
Released: 1996
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 158,0 MB
Time: 69:00
Art: front

1. James Alley Blues - 6:06
2. No Place For Me - 6:58
3. Down In Luck - 3:53
4. Empty Bottle Blues - 6:20
5. Change Your Ways - 6:32
6. Born With The Blues - 4:34
7. New Pallet On The Floor - 5:47
8. When A Man Gets In Trouble - 4:46
9. New Avalon - 5:14
10. Ain't Afraid Of These Blues - 4:11
11. Gary Davis Medley - 3:00
12. Troubles - 5:26
13. Troubled, Lord - 2:37
14. Swing Low Sweet Chariot - 3:31


Notes: Born and raised in Philadelphia, Jerry Ricks is currently living and performing in the Delta. Jerry Ricks has lived everywhere. He has played with such revered Bluesmen as Son House, Brownie McGhee, Mance Lipscomb, Sleepy John Estes, Skip James, Furry Lewis, Bukka White, and many others.
During the blues revival of the 60s Jerry was booking traditional Delta Blues men into the coffeehouse where he washed dishes in Philadelphia. They taught him about the Blues and became life long influences in both his music career and his personal life.
He spent much of the 70's and 80's hopping back and forth across the Atlantic. As with many bluesmen during this period, Jerry found new audiences in Europe when the Blues jobs seemed to be on hiatus in the states.
In the early 90's he decided to come home. Not just home but home to the Delta. Not his home of youth but the home of his music and the many many bluesmen who had been his friends and mentors along the years.
Ricks has two albums out on the Rooster Blues label, the critically acclaimed Deep in the Well and Many Miles of Blues, a 2000 release. Deep in the Well, released in 1998, garnered Ricks W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations in three categories: Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year; Acoustic Album of the Year, and Comeback Blues Album of the Year, the last because Ricks had spent so much time overseas and American audiences were largely unfamiliar with him. Despite a 13-album discography in Europe, Deep in the Well was Ricks' first U.S. release. He credits the great classic bluesmen of the 1960s for helping him to keep the faith (and enthusiasm) for live performing through the years. "I already knew how to play guitar when I met a lot of them," he explained, "and I had figured out a lot of stuff from their old records. Mainly, they talked to me about how to keep my head together and not run off on some kind of trip."

Deep In The Well



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