Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Tampa Red - Sugar Mamma Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:20
Size: 108.4 MB
Styles: Slide guitar blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[2:35] 1. (Honey) It's Tight Like That
[3:15] 2. Western Bound Blues
[2:47] 3. What Is It That Tastes Like Gravy
[3:25] 4. Sugar Mama Blues
[3:08] 5. Somebody's Been Using That Thing
[2:48] 6. You Can't Get That Stuff No More
[3:07] 7. Mama Don't Leave Me Here
[2:26] 8. They Call It Boogie Woogie
[2:45] 9. Mean Mistreater Blues
[2:52] 10. The Duck Yas-Yas-Yas
[2:46] 11. Nobody's Sweetheart
[3:05] 12. Kingfish Blues
[3:10] 13. Boogie Woogie Dance
[3:12] 14. Witchin' Hour Blues
[2:41] 15. Shake It Up A Little
[3:11] 16. Stockyard Fire

Out of the dozens of fine slide guitarists who recorded blues, only a handful -- Elmore James, Muddy Waters, and Robert Johnson, for example -- left a clear imprint on tradition by creating a recognizable and widely imitated instrumental style. Tampa Red was another influential musical model. During his heyday in the '20s and '30s, he was billed as "The Guitar Wizard," and his stunning slide work on electric or National steel guitar shows why he earned the title. His 30-year recording career produced hundreds of sides: hokum, pop, and jive, but mostly blues (including classic compositions "Anna Lou Blues," "Black Angel Blues," "Crying Won't Help You," "It Hurts Me Too," and "Love Her with a Feeling"). Early in Red's career, he teamed up with pianist, songwriter, and latter-day gospel composer Georgia Tom Dorsey, collaborating on double-entendre classics like "Tight Like That."

Listeners who only know Tampa Red's hokum material are missing the deeper side of one of the mainstays of Chicago blues. His peers included Big Bill Broonzy, with whom he shared a special friendship. Members of Lester Melrose's musical mafia and drinking buddies, they once managed to sleep through both games of a Chicago White Sox doubleheader. Eventually alcohol caught up with Red, and he blamed his latter-day health problems on an inability to refuse a drink.

During Red's prime, his musical venues ran the gamut of blues institutions: down-home jukes, the streets, the vaudeville theater circuit, and the Chicago club scene. Due to his polish and theater experience, he is often described as a city musician or urban artist in contrast to many of his more limited musical contemporaries. Furthermore, his house served as the blues community's rehearsal hall and an informal booking agency. According to the testimony of Broonzy and Big Joe Williams, Red cared for other musicians by offering them a meal and a place to stay and generally easing their transition from country to city life.

Today's listener will enjoy Tampa Red's expressive vocals and perhaps be taken aback by his kazoo solos. His songwriting has stood the test of time, and any serious slide guitar student had better be familiar with Red's guitar wizardry. ~bio by Barry Lee Pearson

Sugar Mamma Blues

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Tampa Red - The One And Only: Tampa Red (Remastered)

Size: 137,4 MB
Time: 59:36
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Chicago Blues, Slide Guitar Blues
Label: Kateland
Art: Front

01. Love Her With A Feeling (2:56)
02. Noonday Hours Blues (3:08)
03. Blues For My Baby (3:16)
04. Don't You Lie To Me (2:54)
05. Crying Won't Help You (3:09)
06. It Hurts Me Too (2:28)
07. Witchin' Hour Blues (3:12)
08. You Say It's Love (2:52)
09. Waiting Blues (3:14)
10. You Can't Get That Stuff No More (2:54)
11. Seminole Blues (3:00)
12. Somebody's Been Using That Thing (3:08)
13. Travel On (2:20)
14. Forgive Me Please (2:47)
15. Kingfish Blues (3:05)
16. Bessember Blues (2:44)
17. Turpentine Blues (3:19)
18. Sad Letter Blues (3:01)
19. Stockyard Fire (3:11)
20. I Wonder What's The Matter (2:47)

A singer and guitarist of enormous influence, Tampa Red's thirty-year recording career yielded hundreds of recordings. Primarily known as a blues guitarist, Red played hokum, Swing, Ragtime, pop, jazz and just about anything else that was popular from the 1920s to the '50s. He was a slide guitarist with an uncommonly precise and linear touch whose playing couldn't have been further removed from the slashing Delta styles of people like Charlie Patton or Bukka White. His articulated phrasing and singing, melodic lines are closer to that of a horn player than any guitar player performing at the time. He is probably most famous for his work with pianist Georgia Tom Dorsey. In the 1930s the two cut a number of sides of outrageously songs, many of which have become cult classics.

The One And Only: Tampa Red



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