John WESTON - So Doggone Blue

Styles: Electric Delta Blues, Juke Joint Blues, Harmonica Blues
Recorded: 1992
Released: 1993/1998
File: mp3 @ 320 k/s
Size:  145.79 MB
Time: 61:53
Art: Full

1. Leaving Home - 2:55
2. Because Of Love - 5:56
3. Back To The Country - 3:00
4. So Diggone Blue - 6:00
5. Coloration - 5:40
6. I'd Rather Leave - 3:13
7. Stuck With The Blues - 6:01
8. Squeeze Play - 4:11
9. So Much In Love - 5:35
10. You Didn't Fool Me - 6:01
11. Younger Days - 3:55
12. Too Jealous - 5:36
13. Blue And Lonesome - 3:50

Personnel: John WESTON - Harmonicas, Vocals
Troy Lee Broussard - Guitar
James ' Famous' Jones - Bass
Nathaniel 'Herk' Williams - Drums

Notes: Weston returned to his native Arkansas in 1967 after leading a nomadic life. He ran a juke-joint from 1967 to 1992, occasionally playing the guitar he'd first picked up aged 30. He worked with a white country band for a while from 1970, by which time he was also playing harmonica, adding chromatic harp in the mid-'70s under the guidance of Willie Cobbs. Weston played his first solo blues gigs in 1988.

Former National Amateur Blues Talent champion John Weston made his recording debut with this session, a raw, hard-rocking example of updated Delta blues. Weston's rough lead vocals and cutting harmonica aren't rock-influenced; they're reflective of performers whose inspiration comes from country, soul, and gospel, and whose songs and stories are as simple today as those of their predecessors in the '20s and '30s. Weston was backed by guitarist Troy Lee Broussard, bassist James Jones, and drummer Nathaniel Williams, with Weston supplying the compositions. It wasn't pretty, but it was certainly undiluted, real blues. This album was first released by Fat Possum label in 1993.

                                                              So Doggone Blue
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