File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1965
Styles: Blues
Time: 54:19
Size: 124,6 MB
Covers: Full
(3:22) 1. Waiting for My Baby
(4:06) 2. I'm in Jail Again
(2:54) 3. The Girl I'm Loving
(3:05) 4. Going Down South, Carry My Whip
(4:36) 5. Diving Duck Blues
(4:56) 6. The Sun Rose This Morning
(2:29) 7. Six White Horses
(4:11) 8. Down on Dankin's Farm
(3:01) 9. Get Right Church
(3:21) 10. Amazing Grace
(2:31) 11. Jesus Gonna Make up My Dying Bed
(3:16) 12. Where Could I Go But to the Lord
(2:55) 13. The Lord Will Make a Way
(2:52) 14. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
(2:19) 15. When the Saints Go Marching In
(1:52) 16. Big Road Blues
(2:23) 17. When I Lay My Burden Down
Mississippi Fred McDowell's home may have been in the Delta, but his music belonged to the world. This is heartfelt, raw, glorious country blues, delivered without an ounce of pretension or nostalgia. --Allmusic.
Let me tell you this is his best on the Arhoolie label; his stuff doesn't feel as raw as this (no offense Fred) when I hear this album Fred McDowell almost scares me I get chills down my back when I hear the songs "Six White Horses"(which can only be found here), "The Girl I'm Loving", and "Diving Duck Blues" Fred McDowell is right up their or even above Son House & other Delta Bluesmen (yes I just went there) and when he pairs up with his wife Annie McDowell on "Get Right Church", "Keep your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" there right up there with Blind Willie Johnson and his wife Angeline Johnson. All right enough rambling, if your new to Fred McDowell or haven't got it yet, also after you buy this get "Live at the GasLight"(thats a whole other story).p.s. Fred McDowell had been around just as long as Son House, Robert Johnson and others he was just never recorded until the early 60's. --Amazon
Let me tell you this is his best on the Arhoolie label; his stuff doesn't feel as raw as this (no offense Fred) when I hear this album Fred McDowell almost scares me I get chills down my back when I hear the songs "Six White Horses"(which can only be found here), "The Girl I'm Loving", and "Diving Duck Blues" Fred McDowell is right up their or even above Son House & other Delta Bluesmen (yes I just went there) and when he pairs up with his wife Annie McDowell on "Get Right Church", "Keep your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" there right up there with Blind Willie Johnson and his wife Angeline Johnson. All right enough rambling, if your new to Fred McDowell or haven't got it yet, also after you buy this get "Live at the GasLight"(thats a whole other story).p.s. Fred McDowell had been around just as long as Son House, Robert Johnson and others he was just never recorded until the early 60's. --Amazon
My Home Is in the Delta
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1966
Styles: Blues, Gospel
Time: 39:09
Size: 89,9 MB
Covers: Full
(2:13) 1. Jesus on the Mainline
(1:44) 2. When I Lay My Burden Down
(3:05) 3. I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion
(2:03) 4. Going over the Hill
(2:46) 5. I Know I've Been Converted
(2:57) 6. Just a Little More Faith
(1:48) 7. Back Back Train
(2:46) 8. You Got to Move
(0:55) 9. Jesus Gonna Make up My Dying Bed
(3:42) 10. Amazing Grace
(3:06) 11. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
(2:16) 12. Tell the Angels
(1:45) 13. When You Come Out of the Wilderness
(3:20) 14. The Lord Will Make a Way
(2:26) 15. It's a Blessing
(2:09) 16. This Little Light of Mine
The connection between rural blues and spiritual music is sometimes overlooked. This 1966 recording, featuring McDowell, his guitar, and the Hunter's Chapel Singers of Como, Mississippi (including his wife Annie Mae), is one of the best illustrations of how closely the styles can be linked. McDowell and company perform what the record subtitle calls "Mississippi Delta spirituals" on this stark and moving set, which includes a version of one of his signature tunes, "You Got to Move." The CD reissue adds three previously unreleased tracks. --Allmusic.
Every track on this collection is solid rural blackgospel blues. Fred McDowell is joined in his vocals by his wife and three members of Hunter's Chapel in Como, Miss. McDowell accompanies the group on bottleneck guitar. This is the powerful, raw blues polished not in the recording studio but in life. Their voices blend in an emotional range ranging from rough and raw to nearly lyrical. Jesus Is On the Main Line could have easily come off a recording from the teens or twenties. You Got to Move has a smoother, more forties and beyond sound. Amazing Grace is a wonderful rendition with the voices interweaving - somewhat as if you merged the call and response style with a lining out style -- the result is absolutely spectacular. -- Amazon.
Every track on this collection is solid rural blackgospel blues. Fred McDowell is joined in his vocals by his wife and three members of Hunter's Chapel in Como, Miss. McDowell accompanies the group on bottleneck guitar. This is the powerful, raw blues polished not in the recording studio but in life. Their voices blend in an emotional range ranging from rough and raw to nearly lyrical. Jesus Is On the Main Line could have easily come off a recording from the teens or twenties. You Got to Move has a smoother, more forties and beyond sound. Amazing Grace is a wonderful rendition with the voices interweaving - somewhat as if you merged the call and response style with a lining out style -- the result is absolutely spectacular. -- Amazon.
Amazing Grace
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1968
Styles: Blues
Time: 45:28
Size: 104,3 MB
Covers: Full
(3:50) 1. Levee Camp Blues
(3:43) 2. Let Me Lay Down in Your Cool Iron Bed
(2:21) 3. My Baby Don't Treat Me Like Humankind
(4:38) 4. My Baby Has Eyes Like an Eagle
(2:53) 5. Jim, Steam Killed Lulu
(2:12) 6. Pea Vine Special
(5:49) 7. Dark Cloud Rising
(2:39) 8. My Baby Has Eyes Like an Eagle
(3:43) 9. Will Me Your Gold Watch and Chain
(2:26) 10. Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long
(3:43) 11. Down on Dankin's Farm
(2:27) 12. Bye and Bye, Goin' to See the King
(2:25) 13. Goin over the Hill
(2:31) 14. When I Lay My Burden Down
When Mississippi Fred McDowell recorded these sides in March of 1968, producer Pete Welding encouraged McDowell to recall the earliest material he had learned when he first started playing. The result is a selection of tunes that simply don't show up on his other recordings, both stylistically and because of their previously unreleased status. Highlights include "Let Me Lay Down In Your Cool Iron Bed," "My Baby Don't Treat Me Like Humankind," "Jim Steam Killed Lula," "Will Me Your Gold Watch and Chain," "Dark Clouds A-Rising" and "Pea Vine Special." Also included are two previously unissued tracks recorded in 1966 before the bulk of this session. -- Allmusic.
Fred McDowell was an eccentric among blues musicians. At the surface, his sound was similar to most of the Mississippi-based acoustic players, but his melodies and solos were far more elaborate than even Robert Johnson's. In some ways, then, his work is reminiscent of Lonnie Johnson, who was among the first blues guitarists to fit in equally well with jazz players. McDowell's work, though, had much less of the polished, urbanized sound. It was Mississippi, through and through. Slide-wiz Kelly Joe Phelps cites McDowell, along with Robert Pete Williams, as a primary influence, and on this album, you can see why. What makes this album particularly special, though, is that it is one of the cleanest recordings by McDowell. McDowell, like Robert Pete Williams, had a tendancy to sound sloppy every once in a while. It is a small price to pay for the unique beauty of his music, but on this album, it isn't an issue. Hardly a note is out of place here, and unlike several of McDowell's early recordings, there are no side-musicians playing combs or doing anything to distract from the man himself. If you want to hear one of the greatest visionaries of the Mississippi bluesmen playing the songs that inspired him, this is the place to turn. -- Amazon.
Fred McDowell was an eccentric among blues musicians. At the surface, his sound was similar to most of the Mississippi-based acoustic players, but his melodies and solos were far more elaborate than even Robert Johnson's. In some ways, then, his work is reminiscent of Lonnie Johnson, who was among the first blues guitarists to fit in equally well with jazz players. McDowell's work, though, had much less of the polished, urbanized sound. It was Mississippi, through and through. Slide-wiz Kelly Joe Phelps cites McDowell, along with Robert Pete Williams, as a primary influence, and on this album, you can see why. What makes this album particularly special, though, is that it is one of the cleanest recordings by McDowell. McDowell, like Robert Pete Williams, had a tendancy to sound sloppy every once in a while. It is a small price to pay for the unique beauty of his music, but on this album, it isn't an issue. Hardly a note is out of place here, and unlike several of McDowell's early recordings, there are no side-musicians playing combs or doing anything to distract from the man himself. If you want to hear one of the greatest visionaries of the Mississippi bluesmen playing the songs that inspired him, this is the place to turn. -- Amazon.
Levee Camp Blues
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