Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1991
Styles: Blues
Time: 59:21
Size: 136,6 MB
Covers: Full
(3:01) 1. Down in the Alley
(2:46) 2. Has Anyone Seen My Man?
(2:45) 3. I Hate to See the Sun Go Down
(3:00) 4. Ice Man (Come on Up)
(3:05) 5. Hoodoo Lady
(3:03) 6. I'm a Bad Luck Woman
(2:57) 7. Caught Me Wrong Again
(2:57) 8. Black Cat Blues
(3:00) 9. Good Morning
(2:59) 10. Man, You Won't Give Me Any Money
(2:40) 11. Keep on Eatin'
(2:55) 12. I've Been Treated Wrong
(2:43) 13. Good Biscuits
(3:17) 14. Ain't No Use Tryin' Tell on Me (I Know Something on You)
(3:00) 15. My Butcher Man
(3:01) 16. My Strange Man
(3:18) 17. If You See My Rooster (Please Run Him Home)
(2:49) 18. My Baby Don't Want Me No More
(2:57) 19. Please Don't Stop Him
(2:59) 20. I'm Going Don't You Know
Memphis Minnie held her own in a genre famous for its casualties, and as a blues guitarist, few players in the 1920s could cut her, and that, coupled with Minnie's natural showmanship and a penchant for marrying her guitar duet partners (Casey Bill Weldon, Kansas Joe McCoy, Ernest Lawlars), makes her one of the most colorful figures in blues history. This set brings together key tracks that she recorded for Columbia Records between 1933 and 1937, but it's just a small part of this musician's prolific recording catalog (she also recorded for the Bluebird, OKeh, Vocalion, Regal, Checker, and JOB imprints during her four-decade career). The sound is good, though, which makes this a nice place to start. -- Allmusic.
Born in Algiers, LA, in 1897, Lizzie Douglas forged a reputation as Memphis Minnie during the late '20s and throughout the '30s by singing topical blues tunes in a powerful voice while strumming the guitar, sometimes with piano, mandolin, and additional guitar accompaniment. Although her career extended well into the 1940s and she was still active in the '50s, Minnie is mainly remembered for her sanguine contribution to the developing Midwestern urban blues scene of the 1930s. In 2008 the U.K.'s Snapper label came out with a 22-track Memphis Minnie collection and chose to call it Hoodoo Lady, instantly generating confusion between their product and the identically titled benchmark Columbia Roots & Blues collection of 1991. Of that disc's 18 titles, only three are included in the Snapper edition, and for this reason the two complement each other beautifully. It's worth having the Columbia disc just to be able to savor her rendition of "If You See My Rooster," during which she anticipates the howling of Howlin' Wolf (who revived this tune many years later) by crowing gently like a chanticleer. Snapper's Hoodoo Lady is equally fine, and includes a rowdy singalong number called "Shout the Boogie." Owning one or both of these excellent samplers will enable the listener to decide whether or not to pursue Memphis Minnie's complete early recordings as released in chronological order by the Document and Wolf labels, or to shop around and piece together a unified history of her entire recording career. -- Amazon.
Born in Algiers, LA, in 1897, Lizzie Douglas forged a reputation as Memphis Minnie during the late '20s and throughout the '30s by singing topical blues tunes in a powerful voice while strumming the guitar, sometimes with piano, mandolin, and additional guitar accompaniment. Although her career extended well into the 1940s and she was still active in the '50s, Minnie is mainly remembered for her sanguine contribution to the developing Midwestern urban blues scene of the 1930s. In 2008 the U.K.'s Snapper label came out with a 22-track Memphis Minnie collection and chose to call it Hoodoo Lady, instantly generating confusion between their product and the identically titled benchmark Columbia Roots & Blues collection of 1991. Of that disc's 18 titles, only three are included in the Snapper edition, and for this reason the two complement each other beautifully. It's worth having the Columbia disc just to be able to savor her rendition of "If You See My Rooster," during which she anticipates the howling of Howlin' Wolf (who revived this tune many years later) by crowing gently like a chanticleer. Snapper's Hoodoo Lady is equally fine, and includes a rowdy singalong number called "Shout the Boogie." Owning one or both of these excellent samplers will enable the listener to decide whether or not to pursue Memphis Minnie's complete early recordings as released in chronological order by the Document and Wolf labels, or to shop around and piece together a unified history of her entire recording career. -- Amazon.
Hoodoo Lady
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1 comment:
I love Memphis Minnie. I copied a cassette of this from a cassette I checked out at the library & wore that thing out! Too bad the recent tribute album isn't a worthy tribute to Minnie's talents!
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