Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:30
Size: 147,7 MB
Styles: Chicago blues, harmonica blues
Scans: Full
1. Good Time Charlie (2:33)
2. There Is Something On Your Mind (3:49)
3. Turn On Your Lovelight (2:27)
4. Jelly, Jelly (5:40)
5. Hey Hey (Three Harp Boogie/South Side Boogie) (2:45)
6. So Glad You're Mine (3:10)
7. Diggin' My Potatoes (2:11)
8. V-8 Ford Blues (4:02)
9. Polly Put The Kittle On (1:52)
10. Blues In My Sleep ('Fore Day Blues) (5:21)
11. Off The Wall (2:42)
12. Don't Start Me Talkin' (2:31)
13. I Been Dealin' With The Devil (4:58)
14. The Creeper (4:13)
15. Feelin' Good (3:09)
16. You Know It Ain't Right (2:13)
17. Knock On Wood (2:59)
18. Sweet Sixteen (5:32)
19. I Need You So Bad (Oh Why) (2:14)
James Cotton can be counted among the finest harmonica men in blues, rhythm 'n' blues and rock. While he has a direct link with his predecessors, he continues to work and progress in a contemporary, modern style. His music is not frozen in the past. It continues to be a liquid, flowing reserve of authority couple with an awareness of what today's audiences want to hear.
Born 1935 in Tunica, Mississippi, he modeled himself after local favorite Aleck "Sonny Boy Willamson" Miller and, in his very early teens, left home for West Memphis, Arkansas to become one of Sonny Boy's many proteges. After some work in the bands of Howlin' Wolf and Willie Nix, he made his first recordings with a group of younger, more contemporary musicians for the Sun label in Memphis in 1953 and 1954. Shortly thereafter, however, Sonny Boy went north and Cotton inherited his band. A couple of years later, Cotton, too, went north leaving the band in the able hands of seminal electric guitarist Joe Willie Wilkins. By 1957, James Cotton was a full-time member of Muddy Waters' great Chicago blues band and a decided influence on the burgeoning blues revival of the 1960's. It became his springboard to the leadership of his own band, which continues to this day.
Five of the recordings on this album document James Cotton's attraction to Chicago's younger set in which he appears with the leader and guitarist of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Coupled with a reissue of the entire session from which was drawn The James Cotton Blues Band's debut recording, this release marks the first time all these recordings have ever been available as a unit. /Excerpt from the liner notes.
Born 1935 in Tunica, Mississippi, he modeled himself after local favorite Aleck "Sonny Boy Willamson" Miller and, in his very early teens, left home for West Memphis, Arkansas to become one of Sonny Boy's many proteges. After some work in the bands of Howlin' Wolf and Willie Nix, he made his first recordings with a group of younger, more contemporary musicians for the Sun label in Memphis in 1953 and 1954. Shortly thereafter, however, Sonny Boy went north and Cotton inherited his band. A couple of years later, Cotton, too, went north leaving the band in the able hands of seminal electric guitarist Joe Willie Wilkins. By 1957, James Cotton was a full-time member of Muddy Waters' great Chicago blues band and a decided influence on the burgeoning blues revival of the 1960's. It became his springboard to the leadership of his own band, which continues to this day.
Five of the recordings on this album document James Cotton's attraction to Chicago's younger set in which he appears with the leader and guitarist of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Coupled with a reissue of the entire session from which was drawn The James Cotton Blues Band's debut recording, this release marks the first time all these recordings have ever been available as a unit. /Excerpt from the liner notes.
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Could you re-up, please? Thanks
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