Tampa Red - The Guitar Wizard

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Source: LL (from CD)
Released: 1994
Styles: Blues
Time: 53:53
Size: 123,9 MB
Covers: Full

(2:38) 1. (Honey) I'm Tight Like That
(3:39) 2. Big Fat Mama
(3:18) 3. No Matter How She Done It
(2:51) 4. Reckless Man Blues
(2:45) 5. Don't Leave Me Here
(2:48) 6. Dead Cats on the Line
(3:11) 7. Things 'Bout Comin' My Way, No. 2
(2:58) 8. You Can't Get That Stuff No More
(3:12) 9. If You Want Me to Love You
(3:23) 10. Turpentine Blues
(3:18) 11. Western Bound Blues
(3:22) 12. That Stuff Is Here
(3:28) 13. Sugar Mama Blues, No. 1
(3:19) 14. Sugar Mama Blues, No. 2
(3:27) 15. Black Angel Blues
(3:15) 16. Things 'Bout Comin' My Way
(2:55) 17. Denver Blues

Hudson Whittaker polished up the bottleneck-guitar style of the Delta, bringing it with him to Chicago's burgeoning 1930s blues scene. He coaxed wonderfully smooth and melodic sounds from his National steel guitar, favoring emotive phrases over raw power. These 17 tracks stretch from 1928 to 1934 and include a mix of lively hokum and sober blues. The buoyant melodies, humorous narratives, and sing-along choruses of hokum are illustrated by the tawdry "It's Tight Like That," "Dead Cats on the Line," and "You Can't Get That Stuff No More," all with Georgia Tom Dorsey on piano. Tampa Red and his partner pianist "Georgia Tom" Dorsey specialized in funny, downhome, double-entendre blues songs about whiskey, prostitution, dancing, gambling, and just having a good time. Rough-edged blues include "Black Angel Blues," which became B.B. King's "Sweet Black Angel," and "Things 'Bout Comin' My Way," featured here as both a vocal with Georgia Tom and as a stunning solo instrumental. And "No Matter How She Does It" is a particular hoot, as our heroes sing about a girl who "shakes it so well that the judge sent the cops to jail." There is no question that the legendary bottleneck blues guitarist Tampa Red has been flattered by whole generations of latter day bottleneck guitarists, including some rather traditional country and western musicians, western swing artists like the well-respected Bob Wills bands and many modern rock instrumentalists. -- Amazon.

The Guitar Wizard

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