Percy Strother - The Highway Is My Home

Size: 120,9 MB
Time: 52:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995
Styles: Modern Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Cut You Off Like A Light (3:00)
02. The Highway Is My Home (3:46)
03. You Are So Sweet (4:13)
04. Looking For Somebody New (3:45)
05. Easy Baby (4:53)
06. One Of These Mornings (3:09)
07. Can You Get Away From Him Tonight (3:22)
08. I Don't Trust You No More (4:14)
09. This Time Belongs To You And Me (2:53)
10. Forty Days And Forty Nights (3:00)
11. I've Got The Blues (4:40)
12. I'm Tore Down (3:28)
13. What You Gonna Do (When The One You Love Start Cheating On You) (3:24)
14. Mind Your Own Business (4:44)

For a sense of the blues at its most tangible, one needs to look no further than singer/guitarist Percy Strother, who triumphed over incredible tragedy to create music of genuine pain and sorrow. Born July 23, 1946 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he was still a child when his father died violently; his mother passed away shortly afterward, and rather than submitting to life in an orphanage, Strother simply took to the road. He drifted from job to job for a number of years, all the while fighting a battle with alcoholism; discovering the blues turned his life around, however, and after sobering up he began teaching himself guitar, honing his chops in virtual anonymity before recording his debut LP A Good Woman Is Hard to Find in 1992. The Highway Is My Home followed in 1995, and in 1997 Strother returned with It's My Time. He toured Europe several times and recorded Home at Last there, which saw release in 2001. A legend in his adopted home of Minneapolis, Percy Strother was diagnosed with liver cancer and passed away May 29, 2005. ~Bio by Jason Ankeny

The Highway Is My Home

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