Ishman Bracey - Suitcase Full of Blues 1928-1929

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 63:46
Size: 146.1 MB
Released: 2011
Styles: Delta blues
Art: Front

1. Stranger Blues (3:32)
2. Saturday Blues (3:29)
3. Left Alone Blues (3:32)
4. Leavin' Town Blues (3:29)
5. Leavin' Town Blues (3:31)
6. Brown Mama Blues (3:36)
7. Brown Mama Blues (3:08)
8. Trouble Hearted Blues (3:33)
9. Trouble Hearted Blues (3:24)
10. The Four Day Blues (3:22)
11. The Four Day Blues (3:20)
12. Jake Liquor Blues (3:30)
13. Family Stirving (3:15)
14. Mobile Stomp (3:14)
15. Farish Street Rag (2:57)
16. Woman Woman Blues (3:30)
17. Suitcase Full of Blues (3:05)
18. Bust Up Blues (2:55)
19. Pay Me No Mind (3:15)

Ishman Bracey was an original amongst originals, as all bluesmen were in a way Outlaws among Outlaws, as no two played the same song the same way twice. But Ishman was lucky to have had such a rare kindred spirit in bluesdom in his bestest friend and lifelong inspirational partner Tommy Johnson. Two Old Crow's if ever there were two regulars hanging for life in the same ancient tree or seated at the same bar stools reserved exclusively for each. Telling that these two local cronies spent near everyday of their lives at each other's side yet their music is wholly singularly each's own and expressive of each's spirit. Those were days when if one played a traditional song note for note of someone else's accomplishment it only showed you were not a real musician and had no right to steal, or worse, forge a fakery and mock another...thus no song was played the same way twice in a music who has no equivalent in America today as far as spontaneous purity goes. There is no place on the planet where a music as versatile and divers as that of the entire state of Mississippi is where some unknown night only the dog star shone there rose out of a soil as dark as coffeegrounds a 100 bogey's hollerin’ the blues everywhere two roads crossed one another. A state that boasts a delta valley that only the Nile in Egypt can compare to for sheer size and grandiose beauty, as well as the richest soil in the world! The Jester Ruthless purports with abundant evidence a meteor landed in the vicinity of Clarksdale, in the very heart of the delta around 1926, and that explains why the Devil's got no dice on Mississippi Bluesmen, and could relax whenever he made his way down from Memphis all the way to Jackson, the unholy capitol of rough and lowdown juke joints where Tommy and "IshY" hung out before and after their glorified return from up north in the deltalands where Tommy's Brother tells he use to boast the devil hisself sat down and learned him how to play the git-fiddle a year ago he could barely keep tuned rightly! ~Anita Fix/Amazon

Suitcase Full of Blues 1928-1929

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