Sugarcane Collins - Going Back To Clarksdale

Album: Going Back To Clarksdale
Size: 119,5 MB
Time: 51:52
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues/Roots
Art: Front

1. Flip Flop Fly (4:55)
2. Trouble In Mind (5:23)
3. Creole Belle (4:10)
4. St. James Infirmary Blues (7:23)
5. Going Back To Clarksdale (4:49)
6. Sitting On Top Of The World (6:00)
7. Baby It Must Be Love (2:44)
8. Hungry, Broke And Blue (3:12)
9. Blind Willie (5:00)
10. Walking Blues (4:41)
11. Memphis Town (3:31)

If Sugarcane Collins’ 2006 CD Way Down The River and it’s 2013 successor Downunder The Blues galvanised his reputation as a real deal blues performer whose music embodies the spirit of the great Delta bluesmen, then this release is a crowning achievement. It salutes a range of urban and country blues styles from the US south paying a heartfelt tribute to some of the original blues masters. From a novel horn driven arrangement of Big Joe Turners “Flip Flop Fly” to a jazz inflected reading of Leroy Carr’s “Memphis Town”, Collins’ channels the essence of blues icons Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Blind Willie McTell and the Mississippi Sheiks.

While “Blind Willie” pays homage to the legendary Atlanta, Georgia ragtime blues virtuoso, “Hungry Broke And Blue” evokes images of the dusty roads and cottonfields and the title track “Going Back To Clarksdale” elicits a smoky juke joint vibe, it’s Collins’ version of “St James Infirmiry Blues” that is the CD’s centrepiece. From an intro played in an ad lib fashion, the song progresses into a swinging Dixieland soaked section reminiscent of a late night Big Easy club, finally segueing into a New Orleans second-line marching band. Dedicated blues fans will enjoy this first rate journey through the music’s heartland. /Al Hensley

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