Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Various Artists - Harmonica Blues: Blowing From Memphis To Chicago

Album: Harmonica Blues: Blowing From Memphis To Chicago
Size: 165,4 MB
Time: 71:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full

1. Will Shade & The Memphis Jug Band - Sun Brimmers Blues (3:24)
2. Noah Lewis - Bad Lucky's My Buddy (2:55)
3. Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special (3:18)
4. Hammie Nixon w. Sleepy John Estes - Down South Blues (3:07)
5. Sonny Boy Williamson No. 1 - Good Morning, School Girl (3:00)
6. Joe Hill Louis - I Feel Like A Million (2:28)
7. Howlin' Wolf - Riding In The Moonlight (3:08)
8. Big Walter Horton - Easy (3:00)
9. Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2 - Nine Below Zero (2:49)
10. Sonny Boy Williamson No. 2 - Mighty Long Time (2:56)
11. Doctor Ross - Chicago Breakdown (2:55)
12. James Cotton w. Willie Nix - Baker Shop Boogie (3:04)
13. Jazz Gillum - I Want You By My Side (3:28)
14. Sonny Boy Williamson No. 1 - Sloppy Drunk Blues (3:18)
15. Sonny Boy Williamson No. 1 - Sonny Boy's Jump (2:52)
16. Forest City Joe - Lonesome Day Blues (2:49)
17. Snooky Pryor - I'm Getting Tired (2:36)
18. Big Walter Horton w. Johnny Shines - Evening Sun (2:30)
19. Little Willie Foster - Falling Rain Blues (2:37)
20. Little Walter - Off The Wall (2:50)
21. Little Walter - Quarter To Twelve (3:14)
22. Little Walter - Blues With A Feeling (3:07)
23. Junior Wells - Junior's Wail (2:55)
24. Jimmy Reed - I Found My Baby (2:52)

Saga Blues is a 50-album collection that proposes an incredibly varied journey through this inheritance, and it goes out to meet all the creators, styles and temples of Mecca that have made this music so rich for over one hundred years, music today recognized for its universal power of attraction.

The aim of the collection is to decline this eclecticism by means of two album categories: on the one hand, recordings devoted to the artists who contributed to write the history of this music; and on the other, anthologies (often unexpected), that are centered on regional trends, instruments or specific schools, and the great themes attached to the blues repertoire.

In this second domain, Saga Blues explores the blues’ talents for telling everyday stories in offering a brand-new, often moving portrait of America in the first half of the 20th century. We begin by taking an interest in the first Black song minstrels (The Songsters Tradition – Before the Blues), before moving on to explore the privileged ties linking the former-slave community with the Amerindians (Cherokee Boogie – Indians and the Blues).

We visit the plantations where tenant-farmers continued to be unfairly exploited long after the slaves had gone (Plantation Blues – Cotton Patch and Tobacco Belt Blues), and pursue our wanderings through the Old South (Traveling Man – A Blues Travel Guide), halting in New Orleans, where blues with more rhythm to it made its appearance after the war (New Orleans Rhythm & Blues – Good Rockin’ Tonight), before moving on again, in the company of itinerant harmonica-players, along the natural way leading from the Delta to the great industrial cities of the Midwest (Harmonica Blues – Blowing from Memphis to Chicago).

(For personnel and recording details, see artwork included.)

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