Various - The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (2-Disc Set)

The material was collected from the blues expert Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner in the fall of 1980 on an extensive trip through the United States - in the form of so-called field-recordings - recordings that reflect the artist in his natural environment and not in the studio. They put 10,000 miles (16.000km) with the car back, consumed 180,000 feet (54km) analog magnetic tape and took hundreds of photos to the various aspects of Country Blues, as well as work songs, Fife & Drum Band music, so-called Field Hollers and original gospel music to be documented. There were 35 artists included, some of which are thus the first time ever appeared on record.

Album: The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (Disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:50
Size: 93.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1981/2008
Art: Front

[ 5:27] 1. Guitar Frank - Lonesome Road Blues
[ 4:27] 2. Memphis Piano Red - The Train Is Comin'
[ 3:11] 3. Flora Molton - What's The Matter Now
[ 4:10] 4. Lottie Murrell - Trouble Late Last Night
[ 2:58] 5. Sam Chatmon - Sittin' On Top Of The World
[ 2:06] 6. James 'Son' Thomas - Rock Me, Mama
[ 1:51] 7. Hammie Nixon - Corinna, Corinna
[10:46] 8. Cora Fluker - Talkin' 'bout Jesus
[ 2:50] 9. Walter Brown - So Hard To See
[ 2:59] 10. Archie Edwards - Bear Cat Mama Blues

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Album: The Introduction To Living Country Blues USA (Disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:52
Size: 91.3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 1981/2008
Art: Front

[4:45] 1. Bowling Green John Cephas - Reno Factory
[4:01] 2. Lonnie Pitchford - My Babe
[2:47] 3. Sam Stretch Shields - Bluebird Blues
[3:46] 4. Flora Molton - The Titanic
[1:23] 5. Joe Savage - Mean Ol' Frisco
[3:02] 6. Arzo Youngblood - I Can't Be Successful
[2:38] 7. Cedell Big G Davis - I Don't Know Why
[3:20] 8. Othar Turner - Tango Twist
[3:17] 9. Guitar Slim - Come On In My Kitchen
[4:57] 10. Guitar Slim - Lula's Back In Town
[3:17] 11. Boyd Rivers - You Got To Move
[2:33] 12. Boogie Bill Webb - Big Road Blues

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James 'Son' Thomas & Others - Blues At Home 10

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:27
Size: 154.4 MB
Styles: Country blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[1:11] 1. Mama Don't Allow
[3:42] 2. Little Red Car (Take 1)
[2:44] 3. Stop Arguing Over Me
[3:44] 4. 61 Highway Blues
[2:54] 5. Boogie Children (Take 1)
[1:33] 6. Three Days I Cried
[2:12] 7. I Love You Baby
[3:02] 8. Catfish Blues (Take 1)
[4:08] 9. Catfish Blues (Take 2)
[3:02] 10. Standing At The Crossroads
[2:48] 11. Cairo Blues
[1:54] 12. Bottle It Up And Go
[1:15] 13. Bumble Bee Blues (Take1)
[2:04] 14. Forty-Four Blues
[1:32] 15. Boogie Till The Break Of Day
[2:29] 16. Beefsteak Blues
[4:31] 17. Big Fat Mama (Take 2)
[4:52] 18. Bull Cow Blues
[2:30] 19. Stop And Listen
[2:53] 20. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
[3:45] 21. European Country Blues
[2:24] 22. I Wanna Boogie
[2:07] 23. Shake 'em On Down
[2:03] 24. Four Women Blues
[1:58] 25. Baby Please Don't Go

The tenth volume of the “Blues At Home” Collection, this CD features Leland, Mississippi, bluesman James “Son” Thomas (born 1926) along with his uncle Joe Cooper, both hailing from Yazoo County, Mississippi, and Leland blues artist Eddie Cusic. Thomas, Cooper, and Cusic were discovered in the late ‘60s by researcher Bill Ferris, and Thomas and his uncle’s music are featured in Ferris’s book Blues from The Delta. “Son” Thomas also appeared in several blues LP anthologies issued in the UK during the late ‘60s and in some documentary films produced by the Center For Southern Folklore. From the ‘80s until his death in 1995, James “Son” Thomas was in the folk music circuit, recording several albums and performing all over the world. He was also active as a sculptor, whose themes spanned from animal figures to abstract figurative clay heads, in some cases true multimedia works, as actual teeth were found by Thomas at a local dentist’s.

The 25-track collection featured on this CD presents some of Thomas’s most genuine music ever published on record, alone and with his partners, who also played some additional blues and boogies by themselves. The material was recorded during several informal sessions held in 1976, 1978, and 1982 at the artists’ private homes in Leland and Greenville, Mississippi. The 1982 interview is featured in volume 14 of the series. All tracks have been fully digitally remastered from the original tapes in 2013. —Giambattista Marcucci

Blues At Home 10

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