File: MP3 @ 320K/sTime: 48:05
Size: 113,8 MB
Released: 2008
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Delta Blues
Art: Front
1. Cigar Box Blues (4:11)
2. Goodnight Irene (2:38)
3. Louis Collins (2:22)
4. Big Mama's Door (4:06)
5. One Red Rose (3:10)
6. You Got To Move (3:14)
7. Joe's Blues (2:50)
8. Good Woman Blues (2:48)
9. I Remember Dirt (4:28)
10. All I Want (3:02)
11. Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad (2:57)
12. Asked My Captain (2:39)
13. What A Shame (Shame On You) (3:10)
14. Caney Valley Blues (2:51)
15. Sylvie (3:33)
So you're hankerin' for some dust in your mouth? Some grit to chew on as you drive down the road in your flatbed? That hot delta air is pressing in as you finish the day's work in the fields, and you're feelin' the blues? Well Little Johnny Kantreed is gonna bring you some water so's you can wash it all down. OK - enough of the imagery. Little Johnny Kantreed has really got a winner here. His CD "Bring Me A Little Water" is a wonderful collection of traditional blues played on dobro and cigar box guitar with some help from a few friends. This is the kind of traditional blues you would hear during a lunch break in the fields where someone toted along their homemade stringed instrument and just started singin' about what's ailin' them. Most of the tracks are presented plain and simple - put up a microphone and press record, but a few have a little flavor added to them ("Good Woman Blues") for some vocal effects, but nothing out of the nature of the song. Little Johnny Kantreed has a voice very much like the indie bluesman Malcolm Holcombe: a gravel road going through a dry cotton field and he plays the dobro and cigar box in a very simple traditional manner that accompanies his singing just right. The cigar box guitar really brings out the blues DNA, allowing you to hear all the way back through the plantations to the plains of Africa. "Bring Me A Little Water" is packed with a great assortment of traditional songs including a rendition of "Good Night Irene" that has everyone on the front porch singing and playing. Kantreed includes some simple solo performances of songs like "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad," the classic by Big Bill Broomzy, and his own composition "Joe's Blues." "Asked My Captain" by James Mathus of the Squirrel Nut Zippers is a nifty work song, complete with sledgehammer and anvil stomps. This is the kind of CD where you either get it or you don't. If you know what real traditional blues should sound like, then this is a CD you should look into getting. ~Review by Darryl Gregory
Bring Me A Little Water
