Recorded: 1964/1980/1981
Released: 1994
File: mp3 @ 320 k/s
Size: 153.50 MB
Time: 65:43
Art: Full
1. It's You Baby - 2:30
2. Love You, Woman - 3:12
3. Everytime I Get To Drinking - 3:05
4. When I Feel Better - 3:48
5. Blues Anytime - 5:17
6. I Love - 3:08
7. Levee Camp Moan - 5:07
8. My Babe - 3:10
9. Hubert's Blues - 3:50
10. We Gonna Jump - 3:31
11. Big Legged Woman - 2:39
12. Too Late For Me To Pray - 3:50
13. Mabon's Boogie - 3:34
14. I Don't Know - 5:15
15. Woodchopping Blues - 5:45
16. I Love - 4:15
17. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky - 3:30
Personnel: Hubert SUMLIN - Guitars, Electric and Acoustic on all track, Vocal tr.2,4,6,9,16,17
tracks 1-12 recorded 1 November 1964 at Amiga Studio, Berlin, East Germany
SUNNYLAND SLIM - Piano, Vocal tr.1,3,7,10,12;
Willie DIXON - Acoustic Bass and Piano, Vocal tr.5,8,11
Clifton James - Drums tr.1-12
on tracks 13,14 recorded on April and May 1980 in Germany are:
Willie Mabon - Piano, Vocals;
Eddie Taylor - Guitar;
Robert Stroger - Bass; Odie Payne - Drums
on tracks 15-17 recorded on May 1981 in Germany are:
Louisiana Red - Acoustic Guitar, Vocal tr.15,17
Lurrie Bell - Guitar;
Robert Stroger - Bass; Odie Payne - Drums
Notes: Sumlin's primary contribution to this collective enterprise (the album is credited to him, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon and Clifton James) is four solo tracks with acoustic guitar, four vocal and two instrumental. On the former he sounds fleetingly like Lightnin' Hopkins, but his guitar playing, though clever, is unassertive. Most of the rest of the album is by quartet, with vocals by Slim or Dixon. Sumlin plays electric guitar but still sound rather lame. Slim is the chief contributor, playing on seven tracks, singing on five. 'Levee Camp Moan', with just piano and bass, is a believable evocation of a field holler.
After the American Folk Blues Festival tour of 1964 had played its last concert, most artists returned back to the USA, however Howlin' Wolf, Sumlin, Dixon, Slim and James stayed on to do the first extended tour of any American blues artist in two socialist countries, Poland and the German Democratic Republic. Under the impact of the sensational success of this tour, Wolfgang Kahne of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten and Horst Lippmann (promoter of AFBF) decided that a recording should be made. Therefore on the afternoon of November 1st, 1964 group went into Amiga studios.
This was to become the first album ever recorded of American post-war blues in a socialist country!
Album was released (track1-12) on LP by German Democratic Republic, Amiga label in 1964; on West Germany by Scout label in 1969, and by L+R label in 1981, and in different couplings.
On CD he was released in Europe with 5 bonus tracks by L+R label in 1994, and on US, by Evidence label without bonus tracks and different art work. With that 1964 recording session Hubert Sumlin's career began in Europe like so many other American blues musicians. But it lasted a long time till 1980 and 1981, that Sumlin was again an important part of AFBF '80.
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