Townes Van Zandt For The Sake Of The Song1968 Poppy Records (PYS-40.001) Reissued 1993 on Tomato Records (598.1091.29) 1 For The Sake Of The Song 4:452 Tecumseh Valley 2:403 Many A Fine Lady 3:524 Quick Silver Daydreams Of Maria 3:415 Waitin’ Around To Die 2:226 I’ll Be Here In The Morning 2:427 Sad Cinderella 4:408…
1. THE BENTLEY BOYS, Down On Penny’s Farm 2. BLIND ALFRED REED, How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live 3.LANE HARDIN,Hard Time Blues 4. ERNEST STONEMAN, All I Got’s Gone 5. SLIM SMITH, Bread Line Blues 6. ALEC JOHNSON, Miss Meal Cramp Blues 7. KELLY HARRELL, My Name Is John Johanna 8….
Lightnin’ Hopkins “Soul Blues” Recorded in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey in May 4-5, 1964. Recording Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder. Originally released on Prestige / Bluesville (PR 7377), 1966 Digital remastering by Phil De Lancie (1991, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley). 01. I’m Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own 02. My Babe 03. Too Many…
Blues for all seasons and any time of day. I must have been about seventeen years old when I came across a copy of Mississippi John Hurt`s album “Today” at what was then one of two shops that sold vinyl in the small city where I was working as either a dishwasher or a line…
This album from 1958 had a profound influence on a great many people involved with the “folk revival” in the United States during the 1960s. Elizabeth Cotten played finger-style guitar and banjo that brings to mind her much better-known contemporary, Mississippi John Hurt, rooted in cross-picking patterns related to ragtime. Cotten, like Hurt, had basically…
Fred McDowell was a one-man blues orchestra. Although sometimes playing in a trio setting, the recordings most considered ~classic~ consist of just him on voice and guitar, sometimes electric, sometimes acoustic. Like most, if not all, of his contemporaries in southern blues from the same era, he would cover all the bases with finesse and…
