Rok, I've known others who don't care for the Hill Country sound. Not sure what you mean about outside influences, but it's generally a harder-edged music than Delta. I like it all. RL's soulful singing and driving rhythm in "See my Jumper..." always grabs me.
Blues for Aficionados
I have found that postings music is a good way to listen to all the music in your collection. I have neglected the ultimate source of much of the music I post. This tread corrects that oversight. All Blues post are welcome. I will concentrate on the Delta.
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Snooky Pryor IN THIS MESS UP TO MY CHEST Antone's Records 1994 Wiki: Pryor was born in Lambert, Mississippi, United States.[3] He developed a country blues style influenced by Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee Williamson) and Sonny Boy Williamson II (Aleck Ford "Rice" Miller). In the mid-1930s, in and around Vance, Mississippi, Pryor played in impromptu gatherings of three or four harmonica players, including Jimmy Rogers, who then lived nearby and had yet to take up playing the guitar.[5] Pryor moved to Chicago around 1940. While serving in the U.S. Army he would blow bugle calls through a PA system, which led him to experiment with playing the harmonica that way. Upon discharge from the Army in 1945, he obtained his own amplifier and began playing harmonica at the outdoor Maxwell Street Market, becoming a regular on the Chicago blues scene.
Born: September 15, 1921, Lambert, MS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLME5DJPL0 Pay for All Our Sins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJrDUqH3j4w Take it Easy Greasy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYvfU1VmjGw Slow Down Baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orcexOun5Xc Judgement Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL44FiuiQEY Cheers |
Fred McDowell MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL Rounder 1995 Notes: What you hold here in this compact disc is an authentic document. The real thing. Recorded one day during Easter Week, 1962, in Como, Mississippi. The studio: the living room of Fred's house. The studio audience: Fred's wife, family and neighbors. The ambient sounds: Fred's dog and a number of unidentified children. Thirty-three Easters have passed since this session. And the music remains as immediate and compelling as it was the day it was recorded. For old friends and new, this collection is a wonderful testament to a man who has been called "the point of entry" into the Blues for a great many people. Done Left Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJzwAQxH-U All The Way From East St. Louis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLO5TRRy89U Shake 'Em On Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7TuwWFWmk John Henry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeOt19i_oRY Cheers |
Snooky Pryor
TOO COOL TO MOVE Antone's Records 1992 Notes: At twenty he joined the army. From 1943 to 1945 he was stationed in the South Pacific in Saipan, New Caledonia, Guam and other islands. Here he pursued his music by playing bugle and entertaining the troops. It was in New Caledonia, where, missing his new bride, he wrote "Telephone Blues", which was to be his first recording. It would also mark the beginning of the great postwar era of Chicago Blues. Married to Luella Pryor since 1941, he has raised seven children and eighteen grandchildren in the farm town of Ullin, Illinois. Too Cool To Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGTgI0sN64w Keyhole in Your Door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcoyIBaR6E Bottle It Up and Go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvOOJCDVB0g Cheatin' and Lyin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvYacNGDOTQ Cheers |
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