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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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

@rok2id

<< the great postwar era of Chicago Blues >> 

"Great" is an understatement.  Thanks for the Snooky.

Fred McDowell

AMAZING GRACE

Testament Records  1969 / 1994

Notes: The superb Mississippi singer and bottleneck-guitarist Fred McDowell is but the latest to bear witness to the continuing , fructifying interrelationship of the the two musics, performing Blues for his friends and neighbors during the week and religious music with his fellow worshippers on Sunday.

Jesus is on the Main Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCBKJinuQ60

I'm So Glad I Got Good Religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTSvaxj6sA

You Got To Move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVHKk0HUz0

Amazing Grace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Dwh2mQdhc

Cheers