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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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Byther Smith

ADDRESSING THE NATION WITH THE BLUES

JSP   1994

Notes: "I'm just a working man" is how the genuinely humble Byther Smith neatly describes himself.  A modest statement perhaps, but one which also reveals just what makes him such a great Blues artist--in its own environment, the Chicago Blues has always been, and remains, Black working-class music.  The Windy City still teems with Blues artists, but once beyond the 'Blues for the tourists' coach trips... there remains  a small number of singers and musicians who adhere to that wisest piece of Blues advice, "find your own thing"--and Byther definitely falls into the latter category.

Born April 17, 1932 Monticello, Mississippi
Died September 9, 2021 (aged 89) MississippI

I was coming Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elc09qWyRSQ

Hello Mrs. Brown
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDrWIS7qHc

Addressing the Nation with the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4erORyjVY

What Have I Done
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ld5UuO-0Y

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Byther Smith

ALL NIGHT LONG

Delmark    1997

Walked All Night Long
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvgwzDYLUOw

Look Over Your Shoulder
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntGC9gmxiiE

Thinking Real Hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKXF1Lya84

Cried Like A Baby Child
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bY7tY4-45o

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Carrie Smith

CONFESSIN' THE BLUES

Evidence / Disques Black and Blue      1993

Notes: "I've been around this kind of music all my life," Carrie Smith told me one afternoon at her East Orange, New Jersey, home.  It's not new to me.  I was born in Georgia, but my family moved to Newark, New Jersey when I was about seven.  Sarah Vaughan lived two blocks down from me.  From my childhood, I was brought up in the church.  My mother could sing.  In fact, my whole family are good singers.  And my father, he's excellent!  He was a Baptist minister."

Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXMCV3WC_vw

Confessin' the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_lVDSBbu8

Country Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2avnK2u0E

Mama (He treats your daughter mean)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ygACDFp4

Trouble In Mind
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdNgmFeKNI

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Big Bad Smitty

MEAN DISPOSITION

Genes    1991

Notes: Big Bad Smitty is 300 pounds of the most authentic Blues to emerge in many a year.  Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1940, Smitty first picked up a guitar at age ten, picking out Muddy waters' 'Still a Fool' and by his later teen years was playing out at Delta Jukes, fish fries and picnics in the Greenville area...By his thirties Smitty had travelled to St. Louis playing such North and East side clubs as The Club Caravan, Tubby's red Room and Sparggin's Hacienda Lounge where he still plays regularly.


Still a fool
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF6Fbp2vYCc

How many more Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDwT8ARsTM0

Long ol' Lonesome Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d38HVjatMs

You don't Love Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oS5B-2M2bY

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Otis Spann

DOWN TO EARTH / THE BLUESWAY RECORDINGS

MCA    1995

Otis Spann was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. -- Wikipedia
Born: March 21, 1930, Jackson, MS
Died: April 24, 1970, Chicago, IL

My Home Is In The Delta
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEVkVx6_Q7o

Down To Earth
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFX_3MlgZN8

Chicago Blues
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzkWhSvoqEg

I'm A Fool
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oeh_wSmlek

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