Big Joe Williams - Walking Blues (1961)
BAND/ARTIST: Big Joe Williams
- Title: Walking Blues
- Year Of Release: 1961
- Label: Fantasy Records
- Genre: Acoustic Delta Blues
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 01:14:25
- Total Size: 442 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Levee Camp Blues
02. Low Down Dirty Shame
03. Gambling Man
04. Ain't Gonna Rain No More
05. Feel So Good
06. Prowling Ground Hog
07. Back Home Again
08. Sugar Babe
09. Tell Me Mama
10. Studio Blues
11. I'm A Fool About My Baby
12. 38 Pistol Blues
13. Pearly Mae
14. Walking Blues
15. Highway 45
16. Meet Me At The Bottom
17. Skinny Mama
18. Jockey Ride Blues
19. Coal And Iceman Blues
20. Army Man Blues
21. Black Gal
22. Pallet On The Floor
Unless you are a serious blues historian or blues aficionado, this 22-track collection of tracks by Big Joe Williams is all you are ever going to need. All of these tunes were recorded in New York on October 7, 1961, and issued as two separate LPs on Prestige's Bluesville imprint. The first ten tracks here were released as Studio Blues (catalog number 1083) and the rest as Blues for 9 Strings (catalog number 1056). Right, they are presented here in reverse release order, but they were all recorded during the same session. Williams is accompanied throughout by Willie Dixon on bass and Larry Johnson on harmonica. Williams plays his trademark nine-string guitar with its wild tuning on all but three tunes here. All of his well-known numbers are presented, though they are obviously later dates, but they lack no passion or proficiency given that this was the real beginning of the blues revival on this side of the Atlantic. The folk revival had not yet begun to wane, and many young men were heading for the East Coast in station wagons to find the bluesmen they had heard on either Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music or similar recordings. Williams and his friends show incredible stamina in running through these songs, and producer Kenneth S. Goldstein does a great job of presenting them raw and rugged. This is a party record if there ever was one.
01. Levee Camp Blues
02. Low Down Dirty Shame
03. Gambling Man
04. Ain't Gonna Rain No More
05. Feel So Good
06. Prowling Ground Hog
07. Back Home Again
08. Sugar Babe
09. Tell Me Mama
10. Studio Blues
11. I'm A Fool About My Baby
12. 38 Pistol Blues
13. Pearly Mae
14. Walking Blues
15. Highway 45
16. Meet Me At The Bottom
17. Skinny Mama
18. Jockey Ride Blues
19. Coal And Iceman Blues
20. Army Man Blues
21. Black Gal
22. Pallet On The Floor
Unless you are a serious blues historian or blues aficionado, this 22-track collection of tracks by Big Joe Williams is all you are ever going to need. All of these tunes were recorded in New York on October 7, 1961, and issued as two separate LPs on Prestige's Bluesville imprint. The first ten tracks here were released as Studio Blues (catalog number 1083) and the rest as Blues for 9 Strings (catalog number 1056). Right, they are presented here in reverse release order, but they were all recorded during the same session. Williams is accompanied throughout by Willie Dixon on bass and Larry Johnson on harmonica. Williams plays his trademark nine-string guitar with its wild tuning on all but three tunes here. All of his well-known numbers are presented, though they are obviously later dates, but they lack no passion or proficiency given that this was the real beginning of the blues revival on this side of the Atlantic. The folk revival had not yet begun to wane, and many young men were heading for the East Coast in station wagons to find the bluesmen they had heard on either Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music or similar recordings. Williams and his friends show incredible stamina in running through these songs, and producer Kenneth S. Goldstein does a great job of presenting them raw and rugged. This is a party record if there ever was one.
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