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This has some of the great classic cuts in one CD: John Hurt ("Make me a pallet on your floor"), John Lee Hooker (Baby Don't Do Me Wrong), and Bobby Blue Bland's version of "St James Infirmary" are all fabulous.WARNING: If you don't already have most of these performers in your collection, you soon will. without listening to what turned THEM on, get this as a great overview. Many thanks to Putumayo World Music for putting this collection together. If your exposure to the blues comes via England (Stones, Clapton, etc. etc).
bought it as a gift for my hubby, but I love it too.
I have one and gave one as a gift and the entire family listened to it over Christmas and everyone loved it. If you like good old Delta blues.then you'll LOVE this CD.
I have it playing on my Windows media player as I write this. It is one of the collections put together by Putumayo, and includes a small bonus booklet inside the CD case giving a brief background of the musician/vocalists included - some are deceased, i.e., Luther Allison in 1997, Junior Wells in 1998, John Lee Hooker in 2001, and Memphis Minnie in 1963. Playing time of the individual selections ranges from 2:23 (Bobby Bland) to 5:53 (Junior Wells). This is another good CD I found at my friend Regina's shop, Art and Soul, in Vicksburg, MS (the south end of the Delta). It is a sampling of 11 vocalists, with various instrumental (guitar, harmonica, and/or keyboard with backup on drums, etc).
James Infirmary", the standard ballad for all New Orleans funerals, is represented. I still have a photo in my mind as a woman (near the flooded Canal Street) shoves her dead husband, whom she has bound on a door, through the water.
But if I hear the calming voice of Mississippi John Hurt again - or the infectious energy of Tina Turner - then, I think, it will go on again. Only the music with this Mississippi feeling, no further newspaper report, will soothe me in such moments.
After hurricane Katrina has raged in this region the Sound of the Mississippi delta music became all the more precious. What a music will arise now, after the dead bodies are "disposed of" with so few care.
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It talks about the pain of a man who has seen his wife a last time: "so sweet, so cool, so fair, stretched out on a long white table" in the hospital.
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