Devil Got My Woman (2005)

Product Summary Label: City Hall Records UPC: 00725543320629 Release Date: 4/18/2006 Buy.com Sku: 202426526 Item#: M2W6HN Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Devil Got My Woman - Skip James ~ Various Artists 2. Love my Stuff - Charley Patton ~ Various Artists 3. M & O Blues - Willie Brown ~ Various Artists 4. He Calls That Religion - Mississippi Sheiks ~ Various Artists 5. Champange Charlie Is My Name - Blind Blake ~ Various Artists 6. Lost Man Blues - Ida Cox ~ Various Artists 7. Gone Dead Train, The - King Solomon Hill ~ Various Artists 8. War Time Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson ~ Various Artists 9. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ma Rainey ~ Various Artists 10. Skoodle Um Skoo - Papa Charlie Jackson ~ Various Artists 11. Guitar Boogie - Blind Roosevelt Graves & Brothers ~ Various Artists 12. Christmas In Jail - Leroy Carr ~ Various Artists 13. Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney (Bonus Tracks) ~ Various Artists 14. How You Want Your Rollin' Done - Louie Lasky (Bonus Tracks) ~ Various Artists 15. Married Woman Blues - George Torey (Bonus Tracks) ~ Various Artists 16. Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James (Bonus Tracks) ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Audio Remasterer: Richard Nevins. Recording information: Birmingham, AL (11/??/1926-04/02/1937); Chicago, IL (11/??/1926-04/02/1937); Grafton, WI (11/??/1926-04/02/1937); Memphis, TN (11/??/1926-04/02/1937); New York, NY (11/??/1926-04/02/1937); Richmond, IN (11/??/1926-04/02/1937). Each year Blues Images releases a calendar that matches vintage artwork from 1920s and '30s 78-rpm record sleeves with a month of the year, and then includes an accompanying CD of the songs themselves (plus a few bonus tracks to fill things out). It's hard to say which is more revealing, the artwork or the songs, since both afford a glimpse back at a world that has long since faded into the realm of collectors, archivists and historians. The CDs themselves, by virtue of the month-by-month matching process (which means that Leroy Carr's classic "Christmas in Jail" is awarded the month of December here on the disc for 2005's calendar), are necessarily varied, and the end result is that these brief compilations make very cool temporal mix sequences. This installment begins and ends with a pair of haunting Skip James sides recorded in 1931, "Devil Got My Woman" and "Cypress Grove Blues," and also includes rare gems like Willie Brown's fine "M&O Blues" from 1930 and Mattie Delaney's striking variation on the "High Water Rising" theme called "Tallahatchie River Blues," also from 1930. Although hardly exhaustive as a stand-alone compilation, taken in conjunction with the calendar artwork, Blues Image Presents...16 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s, Vol. 3 offers a rare chance to revisit the past while arranging one's affairs for the future, which is a really neat trick. ~ Steve Leggett For the past few years, Blues Images of Oregon has put out a blues calendar featuring the original sleeve artwork from vintage 1920s blues 78s, accompanied by a CD of the songs selected. This 2006 installment has 16 songs (no sleeve art has survived for four of the songs), including a pair of Skip James gems, "Devil Got My Woman" and "Cypress Grove Blues"; Leroy Carr's classic "Christmas in Jail" (guess which month features this song...); and King Solomon Hill's odd "The Gone Dead Train"; among others. The month-by-month artwork of the calendar itself opens a window on the cultural marketing of these 78s, as well as the contemporary perception of the artists who recorded them, while the disc functions as a varied introduction to the world of 1920s commercial country blues. ~ Steve Leggett Each year Blues Images releases a calendar that matches vintage artwork from 1920s and '30s 78-rpm record sleeves with a month of the year, and then includes an accompanying CD of the songs themselves (plus a few bonus tracks to fill things out). It's hard to say which is more revealing, the artwork or the songs, since both afford a glimpse back at a world that has long since faded into the realm of collectors, archivists and historians. The CDs themselves, by virtue of the month-by-month matching process (which means that Leroy Carr's classic "Christmas in Jail" is awarded the month of December here on the disc for 2005's calendar), are necessarily varied, and the end result is that these brief compilations make very cool temporal mix sequences. This installment begins and ends with a pair of haunting Skip James sides recorded in 1931, "Devil Got My Woman" and "Cypress Grove Blues," and also includes rare gems like Willie Brown's fine "M&O Blues" from 1930 and Mattie Delaney's striking variation on the "High Water Rising" theme called "Tallahatchie River Blues," also from 1930. Although hardly exhaustive as a stand-alone compilation, taken in conjunction with the calendar artwork, Blues Image Presents...16 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s, Vol. 3 offers a rare chance to revisit the past while arranging one's affairs for the future, which is a really neat trick. ~ Steve Leggett   Technical Info Release Date : 04/18/2006 Original Release Date : 2005 Catalog ID : 103 Label : Blues Images Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 48m : 22s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00725543320629    Related Videos This Time: Robert Cray Ballad Of John Henry Joe ...