Lost Blues Tapes (2004)

Product Summary Label: Allegro Corporation UPC: 00614427600028 Release Date: 10/9/2007 Buy.com Sku: 205843642 Item#: M3TQ7G Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Blues Everywhere - Memphis Slim ~ Various Artists 2. John Henry - Willie Dixon/Memphis Slim ~ Various Artists 3. Captain Captain - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists 4. Catfish Blues - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists 5. In The City - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists 6. I Feel Like Cryin' - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists 7. Your Love For Me Is True - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists 8. Don't Misuse Me - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists 9. I'm Gettin' Tired - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists 10. Goin Down Slow (Had My Fun) - Otis Spann ~ Various Artists 11. Careless Love - Lonnie Johnson ~ Various Artists 12. C.C. Rider - Lonnie Johnson ~ Various Artists 13. T.B. Blues - Victoria Spivey ~ Various Artists 14. Big Roll Blues - Big Joe Williams ~ Various Artists 15. Back In The Bottom - Big Joe Williams ~ Various Artists 16. Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Della Mae - John Lee Hooker (alternate take) ~ Various Artists 2. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton (alternate take, Outtake) ~ Various Artists 3. Captain Captain - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists 4. I Got To Cut Out - Sonny Boy Williamson ~ Various Artists 5. Blues Harp Shuffle - Big Walter Horton ~ Various Artists 6. Strong Brain - Broad Mind - Willie Dixon ~ Various Artists 7. Big Leg Women - Willie Dixon ~ Various Artists 8. You Got Me Running - Sugar Pie DeSanto ~ Various Artists 9. South Side Jump - Buddy Guy ~ Various Artists 10. If I Get Lucky - J.B. Lenoir ~ Various Artists 11. Got A Letter This Morning - Fred McDowell ~ Various Artists 12. Sail On - Roosevelt Sykes ~ Various Artists 13. Memphis Boogie - Memphis Slim ~ Various Artists 14. You Best Friend's Gone - Sleepy John Estes/Hammie Nixon ~ Various Artists 15. Farewell Baby - Doctor Ross ~ Various Artists 16. Della Mae - John Lee Hooker ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Performers include: Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Spann, Lonnie Johnson, Victoria Spivey, Big Joe Williams, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter "Shakey" Horton, Sugar Pie Desanto, Buddy Guy, JB Lenoir, Fred McDowell, Roosevelt Sykes, Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon, Doctor Ross, John Lee Hooker. It is ironic that two promoters from Germany, Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau, may well have played the largest part in revitalizing an American audience for the blues in the United States during the 1960s. Their annual barnstorming tours of Western Europe with a roster of American blues greats sparked a blues revival, particularly in London, where Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and a host of other young white musicians fell under the spell of the blues. When British bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Yardbirds exported the music back to the States, blues reestablished itself as a commercially viable form in its homeland, leading to long careers for many of the artists featured here. The tours, billed as the American Folk Blues Festival, ran every fall in Europe, beginning in 1962 and lasting until 1970, and several live performances from those shows (most of them from the 1963, 1964, and 1965 tours) are collected in this two-disc set. Whether they're truly "lost tapes" or not is debatable, but several of these performances are priceless historical documents, and the sound is great, even intimate. Highlights include Memphis Slim's winking, elegant version of the traditional "John Henry" ballad; Otis Spann's "Going Down Slow"; a solo acoustic rendition of "Catfish Blues" by Muddy Waters; Big Mama Thornton's blistering "Hound Dog"; J.B. Lenoir's "If I Get Lucky"; Mississippi Fred McDowell's "Got a Letter This Morning" (a variant of Son House's "Death Letter"); and the loose, front-porch jug band feel of Sleepy John Estes' "Your Best Friend's Gone." There are no liner notes to speak of, which is a shame, but the music here is simply wonderful. ~ Steve Leggett Producer: Horst Lippmann; Siegfried Loch   Technical Info Release Date : 08/31/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 60002 Label : ACT Music-Vision Number of Discs : 2 Runtime : 107m : 30s Studio/Live : Mixed Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00614427600028   Professional Reviews Uncut (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]here are too many moments of transcendence on this double CD to mention them all....More a masterclass than a concert." Mojo (Publisher) (p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Disc two's cuts are intense, cavernous and beautiful."    Product Image