Rough Guide To Bottleneck Blues (2005)

Product Summary UPC: 00605633115123 Release Date: 4/26/2005 Buy.com Sku: 63976832 Item#: M2C5X9 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Guitar Rag - Sylvester Weaver ~ Various Artists 2. Fred's Worried Life Blues - Fred McDowell ~ Various Artists 3. God Moves On The Water - Blind Willie Johnson ~ Various Artists 4. Falling Down Blues - Furry Lewis ~ Various Artists 5. Jack O'Diamonds - Pete Harris ~ Various Artists 6. Moanin' The Blues - Allen Shaw ~ Various Artists 7. Memphis Jellyroll - Stefan Grossman ~ Various Artists 8. Country Farm Blues - Son House ~ Various Artists 9. Come On In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson ~ Various Artists 10. I Be's Troubled - Muddy Waters ~ Various Artists 11. Sic 'Em Dogs On - Bukka White ~ Various Artists 12. St. Louis Blues - Jim & Bob ~ Various Artists 13. Mama, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell ~ Various Artists 14. Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain - John Fahey ~ Various Artists 15. Spoonful Blues, A - Charley Patton ~ Various Artists 16. Never Drive A Stranger - Willie Harris ~ Various Artists 17. Roll & Tumble Blues - Hambone Willie Newbern ~ Various Artists 18. Twelves, The (Dirty Dozens) - Kokomo Arnold ~ Various Artists 19. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes - Martin Simpson ~ Various Artists 20. Poor Me - Bob Brozman ~ Various Artists 21. You Just As Well Let Her Go - Casey Bill Weldon ~ Various Artists 22. Baby How Long - Dan Pickett ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Performers include: Muddy Waters, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Bob Brozman, Sylvester Weaver, Fred McDowell, Furry Lewis, Pete Harris, Allen Shaw, Stefan Grossman, Son House, Bukka White, Blind Willie McTell, John Fahey, Charley Patton, Willie Harris, Hambone Willie Newbern, Kokomo Arnold, Martin Simpson, Casey Bill Weldon, Dan Pickett, Jim & Bob The Genial Hawaiians. Photographers: Ali Madjdi; Claude Adams. Arrangers: J. Mayo Williams; Martin Simpson; Rufus G. Perryman; Bob Brozman; Charley Patton. The eerie sound of the bottleneck guitar -- an acoustic guitar played with a glass or metal slide worn over one of the fingers of the left hand -- is closely identified with Delta blues, the rawer, folkier cousin of the louder, more electric, and horn-heavy Chicago school. It's a sound steeped in poverty and humidity, and some of the spookiest and most frightening blues songs in history were written to be played on bottleneck guitar. This collection offers a good cross-section of old and modern bottleneck blues songs by an admirably diverse selection of artists including early masters of the genre (Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Bukka White) as well as current students of the masters (Bob Brozman, Stefan Grossman, Martin Simpson). Unfortunately, not all of these artists are represented by their finest work; it's hard to imagine that this rough recording of "Jack O'Diamonds" was the best Pete Harris performance available (though the slide playing itself is impressive), or that the compilers couldn't have come up with a better example of Charley Patton's work than the lackluster rendition of "A Spoonful Blues" presented here. But just about everything else borders on the definitive, whether it's Bukka White's amazing "Sic 'Em Dogs On"; Blind Willie Johnson's hair-raising "God Moves on the Water"; or the jaunty, jazzy "You Just as Well Let Her Go" by Casey Bill Weldon. Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson Producer: Phil Stanton (Compilation)   Technical Info Release Date : 04/26/2005 Original Release Date : 2005 Catalog ID : 1151 Label : World Music Network (UK) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00605633115123    Related Videos This Time: Robert Cray Ballad Of John Henry Joe ...