Back Country Blues
Brownie McGhee
LP Rel Date: 1986-07-08
Singer/Guitarist Brownie McGhee and his life long musical partner, blind harp-man, Sonny Terry are best known as champions of the "Piedmont"-style blues pioneered by artists such as Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller. In the 1960s, they became icons of the folk-blues revival. The recording presented here however showcase a different chapter of the story... This is a collection of raw and rocking jump blues cut between 1947 and 1955 for juke boxes in black beer joints and dancehalls by the New Jersey-based Savoy Record company. - Essential blues recordings from one of the genres' most revered artists.
Tracklist:
- When It's Love Time
- Diamond Ring
- Auto Mechanic Blues
- My Fault
- Gone, Baby, Gone
- Bottom Blues
- Dissatisfied Blues
- C.C. Baby (You Started It Baby)
- Robbie-Doby Boogie 1
- Poor Boy Blues 1
- So Much Trouble 1
- Bad Nerves 1
- Love's a Disease 1
- Brownie's New Worried Life Blues 1
- My Consolation 1
- Anna Mae