Blues Masters, Vol. 8: Mississippi Delta Blues
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1993-02-16
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Big Road Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Cool Drink Of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson
- Rattlesnake Blues - Charley Patton
- Future Blues - Willie Brown
- On The Wall - Louise Johnson
- Mississippi Jail House Groan - Rube Lacy
- Preachin' The Blues, Pts I & II - Son House
- Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson
- Catfish Blues - Robert Petway
- I Feel Like Going Home - Muddy Water
- Dark Road - Floyd Jones
- Eyesight To The Blind - Sonny Boy Williamson
- Sitting On Top Of The World - Howlin' Wolf
- Goin' Down To Eli's - Robert Nighthawk
- I Believe - Elmore James
- Something Inside Me - Elmore James
- Sweet Little Angel - B.B. King
- Crosscut Saw - Albert King
Free Music Notes for Blues Masters, Vol. 8: Mississippi Delta Blues
Free Music Review: ****1/2 - one of the best in the series
Hit: 4 Stars
Not five straight stars, though...partly because the authentic Mississippi Delta stuff is interspersed with much more urban sounds from B.B. King and Albert King. And (very) electric Chicago-sides by Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, and Robert Nighthawk do much to blur the distinctiveness of this package.
But there's nothing wrong with the music itself. Delta legends Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Son House are here, doing "Rattlesnake Blues", the eerie "Crossroads Blues" and the harsh "Preachin' The Blues" respectively. Muddy Waters' late-40s single "I Feel Like Going Home" is one of his finest early songs. And the awesome (and sadly underrated) Tommy Johnson is represented by two of his best and most impressive songs, "Big Road Blues" and "Cool Drink Of Water Blues" (the basis for Howlin' Wolf's "I Asked For Water").
The fidelity on the oldest recordings, particularly by House and Patton, is below par, obviously, but that's the case with every reissue of this material, not just this one.
The annotation is very good, as always with this series, and there are a few relatively obscure songs here which should please blues lovers (although seasoned blues listeners probably have most of this material already): "On The Wall", an energetic piano blues by Charley Patton-associate Louise Johnson, the acoustic "Catfish Blues" by Robert Petway, Rube Lacey's moody "Mississippi Jail House Groan", and Willie Brown's sandpapery rendition of the raw, Son House-like "Future Blues".
The newer material includes slide guitar master Robert Nighthawk's gritty "I'm Gonna Murder My Baby", and great songs by Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Boy Williamson II. And the inclusion of the underrated and underrecorded Floyd Jones' "Dark Road" (another reworking of Johnson's "Big Road Blues") is an additional treat.
A great collection of music. Not the definitive word on Delta blues, obviously, and some of these songs, excellent as they are, have no business being on a compilation of "Mississippi Delta Blues". But still...great music.
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