Texas Sheiks

Geoff Muldaur and The Texas Sheiks - Texas Sheiks

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Artist: Geoff Muldaur and The Texas Sheiks
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-22
Music Label: Tradition & Moderne
Soundtracks:
  1. The World Is Going Wrong
  2. All By Myself
  3. Poor Boy
  4. Fan It
  5. Hard Time Killin' Floor
  6. Sweet To Mama
  7. Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away
  8. Cairo
  9. Under The Chicken Tree
  10. Please, Baby
  11. Blues In The Bottle
  12. Right Now Blues
  13. Travellin' Riverside
  14. Yellow Dog Blues

Free Music Notes for Texas Sheiks

Free Music Review: Crazy words, crazy tunes... and a wonderful exploration of traditional American music
Hit: 5 Stars

About a year before Texas guitarist Stephen Bruton's recent death, he and a few other friends were recruited by Geoff Muldaur to cut a song for a planned Mississippi Sheiks tribute. The group's version of "The World Is Going Wrong" was the first song completed for that project, but they also put a few other Sheiks songs in the can at the time.

Working together proved to be so much fun that "The Texas Sheiks" (which also included Suzy Thompson, Cindy Cashdollar, Johnny Nicholas, Bruce Hughes, and guest Sheik Jim Kweskin) decided to record a full album. This CD is the result. The full track list (along with the artist who was the primary model for the Sheiks' recording) is:

1. The World Is Going Wrong (The Mississippi Sheiks, 1931)
2. All By Myself (Big Bill Broonzy & Washboard Sam, 1953 remake)
3. Poor Boy (Banjo Joe, aka Gus Cannon, 1927)
4. Fan It (Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, 1936)
5. Hard Time Killin' Floor (Skip James, 1931)
6. Sweet To Mama (The Beale Street Sheiks: Frank Stokes & Dan Sane, 1927)
7. Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away (Oscar "Buddy" Woods, 1937)
8. Cairo (Henry Spaulding, 1929)
9. Under The Chicken Tree (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band, 1927)
10. Please, Baby (The Mississippi Sheiks, 1931)
11. Blues In The Bottle (Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers, 1928)
12. Right Now Blues (Frank Stokes, 1929)
13. Travellin' Riverside (Robert Johnson, 1937)
14. Yellow Dog Blues (Wise String Orchestra, 1929)

Geoff Muldaur sings lead on about half of the songs. The others are split between Jim Kweskin, Johnny Nicholas, and Bruce Hughes, with an instrumental to close the album. Cindy Cashdollar's masterful touch on various kinds of slide guitars is a highlight, as is Suzy Thompson's tasteful (and tasty) fiddle playing. And Stephen Bruton is typically wonderful on a multitude of instruments. There are many styles of music represented here - blues, string bands, Western Swing, jug bands, hokum - but a common factor is that many of the originals featured a fiddle player, which lends the whole program a unity and coherence.

If you have fond memories of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, the old Elektra Blues Project anthology, the Lovin' Spoonful, Dan Hicks, Asleep at the Wheel, or practically any other roots artist, you'll probably enjoy this CD. And if you can't get enough of tongue-in-cheek celebrations of getting your ashes hauled, selling that jelly, or chickens that grow on trees, this collection of songs is certainly for you. Well-recorded, and with a hip, contemporary sensibility, there are few if any better explorations of the amazing traditional music of the 1920s and 1930s.

Notes are by Geoff Muldaur, T-Bone Burnette and Elijah Wald, and noted pop artist Ed Ruscha provided a painting for the album's cover.

Easily my favorite album of 2009, in any genre.

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