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Library of Congress Recordings 1940-1942
"Mississippi Blues Library of Congress Recordings 1940-1942" serves as an excellent complementary piece to both "Son House's Complete Library of Congress Sessions 1941-1942" and "Mississippi Blues & Gospel 1934-1942 Field Recordings", which also consist of material recorded by Work and/or the Lomaxes. The former features musicians such as Leroy Williams, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, and Willie Brown as accompanists to House, although on this collection they perform as group leaders or solo. As with House's sessions, one can occasionally hear trains in the background, since these recordings from 1941 were made at the same location, a general store in Lake Cormorant, Mississippi that was in close proximity to a railway branch line. The latter title includes performances from 1940 by Lucious Curtis and Willie Ford recorded in Natchez, Mississippi in addition to a song by Willie Blackwell that was documented at Sadie Beck's Plantation in Arkansas in 1942. Mississippi Blues Library of Congress Recordings 1940-1942 contains the remainder of their material from these sessions as well as some other choice cuts. (Despite the fact that some of the tracks on these albums were not recorded in the Magnolia State, all of the featured musicians are classified as Mississippi bluesmen, thus the justification for the albums' titles.) Remarkably, there is no duplication between these three discs.
And if you were wondering.........................
That's a Mississippi State Highway Commission map of Clarksdale on the cover.
TrackList:
01. Uncle Sam Done Called - Leroy Williams
02. Water Coast Blues - Honeyboy Edwards
03. Army Blues - Honeyboy Edwards
04. Going to Fishing - Fiddlin' Joe Martin
05. Spread My Raincoat Down - Honeyboy Edwards
06. Wind Howlin' Blues - Honeyboy Edwards
07. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor - Willie Brown
08. Roamin' & Ramblin' Blues - Honeyboy Edwards
09. High Lonesome Hill - Lucious Curtis
10. Payday - Willie Ford
11. Train Blues - Lucious Curtis
12. Lonesome Highway Blues - Lucious Curtis
13. Mississippi River Blues - Lucious Curtis
14. Stagolee - Lucious Curtis
15. Farmin' Man Blues - Lucious Curtis
16. Santa Field Blues (sic) - Willie Ford
17. Sto' Gallery Blues - Willie Ford
18. Rubber Ball Blues - Lucious Curtis
19. Junior's a Jap Girl's Christmas for His Santa Claus (sic) - Willie Blackwell
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