V.a. Blues Masters Vol 13 (3cd, 2012)

As a bonus to accompany their annual calendar, Blues Images adds a disc of classic 1920's blues. Featuring Pre-War classics from Blues masters such as: Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe, Willie Lofton, Henry Thomas, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Mississippi Sheiks and others.

As a bonus to accompany their annual calendar, Blues Images adds a disc of classic 1920's-1950's blues.
22 Songs Restored using the American Epic Sound Restoration Technique! Featuring Pre-War and Post War classics from Blues masters such as: B.B. King, Lonnie Johnson, The Mississippi Sheiks, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson and others.
Plus 3 recently discovered songs by Juke Boy Bonner (Barner); 1 unreleased track by the mysterious Blues Boy Bill; 6 Super rare recordings by legendary Blues artists such as Joe Stone (Jaydee Short) and Mississippi Sarah.

This is a well-organized, smartly chosen 20-track compilation of some of the lesser-known early Mississippi blues artists. Garfield Akers is about the most famous, which tells you right there how obscure most of these names - King Solomon Hill, Otto Virgial, Mattie Delaney, Joe Calicott, Blind Joe Reynolds, John D. Fox and others - are to the general listening public. It's quality material, however, and not in a drastically different league than the most renowned classics by singers like Tommy Johnson and Son House. The guitar playing and singing are emotional and inventive throughout, but standouts include Mattie Delaney, Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley, some of the relatively few guitar-playing Delta blueswomen who recorded; Wiley's minor-key, doomy "Last Kind Words" is particularly affecting.

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Following the success of Jazz for a Rainy Afternoon, this clever release presents thirteen cookin’ blues tracks that deal head-on with the woes of the world. Highlights include Junior Wells’ marvelous rendition of "Why Are People Like That?" with the electric slide guitar work of Sonny Landreth and Derek Trucks, "Life Will Be Better" by Sugar Ray Norcia and Charlie Musselwhite, and "Misery and the Blues" from the seductive and sultry Maria Muldaur. Also features Terry Evans’ driving "Credit Card Blues," Debbie Davies’ searing "Money" and cuts by Son Seals, Kenny Neal, Sam Lay, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson and other stellar blues players.

Thanks in part to the luridly alluring title and the enthusiastically informative liner notes by Bob Koester, this solid collection was many a young musician's introduction to the men who pioneered blues piano in the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt Sykes is the best represented artist here, and his leering vocals are hard to resist: After hearing the ribald metaphor of "Dresser Drawers," you'll never view furniture quite the same way again. His "Kickin' Motor Scooter" is truly a marvel of smiling euphemism, with the song devoted to boasts of how he's "A dangerous motor scooter…A tricky motor scooter!" Other artists, while not always as inventive lyrically, show a wide range of piano styles, from the bouncing syncopated jazz of "Stendahl Stomp" to the trickling upper registers and restrained bass coaxed by Curtis Jones from a battered old piano in "Tin Pan Alley Blues #2"…

Thanks in part to the luridly alluring title and the enthusiastically informative liner notes by Bob Koester, this solid collection was many a young musician's introduction to the men who pioneered blues piano in the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt Sykes is the best represented artist here, and his leering vocals are hard to resist: After hearing the ribald metaphor of "Dresser Drawers," you'll never view furniture quite the same way again. His "Kickin' Motor Scooter" is truly a marvel of smiling euphemism, with the song devoted to boasts of how he's "A dangerous motor scooter…A tricky motor scooter!" Other artists, while not always as inventive lyrically, show a wide range of piano styles, from the bouncing syncopated jazz of "Stendahl Stomp" to the trickling upper registers and restrained bass coaxed by Curtis Jones from a battered old piano in "Tin Pan Alley Blues #2"…

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