Crazy Wife

New CD by Bill Blue, one of the last original back porch Blues players. This is the follow up to 2013's "Mojolation" which was Bill's first new record in 25 years. Bill an original back porch Blues musician learnt his chops on the road playing guitar with Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup. Amongst the hundreds of gigs they played together, they opened for Bonnie Raitt on her first ever national tour. After Arthur died in 1974, Bill went out on his own and for a decade toured extensively sharing the stage with BB King, ZZ Top, The Allman Brothers, Albert King, Johnny WInters, Hank Williams Jr and countless others at Blues festivals across the USA…

These are Landreth's earliest known recordings, half of them made in a single afternoon 1973 when he was just 22 years old, the other half recorded in 1977. They display Landreth in the wine of his youth, looking outward for inspiration, sounding more generally Southern than uniquely Louisianan. If you are seeking an album of Louisiana music, I suggest you look elsewhere. But if it is the long-lost first album of an acknowledged slide guitar king you seek, perhaps the finest of his generation, look no further. It is in your hands.