Living Country Blues USA Vol.2 - James ‘Son’ Thomas, Sam Chatmon etc.

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http://bellaphon.de http://cargo-records.de http://hoanzl.at Release: 2014 Oct 31 Artist: James ‘Son’ Thomas, Sam Chatmon, Walter Brown, Joe Cooper, Cleveland Broomman & Eddie Cusie Title: Living Country Blues USA Vol.2 - Blues On Highway 61 Cat.No.: LR713017 Format: 12" Vinyl Label: L+R Records EAN: 4003099713017 Blues On Highway 61 with James ‘Son’ Thomas, Sam Chatmon, Walter Brown, Joe Cooper, Cleveland Broomman & Eddie Cusie Feeling lonesome, being down and out, nowhere to go, walking the highway up and down, riding the Greyhound bus, catching a freight train — all central themes in Blues, and the men you can hear on this record have lived the Blues and this was reality to them. The Blues has always been more than just one person’s story, they are reflections and descriptions of a common lifestyle and experience. These artists tell the truth — the truth about being a black man in Mississippi, across the United States. The artists you can hear on this record all came from the same region of Mississippi. Their communities were centered around 61 Highway and lay only a couple of miles apart. Many Blues have been made about 61 Highway. Linking rural Louisiana and Mississsippi with northern industrial areas, thousands of blacks have travelled this road in hopes of a better life and future. Walter Brown’s “Keep On Walkin”’ can be seen as a reflection of their sufferings and struggle, the long road America's blacks had to walk since they were first brought to that country as slaves. Living Country Blues USA is a series of albums on L+R Records. The material was collected by German Blues experts Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner on an extended trip thru the south of the USA in the fall of 1980, in the form of so-called "Field-Recordings" — recordings made in the natural surroundings of the artists and not in the studio. Travelling 10.000 miles (16.000 km) by car in 2 1/2 months, they used 180.000 feet (54 km) of tape and took hundreds of photographs to document various aspects of Country Blues, as well as work songs, fife and drum band music, field hollers and rural Gospel music, performed by 35 artists, some of whom appear on record for the first time. Side 1 01 Standing At The Crossroads 3’21 James “Son” Thomas, vocal & guitar 02 Stop And Listen Blues 2’45 Sam Chatmon, vocal & guitar 03 Bull Cow Blues 4’01 James “Son” Thomas, vocal & guitar 04 61 Highway Blues 3’51 James “Son” Thomas 05 Keep On Walkin’ 4’51 Walter Brown 06 She Put Me Out On The Road 3’56 Joe Cooper Side 2 01 Sam’s Blues 3´34 Sam Chatmon 02 Black Night 3’44 Sam Chatmon 03 Mean Ol’ Frisco 2’59 James “Son” Thomas & Cleveland “Broomman” 04 My Daddy Was A Jockey 4’25 Sam Chatmon 05 Gonna Cut You Loose 2’45 Eddie Cusie 06 Vicksburg Blues 3’35 Sam Chatmon Format: 180 gr Vinyl + MP3 Download