White, Bukka -& Friends-

Memphis Swamp Jam

Feted as the "Gateway to the South" and situated just above the Mississippi Deltas cotton-growing zone, Memphis has a long, rich history of blues music, its strategic location rendering it a longstanding centre for the mingling of rural and urban blues styles. The city was thus a very fitting home for the Memphis Blues Festival of 1969 that gave rise to this incredible double live album. Most of the tracks are provided by bluesmen based in Memphis and its environs, such as country blues giant Bukka White, crying blues legend Sleepy John Estes, barrelhouse pianist Memphis Piano Red, electric banjo specialist Nathan Beauregard, country blues great Mississippi Fred McDowell (here collaborating with harmonica player Johnny Woods), singer and fife player Napoleon Strickland with the Como Drum Band and Delta blues man Furry Lewis; credited under the unlikely pseudonyms of RL Watson and Josiah Jones are none other than experimental folk pioneer John Fahey and steel guitarist Bill Barth, the latter a co-founder of the Memphis Country Blues Society.

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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
20-12-2019
Label
Item-nr
538795
EAN
0889397894085
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. BOOKER BUKKA WHITE - CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES
2. BOOKER BUKKA WHITE - COLUMBUS MISS BLUES
3. BOOKER BUKKA WHITE - SAD DAY BLUES
4. FURRY LEWIS - JUDGE BOUSHAY BLUES
5. FURRY LEWIS - WALKING
6. SLEEPY JOHN ESTES - PRESIDENT KENNEDY STAYED AWAY TOO LONG
7. SLEEPY JOHN ESTES - NEED MORE BLUES
8. NATHAN BEAUREGARD - NATHANS BUMBLE BEE BLUES
9. NATHAN BEAUREGARD - BOUT A SPOONFUL
10. FRED MCDOWELL AND JOHNNY WOODS - SHAKE EM ON DOWN
11. FRED MCDOWELL AND JOHNNY WOODS - FREDS BLUES