Alan Lomax - Deep River of Song: Mississippi: The Blues Lineage: Musical Geniuses of the Fields, Levees, and Jukes
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Artist: Alan LomaxEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-08-17
Music Label: Rounder Select
Soundtracks:
- Ragged And Dirty - William Brown
- Mississippi Blues - William Brown
- County Farm Blues - Eddie 'Son' House
- High-Rolling Sergeant - Sam Carter/Jim Mickles/Eddie Miles/Jack Rogers
- Early In The Morning - Hollis 'Fat Head' Washington
- The Jinx Blues (No. 2) - Eddie 'Son' House
- I'll Be Bound To Write To You - McKinley Morganfield ('Muddy Waters')
- You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone - McKinley Morganfield ('Muddy Waters')
- Wind Howlin' Blues - David 'Honeyboy' Edwards
- High Lonesome Hill - Lucious Curtis/Willie Ford
- Payday - Willie Ford, Lucious Curtis
- Train Blues - Lucious Curtis
- Santa Field Blues - Willie Ford
- Low Down Dirty Dog Blues - Eddie 'Son' House
- Red River Blues - Frank Evans
- Walking Blues - Leroy Williams
Music reviews of Deep River of Song: Mississippi: The Blues Lineage: Musical Geniuses of the Fields, Levees, and Jukes
Music Review: deep country blues
Rating: 5 Stars
This is the real stuff, and yet more reason to thank whatever higher powers there be that John and Alan Lomax were out there with their bulky recording machines documenting the rich strains of Southern folk music while it could still be found. Here it's the Mississippi blues in its purest form. Not the least of the wonders here is Alan Lomax's discovery of giants McKinley Morganfield (aka Muddy Waters) and Son House, who both turn in stunning performances. There's also David "Honeyboy" Edwards, who has outlived them all, with an eerie and powerful "Wind Howlin' Blues." Lomax also found William Brown and recorded him twice before Brown vanished into obscurity. His "Ragged and Dirty" (covered by Dylan on his World Gone Wrong) makes you grateful that it got preserved but sad that we know so little about Brown's other songs and performances, destined to be lost forever. Every cut is a miracle of cultural preservation but, just as important and maybe more so, of magnificent, enduring American music.
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