Founder of Delta Blues

Charlie Patton - Founder of Delta Blues

Founder of Delta Blues
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Artist: Charlie Patton
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-03-21
Music Label: Yazoo
Soundtracks:
  1. Down The Dirt Road Blues
  2. Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues
  3. Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues
  4. Stone Pony Blues
  5. It Won't Be Long
  6. Shake It and Break It
  7. Magnolia Blues
  8. Dry Well Blues
  9. High Water Everywhere Part I
  10. High Water Everywhere Part II
  11. Green River Blues
  12. Bird Nest Bound
  13. High Sheriff Blues
  14. A Spoonful Blues
  15. Moon Going Down
  16. Pony Blues
  17. Elder Green Blues
  18. Banty Rooster Blues
  19. Some Of These Days
  20. Tom Rushen Blues
  21. 34 Blues
  22. Going To Move To Alabama
  23. Hammer Blues
  24. Poor Me
  25. When Your Ways Get Dark
  26. Devil Sent The Rain

Music reviews of Founder of Delta Blues

Music Review: Essential roots music and best sound quality
Rating: 5 Stars

Charley Patton is to Mississippi what Blind Lemon Jefferson is to Texas: its most important black rural artist of before WW2. If you have a taste for this sort of thing, it doesn't get better than this. A blazing performer whose singing and guitar work can still overwhelm you, seven decades later. But it's completely inaccurate to slam the disc's sound qualtity and accuse the label of "laziness." To the contrary, Yazoo Records has always had the very best in 78-reissue sound, disc after disc. Its engineers, far from being lazy, have always taken scrupulous care and a ridiculous amount of time in achieving their sonic results. The fact is that the old Paramount78s from which most of these tracks were taken were worn almost beyond recognition, from cheap manufacture and overplaying with heavy tonearms. Yazoo's audio philosophy is that you can't eliminate all the noise without eliminating the high frequencies that make the music live. If you can't take the noise, that's up to you; but the typical Yazoo CD will come closer than any other label's to the sound you'd get if you played these 78s on an antique gramophone: an entirely different, and genuine, sound experience. In the present case, this disc is a complete digital remastering, going back to the original source 78s, of a landmark Yazoo 2-LP set from about 30 years ago (and an earlier CD issue of same). This is no. 10 in Yazoo's "2000 series" of all- digital 78 reissues, and the only place you'll find Patton sounding this good is on its compantion, Yazoo 2001. Get ready to tap, no, make that stomp, your foot to one of the great American dance musicians.
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26 tracks. Slight scuff on outside edge of disc will not affect play.
Although the title of founder might not be exactly accurate, Patton does cast a giant shadow over Mississippi blues. His background as a medicine show entertainer made him more than the typical brooding bluesman. Much of his repertoire was upbeat and just plain fun. Take, for instance, his rendition of "Shake It and Break It": the gravelly voiced Patton snaps his strings and taps out the rhythm on his guitar while not missing a beat. His slide numbers like "High Sheriff" and "When Your Way Gets Dark" are beautiful melodic pieces seldom matched by his peers. He was also an early mentor of Robert Johnson, who probably picked up his trademark descending bass run from Patton. Charley was one of the true greats and is required listening for Delta blues fans. --Lars Gandil

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