MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL - Down Home Blues
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MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL
Down Home Blues
2xCD album

£15.00
Condition: VG / VG
Label: JSP Records
Catalogue No: JSP4227
"Downhome Blues 1959" contains 46 tracks, spread out over two CDs, tracing the rural blues guitarist Mississippi Fred McDowell’s earliest recordings. The sessions take place on the front porch of his Como, MS farm between September 21-25, 1959 and recorded by folk researcher Alan Lomax with assistance from Shirley Collins. On the first disc, McDowell is heard playing acoustic guitar and is occasionally joined by guitarist Miles Pratcher with Fannie Davis on kazoo and comb, with vocals by McDowell’s wife Annie Mae, James Shorty, Sidney Carter, and Rose Hemphill. The second disc includes one McDowell track, “Shake ‘Em on Down,” with the remaining cuts spotlight other Lomax recordings from the same time by bluesmen Forrest City Joe, Boy Blue, Willie Jones and the fife and drum duo of Ed Young and G.D. Young. This is the remasrered 2010 reissue with notes and discography.

Discs have a few light marks.
  • 1-1 When You Get Home, Write Me A Few Little Lines
  • 1-10 Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
  • 1-11 Wished I Was In Heaven Sitting Down
  • 1-12 Germany Blues
  • 1-13 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  • 1-14 Freight Train Blues
  • 1-15 Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
  • 1-16 Been Drinkin' Water Out Of A Hollow Log
  • 1-17 I Want Jesus To Walk With Me
  • 1-18 61 Highway Blues
  • 1-19 Lord Have Mercy
  • 1-2 Drop Down Mama
  • 1-20 Worried Mind
  • 1-21 What's The Matter Now
  • 1-22 Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning (Inst)
  • 1-3 Shake 'Em On Down
  • 1-4 Fred McDowell's Blues
  • 1-5 Goin' Down To The River
  • 1-6 You Gonna Be Sorry
  • 1-7 You Done Tol' Everybody
  • 1-8 Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Jesus
  • 1-9 Soon One Mornin'
  • 2-1 Shake 'Em On Down (Alt)
  • 2-10 All Night Long
  • 2-11 I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'Til I Die
  • 2-12 Buttermilk
  • 2-13 Levee Camp Reminiscence
  • 2-14 Train Time
  • 2-15 Red Cross Store
  • 2-16 You Gotta Cut That Out
  • 2-17 Stop Breaking Down
  • 2-18 Drink On Little Girl
  • 2-19 She Lived Her Life Too Fast
  • 2-2 Cool Water Blues
  • 2-20 She Don't Love Me That Way
  • 2-21 Forrest City Jump
  • 2-22 Boogie Children
  • 2-23 Joe Lee's Rock
  • 2-24 You Got Dimples In Your Jaw
  • 2-3 Po' Boy Blues
  • 2-4 Clarksdale Mill Blues
  • 2-5 Jim And John
  • 2-6 Hen Duck
  • 2-7 Chevrolet
  • 2-8 Oree
  • 2-9 Sittin' On Top Of The World