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Created Tue 25th Nov '08 23:42 (GMT) |  | Fred McDowell Mississippi Delta Blues ARHOOLIE F 1021
Fred McDowell Mississippi Delta Blues ARHOOLIE F 1021
- Write Me A Few Lines
- Louise
- I Heard Somebody Call
- 61 Highway
- Mama Don't Allow Me
- Kokomo Blues
- Fred's Worried Life Blues
- You Gonna Be Sorry
- Shake 'Em On Down
- My Trouble Blues
- Black Minnie
- That's Alright
- When I Lay My Burden Down *
rec: Feb 13/14, 1964 in Como, Miss. by Chris Strachwitz:
Fred McDowell, vox, guitar: *Annie Mae McDowell, vox
In 1959 folklorist Alan Lomax traveled around the southern United States recording the music he heard in the fields. He was the first to capture Fred McDowell on tape, including a few of McDowell's songs on an Atlantic Records LP and thus introducing McDowell's sound to a huge audience. Suddenly, at age 55, the guitarist was lauded as a great "new" discovery in the blues world. When Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Productions heard the Atlantic record in 1964, he immediately contacted Lomax in order to find McDowell. Strachwitz traveled to Como, Mississippi, where McDowell lived with his wife, Annie Mae, and began a long friendship with them that included a great deal of recording. With each recording, and with every appearance at a major folk or blues festival, McDowell's status as a blues hero grew.
Although most of McDowell's early work was performed on acoustic guitars, he made blues history in Great Britain when he recorded an album there using an electric guitar. The Chicago blues was played on electric, but the Delta blues had always been played on acoustic. Reaction to his electric bottleneck was mixed, but McDowell was so tickled by the electric slide that he never went back to his acoustic guitar.
McDowell learned what he knew studying the Mississippi bluesmasters who came before him in the late 1920s and early 1930s: Charlie Patton, Son House, Big Joe Williams, and Robert Johnson. His own music became part of the folk blues revival of the 1960s, and it was McDowell and those like him who passed the sounds on to the next generation. Legendary rockers the Rolling Stones were impressed with McDowell's early recording of "You Gotta Move." Strongly influenced by his style, they recorded their own version of the track on their Sticky Fingers album. When McDowell received his first substantial royalties from the song, it was the most money he had ever seen... | [reply to this topic] |
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