Artist: Scrapper Blackwell
Title Of Album: Bad Liquor Blues
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Catfish UK
Genre: Blues
Quality: flac
Art: scans
Notes:
Often mentioned in the same breath with pianist Leroy Carr, guitarist Scrapper Blackwell was honored by Catfish Records in the year 2000 with a 21-track salute consisting of highlights from his recording career during the years 1928-1935. The original 78 rpm records, cut in Richmond and Indianapolis IN, Chicago IL, and St. Louis MO, were initially issued on the Vocalion, Champion, Decca, Varsity, Superior, and Bluebird labels. Blackwell is heard as a solo act, in duets with Leroy Carr and Dot Rice, and in a funny little hokum band featuring a hot kazoo and vocal interjections by Bertha "Chippie" Hill. "Kokomo Blues" and "Penal Farm Blues" are solo performances recorded at an Indianapolis radio station facility where Blackwell and Carr made their first records together in June 1928. "Be-Da-Da-Bum" appears to be the only recording the duo ever made with a vocal by Blackwell. When heard in succession, parts one and two of the "Trouble Blues" have a mesmerizing quality that is intensified by the six-minute duration. With more than two-thirds of the songs performed by Blackwell alone, this is an excellent survey of his best work from this time period. ~ arwulf arwulf
Tracklist:
1. Kokomo Blues
2. Penal Farm Blues
3. Be-Da-Da-Bum
4. Back Door Blues
5. Morning Mail Blues
6. Down South Blues
7. D Blues
8. Blues That Make Me Cry
9. Wayback Blues
10. A Blues
11. Motherless Boy Blues
12. Alley Sally Blues
13. Blue Day Blues
14. Texas Stomp
15. Trouble Blues Pt.1
16. Trouble Blues Pt.2
17. Non Skin Tread
18. Hard Time Blues
19. My Old Pal Blues
20. Bad Liquor Blues
21. Rambling Blues
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