Mississippi Fred McDowell - Downhome Blues 1959 (2011)

Artist: Mississippi Fred McDowell

Title Of Album: Downhome Blues 1959
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: JSP
Genre: Blues
Quality: flac
Art: scans
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Notes:
In her autobiography, Shirley Collins tells of her first meeting with Fred McDowell at the end of ahot September day in Tennessee in 1959. Towards dusk, a slight figure in dungarees and carryinga guitar appeared out of the trees and walked into the clearing...his name was Fred McDowell, hewas a fifty-year-old farmer and he d been picking cotton all day. . . . Fred started to play bottleneckguitar, a shimmering and metallic sound. His singing was quiet but strong and with a heartstoppingintensity. By the time he d finished his first blues, we knew we were in the presence of agreat and extraordinary musician. This was indeed an historic moment. By this time, thecommonly-held perception was that blues was dead. Collectorswere unaware that older members of the blackcommunity still clung to the music that had sustainedthem for so long.The depth of McDowell s repertoire. Not only did he performunique interpretations of long-established blues songs but he had original material of a comparablequality. When a handful of the recordings made that September night were issued a year later,the blues world was astonished at McDowell s modest mastery. His timely arrival would help fuel theemergence of a blues boom that would change the nature of popular music.Here s the astonishing sound that has haunted and inspired modern bluesmen in almost equal measure.


Tracklist:



1. When You Get Home, Write Me a Few Little Lines
2. Drop Down Mama
3. Shake 'Em on Down
4. Fred McDowell's Blues
5. Goin' Down to the River
6. You Gonna Be Sorry
7. You Done Tol' Everybody
8. Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Jesus
9. Soon One Mornin'
10. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
11. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
12. Germany Blues
13. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
14. Freight Train Blues
15. Been Drinkin' Water Out of a Hollow Log
16. I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
17. 61 Highway Blues
18. Lord Have Mercy
19. Worried Mind
20. What's the Matter Now
21. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning [Instrumental]
22. Shake 'Em on Down [Alt] [Alternate Take]
23. Cool Water Blues
24. Po' Boy Blues
25. Clarksdale Mill Blues
26. Jim and John
27. Hen Duck
28. Chevrolet
29. Oree
30. Sittin' on Top of the World
31. All Night Long
32. I'm Gonna Live Anyhow 'til I Die
33. Buttermilk
34. Levee Camp Reminiscence
35. Train Time
36. Red Cross Store
37. You Gotta Cut That Out
38. Stop Breaking Down
39. Drink on Little Girl
40. She Lived Her Life Too Fast
41. She Don't Love Me That Way
42. Forrest City Jump
43. Boogie Children
44. Joe Lee's Rock
45. You Got Dimples in Your Jaw