01) Me And My Chauffeur Blues Memphis Minnie 02) Early in the Morning George and Ethel McCoy 03) Come on in My Kitchen Keb' Mo' 04) Leaving Trunk Taj Mahal 05) Tell Mama The Allstars, Charlottesville VA 06) Statesboro Blues Taj Mahal 07) Am I Wrong Keb' Mo' 08) Everybody's Got to Change Sometime Taj Mahal 09) Piece of My Heart Bettye Lavette 10) I Was Warned The Robert Cray Band 11) Corinna Taj Mahal 12) Every Morning Keb' Mo' 13) Laugh Out Loud Robert Cray Band 14) The Celebrated Walkin Blues Taj Mahal 15) Kindhearted Woman Blues Keb' Mo' 16) At Last Robert Cray Band 17) You Don't Miss Your Water Taj Mahal 18) Let's Straighten it Out O.V. Wright 19) Late Hours at Midnight George and Ethe...
01) Me And My Chauffeur Blues Memphis Minnie 02) Early in the Morning George and Ethel McCoy 03) Come on in My Kitchen Keb' Mo' 04) Leaving Trunk Taj Mahal 05) Tell Mama The Allstars, Charlottesville VA 06) Statesboro Blues Taj Mahal 07) Am I Wrong Keb' Mo' 08) Everybody's Got to Change Sometime Taj Mahal 09) Piece of My Heart Bettye Lavette 10) I Was Warned The Robert Cray Band 11) Corinna Taj Mahal 12) Every Morning Keb' Mo' 13) Laugh Out Loud Robert Cray Band 14) The Celebrated Walkin Blues Taj Mahal 15) Kindhearted Woman Blues Keb' Mo' 16) At Last Robert Cray Band 17) You Don't Miss Your Water Taj Mahal 18) Let's Straighten it Out O.V. Wright 19) Late Hours at Midnight George and Ethel McCoy 20) Nothing In Rambling Memphis Minnie 21) She Caught the Katy Taj Mahal 22) Come on in My Kitchen Cassandra Wilson
As another of the greats leaves us (RIP BB King) & the tribute sets appear, I find myself finally ready to do that County Blues mix I had in me.
In his definitive version of the blues staple, Leavin' Trunk, Taj Mahal sings about “having the blues 3 different ways." So, too, here we have original Country Blues both acoustic & electrified, by both the original artists & Black Blues Revivalists; a 3rd category includes both white hommage and R&B. The party starts off with 1940s Memphis Minnie & then her niece & nephew, Ethel & George McCoy from East St. Louis, bring us up to the late 60s; from there we ride with Taj Mahal, the first of the Black Blues Revivalists I ever heard & likely the best of a movement that later featured Keb’ Mo & Robert Cray, who also make appearances on this session. The Allstars of Charlottesville, VA turn in a worthy version of the Etta James classic, Tell Mama.
Hey Gayle ! Wow ! This is very bluesy - awesome tracks from you ! Better than my sh!t, huh ? It's too bad that you like not any of my bpm mixes, not all are rough ! Sadly you like "only" downtempo, but I like many things ! And so I'm back here in "your" genre ! Yeah ! Very good your work !!