Topic: CDs/Sets You're Listening To

[jaycee]

catfish keith - live at the half moon putney, london, england a truly fabulous set from a truly gifted and unique player.

[alyoung]

[quote Have not heard the follow-up, but I just saw that the Mississippi label is releasing an entire album of unreleased Boyd Rivers recordings (his "Fire Shed In My Bones" gives the set its title). Anyone who has heard Boyd Rivers' excellent gospel recordings (with lowdown bluesy electric guitar) on the "Living Country Blues USA" collection should be excited about this. Alas, the Mississippi label is vinyl-only.
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Haven't heard the disc yet, but have seen a scan of the sleeve notes. The title should be "Fire Shut In my Bones"; that's what Rivers is singing, regardless of what his pronunciation sounds like -- it comes from the expression used by Pentecostalists to describe the feeling of being possessed by the Holy Spirit, "like fire shut up in my bones". (River sings more like "shet up"). The notes also mention a book called "Woke up This Morning" by Alan Thompson that has a chapter on Rivers. You won't find it on Amazon -- it's "Woke Me Up This Morning" by Alan Young".

Al Young
(Who does have a vested interest in the mistake, and, yes, is pissed about it)

[jharris]

I believe these recordings were made by Axel Künster who along with Ziggy Christmann recorded the  Living Country Blues USA series.

[jpeters609]

I believe these recordings were made by Axel Künster who along with Ziggy Christmann recorded the  Living Country Blues USA series.

Best of all, they do not (to my knowledge) replicate the Boyd Rivers songs issued on the "Living Country Blues USA" series.

[Richard]

Chick Webb for jazz and now and again, dare I say it Jerry Lee Lewis!

[Mr.OMuck]

Goi'n up the country recorded by David Evans in 1966, featuring Tommy Johnson's younger Brother Mager Johnson, Roosevelt Holt, Jack Owens, Arzo Youngblood


Just picked up the LP at my local used record store for !0 bucks....great record!

[Stuart]

...Just picked up the LP at my local used record store for !0 bucks....great record!...

What's that in non-NYC currency??

[jaycee]

various artists - banjo an american 5 string history 1901- 1956 (fremeaux)

[Richard]

Slim and Slam.

[jaycee]

various artists - we juke up in here. cd/dvd set.

[dj]

I've been taking field trips to Memphis.  I'd put together an iTunes smart playlist of songs recorded during Vocalion\Brunswick's September 1929 field trip to Memphis in response to some discussion here.  Listening to it, it made a pretty good program, so I made one for every Memphis session held in the 1920's or 30's.  I really like the results - you get a feeling for what it was like to be listening to music in a certain place at a given time.  Currently I'm listening to Victor's August 1928 trip.  A lot of the usual Memphis crew are there - Frank Stokes, Furry Lewis, Robert Wilkins, Canon's Jug Stompers, the Memphis Jug Band - but there's also Ishman Bracey and Tommy Johnson visiting from Jackson Mississippi and Ida May Mack and Charlie Kyle with his twelve string up from Texas.  And the best thing about this program is that if I get too excited about the Memphis Jug Band doing Sugar Pudding or Canon's Jug Stompers doing Pig Ankle Strut or Furry Lewis turning my money green, there's Elder Richard Bryant or the Reverend E. S. (Shy) Moore with a stern sermon to put my mind back on serious things.  Though, this being Memphis, the sermons of both of those preachers end with a congregational spiritual heavily featuring guitar and jug.    

I really like the idea of field trips as another way to organize my listening.  I think I'll try this with some other towns.

[Gumbo]

that's inspiring dj. thanks!

[jostber]

Cripple Clarence Lofton - Vol.2 (1935-1939)

[Rivers]

I filled a gap in my collection, JSP Bill Munroe 1937 - 1949, incredible mandolin playing, thanks to whoever recommended that a while back.

Also I'm quite uplifted by the latest release from Austin locals Mark Rubin & Silas Lowe doing business as Fat Man & Little Boy, album is called Broadsides. Steve James guests. That's two good albums out of two for them, I really like their first one as well. http://theatomicduo.com/