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Slack:
Hi John,

I highly recommend "Mississippi Hill Country Blues" also on Fat Possum (CD 80341).  Solo acoustic, 19 tracks, all but three recorded by Leo Bruid at Groningen, Netherlands in 1980 and 1982.  The other three cuts recorded by George Mitchell in 1967 (so, little overlap). Great stuff!

cheers,
slack

lindy:

John:

My recommendation is Acoustic Stories, on the MC label.  Here's a url for a review:

http://www.mnblues.com/cdreview/rl-acoustic.html

Slack's recommendation is a real good 'un. There's a CD with the same name--Mississippi Hill Country Blues--on the Swingmaster label. The liner notes say that the songs were recorded in Denmark, I don't know if they're the same as the Netherlands recording, just with different liner notes.  Whatever, both CDs are great.

Lindy

Johnm:
Thanks, John D and Lindy, for the information.  I will pass it along and check out these releases myself, I think.  It occurs to me that when I was in England for the European Blues Association's spring week-end, a friend of mine there, Alan Smith, told me of a fellow he knew in the Netherlands who had recorded RL in the early '70s and had 300 (!) unreleased tracks of him.  I wonder if the fellow in the Netherlands is Leo Bruid?  I will try to find out.
All best,
John

lindy:

I went to the Swingmaster CD site (which I'll add to the links section) and found this description:

No. of discs: 1
Stereo/Mono: Stereo
Studio/Live: Studio

All songs trad./arr. by R.L.Burnside, vocals and guitar. Red Ramsey, harmonica on # 13.
# 1 -12 and 16-19 recorded by Leo Bruin in Groningen, Netherlands.
# 1 -7 and # 11 -12 recorded October 1982.
# 16-19 recorded November 1984.
# 13-15 recorded by George Mitchell near Goldwater, Mississippi in 1967.
# 7, # 11 -12 previously unissued.

Special thanks to Jaap Hindriks, Kent Laundre, George Mitchell and Fred Reining.
Produced by Sem van Gelder and Leo Bruin.


Don't know how the Denmark idea got into my head, but obviously this disc and the one on Fat Possum are the same.

Lindy

lindy:

As promised, I added the Swingmaster label to the record company page in the links section.

If you go there, don't just click on the "Blues vinyl" link on the left-hand side of the Swingmaster page, also go to their catalog page.  They've got CDs from Burnside, Henry Townsend, James Son Thomas, a guy named Big Boy Henry (who Lightnin' Wells used to gig with), and a few obscurities that look tempting.

Lindy

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