2nd budget sampler form Document Records with 21 stunning tracks from it's vast catalog of American Roots Music.

Document's second budget sampler, lovingly put together selections, with no didactic agenda, whose one and only purpose is to offer an hour or so of unmitigated good listening. The compiler of this anthology knows a good record when he hears it, as it offers one stunner after another. Well, maybe every track isn't in the same class as the very best, but they're all excellent and there's an unfailing sense of a continuing high as it moves along. Bukka White's 'Fixin' To Die', Memphis Minnie's 'New Dirty Dozen', and Skip James' beautiful live 1964 version of 'Illinois' are probably the very cream of the crop, but it's a thrill to hear the mandolin instrumental 'Lint Head Stomp' by Phebel Wright (one of three white men included), Lonnie Farris' breathtaking 'Golden Street', classic jazz at something pretty close to its best with 'You Need Some Loving', featuring Jelly Roll Morton alongside Johnny Dunn, or the sheer joy of 'Guitar Swing' by the Brown Bombers (with Casey Bill on slide guitar). One purpose here is to showcase the fact that there was so much wonderful music being made outside of the 'big names', and so to encourage more intrepid exploration of the Document catalog - Frank Hutchinson's virtuoso slide guitar and laconic vocals, the swinging good times of Big Joe McCoy and Co., the proto-R&B of Jewel Paige (and even Bumble Bee Slim), Blind John Davis striking sparks off his piano keyboard. But there are big names here, too - none bigger than Muddy Waters, heard on his originally un-issued 1946 Columbia session. At the other end of the spectrum there's field recordings from both Africa and the USA. If you like variety, you'll find it here, and guaranteed high quality at the same time.

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Track Listing

• BUKKA WHITE - Fixin To Die Blues
• JEWEL PAIGE - Give It Up
• SKIP JAMES - Illinois Blues
• PHEBEL WRIGHT - Lint Head Stomp
• JIMMY PETERS - Rockaway
• JAZZ GILLUM - Signifying Woman
• REV. LONNIE FARRIS - Golden Street
• MEMPHIS MINNIE - New Dirty Dozen
• MUDDY WATERS - Hard Day Blues
• THYAM SY GRIOTS - Halam Improvisation
• FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON - Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
• CAROLINA SLIM - Shake Boogie
• JOHNNY DUNN - You Need Some Lovin'
• BROWN BOMBERS OF SWING - Guitar Swing
• HARMONY FOUR (QUARTETTE) - Children Go Where I Send You
• FRANK HUTCHISON - The Last Scene Of The Titanic
• BIG JOE (McCOY) AND HIS WASHBOARD BAND - If You Take Me Back
• JOHNNIE TEMPLE - Olds '98' Blues
• AMOS EASTON - Lonesome Trail Blues
• ALONZO SCALES - She's Gone
• BLIND JOHN DAVIS - Magic Carpet

Additional Details

Label: Document Records

Genre: Blues

Language: English

Run Time: 60:51 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/20/21

UPC: 714298900224