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Release: 2014 Oct 31
Artist: James ‘Son’ Thomas, Sam Chatmon, Walter Brown, Joe Cooper, Cleveland Broomman & Eddie Cusie
Title: Living Country Blues USA Vol.2 - Blues On Highway 61
Cat.No.: LR713017
Format: 12" Vinyl
Label: L+R Records
EAN: 4003099713017
Blues On Highway 61 with James ‘Son’ Thomas, Sam Chatmon, Walter Brown, Joe Cooper, Cleveland Broomman & Eddie Cusie
Feeling lonesome, being down and out, nowhere to go, walking the highway up and down, riding the Greyhound bus, catching a freight train - all central themes in Blues, and the men you can hear on this record have lived the Blues and this was reality to them. The Blues has always been more than just one person’s story, they are reflections and descriptions of a common lifestyle and experience. These artists tell the truth - the truth about being a black man in Mississippi, across the United States.
The artists you can hear on this record all came from the same region of Mississippi. Their communities were centered around 61 Highway and lay only a couple of miles apart.
Many Blues have been made about 61 Highway. Linking rural Louisiana and Mississsippi with northern industrial areas, thousands of blacks have travelled this road in hopes of a better life and future. Walter Brown’s “Keep On Walkin”’ can be seen as a reflection of their sufferings and struggle, the long road America's blacks had to walk since they were first brought to that country as slaves.
Living Country Blues USA is a series of albums on L+R Records. The material was collected by German Blues experts Siegfried A. Christmann and Axel Küstner on an extended trip thru the south of the USA in the fall of 1980, in the form of so-called "Field-Recordings" - recordings made in the natural surroundings of the artists and not in the studio. Travelling 10.000 miles (16.000 km) by car in 2 1/2 months, they used 180.000 feet (54 km) of tape and took hundreds of photographs to document various aspects of Country Blues, as well as work songs, fife and drum band music, field hollers and rural Gospel music, performed by 35 artists, some of whom appear on record for the first time.
Side 1
01 Standing At The Crossroads 3’21
James “Son” Thomas, vocal & guitar
02 Stop And Listen Blues 2’45
Sam Chatmon, vocal & guitar
03 Bull Cow Blues 4’01
James “Son” Thomas, vocal & guitar
04 61 Highway Blues 3’51
James “Son” Thomas
05 Keep On Walkin’ 4’51
Walter Brown
06 She Put Me Out On The Road 3’56
Joe Cooper
Side 2
01 Sam’s Blues 3´34
Sam Chatmon
02 Black Night 3’44
Sam Chatmon
03 Mean Ol’ Frisco 2’59
James “Son” Thomas & Cleveland “Broomman”
04 My Daddy Was A Jockey 4’25
Sam Chatmon
05 Gonna Cut You Loose 2’45
Eddie Cusie
06 Vicksburg Blues 3’35
Sam Chatmon
Format:
180 gr Vinyl + MP3 Download