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Catfish
Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Catfish/ Tomorrow Night/ Dirty Mother Fuyer/ Annie Lee/ 1-22-99/ Just Got To Know/ She Fooled Me/ Don
Chicago in Mind
Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Ida Cox - Chicago Bound Blues; Priscilla Stewart - Mecca Flats Blues; Jimmy Blythe
Junker Blues
Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Love Strike Blues/ Warehouse Man Blues/ Angola Blues/ Big Time Mama/ That
Billy Boy Arnold: Catfish
by Derek Taylor
Bluesman Billy Boy Arnold’s first big break came when he teamed with his friend Ellas McDaniel (better known as Bo Diddley) cut a demo tape for Chess Records in 1955. Thanks to the fickle preferences of Leonard Chess Diddley ended up with a record contract and Arnold was left holding the bag. It was a precedent ...
Various Artists: Chicago in Mind
by Ed Kopp
Chicago is best known for the electric blues style that arose there during the 1940s and continues to thrive today. Less celebrated is an earlier form of Chicago blues that originated in the 1920s. This acoustic style achieved great popularity during the Depression years when Southern blacks flocked to Chicago seeking jobs in the city’s factories, ...
Various: Classic Slide Guitar Blues, Volumes 1 & 2
by Derek Taylor
Every music lover has defining moments in his or her listening history; turning points were exposure to an artist or song completely unhinges their way of thinking and opens their ears to a whole different level of experience. For me one of these epiphanic moments came when I first heard Blind Willie Johnson’s “I Know His ...
Various: Mississippi Blues
by Derek Taylor
The Mississippi Delta is commonly revered as the American birthplace of the Blues, both figuratively and factually. The porous soil of the regions vast cotton fields and the hot humidity of the Mississippi sky were catalytic ingredients that sparked an alchemical reaction between the poverty and repression felt by Southern Blacks and their more ancient musical ...
Champion Jack Dupree: Junker Blues
by Derek Taylor
Jack Dupree was one of the barrelhouse champions. Weaned on the coarser piano styles of the brothels and speakeasies of his New Orleans youth his utilitarian approach on the instrument always favored volume and vigor over skill and polish. But the attribute that set him most apart from the legion of juke joint ivory ticklers was ...
Roosevelt Sykes: Nasty But It's Clean
by Derek Taylor
The Honeydripper, Willie Kelly, Easy Papa Johnson, and Dobby Bragg- just a few of the aliases ascribed to one Roosevelt Sykes, the prodigal juke joint pianist. Sykes was one of the few stylists whose successfully straddled the decades. From his beginnings in the 1920s and he continued to wax records into the 60s after his relocation ...
