VA - American Primitive Vol. I + II (3 CD, 1997-2005/FLAC)

 

Early gospel and blues from the collections of Gayle Dean Wardlow and John Fahey.

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been enormously influential and has been described as the foundation of the genre of American primitive guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres.

Gayle Dean Wardlow (born August 31, 1940) is an American historian of the blues. He is particularly associated with research into the lives of the musicians Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson and the historical development of the Delta blues, on which he is a leading authority. 





 
American Primitive Vol. I: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-1936)



  1.     I Believe I’ll Go Back Home, Paramount 1926, (Blind Willie Davis)
  2.     Down on Me, Columbia 1930, (Eddie Head And His Family)
  3.     Honey in the Rock, Victor 1927, (Blind Mamie Forehand) (listen)
  4.     I’m Gonna Cross the River of Jordan Some O’ These Days, Silvertone 1927, (Jaybird Coleman)
  5.     Oh Death, Vocalion 1934, (Patton and Lee (Charley Patton and Bertha Lee))
  6.     You Better Quit Drinking Shine, Vocalion 1928, (Rev. I.B. Ware with Wife and Son)
  7.     Been Listening All the Day, Paramount 1928, (Blind Joe Taggart)
  8.     Sinner You’ll Need King Jesus, Paramount 1927, (William and Versey Smith)
  9.     This Time Another Year You May Be Gone, Vocalion 1928, (Rev. Edward Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist))
  10.     Lord I’m the True Vine, Bluebird 1936, (Eddie Head And His Family (The Guitar Evangelist)) (listen)
  11.     Woke Up this Morning (With My Mind on Jesus), Melotone 1936, (Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother)
  12.     Holy Mountain (3:06), Bluebird 1936, (Elder Otis Jones)
  13.     I Wouldn’t Mind Dying (But I Gotta Go By Myself), Vocalion 1928, (Rev. I.B. Ware with Wife and Son)
  14.     Everybody Help the Boys Come Home, Paramount 1927, (William and Versey Smith)
  15.     Everybody Ought to Pray Sometime, ARC 1926, (Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers)
  16.     Tryin’ To Get Home, Columbia 1930, (Eddie Head And His Family)
  17.     I’ll be Rested (When the Roll is Called), Melotone 1936, (Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother)
  18.     I’m On My Way to the Kingdom Land, Paramount 1926, (Bo Weavil Jackson (Sam Butler))
  19.     Troubled ‘Bout My Soul, Paramount 1929, (Frank Palmes)
  20.     When That Great Ship Went Down, Paramount 1927, (William and Versey Smith)
  21.     I am in the Heavenly Way, Victor 1930, (Washington White (Booker White))
  22.     Good Lord (Run Old Jeremiah), Library of Congress Archive of American Folk 1934, (Austin Coleman (with Joe Washington Brown and Group))
  23.     Jesus is Getting us Ready for that Great Day, Columbia 1927, (Luther Magby)
  24.     I Believe I’ll Go Back Home, Paramount 1929, (William and Versey Smith)
  25.     Prayer of Death: Part I, Paramount 1929, (Elder J.J. Hadley (Charley Patton))
  26.     Prayer of Death: Part II, Paramount 1929, (Elder J.J. Hadley (Charley Patton))


American Primitive Vol. II: Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939) 2CD


Disc 1

  1.     I Want Jesus to Talk with Me (1926), (Homer Quincy Smith)
  2.     Deal Rag, (1930), (Walter Taylor) (listen)
  3.     Motherless Child Blues, (1930), (Elvie Thomas)
  4.     Big Bed Bug (Bed Bug Blues), (1930), (Tommy Settlers and his Blues Moaner) (listen)
  5.     I Got Your Ice Cold NuGrape, (1926), (NuGrape Twins) (listen)
  6.     Molly Man, (1928), ((Red Hot) Old Mose / Moses Mason)
  7.     Black Dog Blues, (1930), (Bayless Rose)
  8.     Workhouse Blues, (1939), (Mattie May Thomas)
  9.     Bo-Lita, (1927), (Kid Brown and his Blue Band)
  10.     My Mama Always Talked To Me, (1927), (John Hammond)
  11.     Ballin’ the Jack, (1930), (The Salty Dog Four)
  12.     Friday Moan Blues, (1930), (Alfred Lewis)
  13.     Pick Poor Robin Clean, (1931), (Geeshie Wliey)
  14.     It’s Cold In China Blues, (1935), (The Mississippi Moaner)
  15.     Black Sheep Blues, (1935), (Pigmeat Terry)
  16.     Old Hen Cackle, (1931), (Two Poor Boys)
  17.     Frisco Blues, (1930), (Bayless Rose)
  18.     Hot Time Blues, (1928), (William Harris)
  19.     Take a Look At That Baby, (1931), (Two Poor Boys)
  20.     Skinny Leg Blues, (1930), (Geeshie Wiley)
  21.     Little Birdie, (1927), (John Hammond)
  22.     Little Girl in Rome, (1935), (Otto Virgial)
  23.     Dangerous Blues, (1939), (Mattie May Thomas)
  24.     Mean Low Blues, (1929), (Blues Birdhead)
  25.     Be My Kid Blues, (1928), (Elizabeth Johnson)

Disc 2

  1.     Last Kind Words Blues, (1930), (Geeshie Wliey)
  2.     Poor Mourner, (1897), (Cousins & Demoss)
  3.     Jamestown Exhibition, (1930), (Bayless Rose)
  4.     There’s a City Built of Mansions, (1926), (NuGrape Twins)
  5.     Cairo Blues, (1929), (Henry Spaulding)
  6.     Two White Horses in a Line, (1931), (Two Poor Boys)
  7.     Shrimp Man, (1928), ((Red Hot) Old Mose / Moses Mason)
  8.     Don’t Mistreat Your Good Boyfriend, (1929), (The Bubbling Over Five)
  9.     Bull Frog Blues, (1928), (William Harris)
  10.     Purty Polly, (1927), (John Hammond)
  11.     Go Down Moses, (1926), (Homer Quincy Smith)
  12.     Over to my House, (1930), (Wiley and Thomas)
  13.     Shaking Weed Blues, (1930), (Tommy Settlers and his Blues Moaner)
  14.     Big Mac from Macamere, (1939), (Mattie May Thomas)
  15.     Moaning the Blues, (1935), (Pigmeat Terry)
  16.     Original Blues, (1930), (Bayless Rose)
  17.     John Henry Blues (take 3), (1931), (Two Poor Boys)
  18.     Sobbin’ Woman Blues, (1928), (Elizabeth Johnson)
  19.     Bad Notion Blues, (1935), (Otto Virgial)
  20.     Eagles on a Half, (1931), (Geeshie Wliey)
  21.     Mississippi Swamp Moan, (1930), (Alfred Lewis)
  22.     Red Cross the Disciple of Christ Today, (1928), ((Red Hot) Old Mose / Moses Mason)
  23.     Kansas City Blues, (1928), (William Harris)
  24.     As Free as a Little Bird Can Be, (1927), (John Hammond)
  25.     No Mo’ Freedom, (1939), (Mattie May Thomas)

 
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