Josh White - Josh White '1965

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To many blues enthusiasts, Josh White was a folk revival artist. Its true that
the second half of his music career found him based in New York playing to the
coffeehouse and cabaret set and hanging out with Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and
fellow transplanted blues artists Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. In Chicago
during the 1960s, his shirt was unbuttoned to the waist à la Harry Belafonte
and his repertoire consisted of folk revival standards such as Scarlet Ribbons.
He was a show business personality — a star renowned for his sexual
magnetism and his dramatic vocal presentations. Many listeners were unaware of
Whites status as a major figure in the Piedmont blues tradition. The first part
of his career saw him as apprentice to some of the greatest blues and religious
artists ever, including Willie Walker, Blind Blake, Blind Joe Taggart (with whom
he recorded), and allegedly even Blind Lemon Jefferson. On his own, he recorded
both blues and religious songs, including a classic version of Blood Red River.
A fine guitar technician with an appealing voice, he became progressively more
sophisticated in his presentation. Like many other Carolinians and Virginians
who moved north to urban areas, he took up city ways, remaining a fine musician
if no longer a down-home artist. Like several other canny blues players, he used
his roots music to broaden and enhance his life experience, and his talent was
such that he could choose the musical idiom that was most lucrative at the time.
~ Barry Lee Pearson

Tracklist:
 01. Josh White - Waltzing Matilda (03:32)
 02. Josh White - St. James Infirmary (02:38)
 03. Josh White - Tb Blues (03:11)
 04. Josh White - Blues in Berlin (02:10)
 05. Josh White - House of the Rising Sun (03:19)
 06. Josh White - Cotton Eyed Joe (04:37)
 07. Josh White - Evil Hearted Man (02:16)
 08. Josh White - Careless Love (03:12)
 09. Josh White - One Meat Ball (03:01)
 10. Josh White - When I Lay Down and Die (02:33)
 11. Josh White - Baby, Baby (03:41)
 12. Josh White - I Left a Good Deal in Mobile (03:03)
 13. Josh White - No More Blues (02:48)
 14. Josh White - Miss Otis Regrets (02:57)
 15. Josh White - Strange Fruit (03:04)
 16. Josh White - Jim Crow (02:44)
 17. Josh White - Outskirts of Town (02:59)
 18. Josh White - Molly Malone (03:04)
 19. Josh White - Watercress (02:42)
 20. Josh White - John Henry (03:07)
 21. Josh White - The Riddle Song (02:29)
 22. Josh White - The House I Live In (02:28)
 23. Josh White - Freedom Road (02:15)
 24. Josh White - No.12 Train (02:40)
 25. Josh White - Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (02:29)
 26. Josh White - Jerry (02:29)
 27. Josh White - Beloved Comrade (02:43)
 28. Josh White - Did You Ever Love a Woman (02:52)
 29. Josh White - I Got a Head Like a Rock (02:29)
 30. Josh White - Fare Thee Well (03:18)
 31. Josh White - Jelly Jelly (03:17)
 32. Josh White - Lord Randall, My Son (03:11)
 33. Josh White - Trouble (02:39)
 34. Josh White - Backwater Blues (02:46)
 35. Josh White - Motherless Children (02:21)
 36. Josh White - Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out (03:00)
 37. Josh White - The Lass with the Delicate Air (03:10)
 38. Josh White - Mean Mistreatin Woman (03:08)
 39. Josh White - Well, Well, Well (03:03)
 40. Josh White - Dupree (03:44)
 41. Josh White - Jonny Has Gone for a Soldier (02:47)
 42. Josh White - I Want You, I Need You (03:21)

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