Josh White - Saga Blues: Bluesman, Guitar Evangelist, Folksinger '2007
Artist | Josh White Related artists |
Album name | Saga Blues: Bluesman, Guitar Evangelist, Folksinger |
Country | |
Date | 2007 |
Genre | Blues |
Play time | 1:06:54 |
Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
Media | CD |
Size | 164 MB |
Price | Download $1.95 |
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After being praised to the skies by critics and public alike in the Forties and Fifties, Josh White (1915-1969) later lost favour with blues fans who deemed the artist too sophisticated to be authentic, especially when they compared him with the giants of Delta blues they’d recently “rediscoveredâ€. White, however, is certainly one of the great figures of 20thcentury African-American popular music; to begin with, he and Blind Blake were indubitably the two founders of the Appalachian Piedmont or East Coast blues style. His nimble-fingered guitar-playing was bold and inventive, and he had a crystalline sound and unique vibrato then equalled only by Lonnie Johnson; it earned White enormous popularity with Black audiences. In parallel, Josh was a fervent Christian and de facto pupil of the itinerant evangelist Big Blind Man, and he recorded almost as many gospel pieces (often under the name The Singing Christian) as he did blues songs, some of which, like Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed,became standards in the genre. Tracklist: 1.01 - Josh White - Black And Evil Blues (3:16) 1.02 - Josh White - Howling Wolf Blues (3:04) 1.03 - Josh White - Greenville Sheik (3:08) 1.04 - Josh White - Low Cotton (3:02) 1.05 - Josh White - Blood Red River (2:50) 1.06 - Josh White - Defense Factory Blues (2:46) 1.07 - Josh White - Jelly, Jelly! (5:55) 1.08 - Josh White - Careless Love (5:38) 1.09 - Josh White - I Know How To Do It (2:58) 1.10 - Josh White - Prison Bound Blues (2:39) 1.11 - Josh White - MoTherless Children (2:42) 1.12 - Josh White - Paul And Silas Bound To Jail (3:04) 1.13 - Josh White - Strange Fruit (3:03) 1.14 - Josh White - The House Of The Rising Sun (3:19) 1.15 - Josh White - John Henry (3:15) 1.16 - Josh White - Saint James Infirmary (3:41) 1.17 - Josh White - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed (4:17) 1.18 - Josh White - Jerry The Mule (Timber) (2:17) 1.19 - Josh White - Midnight Special (3:13) 1.20 - Josh White - Jim Crow Train (2:47)
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